DrCredit wrote:With the 2018 release Quicken has changed their pricing model. I know there is other personal financial software available but does anything else work as good as Quicken?
How exactly did they change the model?
Maybe Quicken, which was sold off by Intuit several years ago, is doing the same thing many tax pros do - "firing" their clients who are too cheap to pay a fair price for a valuable service?
"Personal finance" is a broad term. Other than tracking investment details, what does Quicken do that you can't do just as well with Quickbooks? I use bank feeds to download check and credit card transacts and automatically assign them to accounts. As for automatic bill pay, why use a 3rd party, when just about every major vendor allows autopay to be scheduled directly?
I can also produce cash flow reports in addition to P&L and balance sheet, and I already have a pretty good forecast for 2019 in my Quickbooks personal "company" file as well.
For investment portfolio, I simply check my balances once each quarter and update them by hand. And I expect ETrade and/or a financial planner to give me better info and advice on how to re-balance my investments (although to be fair I haven't used Quicken for that).
Of course, Quickbooks costs more, which leads us back to the first question.