The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 14, 2005 13:31 UTC (Wed) by fatrat (guest, #1518)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Sadly, having gone through looking at KMyMoney and GnuCash last year, I ended up paying money for Moneydance. It's not only much, much nicer to use but being a Java app is cross platform.

Free software has a way to go in this area yet I feel. Even the best (GnuCash IMO) isn't nearly as good as the commercial stuff out there.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 14, 2005 15:29 UTC (Wed) by rogerd (guest, #4170) [Link]

I Agree. I was running Moneydance long before GNUCash was popular.

I installed Moneydance in 199x sometime and used it ever since. Even upgraded once or twice. Laughed in the face of Y2K. The ability of running a Linux/Java app remotely on an wireless XP laptop is what keeps me using Linux for the long term.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 14, 2005 19:50 UTC (Wed) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] (5 responses)

Thanks for the pointer to Moneydance. Grumpy editor, would you include it in your review?

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 9:09 UTC (Thu) by fatrat (guest, #1518) [Link] (4 responses)

It's a commercial non-open source program and our Grumpy Editor did say he was not going to look at commercial products. If you want to look at it, you can download a copy to play with.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 13:08 UTC (Thu) by dayers (guest, #1602) [Link] (1 responses)

Aaaw, come on! This isn't a religious issue, for all love. Since Moneydance is way ahead on features and useablity, why not give it a look? I'd rather see it the standard for comparison than Quicken.

I used gnucash for a while, but md is much, much better, IMO.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 15:27 UTC (Fri) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

Ah, a religious person complaining about religious people. Sounds about par.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 16, 2005 8:19 UTC (Fri) by guybar (guest, #798) [Link] (1 responses)

and our Grumpy Editor did say he was not going to look at commercial products

And with all due respect (which I have), he might have been wrong: at least as far as giving an example for what the standard in the non-free world is.
I have been curious about this for some time.

If you want to look at it, you can download a copy to play with.

Isn't the purpose of a "review" to do exactly this kind of "playing with" the products in the field, thus saving a lot of redundant work by a lot of readers ?

The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 17, 2005 18:40 UTC (Sat) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

The license states "only for your own personal use", using it to write a review probably is not only for Grumpy Editor's personal use.

Also, I worry about lock-in on programs like that and have no interest in them. Oh, sorry folks we've sold out to the monopoly I'm sure they will meet your future needs.