Quicken was traditionally known as one of the best personal finance software options for desktop users. However, the Mac version had traditionally lacked the features found in the PC version, and that was disappointing to many users. While last year's version was a big improvement, it still wasn't there for everyone.
After using Quicken for Mac 2019 for several weeks, we're happy to see that Quicken has continued the improvements over prior years. It's not as robust as we'd like to see yet, but it's definitely been moving in the right direction.
So, how did Quicken for Mac 2019 do? Honestly, it's an incremental improvement over 2018. But we like the direction it's going, and if you can get a great deal on pricing (which you typically can on Amazon or when they have a sale), it could be worth it.
- Incremental improvements over 2018 version
- A great mobile app with seemless sync across platforms
- Price is still a concern, but if you can find a great deal, go for it
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Key Features Of Quicken For Mac 2019
Quicken For Mac continues to build on the many traditional features that Quicken users expect. As always, it comes with great spending tracking (compared to other online options like Mint and Personal Capital), it has investment tracking, and budgeting.
For 2019, they have improved the usability of the platform, but the navigation is still a little challenging. Even after using Quicken for about a week, I still find it hard to get to different reports. It's not intuitive.
They also improved the web interface for Quicken. If you don't want to use the desktop software, and prefer a web version (like what you get with Mint), you can have that now. But I prefer the app over the web version.
Here's what the home screen looks like:
Instead of being under reporting, most of the things you'll care about are actually available by clicking on the 'Acccount' sidebar - for example, your income and spending isn't viewable under 'Reports', but it's actually visible under 'Banking'.
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Quicken for Mac dramatically improved their investment tracking for 2018, but this is one area that didn't continue to improve into 2019.
There are still issues here. When I imported my accounts, some positions transferred the cost basis, while others didn't. Not a huge deal, but very odd. Also, it's still missing key reports that I valued in the Windows version - most notably the asset allocation and ability to play with your allocation in the program.
See the investment screen here:
Also, Quicken touts that you can now see investment performance, but it consistently showed 'N/A' for every account. My guess is that Quicken calculates this in the program, versus using historical data. That is a good thing in that you get a real snapshot of your performance, but a bad thing in that you need the Quicken app to consistently update to make it happen.
Here's what the screen looks like:
If you check the comments below, you can find other frustrating experiences with the investing tracking in Quicken for Mac. It has so much potential, but it's just not there yet.
Quicken 2019 Mobile App
The Quicken 2019 for Mac mobile app is probably my favorite feature that has been improved. This app has existed since the last few versions, but I found it glitchy years ago and gave up on it. For this review, I started using it again, and it's actually a bit more user friendly than the desktop version.
Here's the home screen of the mobile app:
As you can see, you get your account balances and recent transactions right at the top of the page. You can link this with Quicken's new credit card, and easily categorize your transactions on the go. It then seamlessly syncs with the desktop version.
One of the features I love on the mobile app, which is missing in the desktop version, is easily being able to see your income and expenses against each other.
Here's what that looks like:
I don't know why this can't just be included on the main page. There's also something funky up with the net income over time graph.. maybe a glitch?
The pricing for Quicken For Mac 2019 continues to be a focus point for most users. Quicken changed their pricing model last year to a subscription-based model, instead of a one-time fee. I see this as both good and bad.
It's bad, because many Quicken users kept their software for years, and never upgraded. For users, this was fine - because you could avoid bad rollouts like Quicken for Mac 2017. However, to continue to receive updates and banking information, you had to update every few years anyway or Quicken would cut you off.
It's good, because my hope is with more recurring revenue, Quicken can continue to improve their software and ensure banking connectivity.
Quicken For Mac 2019 has three price points this year. I think 90% of users would benefit simply using the Deluxe version, which is $49.99/yr at full price.
Here's what the pricing looks like:
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It's hard to say if Premier is worth the huge additional price. I think Deluxe is the best value, for the added features of investment and loan tracking. But I've never used BillPay, and I highly recommend that most people don't use a service like BillPay because not only does Quicken charge more, but many banks charge for the service as well.
