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Because the interface is streamlined and pretty, everything is incorporated into a single window.It's hard-wired to connect to the Quicken mobile app, for instance, which is probably useful to a lot of folks (but not me).Quicken 2017 does offer a few advantages over its elder sibling. The new version is prettier the old version is more powerful. It offers similar functionality to Mint (also owned by Intuit) and Personal Capital but lacks the advanced reporting tools, planning calculators, investment tracking, and home finance utilities - emergency records organizer, home inventory, etc. Quicken 2017 has far fewer features than Quicken 2007. (Quicken 2007 is downright ugly.) The interface is spartan and sleek.Īnd here's what the investments screen looks like. Compared to the older edition, the current version of Quicken looks much prettier.

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(I'd been worried.) And the new software was easy enough to figure out. I'm pleased to report that it was quick and easy to copy my data from Quicken 2007 to Quicken 2017. I didn't feel like it was fair to review the current versions of Mint, Personal Capital, and YNAB against something a decade out of date! Let's see how the new version compares to the old.

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Yesterday, however, I gave myself permission to upgrade to Quicken 2017. This is no small thing in fact, as you'll see, it's probably the biggest determining factor in which tool I use to track my money.

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I know how to make it do the things I want it to do. I stuck with Quicken 2007 - warts and all. Until yesterday, I hadn't upgraded my copy of Quicken in over a decade. Quicken 2007 is capable of producing dozens of different reports, all of which are customizable.

Finally, I'm a big fan of the reports.

From time to time, I do use other built-in features though, like the retirement calculator and the home inventory.

I don't use the budgeting feature, although I might give it a go in 2017.

And I like that Quicken downloads stock prices every day. That said, I do use automatic updates for my investments.

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Manual data entry helps me remain more aware of my habits.

Automatic downloads are available but I don't use them. And because I was raised using checks, I prefer a check-register interface.

Yes, I'm one of those old men who still uses checks now and then. Account registers work just like check registers. If an account becomes inactive, I'm able to hide it from view (without deleting data). I've been using the same accounts and same categories for thirteen years.

I have a list of accounts and spending categories.

I use the decade-old Quicken 2007 to do the following: (In fact, I just for fun I ran a net worth report on each year for which I have data!) If I wanted, it'd be easy to compare my present habits to the past. Then I used it again in 2011 and in 2013. I used the program religiously from October 2004 until April 2009, when I sold Get Rich Slowly. I've tracked my income and expenses with Quicken intermittently during the past thirteen years. (That wouldn't happen until October of 2004.) I was still maxing out my credit cards, still living paycheck to paycheck, and still wondering why I had suck rotten luck. My records go back to when I was married to Kris and we were living in the small town where I grew up. That said, I have transactions in my Quicken datafile going back to 19 February 2004 - almost thirteen years ago! I used it to track my descent into debt during the 1990s, although those files are exiled to inaccessible 3-1/2 inch floppy disks. Quicken 2007įor years, my personal-finance tool of choice has been Quicken. Today I'll talk about Quicken.Īnd at the end of this article, I'll reveal how I've decided to track my money during 2017. Yesterday I compared Mint and Personal Capital. Rather than try every available app, I elected to take a look at four that seemed like good fits for me: Quicken, You Need a Budget, Personal Capital, and Mint.Įarlier this week, I reviewed my experience with You Need a Budget. Lately, however, there's been a boom in personal-finance tools. In the olden days, there weren't many options. As I prepare to track my spending in 2017, I have to decide which tool to use.

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Welcome to the final day of my mini series exploring popular personal-finance apps.