Review by 68_Continental

[…]nnQuicken came with my first Windows computer, a Packard Bell, back in 1996-ish. It also came with Microsoft Money. Both sucked then, but Money was better. I downloaded the trial version of Money and 20-minutes later uninstalled it. So I went to Wal-Mart and decided to give Quicken Deluxe a try. Long story short, it’s even worse!nnFirst of all, what modern day program doesn’t allow you to order your transactions by date in descending order - so the most recent date is on top? Quicken wouldn’t let me do it! And if it’s possible, I couldn’t figure out how and frankly all you should have to do is click twice on the date column header like any other self-respecting spreadsheet-like program. This alone is a brick wall for me.

I have a nearly new top of the line laptop. Lots of speed, lots of RAM, lots of other things I don’t use at their full capacity. Quicken runs like a freakin’ remote control car running out of batteries. You try and scroll quickly down through your transactions - it can’t keep up. Rubbish.

When is Quicken going to realize that categories are EXTREMELY important and that the program should not make it a freakin’ pain in the you know what just to change/edit/add categories. You have to go into this menu that operates just as bad as the scrolling I just whined about and make changes that should have been (1) more user friendly and (2) capable of being done solely in the register instead of what feels like a third-party category management software program band-aid.

Most importantly, the user interface, easy-of-use, and presentation of the program is no better than the ancient version of Quicken that came on my Packard Bell computer over 10-years ago. Sure it has tabs but ever since Firefox came up with tabs in its web browser, everyone has tabs. They don’t help a thing in Quicken.

Don’t buy this. Don’t buy MS Money. Read a MS Access book, learn Access, and create your own money management tool. It’d be 100% customizable then, more user friendly, better looking, and you won’t ever have to worry about exporting your data. Heck, you can even use Excel and have a better experience.

Wow, Intuit, what a waste of money you’ve produced! I’m sorry for being so negative, but this software is buggy, slow, ugly, and just plain no good.