There’s no doubt about it: Doing everything twice is a pain in the butt. And Quicken’s reporting abilities are second to none.Ĭan I get along without those things? I don’t know.īut I am going to use both programs for a while, and see how it goes. It is a fantastic piece of software.īut for tracking all sorts of accounts, from retirement to stock-trading to just plain asset-value accounts, YNAB 4 isn’t Quicken. This hasn’t changed now that YNAB 4 is out my YNAB 4 review is absolutely glowing. I always said that if I ever decided to dump Quicken, it’d be for YNAB. However, after using Quicken for so many years, the question of “Can I get along without it?” isn’t an easy one to answer. (I used the clean datafile throughout the month of February, and no transactions disappeared during that time, or during my first March bill-paying session.)Īt this point, I’d reasonably say that I’m as frustrated with Quicken 2013 as I’ve ever been, with any software. The answer? It cleared up one big issue, which was having Scheduled Transactions vanish once I set them to enter into my account registers. I went so far as to start an entirely new Quicken datafile, too, to see if that cleared up any of the issues. Sure, the register and account views of Quicken are still good. Say what?Īnd though it’s been revamped, Quicken 2013’s budgeting feature is still useless: I literally cannot determine where I stand for the current month as regards “Actual” spending, as it doesn’t tally any of my income at all in its bottom-line numbers. It doesn’t count “Employer Contributions to 401k” as income, but does count them as outflows when they’re transferred to my 401k account. (As long as they’re just scheduled transactions, they show up fine). … doesn’t register certain savings transfers once they’re entered. Quicken 2013 has now gone through eleven updates, and it’s still craptastic. In short: Because, even after eleven updates, Quicken 2013 is an unmitigated disaster. Back in February, I began making myself do twice as much work when it comes to managing our money.