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Note: For Windows, there is also a Home and Business version. However, we think most consumers with a small business would benefit more from using a tool like Quickbooks, versus using Quicken Home and Business.
Special Promotional Pricing
As you probably already know, Quicken is notorious for running promotional pricing all the time. Recently, they were offering 40% off their prices - which I think is a fair price for the product.
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I would have a hard time paying $49.99 per year for Deluxe, but paying $29.99 per year makes much more sense - especially considering that I would typically upgrade every 2-3 years, this aligns much better with the pricing I'd expect.
However, in our search for deals, we found that Amazon.com is offering a 14-month subscription of the Deluxe version for $38.49 (which is 30% off full price). Given the $49.99 price is $4.17 per month, Amazon's deal is $2.75 per month. Still not as good as Quicken's own sale, but the second best deal we've found.
Check out the deal on Amazon here.
Quicken World Mastercard
Another interesting product/feature that Quicken launched this year is the Quicken World Mastercard. The Quicken credit card provides real-time transaction notifications in the Quicken mobile app, and offers integration with Quicken for Mac desktop.
This card also gives you a free year of Quicken Deluxe when you spend at least $500 in the first 90 days. If you already have a subscription, you'll get a 1 year extension.
The card offers 2x rewards points on all your qualified spending, and has no annual fees.
Given that this card is really about integration with Quicken, we're surprised that you don't get Quicken free every year as long as you spend at least $500 per year. Otherwise, all the rewards are on par or below the other top rewards credit cards out there.
Pros And Cons Of Quicken For Mac 2019
As you can see, there are some definite improvements in Quicken for Mac 2018 versus the prior year. However, it's still not perfect and it still has a lot less features than you'll find in the Windows version.
Pros:
- Great mobile app to compliment the desktop version
- Improved Loan Tracking
- Spending Tracking Categories and Reporting
Cons:
- Poor Navigation And Not Intuitive
- Still Lacking Some Key Investment Features Like Asset Allocation
- New Subscription Pricing Isn't Worth It At Full Price
Final Verdict
The final verdict is that we're giving Quicken for Mac 2019 four stars. As I've been using it more and more, I'm actually liking it more than many of the free online money management tools out there. This is especially true since the mobile app has become much more useful.
However, for those that want desktop software, AND if you can get it at a discounted price, Quicken for Mac is a much better piece of software than before.
Have you tried Quicken for Mac 2019? What are your thoughts?
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- Product Cost - 60
- Ease Of Use - 83
- Tools And Features - 90
- Customer Serivce - 85
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Summary
Quicken For Mac 2019 has continued to improve on what’s been working and has an even better mobile app experience.
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Jim and Dan, there's a lot of history that gets us to where we find ourselves today. The developers are well aware that Quicken Mac does not have all the functionality of Quicken Windows nor the legacy Quicken 2007 for Mac, and they are working to build many of the features users have been asking for. Progress is being made, but the progress is slower than both users, developers and Quicken management would have liked or expected. Why? This is likely way more information than you wanted, but I think if you read though it, you'll gain an understanding of why things are where they are and what the future holds..
Quicken for Mac was originally developed for the 'Classic' Mac operating system of the 1980s and 90s, and when Apple switched to the Unix-based Mac OS X in 2001, developers were aware that while Apple aimed to maintain compatibility as long as possible, eventually the underpinnings of old Mac OS would be retired and programs would have to be re-written for the new operating system. After the release of Quicken 2007, the developers at Intuit realized that so much of the code of Quicken was inexorably tied to things in the old OS, there was no viable alternative except starting over to build a new Quicken Mac using the more modern tools, database, graphics and frameworks of Mac OS X.
