Banktivity 7 is a great alternative for dissatisfied Quicken for Mac users. This personal finance software has all the features competing Macintosh apps have and a few features typically available only on Quicken for Windows. However, you must have the latest edition of iOS in order to use this software.
SharkWhisperer, Great budgeting tool that needs some work I will start by saying that this is a great program for budgeting. It is definitely a step up from free or lower price tiered applications. If you take the time to input all aspects of your finances it will benefit you greatly; as long as you follow your own budget of course. A few things that need polishing up; first the bank sycronizing is not worth the added expenditure at this point in time in my opinion. It is very buggy, for example; if I pull data from my bank on my laptop and then open the app on my phone, it may or may not have all the sync’d information. Also, at times the icloud sync seems to stop working between my laptop and phone after a bank sync. The fix I found for it was deleting the app on my phone and reistalling it.
Bank syncing from my phone has been hit or miss, it will quickly fetch data or just spin without seeming to connect. The second draw back to the bank syncing is that the information is just jumbled into an expense field. You will have to scroll through each and every expense on your own and assign it to one of your corresponding budget categories. This is extremely time consuming if you have hundreds of transactions each month. If the progam learned what categories to assign over time then perhaps this wouldn’t be a big deal for a month or two but that is not the case. Overall its worth the purchase and definitely makes life easier for me. SharkWhisperer, Great budgeting tool that needs some work I will start by saying that this is a great program for budgeting.
It is definitely a step up from free or lower price tiered applications. If you take the time to input all aspects of your finances it will benefit you greatly; as long as you follow your own budget of course.
A few things that need polishing up; first the bank sycronizing is not worth the added expenditure at this point in time in my opinion. It is very buggy, for example; if I pull data from my bank on my laptop and then open the app on my phone, it may or may not have all the sync’d information. Also, at times the icloud sync seems to stop working between my laptop and phone after a bank sync. The fix I found for it was deleting the app on my phone and reistalling it. Bank syncing from my phone has been hit or miss, it will quickly fetch data or just spin without seeming to connect. The second draw back to the bank syncing is that the information is just jumbled into an expense field.
You will have to scroll through each and every expense on your own and assign it to one of your corresponding budget categories. This is extremely time consuming if you have hundreds of transactions each month. If the progam learned what categories to assign over time then perhaps this wouldn’t be a big deal for a month or two but that is not the case. Overall its worth the purchase and definitely makes life easier for me. 2CatsDaddy, Best yet iBear has steadly improved their software until reaching this app.
Money Pro does most things as well as or better than other software. It's fast and easy to use and Money Pro updates and syncs quickly and easily. The only cons I have are that it does not provide loan amortization (not a big deal) and that iBear no longer supports direct download of transactions from banks that offer that possibility; the access mode they do use may work well, but does not support as many US banks as others and it is a paid (optional) service. All in all, I'd recomend Money Pro for most user's needs; I use its IOS version every day and when I open the Mac app later, the transactions appear almost at once. 2CatsDaddy, Best yet iBear has steadly improved their software until reaching this app.
Money Pro does most things as well as or better than other software. It's fast and easy to use and Money Pro updates and syncs quickly and easily. The only cons I have are that it does not provide loan amortization (not a big deal) and that iBear no longer supports direct download of transactions from banks that offer that possibility; the access mode they do use may work well, but does not support as many US banks as others and it is a paid (optional) service. All in all, I'd recomend Money Pro for most user's needs; I use its IOS version every day and when I open the Mac app later, the transactions appear almost at once. Aaronchow0727, Unreliable online bank syncing I recently subscribed to their online banking add-on, but I have a hard time understanding how it works. First of all, I also brought Money Pro for my iOS devices. When I open Money Pro on my phone, I press the “refresh” button to refresh my acounts, but it just keeps on spinning without every fetching any updates.
I tried it on my iPad Pro but somehow it works. Earlier today, I tried to fetch my account balance update using the desktop version, but the refreshing icon keeps on spinning again. It seems like this feature is still buggy but at the same time confusing to use. I don’t recommend anyone to use it until it becomes more stable or user friendly. Developer Response, Hi! We need more information in order to fix this issue – please contact us at [email protected].
Aaronchow0727, Unreliable online bank syncing I recently subscribed to their online banking add-on, but I have a hard time understanding how it works. First of all, I also brought Money Pro for my iOS devices. When I open Money Pro on my phone, I press the “refresh” button to refresh my acounts, but it just keeps on spinning without every fetching any updates. I tried it on my iPad Pro but somehow it works. Earlier today, I tried to fetch my account balance update using the desktop version, but the refreshing icon keeps on spinning again. It seems like this feature is still buggy but at the same time confusing to use.
