Quicken for Mac is now subscription only – you can’t just make a one-off purchase anymore, you have to make an annual or bi-annual commitment to it. Note that 2 year subscriptions are only available from third-party retailers such as Amazon, Staples and Office Depot.
When I switched to Mac about 7 years ago, I ran Quicken via Parallels. After a year or two is was the only thing I ran on Windows and wanted to simplify so I got rid of Windows and got Quicken for Mac. It was a disaster so I tried a few Mac alternatives and I'm now using iBank. It may not be up to the feature set in Quicken right now, but it is coming along and it is all I need to track expenses and make tax day easier. It imports Quicken data files so it was a breeze to transition. My online bank account seems to be able to do so much now that I don't think I need or want a bloated financial app. I am using Parallels to run Windows 8 (from XP to 7 to 8) and running Quicken under that.
I tried the Mac version, but when I found out that all my report formats (I use it for bookkeeping for about 5 different organizations, besides personal) I gave up. But as was said, you must purchase Parallels and have a full (read non-upgrade) version of Windows, but I assume you do since you ran Quicken for Windows before.
Another option is Bootcamp, which Apple provides for free. The reason I did not go that route is I did not want to keep re-booting the machine back and forth between iOS and Windows. But if you are only running Windows for Parallels and don't need it all the time, that might be another option. But I am running much more under Parallels/Windows, including MS Office and quite a few games.
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If I was only concerned with Quicken, I think I would have used the Mac version - unless you really need the features you feel are missing. First we tried Wineskin, a free packaging for Mac OS X. Several times we followed install directions on the web, all slightly different. Quicken came up and imported data.
We edited the data. However after rebooting, it stopped working. Although data files were visible from Terminal, and Wineskin in the Dock, Quicken would not run. Wineskin appeared for a few seconds, then disappeared. We wasted lots of time trying to fix it. Then we tried Crossover.
Everything installed easily with clear on-screen instructions. Crossover stayed in the Dock after reboot, allowing us to run Quicken. We put the edited data (from above) on a USB stick and imported it into Crossover Quicken. Problem solved! So we paid Codeweavers $40 and registered. Possibly Sophos AV disabled Wineskin, but we could see nothing in Sophos saying so. Maybe Mountain Lion has compatibility issues.
CAcreeks wrote: The Mac version of Quicken is not as complete as the Windows version, leading to this question. Would it be better to:.
run Quicken for Windows under WINE or CrossOver, or. install virtualization software (Fusion, Parallels, etc.) and run Quicken inside Windows? Seems to me the first option is easier. Supposedly most versions of Quicken run well under WINE. CrossOver is not free but offers support. I run Quicken with Parallels, it works very well. I still use Windows XP so it doesn't take much to run it.
I run in it coherence mode so it it seems just like it is another Mac program, in other words, you don't have to switch between a Windows screen and the Mac. I have run Parallels since getting my Mac back in the beginning of 2010. I too tried the Mac version but it didn't allow me to write checks from the program and have them sent electronically. Parallels works very well and is worth the price.
Phil BH wrote: I run Quicken with Parallels, it works very well. I still use Windows XP so it doesn't take much to run it. I run in it coherence mode so it it seems just like it is another Mac program, in other words, you don't have to switch between a Windows screen and the Mac. I have run Parallels since getting my Mac back in the beginning of 2010. I too tried the Mac version but it didn't allow me to write checks from the program and have them sent electronically. Parallels works very well and is worth the price. So does VMware Workstation, which I run on Windows with a Linux VM, and probably Fusion, although I don't run Fusion.
However the problem with this arrangement is that we would need a Windows license. We have an old XP license, but with support ending next spring, it seems better to use the emulator. The $40 cost is less than Fusion + Windows 8 licenses. Thanks for your feedback on the icky Mac version of Quicken. I'm glad we avoided wasting money on that.
CAcreeks wrote: veedriver wrote: Quicken has an update that will run on later than Snow Leopard. I got little over a year ago. About $10 and they sent a cd with the update. Running last full mac version. That version is missing some features we need, in fact, some features that most people need.
If anybody finds this thread by searching, the Crossover solution is the least expensive. The virtual machine solution is more costly and resource-intensive, but more fun if you want to run actual Windows. I bought the new version of Quicken and did not like it.
Quicken, catching a lot of criticism, fixed 2007 and I now have both and prefer 07. What is 2007 missing that you need, haven't found anything myself. L Brandt wrote: I bought the new version of Quicken and did not like it. Quicken, catching a lot of criticism, fixed 2007 and I now have both and prefer 07.
What is 2007 missing that you need, haven't found anything myself. Quicken for Mac does not have the ability to do bill pay from the program. All you can do is download and update your records. For that it works fine. I do all my bill paying on it though.
I am able to have it either send payments electronically, or have an actual paper check sent out to a person who isn't set up to accept electronic payments. For example, I have sent money to my brother when I have bought something from him, and filled out the information in Quicken, hit send and he receives a check. I do not have to print anything or mail anything, quicken does it all. Ltphoto1 wrote: After years of dealing with Intuit and their horrendous business practices, I changed to iBank and never looked back. After selling my business and no longer needing QuickBooks I am now free of Intuit and couldn't be happier. You might want to look into iBank. I have found it to be a very competent replacement for Quicken.
Thanks for the recommendation, but as far as I can tell, iBank does not run on Windows. Stupid as it sounds, we are still running Quicken on three Windows machines. As a follow-up to your comments about Intuit, I wanted to add that TurboTax seems to get worse and worse each and every year. (The expression 'each and every' seems silly, but I hear sports people say it a lot, so I wanted to throw it in there.).