So starting in late 2006, that's what they aimed to do. It was a very big project, since Quicken 2007 was the culmination of nearly 20 year of code development. The team working on the new version didn't set out to create a look-alike of Quicken 2007, but to re-think the features and design of a program that had originally been developed when everyone had 12' monitors. The project was called Quicken Financial Life, and after two years of development, it never made it out of beta testing. During this development cycle, Mint.com was born -- a web-based financial management tool which looked clean and colorful and was easy to use. Recognizing the threat to Quicken's market dominance, Intuit purchased Mint in 2009, and installed its founder, Aaron Patzer, as the head of the Quicken division. He quickly revamped the stalled Quicken Mac project to make its user interface more like Mint, with colorful charts and graphs -- but there was still a huge amount of functionality missing. He decided to release an underpowered subset of Quicken, called Quicken Essentials, in early 2010. It didn't track investments, had rudimentary reporting, and lacked a great deal of other functionality from the legacy Quicken -- but it was something they could put on the market while they continued development. He promised Mac users a full-fledged Quicken Deluxe would follow the next year. It was not to be. Reviews and users disliked Quicken Essentials because of its limited features, so many users continued using Quicken 2007, and Intuit continued not bringing in much revenue from its Mac product. Intuit then underwent another management shake-up, with Patzer leaving the Quicken division, and the Mac project completely stalled.
It wasn't until late 2012 that Intuit hired a new product manager, Marcus Aiu, to pick up the pieces of the Quicken Mac development project. With only a handful of developers on the team, they needed to revamp some of the core code in Essentials to conform to changes in the Mac operating system, and then to develop the missing investment tracking functionality. After two years of development, in August 2014, the modern Quicken Mac came to market as Quicken 2015. Most of the people who beta tested that product argued that more features and fixes were needed before the product was released. Marcus explained that this essentially was a minimal viable product that they planned to rapidly iterate with user feedback. They felt it was a long-needed enhancement for users of the ill-fated Quicken Essentials product, but knew it didn't yet have the functionality to meet the needs of many longtime Quicken Mac users or Quicken Windows users.
Marcus posted this simple explanation shortly after Quicken 2015 was first released, something I wish the company would have displayed more prominently: 'I don't expect many Quicken 2007 or Quicken Windows users to purchase the product until it has the features they need. The bottom line is: we released what we felt was a great release [upgrade] for Quicken Essentials users, and the plan is to continue to enhance the product adding legacy features that appear in other versions of Quicken throughout the year.'
They've made a lot of progress since then, and added many major and minor features users have clamored for. But they thought they'd make much faster progress in adding features; they lost a lot of time re-writing code for changing Internet communications protocols, changing servers at Intuit, and eventually moving off some of Intuit's servers after Quicken separated from Intuit. At the time Quicken became an independent company in 2016, the CEO stated that Quicken Mac feature parity with Quicken Windows is a goal. (Cynics will note that Quicken Windows has its own share of problems that Quicken Mac ought not to emulate!) They also announced they were doubling the size of the Mac development team to build new functionality more quickly.
So where does that leave us in late 2018? I would argue that for all the shortcomings in Quicken Mac 2019, things seem headed in the right direction -- but the path is going to continue to be one of slow progress with bumps along the way. Quicken 2019 is vastly improved over the original Quicken 2015 four years ago, and even over Quicken 2017 two years ago. The developers don't pre-announce features, so we don't know exactly what it coming or when -- but they have hinted at some long-desired improvements coming in the not too distant future, including continued work on bringing powerful, flexible reports to replace the lame reports that still exist from Essentials 8 years ago; user control over payee matching and transaction auto-categorization; and user control over including account transfers in budgets.
Sorry if that was too long, but to me, the recounting of the entire tortured, twisted history helps me have some perspective and understanding of why things aren't at the level we'd yet like, and also judge the quality and pace of development over the past number of years. It's going to take another year or two, or more, to add many of the features that users are waiting for, but all indications are that they are headed in the right direction.
Quicken for Mac was originally developed for the 'Classic' Mac operating system of the 1980s and 90s, and when Apple switched to the Unix-based Mac OS X in 2001, developers were aware that while Apple aimed to maintain compatibility as long as possible, eventually the underpinnings of old Mac OS would be retired and programs would have to be re-written for the new operating system. After the release of Quicken 2007, the developers at Intuit realized that so much of the code of Quicken was inexorably tied to things in the old OS, there was no viable alternative except starting over to build a new Quicken Mac using the more modern tools, database, graphics and frameworks of Mac OS X.
