iBank 4 for Mac [Download]
 
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iBank 4 for Mac [Download]

by IGG Software
Mac OS X
2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:   Mac OS X
  • Media: Software Download
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Product Features

  • Import from Quicken or MS Money
  • Direct downloads
  • Budgets and reports
  • TurboTax export
  • iPhone sync
  • Compatible with OS X Lion

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Product Details

  • Downloading: Currently, this item is available only to customers located in the United States and who have a U.S. billing address.
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  • ASIN: B00576JM6A
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: June 21, 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
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Product Description

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iBank 4

The Gold Standard for Mac Money Management

iBank 4 delivers a new standard for intuitive, full-featured personal finance software. Monitor account balances at a glance, track your investments, maintain budgets, and manage your credit cards, savings, checking and loans--all in an easy, powerful, familiar Mac interface.

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Features

Set up in a snap.

iBank's setup assistant gets you up and running in no time. Import data from Quicken for Mac or PC, Microsoft Money, and other financial programs with minimal effort, or start with a clean slate in minutes.

Track all your finances in one place.

iBank includes tools for keeping tabs on all of your real-world financial accounts: checking and savings, cash and credit cards, investment and retirement accounts, even mortgages and loans.

Update your records with ease.

Many banks offer direct download for one-click updates; for the rest, iBank includes an integrated browser that you can use to import data straight from your bank's website. iBank helps you to clean up the new transactions and remove duplicates automatically. Manually record and edit transactions as needed.

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Categorize everything.

Set up category hierarchies, assign categories to all of your transactions, and split transactions for more detailed category tracking. Best of all, iBank learns how you categorize the transactions you download and assigns categories automatically when you update your accounts!

Generate powerful reports.

Create beautiful and detailed reports on your account balances, spending categories, investments, net worth and more with the click of a button. Click on any element of a report to drill down and view more detailed information, then print exactly what you see onscreen, or save as PDFs.

Plan your budget with envelopes.

Due to popular demand, iBank now supports the envelope method of budget tracking. Plan your upcoming expenses, then save cash in envelopes until payments are due. Carry over savings from month to month, and move cash between envelopes when necessary.

Sync data with your iPhone.

With iBank Mobile for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (sold separately), you can keep your account balances and transaction history synchronized between your Mac and mobile devices with the click of a button. Transfer data over a local wireless network, remotely via MobileMe, or using your own WebDAV server.

Track investments with ease.

iBank's powerful investment management features let you record the shares you buy and sell, track the prices of your securities over time, and analyze the performance of your portfolio with reports tailored specifically for investors.

Reconcile with paper statements.

For those of us who prefer to keep tabs on what the banks do with our money, iBank provides convenient statement reconciliation features. Each month when a paper statement arrives from the bank, create a virtual statement in iBank, check off the transactions that match up, and make any adjustments necessary to keep your accounts properly balanced.

Take control of your financial life.

iBank includes a host of other features to help you keep control over where your money goes. Use scheduled transactions to track recurring expenses, and post them to your iCal calendar. Attach receipts, statements, pictures, or any other files to your transactions for better record-keeping. Maintain accounts in multiple currencies and perform currency conversions with a minimum of hassle.

Discover more great features.

You'll uncover lots more capabilities in iBank, including robust data export (to programs such as TurboTax), custom check printing, and password protection for your iBank documents. You'll also find a library of video tutorials at the IGG Software website, a great community of active users at the IGG forums, and if you need us, an enthusiastic support team always willing to help.

Highlights

  • Set up and organize all of your existing accounts including credit cards and investments with easy downloading of transactions from most major financial institutions
  • Monitor all of your account balances or net worth at a glance and manage your portfolio by tracking buys or sells as well as dividends and ROI
  • Use new envelope budgeting to analyze your income versus expenses to gain complete control over your personal finances
  • Enjoy a full set of essential features including custom check printing or password protection for private account data
  • Import your previous transactions and categories from versions of Quicken for Mac and PC or from MS Money and export data in standard formats to TurboTax or Quicken

Product Description

iBank 4 is an intuitive personal and small business financial manager designed to track bank accounts, credit cards, loans and investments; to analyze income and expenses with powerful reports; and to plan your financial future with easy budgeting tools. Wrapped in a familiar, Mac-like interface, iBank is a robust financial application able to meet the needs of both casual home users or sophisticated investors. iBank 4 offers many of the features not found in other Mac finance applications, such as password protection for your accounts; check printing; the ability to export data to standard formats for use with TurboTax or Quicken, or to to drag-and-drop tables to your favorite spreadsheet; and advanced investment tracking of buys, sells, dividends and cost basis. iBank can directly connect to your bank to download transactions, or sync transactions entered on the go from iBank Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch (sold separately). Other features allow you to track mortgages or loans, see your account balances through time, create budgets and reports, attach images or files to transactions, sync items to iCal, backup data to cloud storage accounts, and much more. iBank’s developers listen their customers, releasing frequent improvements, updates and fixes, and offering responsive tech support and customer service.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Not so bad! October 9, 2011
Access Method:Thin Software Download| Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
We have been using Quicken 2001 forever on a PC, but the PC was ready to die, and we were tired of the PC hassle....so we bought an iMac. It's our second iMac, actually, and we love it. But I digress...

We never upgraded Quicken since the 2001 version. In my opinion, Quicken is bloatware...just lots of stuff we didn't really need and weren't going to use that much, so we didn't really have a good reason to ever upgrade. The reviews on Quicken for Mac scared us away from it, but most reviews on this product seemed okay, so we gave it a try, and have liked it enough to convert from the 30-day free trial to the licensed version. So far, it's working well. The auto-downloads from the credit cards are great. We use small, local banks from which account activity downloads are not supported, but I doubt Quicken would have supported them either. I imported all our Quicken accounts, which was pretty much painless. I have a brokerage account that I downloaded from Ameritrade, and I did have to hassle a little with that to show purchases I made over a year ago, and I had to do an entry then to adjust the cash balance, but I'm an accountant, so for me it wasn't too bad. Other people's mileage with less experience adjusting account balances may vary.

