Multiple bank accounts on mint.com or quicken?

Question

anyone know which would be the better route to go for multiple checking accounts in multiple banks?

I hear so much bad stuff about the quicken software.

Answer 1

Personally, I use GnuCash. It runs on windows and easily supports multiple accounts, makes manual data entry a breeze and supports multiple currencies (depending on where your banks are). There are several super user questions that have gnucash as part of the question, the answer or both.

Answer 2

Intuit, the maker of Quicken, actually recently acquired Mint.com. According to Techcrunch, they will be moving Quicken Online users to the Mint platform. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/03/mints-aaron-patzer-we-will-end-of-life-quicken-online-in-six-to-nine-months/

I use Mint.com, and it works great.

Answer 3

Your operating system appear to be Linux, though I see a Microsoft tag.

On MacOSX, I paid for Quicken and immediately hated it: very tiny fonts on screen, no image of a cheque to fill in, and incomprehensible documentation. After a day, I refused to use it. Now I've switched to GnuCash on Debian Linux. It's very nice, with a much more visible transaction, easier splits, and very nice documentation. It appears to do much more than Quicken did.

However, I miss Microsoft Money, as run on Windows 3.1. It had a cheque I could make look like mine: this reduced the likelihood of error. If you're running Windows, perhaps Microsoft still makes a similar product.

Answer 4

I love mint for automatically and painlessly keeping track of cash flow. It is a web app. It is an iphone app. It's really nice and pain-free.