Comments on: Moneydance–A cross-platform personal finance manager

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Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:46:19 +0000

[...] of the reviews I have written have been for free products, with the exception of one. Moneydance is a personal finance manager and it is not a free product. A lot of people would shy away from it [...]

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Tue, 19 May 2009 21:18:57 +0000

[...] I mentioned in an earlier article about Moneydance, I am an admitted software junkie. I like software programs that work as designed and do the job I [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:29:49 +0000

“KMyMoney sounds nice, but I hate the thought of having to load all of the KDE garbage just to run a KDE app. I use Openbox under CrunchEEE for my window manager.”

Larry

I get the feeling that KurtM meant that if you don’t have already have KDE libraries installed, the significant number of dependencies required to run a single KDE app. tends to make it less likely one will install them. He doesn’t sound (at least to me) that he’s saying that KDE apps and their dependencies are garbage at all… KurtM would appear to be using a netbook (using CrunchEEE) and in that case storage space for all those additional dependencies may well be fairly limited.

Also, like Ageilers, I’d really like to see you compare GnuCash with KMyMoney2.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:59:19 +0000

KurtM,
I don’t consider the things KDE has built in garbage, but to each his own.

By: KurtM

KurtM — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:20:18 +0000

I tried GnuCash under Vista, and it seemed okay until I tried out the reporting capabilities; absolutely horrible. KMyMoney sounds nice, but I hate the thought of having to load all of the KDE garbage just to run a KDE app. I use Openbox under CrunchEEE for my window manager. I looked at MoneyDance awhile back, but wasn’t overly impressed with it compared with Quicken. I love Quicken.

By: Ageilers

Ageilers — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:41:56 +0000

Thank you for the reviews. I have just started using GnuCash as my Quicken 2006 has expired and Intuit demands I upgrade to 2009. I never really understood the software anyway as I have very little accounting knowledge.
GnuCash has a wonderful tutorial and concepts guide as well as a help manual built in. They were great to get me started. As I ran into some more general questions on how to do things, I found a GnuCash wiki and forum at Nabble.com that I was able to find answers to my questions/issues.
I was hoping, since you are a self-proclaimed software junkie, that you try it and review/compare it to Moneydance/KMyMoney. It is cross-platform software. I am currently running it on Windows Vista (and ashamed to say so). I hope to run it on Ubuntu/Kubuntu. I wish I had known about KMyMoney earlier as I use Kubuntu as well and may have chosen it as my finance manager. I must say that I am happy with GnuCash and am very impressed with the software and community support.

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KMyMoney--A personal finance manger for Linux | My Take — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:27:34 +0000

[...] I mentioned in an earlier article about Moneydance, I am an admitted software junkie. I like software programs that work as designed and do the job I [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:35:59 +0000

JimC,
Yes, it is a commercial application. Maybe it doesn’t fit the complete definition of open source software, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad software.

By: JimC

JimC — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:32:49 +0000

“After doing some research online, I decided to take advantage of a free trial offered by Moneydance, an open source, cross-platform personal finance manager for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. It took a bit of playing around with the software before I was used to the way it does things, but after I did, I had no problem purchasing the full version for $29.99. In my opinion, it is well worth the price.”

Errrr… It doesn’t appear to be open source to me. It’s a commercial application. Why do you think you have to pay to get a registration key to unlock the trial version after 100 transactions ?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:29:17 +0000

I haven’t used a home accounting packing for years, but find that I will need to soon. Have you tried out gnucash? How does it compare to kmynoney2 and moneydance? How do they compare in functionality with Quicken (which I had used previously)?