I don’t recommend anyone to use it until it becomes more stable or user friendly. Developer Response, Hi! We need more information in order to fix this issue – please contact us at [email protected].
I’ve been a user of Microsoft Money since 1995, so I was always a little bit sad when Microsoft. I’ve always found Money better than many other alternatives I’ve tried — including the ever-popular Quicken.
I just found its workflow works better for me. Of course, having almost two decades worth of data recorded in Money made it very sticky for me, too. ? Fortunately, Microsoft released a that continues to work in all modern versions of Windows. (There actually has been one patch released, but I encourage you to read, because it scores some serious cool geek points.) Then about three years ago I switched to a Mac, and found myself struggling to keep using Microsoft Money as the only Windows program I couldn’t easily replace with an OS X equivalent. I tried to get it working with Wine and Crossover, but there were too many graphical and stability issues.
Finally, I ended up using VMWare and Windows on a Bootcamp partition. Much more heavy weight then I really wanted to, but at least I was able to keep using my favorite financial record keeping program. Now, fast forward to 2014, and I found myself again trying to improve how I use Microsoft Money within OS X. This time, I’m on OS X Yosemite and wanted to try using: a relatively new project that lets you easily package Windows applications with Wine libraries and make it look like any other application on your Mac. And it is perfect. Stunningly, absolutely perfect. No graphical issues.
Reports look great. Printing reports works on my OS X default printer. Even the startup splash screen music and sound effects worked! So, for the record, here are the steps and settings I used. Run Wineskin Winery. Install a Wine Engine — I used WS9Wine1.7.30 — and click “Create New Blank Wrapper”.
Name the application “Microsoft Money” and click OK. Now run your “Microsoft Money” application to launch the Wineskin settings dialog. Click “Install Software”, and point to the Microsoft Money installer. This will install the software into your Wineskin app. When prompted for the Windows executable, point to “/Program Files/Microsoft Money Plus/MNYCoreFiles/msmoney.exe”. Click “Set Screen Options”, and turn OFF “Decorate Windows”.
Click on “Advanced Options”, then Tools Winetricks. Within Winetricks, you’ll need to install the following two components into your Wineskin: msxml3 (MS XML Core Services 3.0) and ie6 (good old Internet Explorer 6).
The UI for this is a bit confusing, so follow along here:. Enter “msxml3″ into the “Search for packages” edit box. Expand the “dlls” control, so you see the actual package names.
Click on the checkbox labeled “MS XML Core Services 3.0″. Click the “Run” button on the right-middle of the dialog. If you are instructed to download the msxml file, then you’ll also be told tomove it to the “/Users/Account/.cache/winetricks/msxml3” folder.
To get there, from Finder, select Go Go to Folder, and enter “/.cache”. Create a folder called “winetricks” if it does not exist; if it does, enter it. Create a folder called “msxml3” if it does not exist; if it does, enter. Copy what you just downloaded to this folder.
Now follow similar steps with IE6. Note that you may need to download IE6 from instead of the specified location, and rename the exe file to msie60.exe before you move to wine tricks ie6 folder. Thanks to Harry for this workaround!
UPDATE: Thanks to David Silver, who pointed out that you can download IE6 from:. Click on “Test Run” and watch the magic happen! Verify that Microsoft Money appears in all its glory.
If there is something wrong, the log files may help. For completeness, I like to change the icon from the Wineskin icon to an. Now it’ll appear in the Dock and other places correctly. Updates 2015-04-28 Wow, I had no idea how popular this post would be! There are a lot of troubleshooting tips in the Comments, but here are some highlights.
If you need to create a new Money file, then there is a bug in Wine that will force you to sign up for a Passport account, which will then fail. Instead, simply which I have created here, and then open that in Money. Download this file, rename it whatever you’d like, and open it from Money.
Once opened, you should be able to add new accounts, set a password if desired, etc. Make sure you install IE6 using winetricks, instead of any later version of IE. If you need to debug startup failures, the following:. Navigate to /Applications/Wineskin.
Right click on your Microsoft Money application, and select “Show Package Contents”. Double-click on the Wineskin application icon. Click on “Advanced”. Click on “Test Run”.
