Customer Reviews

Pocket Quicken 2.0 For Palm OS & Windows Mobile (Pocket PC)

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I've been a user of Quicken for 5 years now and I'm addicted to tracking my finances through it. When I bought my Pocket PC 4 months ago, I wanted to use it to track my finances also, but it was too expensive at the retail stores. When it finally dropped a few bucks, I decided to try it. I'm mainly wanted it to track the cash I'm spending because in my business I deal with a lot of cash transactions and it's too easy to spend the cash without tracking it and it's a total pain to sit down at a computer with a pocket full of reciepts.

Just like other software, I popped in the CD followed the instructions and everything loaded onto my Pocket PC with the greatest of ease. All of my transactions (the last 3 months), account information, memorized transactions, everything. I printed off the intructions and I'm off and running. Seriously easy to use, I'm just amazed.

If you like to use Quicken, and have a Pocket PC, this software is a MUST have! I absolutely don't regret spending the money on it now.

The software was simple to install and works fine. I needed a way to maintain my checking account and Pocket Quicken fills the need. It allows me to keep up with my checking account, and several credit card accounts. At the end of the day, I always know exactly what I have spent without a lot of hassle or fuss. I simply hot sync and then open Quicken. That is all that I wanted and it supplied my need. I have had the program for about three months and have had absolutely no problems.

For the price I thought I'd get more than what amounts to a basic spread-sheet program that sync's with Quicken.

Yes, when I'm spending cash, or using a CC at the store, it's great that I can enter it into the PPC and it will import it into my Quicken. But it's not stand-alone. It won't really track your portfolios. And it does not display any charts or graphs.

For $10 it's worth it, for $30 I would have rather saved the money and just entered in my reciepts when I get home.

I would suggest looking at alternatives like MS Money and SPB Finance.

I've been addicted to Quicken for over 10 years. When I discovered Pocket Quicken for my Palm and Windows Mobile Smartphones it quickly became indispensible. I was totally in shock when I went to the LandAware Web site to see if there was a newer version or other phones supported to discover Intuit had abrubtly terminated it's licensing agreement with Pocket Quicken's creator! Not only can they no longer sell it they can no longer support it in any way, shape or form.

It'd be one thing if Intuit offered a Smartphone app to replace Pocket Quicken. However, the only thing they offer is an iPhone app for Quicken Online. The ONLY financial application left and the bulk of Smartphones and PDAs in existence aren't supported!

It looks like I'm stuck with my current phones for as long as they last. I picked up some used spares for backup so I can continue to use Pocket Quicken. Be advised if you purchase Pocket Quicken for Palm or Windows mobile you will have no support from anyone, anywhere.

I just went through the ringer to try and get pocket quicken to work on my new windows 7 computer. Turns out there is a new product that will do this instead. You can google Inesoft Cash Organizer.

For anyone who is curious, here is my pocket quicken and windows 7 story:

I had pocket quicken 2.5 on my computer and pda. My computer died. I could not find the pocket quicken disk to load on my new computer (having just recently seen it. I have a 2 year old and things just disappear.) I couldn't find a 2.5 version to buy so got a 2.0 from amazon.

My new computer was windows 7 home which is not compatible with activesync. So I had to buy the professional upgrade to get Win XP mode that would work with activesync. Except I could not get the virtual pc to load. Many hours with microsoft tech support to find out all I needed to do was go in bios and turn on my virtual technology field.

Then my pda would not sync with activesync. I had a microsoft tech support person tell me it was not possible for xp mode to work with activesync. I did not believe him so kept making phone calls to MS tech support. Finally found "Earl" who showed me the menu at the top of xp mode that says USB. All I had to do was click in there and attach my pda and suddenly my pda was syncing with my computer.

Then came several hours of trying to figure out why pocket quicken would not sync with my computer. I ended up at mobilitysite forum and found out pocket quicken 2.0 is not compatible with windows mobile 5. Then I found a thread called "Pocket Quicken help???" with the link to downloading pocket quicken 2.2. I downloaded it and my pda and computer synced. I only have 2 weeks to get an activation code. However, I was able to see my accounts on my pda!!!!!

I have emailed landware. Hopefully I can get an activation code from them and all will be well. If not, I will be bummed. I have spent over $100 and many hours of time just to get pocket quicken to work. How sad if it doesn't. (And with two little kids underfoot, who knows what my quicken accounts will look like. Actually, I know. Between the birth of my son and getting pocket quicken my previously flawless, beautiful accounts were terrible. I hope that fate does not await me again.)

This product was pretty cool at first. Not as good as Quicken on your PC, but it synced up well and was neat to be able to take with you to keep track of purchases. Would have been great for travel and for remember to log purchases. A few weeks after installing the software, I had to wipe my HP iPaq and reinstall it. It reinstalled, but now gives me an error message when I try to open the program. Everything else on the PDA works fine - I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and the same thing happens. I'm disappointed that it no longer functions. As long as it is compatible with your PDA and seems to stay functional, it's a neat product. Kind of pricey for what you get, but nice for the frequent traveler/personal finance guru!

I use quicken at home and instead of taking my check book out with me I download everthing to my palm. Hot sync its that easy.

Amazon does not know that v.2.0 does not work with 2006. Please update your store and sale the new v. 2.5 (I am in the process to return this software due to wrong advertisement)
I am testing the new 2.5 with quicken 2006 and I love it I don't mind paying the full price for this GREAT! software... Thank you