Quicken

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I've been using every new version of Quicken since 1992 and never had to re-enter all my data, and I switched from PC to MAC around 2005.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-01-02

• “Quicken's support for this is far and away the best out there”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-02

• “really cheap (I think I renewed my annual Quicken Simplify for $40) and, for the most part, "just work."”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-21

• “Quicken has been running into lots of issues syncing some of my accounts lately (mostly duping assets).”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-21

• “I felt the same way with Gnucash, Quicken, and all the other non-plain-text accounting apps I tried. Finance was stressful enough without also worrying about messed-up data.”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-18

• “Quicken desktop is an accountants nightmare due to all the different versions that seem to hang around - you end up needing heaps of different programs installed just to access the right one (or update through the programs).”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-15

• “It's very easy to use, will reconcile with your bank (online), can develop invoices and receipts, etc. Quicken interfaces with TurboTax, making tax preparation very easy”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-08

• “Does it really make sense in 2025 to use Quicken (?) with a dialup modem that calls into my bank once a day to update my balances like I did in 1996?”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-02-09

• “Quicken was awesome on DOS. We ran our bookkeeping business on Lotus 123 and Quicken for years (1980s-1990s).”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-01-08

• “Quicken Simplifi is actually working out really well for my family and I”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-01-05