Manage your money on your Mac. Sounds like a great idea, right? But which Mac financial software does what?

And, whatever happened to Intuit’s popular Quicken? If you’ve been a Mac user for awhile, or switched to a Mac from Windows, then you know about the ongoing love-hate affair with Quicken. Mac users have been ignored by Intuit for years, and suffered through buggy and infrequent Quicken updates. If not Quicken, what? Here’s my Top 10 Best Mac Money Apps To Replace Quicken. Why Not Quicken? Intuit’s Quicken is arguably the most popular personal and business software for Mac and Windows PC users.

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What’s not to like? Not much, if you’re running Windows on your Mac. The last version of Quicken for Mac users dates back to 2007. Is due to go on sale in February.

As usual, Quicken Essentials will be loaded with features, yet will fall far short of the feature set of the various Quicken versions for Windows. Feature parity between Mac and Windows versions of Quicken seems to be a strategy that died a decade ago, back when Intuit may have hoped or expected the Mac to die—but it didn’t. Since then, the Mac has flourished, users abound, sales are at record levels, market share is up, yet Intuit’s policy with Quicken for Mac seems to be one of benign neglect, despite the focus recently on eye candy. Worse, Mac users who stuck with Quicken through the years have been treated to buggy software and infrequent updates.

Is there an alternative to Quicken for Mac users? The answer is yes. Mac users have many financial and money management alternatives. Sticking It To The Mac, Man Quicken Essentials for Mac (2010) looks to be loaded with features. Yet Intuit warns that some features—advanced investment performance reports and other features—are not in the new version, and advises users who need them to keep using Quicken Mac 2007. That’s how Intuit treats Mac users.

How about exporting data to TurboTax? Microsoft remote desktop connection client for mac os x. The new Quicken Essentials won’t do that, either. Intuit says to stick with Quicken Mac 2007 instead. How about bill paying? Surely Quicken Essentials for Mac will have that, right?

Try Quicken Mac 2007 instead. Or, Quicken Bill Pay. What does the latest Quicken version do for Mac users? It’ll import data from Quicken Mac 2005, 2006, 2007, and converts Quicken Windows 2007, 2008, and 2009. The newest version of Quick for Mac only supports Intel Macs, and only Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.

PowerPC Macs running Tiger need not apply. They’re in reverse order, starting with the least expensive (free) fewest features, and ending with the top two feature laden apps.

All are less expensive than the $69 retail price tag on Quicken Essentials for Mac (2010; discounts available for pre-order). They’re available for download now, receive frequent updates, and somewhere in this group is bound to be a money manager you can use to replace Quicken. How many Mac apps are there to manage your Money? But not all are as complex or expensive as Quicken Essentials.

A few help Mac users manage a checkbook. A few others manage investments. One runs on Mac or Windows PC or various flavors of Linux. And it’s free. #10 – Buddi If the Mac is the computer for the rest of us, then is the personal budget software for the rest of us.