Moneydance 2006 - cross-platform finance management

has anyone used GnuCash?

FYI, Quicken 2007 for Mac has been released. (http://quicken.intuit.com/mac.jhtml). I upgrade on every odd-numbered year, so I have already bought and installed it on my PPC MacMini.

Is this the update that finally makes it = to Quicken on Windows? Nope. However, it's not THAT bad and is still more full-featured than ibank or Money dance IMO. Also, it has not screwed up my financial data since like Quicken 2003, so I think they are working their way towards a decently useable product.

I'm still using MS Money through Parallels. Nothing else comes close to its features. I wish there was some real competition on the OS X front.

This is a long shot, but is there anything out there that could possibly replace QuickBooks? This Moneydance 2006 seems to have a more personal spin to it than some of the Quicken software. I'm looking for payroll-capable software...

I am a "switcher" and found Microsoft Money (surprisingly) to be one of the best Money Management programs for Windows. It did everything I wanted. Admittedly, finding a replacement for OS X has been a challenge. For a couple months I used Moneydance and iBank in parallel in an effort to decide on the one that would work best for me. iBank has a slick interface and is very Mac-like. It was nice in that it had iDisk capability for backups. Unfortunately, it did some weird things with the summing and provided erroneous balances on occasion and at one point my password protected file was no longer able to be opened. I would get an error and the file would not open. I posted a number of comments in their forum and was provided with quick replies and an attempt at support. But the options given to me were to send in my file for them to see if they could fix or start over from scratch. That was the final nail in the coffin for iBank. I've been using Moneydance for three months and it is a good (not great) program. It's not very pretty to look at and there are some awkward things about the interface (no keyboard shortcut for adding a new transaction) but for the most part it does the basics well and is fast on my 2.0 GHz MacBook.

Buddi seems to have a lot of the same features and is FOSS. That said, I used Moneydance (trial), and liked it quite a bit.

What about Budget? I'm using since last year and it helped me to change radically my spending habits (too much gadgets).

The envelope method is great!

Have a look:
http://www.snowmintcs.com/products/budgetmac/index.php

Randy,

Yes, Moneydance does download transactions just like Quicken for Windows.

It works great!

It's a java based app but it looks and runs pretty well and looks like a Mac app.

How does this compare to Liquid Ledger? What are the performance issues (due to it being in Java)?

It's interesting theme. I want to consider it.