Intuit Releases Quicken Essentials on Mac App Store

Friday January 27, 2012 2:46 PM PST by Jordan Golson
Intuit has begun offering its entry-level financial management software Quicken Essentials for Mac on the Mac App Store. This is the standard edition of Essentials that has been on sale for quite a while, not a new version -- something Intuit is quick to point out in the description for the software. It's merely a new distribution point.

Quicken Essentials for Mac, a basic starter edition, helps you manage all of your personal finance in one place, so you can see where you’re spending and where you can save. Quicken automatically categorizes your financial transactions, stay on top of bills and helps you set goals so you can save more.

**For Quicken Essentials for Mac users: Please note, this is not a new release of Quicken Essentials for Mac. **
Quicken Essentials does work under OS X Lion, but it is a far cry from Quicken for Mac 2007, which was the last fully-featured version of Quicken released for the Mac platform. Intuit promised last month that a Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007 would be available for customers by "early spring."

Quicken Essentials for Mac is available for $49.99 on the Mac App Store. [Direct Link]

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Chupa Chupa
106 months ago
All I can say is Intuit is lucky Apple never banned fart apps because this one is a real stinker.
Rating: 9 Votes
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eawmp1
106 months ago
Intuit is Apple's Adobe of financial software. Both companies treat Mac users like fools.
Rating: 7 Votes
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awinn233
106 months ago
Just use Mint.com or iBank it's not worth waiting for a company that can't keep it's products up to date. 2007 was 5 years ago and they haven't updated since. They obviously don't care about their customers.
Rating: 7 Votes
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John.B
106 months ago

Intuit has begun offering its entry-level financial management software Quicken Essentials for Mac on the Mac App Store. This is the standard edition of Essentials that has been on sale for quite a while, not a new version -- something Intuit is quick to point out in the description for the software. It's merely a new distribution point.

"Entry level" != "feature parity".

William V. Campbell is an embarrassment to the Apple board of directors.
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talmy
106 months ago
I'll chime in as well as to Quicken Essentials being too basic. I've been using Quicken for Windows under Parallels on a server system (so my wife and I can access the program from multiple systems). Used Microsoft Money before that until they left the market. Looked at other applications on the Mac -- none come close to Quicken (or the former Money), unfortunately.
Rating: 6 Votes
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YMark
106 months ago
Intuit can pound sand. They've crapped on Mac users for years. I'm done with them.
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Promostyle
106 months ago
I used Quicken 2007 Mac for 5 years until it was obsoleted by Lion. Quicken Essentials is a terrible waste of time and a DOWNGRADE from Quicken 2007 Mac. I strongly urge anyone considering Quicken Essentials, to look elsewhere. All you will see is negative comments like this - here and everywhere you look. It's TRASH.
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ProVideo
106 months ago
I bought Quicken Essentials the day it came out. After about a week of seeing how much it lacked I got a refund. Seems it is still at it's very basic state and missing much of what Quicken offered, while offering not much more than what the free mint.com has. I wonder if a refund is possible through the Mac App Store for this? I know they gave refunds for FCP X, as I got one of those as well for many of the same reasons. I should probably stop trusting software companies to have their **** together on upgrades, no matter how much their website hypes it up to be an acceptable replacement.
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orytek
106 months ago
If you need anything substantial like bill pay or investment tracking,
try MoneyDance or else use the Windows version of Quicken with Parallels or one of the other virtual emulators. There is nothing else out there and Intuit is not going to improve the Mac version. They are barely maintaining the same features on their Windows version.
I use the 2012 for Windows and it works fine but has barely changed since 2009. There is a huge talent void at Intuit and they are not focused on much.
Certainly not Mac users.
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kytiger
105 months ago
Quicken Essentials is Poor

What I don't understand is Intuit's refusal to just port Quicken for Windows straight over to the Mac. With all the people converting to Mac, they are absolutely blowing an opportunity to keep those customers. Essentials is horrible if you're used to the Windows version.

I work for a Fortune 500 company and we spend endless hours trying to figure out how to keep customers and get new ones. Intuit has the answer right in front of them and can't see it.

Usually when this happens it's a great short opportunity for a stock as it shows the company has no clue. Last one that was this obvious was RIM, and you know how that turned out.
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