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What are the best financial/budgeting apps?

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12 Options Considered

Best financial/budgeting apps	Price	Last Updated
-- Personal Capital	-	Aug 24, 2018
-- GNUCash	-	Sep 23, 2018
-- Moneydance	$49.99	Aug 19, 2018
-- Financisto	-	Aug 21, 2018
-- Mint Bills	-	Sep 25, 2017

GNUCash

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Auto backup

GnuCash has auto backup settings so users can set it and forget it. See More

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Easily set up

GnuCash walks the user through setting up their accounts making setup extremely easy for new users. See More

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Multi-platform and free

GnnuCash supports Linux, OSX and Windows and is also free on those platforms. See More

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Double Entry Accounting

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Investment Support

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Small business accounting

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Flexible

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Free and open source

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Support for multiple currencies

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Double entry bookkeeping

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Robust

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Simple

Moneydance

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Top Pro

Good selection of importable formats

Moneydance supports a good selection of formats, even ones that Quicken no longer does. See More

Top Con

Costs money

Unlike most applications for Linux Moneydance does cost money, $49 to be exact. So while it is the most robust option available to Linux users, it will cost to be able to use it. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform

Moneydance is a cross platform app so for those that use multiple operating systems it will be much easier to import and export information to each OS running the same financial application. See More

Top Con

Import tags all transactions on import under the same default category

Upon import of financial info, all transactions will be set to the same default category meaning the user will have to go back and change the category by hand to the correct one. See More

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Good bulk editing of transactions

Simple find and replace feature. See More

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License is one cost, not subscription based

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Seamless reconciliation

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Good and flexible reporting

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Imports security prices from Yahoo! Finance and Google Finance

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Has a mobile version to add transactions

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Works with most file transfer types

Moneydance supports a good selection of formats, even ones that Quicken no longer does. QFX, QIF, CSV, TXT, etc. See More

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Free trial version

Moneydance offers a free trial version so users can test the software before they decide to purchase. See More

Financisto

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Top Pro

Support different currency, transfer will show the rate

Top Con

Takes time to setup your own categories and budgets

Top Pro

Supports multiple accounts in different currency or categories

e.g. Cash, Bank Accounts, Credit Cards etc. Allows you to reset quota for Credit Cards, perfect for tracking expense to meet credit card welcome offer. See More

Top Con

Weak in providing a graphic view on expenses

Bar chart is basic. Line Chart doesn't show much. Never able to get the Pie Chart working. See More

Top Pro

Budget allows select from various categories, tag, project, recurring duration

Top Pro

Free to build customized categories, location, projects

Mint Bills

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Top Pro

Secure

Check uses bank level security as well as other security features such as PIN-locking and data wiping. They are also monitored by outside companies such as Norton and TRUSTe. See More

Top Con

Only for US and Canada

Is only for US and Canada, after signup it asks for the users zip code, and there is no way to skip it. See More

Top Pro

Auto-pays bills

Checks main feature is that it will make sure your bills are always paid on time. You can set up many different accounts, all you have to do is set when the bill should be payed and Check will take care of the rest. See More

Top Pro

Extensive list of usable accounts

Checks auto bill paying feature is comparable with a very large list of accounts. It can even manage mortgages and utilities. See More

Quicken

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Mature and feature rich

Top Con

Data is locked into proprietary format

Edward339's Experience

I spent more then 20 days trying to find good Financial manager software that fit my needs, all what I have tried has problems or missed features, finally I purchased Quicken and I deleted all the other softwares such as Mint and others. The software is not cheap and they don't offer free version for trial, but they do offer money back up to 30 days. The software on Mac is reliable and stable, strong code, fast actions, no any bugs, full features that other software has. It's not cheap but you get what you pay for, and you buy peace of mind. See More

Top Pro

Data is stored locally

You can keep your data locally and work offline, however, you need to be online to activate and go through the Quicken servers to download your data. See More

Top Con

Has lots of feature bloat

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Good bank support (USA)

Supports many banks and financial organizers. See More

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No free trial option

You MUST buy the software to try it, but there is a 30 days money back guarantee if the user doesn't like it. See More

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Budgeting support

Easy to plan your budget financial life for 12 months. See More

Top Con

Expensive comparing to other softwares

Top Pro

Full control of the categories

Add, remove, rename, and organize any categories in fast and easy way. See More

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Billing support

Ability to add many billers. Know your bills for current month and the rest of the year. Pay bills through the software or schedule auto pay. See More

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Fast synchronizing

Very fast about synchronizing and refreshing accounts and transactions. See More

Mint

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Too many ads

It shows too many Ads and offers that will confuse the user. See More

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Fast sync

Super fast about refreshing and synchronizing accounts and transactions. See More

Top Con

Struggles to update transactions since Quicken took over

Top Pro

Alerts

Mint can be set to alert you to various events such as upcoming bills, or low balances on any accounts. It can be set to alert you from the app, through email or by text message. In addition you can sign up to recieve monthly emails about your money and ways to improve your budget. See More

Top Con

The budgeting part has too many bugs

Top Pro

All accounts in one place

Mint can handle banking accounts, saving accounts, credit cards, etc. It consolidates all your accounts together so you do not need to put work into following multiple accounts. See More

Top Con

Not International

Only works for US & Canada banks. See More

Top Pro

Organizes budget into categories

Mint splits your spending into different categories, such as gas or fast food, so you can see where you're spending too much money or how much you need to budget for. See More

Ledgerist

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Top Con

No Automation

Ledgerist won't automatically update your transactions. You must manually update it each time you make a transaction. See More

Top Pro

Organize transactions

Ledgerist can sort and organize your transactions by naming them or adding notes. You can then use this to find out where and how much of your money is being spent. See More

Top Con

No Account Integration

Ledgerist does not allow you to import accounts. This means you will not have any data from before you started updating the app. See More

Top Pro

Multiple Accounts

Ledgerist allows you to manage multiple accounts at the same time. This way you can keep track of your checking account and credit card and any other accounts within the same app. See More

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