The only place I'm going to ding this product a little is account reconciliation. I do like the way Quicken does this better, but iBank is not awful at all. You just have to pay a bit more attention when you do the job. All in all, I think we will like this product. We have used it for a month and have gone through a full month banking cycle, so I feel pretty good about recommending this product.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Access Method:Thin Software Download| Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
I purchased iBank as a replacement for Quicken for Mac. As many Mac users are aware, when Apple upgraded their OS to Lion, that broke Quicken for Mac v. 7 or earlier, due to the removal of the Rosetta code from the Mac OS. Quicken Essentials was not an option for me, due to it's almost complete inability to track investments. I researched the various alternatives (Mint, Moneydance, Quicken Essentials), and chose iBank. I'm overall happy with iBank, but can't give it 5 stars because there are still things I'd like to see improved or added.

The Pros for iBank for me were: 1. Ease of Transition. I exported my Quicken file (I was using Quicken Deluxe for Mac v. 6) and followed iBank's very detailed instructions on the import process and it worked just fine. 2. Thirty day fully functional trial. I initially downloaded the trial from iBank's website. I was able to use all of it's functions for 30 days without paying, and it gave me a good opportunity to get the feel for the program and decide if I liked it. 3. Ease of use. While it does do some things differently from Quicken, as an almost 20 year user of Quicken I found iBank pretty easy to learn to use, and I'm very comfortable with it now. 4. Online Banking and Transaction downloading. I decided to try to start taking advantage of these features in iBank, since that really didn't work too well for me in Quicken, and I'm glad I did. iBank works well, either downloading transactions directly from the banks that support it, or using iBank's Web Connect feature to download them from the bank's website using iBank's built in browser. It's been a nice timesaver. 5. Mobile Device Sync. While I haven't tried this yet, iBank has an iPhone mobile version and the two can sync data that I've heard works pretty well. I may be giving this a try later.

The Cons (and these aren't really bugs, more like feature requests): 1. No built in Bill Pay. I was a Quicken Bill Pay customer, and no Quicken alternative has a built-in bill pay feature like that. I use bill pay through my bank now, and that works fine, but I still have to enter those transactions into iBank if I want to be able to see them reflected as upcoming transactions. I can't get them by downloading from my bank till the day they actually post. 2. Options tracking in investments. While you can enter Options as investments, and you even put in the Option Ticker when you set it up, iBank doesn't download daily quotes on the Option, so your final result on the option isn't reflected in your portfolio till you close the Option. iBank says they are working on adding this feature. 3. Account Reconciliation. This feature just doesn't flow right somehow. It works, and I think it really might be more efficient than Quicken's, but it still just feels off and a little clunky to me. I think this could be improved.

That's my two cents on iBank. It's definitely worth a try if you need to move out of Quicken on your Mac.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Review of iBank October 9, 2011
By Ben
Access Method:Thin Software Download| Platform for Display:Mac Download|Amazon Verified Purchase
This application is very workable. It follows Quicken, a program hard to beat. But Quicken seems to have made the decision that it is so good that no change or tweaking is needed for Mac programs, despite the fact they (Macs) have changed many times since 2006. I never had the confidence to link directly with bank balances with Quicken, particularly where recent Mac upgrades seemed to cause some quirkiness. There is a small learning curve to get up to speed with iBank. If you are as disorganized as I, you may find yourself doing balances several months old. iBank manages this easily but you must pay attention to where the highlighted line went when you hit return. It won't be at the bottom of the page, as with Quicken. It will be snuggled in with the old date range. I like it. It is great for Mac users.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Ahh, Don't Think So!
Not worth the money or effort. If I could return the download I would. Too cumbersome and lacks features and functionality I've grown accustom to with Quicken. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Richard D. Gross
Glad to have it - buzz off Intuit
I had been a Quicken user for upwards of 15+ years, the last 10 or so on the Mac platform, and when Intuit essentially told the Mac users "solly cholly" I found out about... Read more
Published 14 days ago by Robert Fately
Why would anyone buy this product
Have Quicken 2007 on an older PC and was hoping to migrate over to IBank on an Apple computer. This product has minimal functionality and was clearly a waste of dollars;... Read more
Published 1 month ago by gary pike
New User
i am a new user of iBank and have only been using it a short time but i really like what I've seen so far.
Published 1 month ago by Bruce
Solid Program that meets my needs
Grateful for all of the reviews I read while researching a replacement personal finance program, it's time for me to return the favor. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jumil
Out of iBank hell
I have been using Intuit products since the 1990s. I made a mistake and never upgraded my Quicken 2004. It worked fine, and then my nightmare began. Read more
Published 2 months ago by JALS
Fine...
Basically, this works, and it easily imports most stuff from Quicken.

On the other hand, it doesn't import EVERYthing (account details, for example), and after many... Read more
Published 2 months ago by European History Guy
SEE Finance is a better product
I tried both iBANK 4 and SEE Finance and found SEE Finance to be the better product. While still not perfect, it has a much simpler format. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Moose
my bank review
Switched from PC to Mac and had been using Quicken 2004 version. I was advised by persons more knowledgeable than myself that Quicken would not work or work improperly with the... Read more
Published 2 months ago by doc
Very basic, NOT a substitute for Quicken!
I read the reviews, and decided to try iBank anyway. The software is VERY basic at best. I would say if this is your first financial software and you are looking for basic... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kody Miles
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