I’ve been using Moneydance for some time now, for both my personal and business financial needs, and I wanted to go ahead and post this short endorsement of the product.

First of all, I switched to Moneydance from Quicken for Mac partly because Quicken has always been rather buggy on the Mac, but most of all, I was very disappointed with Quicken’s reporting features. Now, to be fair, Moneydance doesn’t do exactly what I want in terms of reporting, but it’s a fair bit better than Quicken, to be sure.

Secondly, Moneydance is far more cross-platform, being Java-based. It allows me to work with the same data in the same program across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Thirdly, Moneydance is less expensive than Quicken. It has all the online banking capabilities I was using in Quicken, but nearly half the price.

Lastly, Moneydance has a developer API for custom extensions. I love customizable software. I have just begun writing a Moneydance extension that should resolve my remaining issues with reporting.

BMT Micro provides a generous demo of Moneydance which I recommend checking out. If you like the software and would like to purchase it, do me a favor and use the following link to let them know that you heard about it here.

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