Review by Tony Polito

Look up the Q2010 and/or Q2008 products, where I posted detailed logs/diaries of the endless bugs, errors and frustrations I endured as a Quicken user.

Here’s a permalink to just one of my earlier, quite detailed Amazon reviews of the Quicken product: tinyurl.com/AmazonQuickenReviewnnI owned Q2008, Q2005 & Q2002 and I used them daily. During that decade, I observed no significant product improvements, just the aforementioned continual increase in software bugs, eternal peddling of affiliated products, etc.

In August, 2010, I finally migrated to the Moneydance product and–after the migration and learning curve issues–I find it swims slick as an eel. I wish I’d done it years sooner.

Since at least 2002, Intuit has been using Quicken as a pure ‘cash cow’ - a product to milk revenue out of, but making no investment in it - while it continues to toy around with other new product developments toward future revenue streams … … Quicken Loans, Quicken Credit Cards, etc.

The history of the Quicken product doesn’t suggest a bright future for Quicken users. Don’t get suckered into starting up with Quicken. Go with Moneydance.