Customer Reviews
No stars for this looser 
2005-06-23
I used Quicken 2002 for the PC on my old PC. When Intuit stopped supporting it I switched to Quicken 2004 for the Mac. I love the Mac except for this wretched program. Do not buy this program unless you want to be extremely frustrated and no longer be able to trust your financial data. Is there a reliable and accurate financial program for the Mac? HELP!!!
It stinks! 2005-04-02
After yet another frustrating and fruitless session with this worthless software, I logged on here at Amazon to write a scathing revew. Lo and behold, many other reviewers had beat me to it! Kinda makes my day to see I'm not alone. Quicken came bundled with my new Mac G5 -- but Apple wasn't doing me any favors. Where to start? Poorly designed interface, difficulty of use, absence of many keyboard shortcuts, and a worthless Help section head the list. I was using Microsoft Money 99 on my old PC before making the switch and I loved it: easy to use, easy to look at, straightforward instructions and a plethora of shortcuts made it user-friendly. It was everything Quicken for Mac isn't, in other words.
Somehow I accidently deleted several weeks of register entries -- gone forever. Okay, I'm a computer klutz, but this NEVER happened in over 5 years of using Money '99. I tried to find 'list of payees' in the Help section. Pretty simple, you would think, but it only came up with 'On-line Payee' - something quite different. That's just one example of many. Also, I found it extremely tedious, bordering on impossible, to set up new categories and subcatagories of payments. On the other hand, Quicken has a lot of fancy bells and whistles I'll never use, and I doubt that most customers will, either. Since I have a Mac now, I obviously can't go back to MIcrosoft Money, but there's gotta be something out there that's better-and cheaper--than Quicken, i.e., anything! Maybe it just got fat and lazy over the years -- but whatever the reason, don't even THINK about buying it.
Causes more work than it saves. 2005-01-31
Quicken 2004 came as part of the software package on my iBook. I tried to set up my accounts but I found the user inferface baffeling and difficult to use. Worse yet it seemed to crash quite frequently. As for linking to accounts online, it does not seem to support Ameritrade brokerage accounts.
DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!! 2005-01-05
I switched from Windows to Mac about six months ago. I LOVE my Mac, but I absolutely HATE Quicken 2004 for Mac. It's full of strange bugs, lacks many of the features of its Windows counterpart, and, worst of all, Intuit customer support is completely clueless about how to help me with any of this when I call them. The online Help feature is worthless, too. It tells you to do things you either can't do, or that don't work. It's awful. I wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy.
Made for Mac Users 2004-11-30
i've been a faithful mac user since the first one came out.
I could never understand quicken (too complicated and boring).
My needs are simple I need to figure out how much i make and
determine where it goes. i have two kids so i need to save money for college and retirement. there isn't much left over for stock, mutual funds and bonds. if you want an intuitive, colorful web-based personal financial software...i strongly suggest www.moneypants.com
A waste of money... 2004-11-01
MANUFACTURER WARRANTY:andnbsp;andnbsp;90 DAYS
Don't Even Think About It 2004-10-06
A total waste of money and time - not to mention space on my Mac. I can write, in longhand, my records and use my Mac calculator for computations in the time it takes just to find the page I need in Quicken. Shame on Intuit! Bah, humbug....
HORRIBLE. Save your money. 2004-08-05
It doesn't work. Read the other reviews and save your money - you'll save more by NOT buying Quicken 2004 for Mac than you ever would trying to use it. Just bought it, and after 3 months of thinking "i must be daft," realized that I'm not and it's actually the software. Too bad Intuit has the monopoly on it all... waiting for a much better alternative. In the meantime, back to my ledger and calculator....
Disillusioned with Mac Quicken 2004-07-27
Like the other highly negative reviews, I too have used Quicken faithfully recording every transaction. I finally abandoned Quicken 2004, throwing it away from my new iBook, G4. I returned to the use of Quicken 2000.
I missed the Billminder. Why, for gosh sakes, have a money program if you don't get reminded to pay your bills. Q 2004 doesn't do this any more. Try to do a loan calculation estimate? you won't get a complete window, so the *payment* you wanted to calculate doesn't show.
Etc!!! Just an inferior product. Do not buy it! Save your Quicken 2000 for Mac. Intuit doesn't support your old versions (thank you very much!).
but at least the features that are there, work. Good luck!
A decade of work down the drain 2004-07-03
I first started using Quicken for DOS in 1993. Since then, I have diligently recorded every single financial transaction I have made, all the while upgrading seamlessly each year to the newest version of Quicken. Quicken was a part of my life, and moving my data regularly to the latest software update was always a breeze.
But then I decided to switch to Mac. While my overall experience moving to Mac was excellent (Macs rule!), the move of my Quicken data to Quicken 2004 for Mac was a nightmare. I spent literally dozens of hours tweaking my data and in many cases simply reentering it manually, and even now it still doesn't quite work right. The program itself is clunky and bears no resemblance to the popular Windows product.
To Intuit: Shame on you for putting this product in a box and selling it. You shouldn't even give this worthless thing away. It is so awful. I will never buy another Intuit product again. I don't know how your programmers can even look at themselves in the mirror. My kindergartener can write better software than this.
To Apple: You really ought to put your own personal financial software in the next round of iLife, and be sure to make it compatible with Quicken for Windows data. And for god sake, don't let Intuit pre-bundle any of their software on Macs in the future. It reflects poorly on Apple.
