Review by S. Morris

I own Quicken Deluxe 2006. I used Quickbooks PRO in my office for 5 years and found that Quickbooks Pro was easy to use. Quicken Deluxe is a wreck. It is not at all intuitive. It can’t tell that there is a difference between when a check is written and when it clears. The numbers it downloads from brokerages etc don’t correlate with what one finds on the brokerage web site. I suppose that there is a reason but I wanted this program to save me time not make more work. So far it has been much more work. If you are obsessed with money and want to spend all your time playing what amounts to an online game with Quicken then I suppose that you might like this program. I don’t have any suggestions for an alternative but there must be something better. I think that you would do better making your own Excel spreadsheet or downloading one of the free ones that are available.