in last 8 years i've been using quite all money management OXS apps.. my latest was Moneywell 1.7... but was lacking reports.. the new 2.0 is a terrible step backward, so i've been looking for serious alternative.. i spent 15 days using quite all the usable (trial / demo) apps around.. and only Money (Jumsoft) and Moneydance arrived to the last round...
at the end i decided for Moneydance (better reports, much faster, more reliable).. i'll keep an eye on Money's next updates.. but if Moneydance keeps developing well, it could be a good companion for next years

I used MSMoney for 18yrs but since they no longer offer support, needed an alternative. After spending several weeks trying out other Mac finance programs, I jumped in and purchased Moneydance because the longer I used it, the more it stood out. This program is good if you are more of a full-featured user, or someone who wants to track more details (investments, etc). I originally hoped to go w/a simple, envelope-style program (Mvelopes, etc), but found that they just could not do what I needed. While the program is not perfect (none are), I have found the developers to be quite responsive, and the forums full of info. It also appears that the product is constantly improved based on user suggestions. So basically, I feel like Moneydance is only going to get better. And, I know that Intuit and other large companies are not going to be responding to my emails as quickly as the folks at Moneydance (if at all) to make things work. Overall, a very solid product that I would recommend.

Split functionality is built in, so maybe some users haven't found it yet or something. It definitely is in there. Moneydance surpasses Quicken in every way. I wish I'd switched long ago. It's very Spotlight-like in how you are able to search for transactions -- much better than Quicken's one-at-a-time find. And the reports and charts are far superior to Quicken as well. I tried iBank and it wasn't nearly as robust as this app. I tried Moneywell and it didn't quite do all the things I was used to doing in Quicken. And Quicken Essentials was essentially worthless unless all you want is an electronic checkbook. Moneydance has been great for me. You do need to make sure you save your work before you quit, but the app asks you, so that shouldn't be a problem. I was fortunate that I got it for 25% off during a MacUpdate promo, and $37.50 was a little easier to swallow than $50, but even at full price, it's a great app.

I've been using Moneydance since 2006 and have been very happy with leaving Quicken behind. It is a good program. However, there seems to be a trend (Paperless is another example) where new versions, with "improvements" are actually worse than their older versions.

First, there appeared the inability to print reports in Portrait mode which appeared in v2010. This, I was told would require a complete rewrite that may still not be solved in v2011.

Now, in V2011, the split lines have been changed from single line to double line format "in a effort to be consistent with the companion entry format" (I am paraphrasing what I was told.)

Well, this may be well and good, BUT it makes working with the split lines and hence the program far more difficult and reduces efficiency. And the whole idea is to make life MORE efficient, NOT less!

I can deal with the print format problem, as I only print for tax reporting, but I cannot deal with the split format issue, which I use practically every day and with entries having at least 15 splits twice a month. So I returned to V2010 and entry speed immediately re-improved by leaps and bounds.

If you do lots of split transactions, beware of V2011!

Looking for a fairly simple, easy to use replacement for Quicken 2006 without all the extra stuff Quicken comes with that I never use I researched all the available personal finance programs & it looked like Moneydance may be the one. I first tried the trial version & noticed things I didn't like but figured with experience It would be OK so I bought the program. Boy what a mistake that was. After using it for 2 weeks I finally gave up in frustration. Moneydance is a an unacceptable, difficult to use convoluted program. Adding or editing securities requires maneuvering through several different forms. The handling of split transactions is very poor & one has to open the transaction to see the splits. The program doesn't allow adding or editing its default security actions. The final straw was when I entered a stock buy or sell transaction it was duplicated & even worse it entered in the portfolio view the wrong number of securities, e.g. I would enter 100 shares in the transaction & the program would show 100.0135 or some other random number. I also never could get the transfer funds actions or auto deposits functions to consistently work correctly. Guess I should have tried the trial version longer before spending $$. Anyone looking for a personal finance program should avoid Moneydance & look elsewhere.

Love your software, but we have recently developed a problem were the software is crashing and requires us to re-instll it. Any known conflicts with Office (usually Word and Excel are also open)? Is there a size limitation that might be causing this problem?