Quicken Essentials for Mac now available

Little did I know how much is missing:
- no support of transactions for investment accounts
- no reporting, I need to do a simple report for one category and I can't
- A pain migrating. You need a windows system to export the QFX file.
I am probably going to return it and run the windows version on vmware.

You can't print checks with Essentials for Mac! nuff said.

I agree this is too expensive, and I'm disappointed at the lack of stock tracking and other features that were in Q2005. Nonetheless, I bought this and am sticking with it because it does integrate with my banks in a better fashion, and because the GUI is pretty good. How well does iBank integrate with the various banks out there? Most of my time in the software is entering data, and the analysis that I use it for is nominal. I do wish the other features were there, but other tools are no better.
I guess I can look at iBank again, but last I used it, it could not import my data successfully. I guess I could just move forward with it and use Quicken for my historical data before now, but that seems a PITA.
I tried MoneyDance and that was a terrible experience. The GUI is from hell, typical of Java-based software on Mac, and the promise of fast development cycles was BS. They never updated it while I owned and used it.
I think Quicken would do well to make data more export-friendly. Then users could supplement Quicken with other tools. I hate Intuit and I hope a worthy competitor really springs up. Until then, Quicken Essentials for me is like democracy: it's the worst tool for the job you could imagine, except for all the others.
They are charging a premium because Mac is a small market with deep pockets. The profit margin is the only thing that makes it worth developing for Mac, I'm guessing.

I couldn't have been more disgusted with this program. After seemingly a hundred years of waiting for an update to the marginally usable Quicken for Mac, this thing won't even print checks! How "essential" is that? It is obvious that Intuit has turned their back on Mac users. Other developers, PLEASE take this opportunity to write a new financial management app for Mac users. This is ridiculous.

I am been a long term Quicken user currently was using Quicken 2007. Whenever an upgrade was available I order immediately. It took me just one day of misery to ask for a refund when it comes to Quicken Essentials. First the conversion process crashed twice before I got it to work. Next my totals on a majority of accounts were way off. Next and more importantly I learned that Essentials does not offer a direct pay option with Quickenbillpay or allow you to print checks. Why would they create a new product and launch and with something that is going backwards. Don't go through the headache avoid this product.

I left Quicken (running under CrossOver) for iBank. I have my accounts with me on my iPhone and can keep on top of transactions quickly and easily - even while I'm out shopping. I can quickly synchronise transactions to iBank on my iMac at home - and it worked flawlessly while I was travelling overseas. From what I've read so far, there's nothing to entice me back to Quicken. My Australian version of Quicken Personal Plus on Windows wouldn't even allow me to perform a fundamental function such as export my transactions to QIF. I'm not sure what the "Plus" meant for the version I purchased. I was happy to draw a line in the sand over Quicken and move on with my life.

i got my money back from them pretty fast. I have high hopes for this application really, but for now, iBank it is.

So Far:

1) MS Money Import exploded spectacularly, I went from having money in the bank to owing the bank almost $20,000. Granted, I've got years of transactions in MS Money but come on.

2) Can't add an account if the bank doesn't have online support. Uhm, what?

3) It downloads accounts as part of setting up from scratch. Multiple of the things are interconnected transfers. Can edit one side to be the transfer but then it leaves the untransfer edited in the other account. Where's the review transaction button? I can't find it.

iBank worked much better than this. I'm thinking even with my issues with iBank, this while a good first attempt is not $70 worth of software, especially with teh two key missing features of online bill pay & investment tracking.

Just for my information, this software is basically US/CA-only, yes? If so, does anyone know of any good banking software that works in the UK?

I gotta say - they're missing features that 99% of the population uses. I upgraded and it lost all of my transfer data. After spending about an hour per month trying to reconcile it - it still shows me as "spending money" on transfers. This new software is a pile of crap. Back to Quicken 2007 for me. For $60 it had better not be this feature lacking.