I tried Gnucash and Kmymoney a long time ago, which I found unstable
at the time and harder to use.
I ran into a pay for program called Moneydance
http://moneydance.com/
after hearing an interview with the founder on "tllts" podcast. Seems
the author was encouraged to make his program available to the masses
through GPL, which he did. But after having no one contribute to the
code he took it out of GPL and decided to make it a pay for program.
He offered the "tllts" listeners a discount. I got it for half price.
It's 39.99 now.
It's really easy to use and I've never had any problems since I first
started using it in 4/2007. It's a Java program with installers for
all three major platforms.
It doesn't have any fancy invoicing modules, etc. for business but for
a home user it works great. In my opinion it works better than my
previous Quicken 2003.
--Manny
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Gilbert Mendoza <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've migrated from Quicken and have used GnuCash for at least 4 to 5
> years now. While it supports automatic download of banking data, I
> still just use the simple import feature of any of the major data
> formats (csv, QFX, etc).
>
> With GnuCash, you can make your finance tracking as simple or as
> detailed as you like. While I agree, there are simpler applications,
> GnuCash is the most mature of the free bunch I've had the chance to
> work with. I enjoy the double entry ledger system, automatic
> transaction scheduler, and reconciliation function.
>
> Improvements I would love to see made however is an archive function
> that can remove detail for previous years, while leaving basic summary
> data for reporting, as well as some navigation quirks.
>
> --
> Gilbert Mendoza
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>
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:20 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dante Lanznaster <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I heard of this program a bit after I purchased Quicken 2009 for personal
>>> use, but I downloaded and tried it. Found it to be complicated to use and it
>>> lacks the same online capabilities as Quicken has.
>>
>> GNUCash uses a traditional double-entry accounting system. Ledger-SMB
>> does as well.
>>
>> This is probably the initial aspect of complexity, but double-entry is
>> what every MBA or accountant learns in business school. What Quicken
>> and QuickBooks do is try to be an electronic checkbook.
>>
>> The real disadvantage GNUCash and Ledger-SMB has is that they are
>> almost certainly not what your accountant uses. Sometimes I need my
>> accountant to make journal entries and if I use QB, he'll happily do
>> them but if I used some other software I would have to do them myself.
>>
>> So I haven't made the effort to switch away from QuickBooks yet. And I
>> may not... QB has a programming API so if I need to extend it, I can.
>> Also the import/export file format is documented.
>>
>> -- John.
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