I have not yet been able to get Portfolio Manager to work. As far as I can tell, this is a bug in Wine and the way it interacts with the HTML rendering engine, so we’ll have to keep trying new Engines until this is resolved.
Updates 2015-04-28 Step 7 was tricky for some folks because of how confusing the UI is, so I’ve added some more details here. Updates 2015-09-04 Added an alternative location for the IE6 download. Thanks to Harry for finding it! Updates 2019-06-07 Added another alternative location for the IE6 download. Thank you, David Silver! Post navigation. There are times when SEO takes a more complex form especially when the online business has to plant backlinks as well become more sociable and interactive with their customers both old and new.
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If the nature of your site does not need frequent updating adding a blog is one way of doing this. I’m thrilled for everyone who was able to get this to work for themselves. I was not able to follow Stephan’s instructions, and had to ask my neighbor (an IT professional who works for Dell) to help me install Wineskin. It still did not work for me with all of the Money features that I needed to access (most especially Reports). It’s awesome that this has worked for so many people; I am just not that technical and I see that whatever technical skills I had have a very definite stopping point.
I ended up getting Windows and then installed Virtual Box. Everything is working on that platform, including Reports. Happy computing to all! I don’t have a MAC and will tell you how I manually download my bank files onto my laptop. For MAC, download ALL file types until you know what type will work for you. I think I have been able to import Quicken files from my bank and use them.
Then I use File Import in Money. Choose QFX first. Most likely to run. Sometimes I get something like system is busy and it won’t work. I keep trying and it will eventually pick it up. If your bank account ever gets very caught up w/o a lot of outstanding items, make a note of the bank balance before leaving the bank site.
I have usually already installed everything manually. Once in a while I forget.
You may need to go to the place manually where the download resides so make note of where that is. Do NOT let Money accept them automatically. Do a manual accept and make sure it is correct. Only takes a couple of seconds per item. I love this program.
Have been using it since Win 95 or maybe Win 98. The Money Business is also Sunset so you might want to check that out. This was a little tricky for me, but eventually I got it. Loving my first Mac and being able to continue using Money without having to return to my old computer. Now I am trying to upload my Omron Pedometer readings to my online Microsoft HealthVault, but it requires HealthVault Connection Center, which is not available for Mac. Trying to follow the same process as for Money, but don’t know what specific files I need. Would be so happy if someone could tell me how to adapt this to process to accomplish that.
So I followed these instructions, I maybe missing something really simple, however any support would be highly grateful! I finished all steps how ever one thing was unclear. When downloading IE6 do you create your own folder in /.cache called “ie6”?
Because when i run this program it comes up saying “Money failed to download the necessary files for a software update. Security software on your computer may have interfered, or the servers that provide the download may be temporarily unavailable.
Check your firewall, anti-virus, or other security software for settings that may be blocking this download, or simply wait a few minutes and then try again.” I have turned all security off and tried multiple internet connections. Again any help will be greatly appreciated. I have been trying to follow these instructions but get half way and then things go astray. I’m not sure what I might be doing wrong. I have tried to do this as a ‘guest’ on my own Macbook to see if I could get it working properly before trying under my own user account. This is a log – would it shed any light on my problem? Many help would be most graciously received – I have used MS Money for so many years and I have yet to find an alternative program is anywhere near as good.
WineskinX11: main: argc=12 Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC. WineskinX11: dostartx11server: argc=12 Attempting to use pixel depth of 24 2987522.731 WineskinX11 starting: 2987522.731 X.Org X Server 1.13.0 2987522.731 Build Date: 20120921 2987522.731 XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid!= 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. Looks very promising.
I’m on El Capitan (10.11.6) and I almost have it working. I followed your instructions but was blowing up at MSMoney startup. I then installed IE8 instead of IE6 and MSMoney now starts up correctly.
After opening my.mny file it sort of hangs. I think what’s happening is that is reads the file correctly and is then trying to do “online updates” (wheel in the upper keeps on spinning). Any idea how to tell MSMoney not to try to do automatic online updates?
Any help would be appreciated. This is a fantastic description and which allows MS Money to be used on my new 2018 Mac. However, there is one problem.
MS Money is continually trying to update itself online. There is a wheel spinning in the top right of the screen the whole time. When I press this, it says “Online Updates” The issue is that I cannot import any new bank statements since i have downloaded these but when I try to import it says that an online update is taking place and I need to wait for this to end before i can import.
The problem is, this online update doesn’t ever end. Is there a way to tell this version of Money (sunset edition) not to keep trying to update itself online? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks James.