#QUICKEN 2018 TRIAL FOR MAC FOR MAC#

Last fall Quicken 2017 for Mac was released. And so I kept using Quicken for Windows along with updates to the VM software and waited.īy last summer, the only PC software I still needed to run on a virtual machine was Quicken. Buggy, lacked many important features, basically a shell of the PC version. New Mac versions of Quicken would come out every year and I would read reviews by unhappy customers lamenting the awfulness of the software. A Mac version of Quicken was available, but it lacked many of the features that the PC version, like investment tracking and budgets. I turned in my work laptop in favor of a MacBook Pro, using a virtual PC software program called Parallels to get access to the short list of PC software titles I still needed: an arcane business intelligence tool for work and … Quicken. By 2013 everyone in my family was using a Mac, plus iPhones and iPads. The PC was all business.įast forward another ten years. This was OK because I had compartmentalized the Mac and PC this way: the Mac was for creative work: movies and photos, writing, games, family time. Quicken wasn’t available on the Mac at that time, so I kept my financial records on the Dell. It was fun to return to Apple with a beautiful new iMac at home while I used a Dell laptop for work. I switched back to a Mac at home in 2003. And remind myself of how little I had back then. I’m sad about that now as I would have liked to revisit the financial transactions supporting both by frugality and spending extravagance of my twenties. erase) your financial history, so in a keystroke, I lost all that meticulous bookkeeping of the previous decade.

#QUICKEN 2018 TRIAL FOR MAC ARCHIVE#

Quicken offered a “feature” back then to archive (i.e. I couldn’t find an easy way to transfer the data file. My data file had grown so large it no longer fit on a 3 1/2″ floppy drive. In the 1990s as Microsoft Windows took hold and the days of the Mac waned, I switched over to the PC version of Quicken.

I’m not exaggerating when I say that I would not be in the financial position I am today without the discipline this software cultivates. The discipline of tracking my expenses and using a budget helped me control my spending and keep my focus on long-term financial goals. Back then I used a Mac SE, painstakingly capturing every transaction with the proper income or spending category on a nine-inch black and white screen. I’ve been a user of Quicken personal finance software since 1989. What follows is a history of how I’ve used Quicken and reactions to the most recent version of Quicken 2018 for Mac.

In my case, that system has been the venerable software tool Quicken. Like an accounting system at the office, a well-managed home needs its own financial record keeping. Applying finance strategies I’ve used in managing businesses to my personal finances has paid dividends. I’ve always tried to be disciplined when it comes to money, and as a CPA and business planner as my chosen vocation, managing my own money comes pretty naturally.

Personal financial management is important to me.

#QUICKEN 2018 TRIAL FOR MAC UPDATE#

An update to this review for Quicken 2019 for Mac is available here.

Quicken 2018 trial for mac