Quicken 2006 (Mac) [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Comprehensive personal financial management software created for the Mac
• Track expenses and manage cash; schedule bill paying with iCal
• Save more with outflow management; optimize investments and monitor portfolio
• View complete financial picture in minutes; create visual record of inventory
• Downloading banking, credit card, and investment info directly into Quicken

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009XB160
• Item model number: 283652
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,102 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Track, save, and invest with the ultimate personal financial management software created for the Macintosh platform. Quicken for Mac 2006 now delivers all the most important features and benefits of Quicken Deluxe 2006 for Windows--along with exciting Mac exclusives that leverage the power of the Macintosh operating system.

Features:

Built exclusively for the Mac OS X operating system, the new Quicken for Mac 2006 lets you see your complete financial picture in minutes.

• Manage your money on your Mac. Quicken for Mac 2006 is comprehensive personal finance software for the Mac platform. It's been designed for--and by--Mac users and offers special Mac exclusives.
• Track expenses and manage your cash. Keep track of your income and expenses so you can manage your household cash flow. Avoid unpleasant surprises like unexpected payments by scheduling your bills with iCal.
• Save more. Quicken for Mac 2006 helps you see where your money is going so you can manage your spending.
• Optimize your investments. Plan your investments and monitor your portfolio. Timely news alerts help you make educated investment decisions.
• Make tax time less painful. Better organization--and more detail--will help you find the tax deductions you deserve.
• Create a visual record of your home inventory. Enhance written records of your home inventory with pictures from your iPhoto library--terrific for expediting insurance claims. Take pictures of your rooms, furniture, and valuables, then add them to your Home Inventory records.*
• Save time by downloading. With over 1,600 participating financial institutions--and more being added all the time--downloading your banking, credit card, and investment information directly into Quicken lets you manage your finances quickly and easily.** Find out if your financial institution participates.
• Compatible with Tiger. Quicken for Mac users will immediately experience the benefits of compatibility with Max OS X v10.4, "Tiger."
• More power with more ease. Customize payees as you download transactions. Use more flexible scheduling options. And more!

Product Description

Track, save and invest with ease: Quicken for Mac 2006 helps you see your complete financial picture in minutes. Pay bills, balance your checkbook, create a budget, plan for retirement, simplify taxes, and manage your investments. Built for Mac OS X, Quicken for Mac 2006 works with iPhoto and iCal to help you track home valuables and stay on top of important dates. You can also back up your Quicken file to .Mac.* Plus, save time on data entry by downloading your credit card, banking and brokerage transactions from your participating financial institutions.** *iCal, iPhoto and .Mac subscription available separately from Apple Computer, Inc, and might require Internet access. **Online features require Internet access and are subject to change. Services vary among participating financial institutions or other parties and may be subject to application approval, additional terms, conditions, and fees. 2,500 participating financial institutions as of 8/1/05. TurboTax and Quicken Bill Pay subscription sold separately.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

147 of 148 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Phoning It In, August 8, 2005

By	Scott K "scottk" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

Several years ago, Intuit announced that they were going to discontinue Quicken for the Mac. After a personal phone call from Steve Jobs, the product was saved. Unfortunately, all development work must have still stopped at that time.

Quicken for the Mac has not had a noteworthy upgrade in years. If you are recent "switcher" from a PC to Mac, take note that the Mac version of Quicken does not hold a candle to the PC version. They are quite different products. Quicken for the Mac looks and acts like a product from 1998.

It's too bad because I love my Mac in every way. I just with *someone* made a decent personal finance software product for it.

172 of 175 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A very bad upgrade, August 6, 2005

By	Andrew D. Rodney (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been using Quicken on the Mac since 1988. This version is a major mess from a pretty dysfunctional company. I purchased via the web on 08/01/05. The version was very buggy from the start, crashing on launch virtually every time (under Tiger, if you tell it to relaunch after a crash two times, it automatically trashes a plist and Quicken would then launch until the next time). Many users reported this on the Quicken forums. Not an isolated issue. On 08/5/05 Intuit to their credit updated a patch which seems to have fixed the problem. But this shows how poor Intuit's Q&E and beta testing is. Worse, the company will NOT honor the rebate for those who purchased the product on 08/01 (rebate starts on 08/02). Again, these guys are not thinking!

I plan to use the 30 day money back guarantee and get all my money back. However, I can't go back to Quicken 2005 since all my data files were updated for 2006. I plan to purchase the box here in Amazon so I can at least get my rebate but this is really silly. I don't need a box or manual and Intuit is silly for not simply honoring the rebates for people who purchased the day they released it.

Is the update (it's not really an upgrade) worth it? Well they did speed up downloading transactions (it doesn't download all the institutions every time). The .Mac backup is nice and it works but is that worth $40? There are still bugs even beyond the patch fix. Command Q doesn't always quit the product. When you place your account windows on screen where you wan them, they do not always remain in place after you relaunch. The command to check for updates doesn't work (it pops a dialog saying you need to be connected to the web which I am). So if you're happy with the version you're on, I'm not sure this is money well spent.

Shame, this used to be a fantastic Mac product.

53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It will disappoint Macintosh owners., May 29, 2006

By	Ert (Somerville, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

I'm a software engineer, and I've been a Quicken for Macintosh user for 10 years now, religiously accumulating data on every financial transaction I've performed in the last decade. Quicken 2006 is the fourth release of the program I've used. I use Quicken because I want to track my finances, back in 1995 it was the best choice, and at the time it did what I needed. I stuck with Quicken because it was always easier to upgrade to a new release every 3 years than search for other options, and occasionally I would get a free version when I upgraded my computer. I stayed with Quicken through the years they said they were not going to develop for the Mac platform anymore, and through their return to Macintosh support following the popularity of the iMac.

Quicken has got worse, not better, over the years. Intuit has focused most of their energies towards shiny new features for a dwindling portion of their user base in an attempt to encourage users to upgrade. They neglect the user interface, but more importantly they have introduced bugs in the basic functioning of the program: I was prompted to write this review because their Budgeting functions incorrectly total the budget categories. Yes, I'm talking about a bug in the central goal of the budgeting functions, basic arithmetic. I seriously almost accepted a budget I had written before realizing that it was off by hundreds of dollars per month.

In past releases, I have suffered through UI bugs that make it nigh-impossible to get to information I wanted because of scroll bars that are too small to allow clicking on the correct portions of them. Functions have been unavailable because UI bugs have incorrectly made buttons unclickable. The customer support is terrible. Show-stopper bugs literally take years to be fixed. Many of the things that I want to do habitually -- generate graphs and reports, for example -- are possible but cumbersome and annoying because of the number of windows I need to navigate through to accomplish my goal.

The major development of the last few years, integration with online banks and brokerages, is generally a couple of years behind the PC version. I have *usually* been unable to get information from my accounts using Quicken's new features, even though my bank says that they work with Quicken. When pressed, it is revealed that they don't work with the Macintosh version.

I give the product two instead of one star because it does do the central functions you expect it to, tracking a checkbook for example. Quicken is definitely better than nothing at all. But I've finally decided that it's time for me to choose either MoneyDance or iBank and shift to a new program with developers that are responsive to complaints.