So starting in late 2006, that's what they aimed to do. It was a very big project, since Quicken 2007 was the culmination of nearly 20 year of code development. The team working on the new version didn't set out to create a look-alike of Quicken 2007, but to re-think the features and design of a program that had originally been developed when everyone had 12' monitors. The project was called Quicken Financial Life, and after two years of development, it never made it out of beta testing. During this development cycle, Mint.com was born -- a web-based financial management tool which looked clean and colorful and was easy to use. Recognizing the threat to Quicken's market dominance, Intuit purchased Mint in 2009, and installed its founder, Aaron Patzer, as the head of the Quicken division. He quickly revamped the stalled Quicken Mac project to make its user interface more like Mint, with colorful charts and graphs -- but there was still a huge amount of functionality missing. He decided to release an underpowered subset of Quicken, called Quicken Essentials, in early 2010. It didn't track investments, had rudimentary reporting, and lacked a great deal of other functionality from the legacy Quicken -- but it was something they could put on the market while they continued development. He promised Mac users a full-fledged Quicken Deluxe would follow the next year. It was not to be. Reviews and users disliked Quicken Essentials because of its limited features, so many users continued using Quicken 2007, and Intuit continued not bringing in much revenue from its Mac product. Intuit then underwent another management shake-up, with Patzer leaving the Quicken division, and the Mac project completely stalled.
It wasn't until late 2012 that Intuit hired a new product manager, Marcus Aiu, to pick up the pieces of the Quicken Mac development project. With only a handful of developers on the team, they needed to revamp some of the core code in Essentials to conform to changes in the Mac operating system, and then to develop the missing investment tracking functionality. After two years of development, in August 2014, the modern Quicken Mac came to market as Quicken 2015. Most of the people who beta tested that product argued that more features and fixes were needed before the product was released. Marcus explained that this essentially was a minimal viable product that they planned to rapidly iterate with user feedback. They felt it was a long-needed enhancement for users of the ill-fated Quicken Essentials product, but knew it didn't yet have the functionality to meet the needs of many longtime Quicken Mac users or Quicken Windows users.
Marcus posted this simple explanation shortly after Quicken 2015 was first released, something I wish the company would have displayed more prominently: 'I don't expect many Quicken 2007 or Quicken Windows users to purchase the product until it has the features they need. The bottom line is: we released what we felt was a great release [upgrade] for Quicken Essentials users, and the plan is to continue to enhance the product adding legacy features that appear in other versions of Quicken throughout the year.'
They've made a lot of progress since then, and added many major and minor features users have clamored for. But they thought they'd make much faster progress in adding features; they lost a lot of time re-writing code for changing Internet communications protocols, changing servers at Intuit, and eventually moving off some of Intuit's servers after Quicken separated from Intuit. At the time Quicken became an independent company in 2016, the CEO stated that Quicken Mac feature parity with Quicken Windows is a goal. (Cynics will note that Quicken Windows has its own share of problems that Quicken Mac ought not to emulate!) They also announced they were doubling the size of the Mac development team to build new functionality more quickly.
So where does that leave us in late 2018? I would argue that for all the shortcomings in Quicken Mac 2019, things seem headed in the right direction -- but the path is going to continue to be one of slow progress with bumps along the way. Quicken 2019 is vastly improved over the original Quicken 2015 four years ago, and even over Quicken 2017 two years ago. The developers don't pre-announce features, so we don't know exactly what it coming or when -- but they have hinted at some long-desired improvements coming in the not too distant future, including continued work on bringing powerful, flexible reports to replace the lame reports that still exist from Essentials 8 years ago; user control over payee matching and transaction auto-categorization; and user control over including account transfers in budgets.
Sorry if that was too long, but to me, the recounting of the entire tortured, twisted history helps me have some perspective and understanding of why things aren't at the level we'd yet like, and also judge the quality and pace of development over the past number of years. It's going to take another year or two, or more, to add many of the features that users are waiting for, but all indications are that they are headed in the right direction.