Banktivity is a personal and small business financial manager designed to manage bank accounts, credit cards and investments, analyze income and expenses with live updating charts, and plan your financial future with budgeting and forecasting.
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Comment • almost 10 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
Not only is this the best looking financial software for the Mac, it's also one of the few with a counterpart iOS app (that can also run independently)
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• Negative comment • almost 5 years ago • 1 users agree • 0 replies
I switched to ibank, now banktivity, a year & a half ago from Quicken. I've used that & MYM for decades.. I had been looking to replace Quicken - every release shuffled features and added keystrokes with no additional benefit. ibank promised good things and got good reviews and I was moving to a Mac... seemed logical. I have had a lot of problems and while it is aesthetically pleasing, the design execution lacks consistency and accounting sense. They have things like a hard coded running balance that shows up as incoherent depending on your register sort - the balance is for date order only... changing the account on a transaction split asks if you want to orphan the record in the old account - every time - they told me that made sense. their 'smart' folders show transactions based on filters at the split level, but add the total of the transaction, not split - they told me that made sense... Search/selection criteria, specifically time period is different in every case where you use it, Registers, Reports, Smart Folders, etc. lacking obvious filters. And, the hangups! It eats CPU & RAM, not multi-threaded for updates, you wait every few minutes while it searches for new transactions. every few minutes. Now, they have taken away the free downloads completely. I had to change a card number due to fraud and the feature is not available that I was using These are free elsewhere - even to download separately and import. They also killed the Community Forum. Very Telling!
On a positive note, I love their embedded folder navigation & total design! (although they switched the paradigm half way down for navigating other items..
Be very wary - evaluate all alternatives first.
[Edited by georgechast, April 04]
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Comment • over 10 years ago • 0 replies
A great financial software! It offers much more functionalities than Quicken Essential for Mac.
Not only is this the best looking financial software for the Mac, it's also one of the few with a counterpart iOS app (that can also run independently)
I switched to ibank, now banktivity, a year & a half ago from Quicken. I've used that & MYM for decades..
I had been looking to replace Quicken - every release shuffled features and added keystrokes with no additional benefit.
ibank promised good things and got good reviews and I was moving to a Mac... seemed logical.
I have had a lot of problems and while it is aesthetically pleasing, the design execution lacks consistency and accounting sense.
They have things like a hard coded running balance that shows up as incoherent depending on your register sort - the balance is for date order only...
changing the account on a transaction split asks if you want to orphan the record in the old account - every time - they told me that made sense.
their 'smart' folders show transactions based on filters at the split level, but add the total of the transaction, not split - they told me that made sense...
Search/selection criteria, specifically time period is different in every case where you use it, Registers, Reports, Smart Folders, etc. lacking obvious filters.
And, the hangups! It eats CPU & RAM, not multi-threaded for updates, you wait every few minutes while it searches for new transactions. every few minutes.
Now, they have taken away the free downloads completely. I had to change a card number due to fraud and the feature is not available that I was using
These are free elsewhere - even to download separately and import.
They also killed the Community Forum. Very Telling!
On a positive note, I love their embedded folder navigation & total design! (although they switched the paradigm half way down for navigating other items..
Be very wary - evaluate all alternatives first.
[Edited by georgechast, April 04]
A great financial software! It offers much more functionalities than Quicken Essential for Mac.