Intuit buys Cha-Ching after hiring developers
We've been pretty big fans of Cha-Ching, both the OS X app and the iOS version, over the years. Turns out Intuit liked the app a lot, too -- the financial juggernaut has acquired Cha-Ching and its code after hiring the app's developers a little while back. The website currently points to both Quicken for Mac and Mint.com, so presumably this is the end of the app -- its functionality will be brought into Intuit's other properties, used to smooth out Quicken for Windows, while Cha-Ching Touch's functionality will eventually show up in the Mint.com iPhone app.
Too bad for users of the app currently -- I know the app was sold in at least one MacHeist sale, so it's definitely out there and fairly popular. There's no word on any upgrades at all. The Mint.com app is great (and free), but of course Quicken is $50 just to get started. Looks like if you depend on Cha-Ching for your financial planning but want upgrades in the future, you'll have to look elsewhere.
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We've been pretty big fans of Cha-Ching, both the OS X app and the iOS version, over the years. Turns out Intuit liked the app a lot, too...
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Well damn, so thats what happened to cha-ching. Shame, I quite liked it. The trouble is everything else out there, Moneywell, iBank, Money, etc. just plain suck. I've tried them all.
August 12 2010 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI LOVED Cha-ching when it was first released, but the fiasco over the non-existent 2.0 release damaged it's reputation beyond repair. I'm not surprised to see it bought up - it was pretty much dead anyway IMO.
If you like mint.com, but don't live in the US, give https://money.strands.com/ a go. I've been using that happily for the last year or so and they have a great iPhone app already!
I tried MoneyStrands for 3 months and wasn't very pleased with it. I found that sometimes the system online was showing incorrect sums on my main cash account.
August 12 2010 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDoes anyone know what the last beta of cha-ching beta 2 was? 104, 107?
And does anyone have a link to download the last beta build. TIA
I used Cha-Ching Mac + the iPhone version for a year. I was fairly happy with it. Now that Intuit owns it, I have absolutely no faith that anything good will come out this. I tried Mint.com for a few months, and while it was nice to have everything automatic from a transaction perspective, I like entering in my own transactions and then reconciling them. This way you can see when the waiter gives themselves an extra 'tip'. The Mint.com app, doesn't let you enter transactions.
I've now switched to MoneyWell a few weeks ago and I LOVE it.
Intuit's online options are seriously overpriced while their Mac software reeks. Might I recommend iBank? (Still trying it out, myself.)
August 11 2010 at 8:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyformer Quicken user, tried Cha-Ching, found it severely lacking and have been happily using iBank. but then i'm not a huge power user so your mileage may vary.
August 12 2010 at 9:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySad to say that the only reason to use Parallels is to run Quicken for Windows.
August 11 2010 at 8:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYep. Intuit should spend more investment on their Mac Quickbooks customers instead of focusing on new projects. Why in the world they can't allow Mac customers to import data the same as Windows users is beyond me. There are a lot of developers and business owners out here hating Intuit for that one reason!
August 12 2010 at 5:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMint.com really has potential. I like having all my accounts right there all together for me to see. Simplifies things and makes it easy to see the whole picture. After using a few months I've discovered several bugs and incompatibilities with other (relatively large) finance company sites. Perhaps this acquisition will lead to the fixes I need to stick around mint.com (or even recommend it to others).
August 11 2010 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCha-Ching is yet another failure of an app from the self-named "Delicious Generation". If these young upstart devs would have learned to pay attention to their customers and actually fix problems instead of adding new useless eye candy features and stroking their epeens, I might care that they're gone.
I can't believe someone from Intuit thought hiring these clowns AND buying their crappy product code was a good idea.
What about international users? Mint.com's app doesn't seem to be available in Australia. Is it the end of the line for us?
Time to jump ship, I think. Guess I'm never getting my moneys worth out of Cha-Ching now.
And mint.com is not available for download in iTune in Ireland either.
August 12 2010 at 5:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCha-Ching 2 was really a fiasco. 2 years of problematic betas and unfulfilled promises after a big announcement on MacHeist 2 in january... 2008! I too have lost faith in the app a long time ago and switched to Moneywell with absolutely no regret.
Contrary to NoThirst, MidnightApps has never been a developer with very good communication skills. I'll go as fas as to say that they write the textbook on how to scrap a software with a good potential.
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