mini$4.2.1

I'm coming from Microsoft Money and this app almost fits my needs. The only thing missing is reports. For example, where I can pull by pay and see how much i spent, pull by month, year, category, etc. This is the only thing that's stopping me from using it.

Dear Roth, Ver 4.1 looks great! Thank you for the amazing product. I was used to using the right click to covert transactions to transfers between accounts, but I can't find this feature anymore. I work around it by creating new transfer transactions. Will the conversion feature be added again in later 4.x versions? Thank you once again! -KRS

Hi Roth, how do I update the older mini$ version to the current one? do i have to re-download and enter all accounts manually?

Good morning Roth: How the heck are you doing? I'm someone who used to work with you... Hey I just downloaded mini$, extracted the jar, and am running it on my Linux machine. Works great! It's a nice piece of software -- simple and easy to use, with a clean user interface. The only problem I have is that the reminders repeat function doesn't seem to be working. Any chance you can explain that to me? Hope to get in touch with you soon. Have a great New Year!

Hi there. I would like to ask Roth if there's any chance of having the other languages also updated. My wife is using mini$ in Portuguese and if possible I would like to show her the nice improvements since version 3.x but in this case the English version is not an option. Thank you!

A brilliant little program, I installed over 8,000 historical transactions with QIF and only a few errors occurred which I can easily rectify at my leisure.. Only one teeni weeni comment to make if I may... Although negative and positive Splits are imported with QIF correctly they cannot be entered manually from within the program itself. I came across this problem when trying to create an Automated Entry for my Salary. Example : (Positive) Gross Salary 2,000 minus (Negative) Income Tax 500 should result in 1,500 being allowed to enter in the Register. Alas... only ALL negatives or ALL positives are handled within Splits... Otherwise .... Brilliant piece of software....

This is a great app. Really simple and straight forward, and very easy to use. I downloaded quite a few apps to try and googled everywhere for a good, free app that could manage my finances. Most of them were too complicated for me, or looked really ugly in terms of interface. Download this app if you don't know all the terminologies of finance and just want a simple planner to manage your money. I really love Mini$! Thanks Roth. This app deserves more attention. :)

I've been using 2.1 for the longest time and never thought about updating until today--and found that I was way outdated. mini$ has been with me since I got a Mac back in 2008, and I am very pleased with it. It has not let me down yet :) just remember to back up your data because i lost everything when my hard drive crashed D: Judging by the (major) differences in 2.1 and 4.0, i definitely love the new look and how everything is organized. The color labels are amazing! I just love everything. It definitely looks like a Mac application now with the drop down menus on the left and the simple design. On a side note, I was dumbfounded for about 15 minutes about how to edit post-dated transactions (gimme a break, i've jumped from 2.1 to 4.0 lol). For those of you who don't know, just click select all dates :)

Excuse my extreme ignorance, but I have been using mini v2.6.2 for a couple of years and it holds all my old quicken data going back 10 years. It ceased to work after upgrading to Snow Leopard and so I downloaded v 4 beta. Whilst I have balances, I have absolutely no historic transactions. I cannot even find where my old mini data files are held. Clicking on the old app only brings up the Mini in the left hand corner with no other menu bar options and no data. Is this beta version ready to use and if so, how do I import all my finance records from v2.6.2? Extremely confused and concerned all my data is somehow lost? A full back up was taken before upgrading by the way but cannot find data files on that either? Many thanks, Graham

It would be nice if the title indicated what version of a beta release this is. All I see is the same 4.0 version popping up on MU over and over, and you can't tell if these are duplicates.

I just switched from PC to mac and am trying to find a financial software program. Quicken Essentials does not have good reviews and I have been using Microsoft money but read they are no longer making it. So, I want to try this product. I have a question about downloading data. My credit card, Citibank, downloads to Quicken, Money, QIF or spreadsheet. Will any of these work with this program? Thanks for your help!

I'm happy you like the changes. It is still in beta, which means there is missing functionality. I plan to develop these slowly over the next few months.

This new version is Mac centric. Although it will run on any platform that supports Java, there are some visuals that only look good on the Mac, and odd on other platforms. I am more than happy to share the source and work with anyone who wishes to create UI enhancements for other platforms. Progress is coming along nicely. The following links are screen shots of the new version: http://rothearl.googlepages.com/SetupAssistant.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/AccountSummary.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/Backups.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/BalanceMenu.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/Exporting.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/Keywords.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/ManagingData.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/MenusWIthShortcuts.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/OrganizingByDate.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/Searching.png http://rothearl.googlepages.com/TransactionCounts.png

mini$ is now a Java 6 application which requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. I'll be posting a version of mini$ compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 soon, which will be available under the "Related Links" section.

Here is the mini$ issue: I upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard a few months ago and I sold my Mac with Tiger on it. When I recompiled mini$ to the latest version, it was done on my new computer. Apparently, there are new libraries on SL and now, mini$ requires Leopard or later. Because when mini$ starts, it fails because the libraries it now requires are missing. The source code is available. IF ANYONE OUT THERE wants to compile mini$ for Tiger (which would also be Leopard compatible) that would be awesome. It would fix the starting up issue.

In the short time I have used Mini$, I'm really impressed with the layout and the ease of use. I have come upon a problem, though, in that when entering a new transaction, the categories do not include donations that need to be tax related. Unless I have missed something, the category field will not allow me to type in a customized word. Any suggestions? I can't use "gift" because some are not tax related. Trina

This is by far the best free personal finance tool I've used, and I've tried them all. It's fast, robust, and handles everything I throw at it. The ability to split transactions, set budgets (with rollovers), create reports, search abilities, and totals view are all useful. I can also tell that Roth has put a lot of effort into making the UI flow naturally from task to task. However, I would say that the UI is still the weakest part of mini$. That is not to say that it is bad, but it has some problems that have simple fixes. Of course, simple fixes may not be so simple to implement.

For those that are interested, there is a mini$ 3.0 beta available. http://rothearl.googlepages.com/minimoney_eng_3B.zip mini$ 3 has been rewritten from the ground up using a test driven development model. Note: Make a backup of your 2.x data. mini$ 3 uses a new budgeting scheme and it is not compatible with 2.x budgets.

On eporblem noted: If you change the name of an expense category after already assigning it to several transactions, it will not update the transactions with the new category name. Rather, it designates them all as 'uncategorized'. Pretty frustrating, but lesson learned-- luckily I found this out when I just started. EDIT: This seems to only have effected transactions in which the renamed category was used in a 'split' (to assign different portions of a single transaction to seperate categories). The ones categorized outright seem to have updated okay.

I have been enthusiast of using MiniMoney, but after installing the last update I found it's not in italian and there's some problem when import from .qif I would like to know if I could downgrade to the earlier version.

Sorry to hear, you stopped working on it. I have provided full localization for German, but I guess that won't make it in any more ?;-) While not adding Multi-Currency features to each account yet, I have succesfully refactored the codebase of the last EZMoney you provided earlier to use a JSR standard extension I am SpecLead for (Units, Measures and Use Cases like Monetary System) If you were able to contribute the code for mini$ at a trustable place (SF or others) I'd be very happy to contribute both this and the localization myself. After all 90% of all Mac Financial programs listed here or elsewhere are crap only suitable for US$. Most even have the symbol hardcoded ;-) mini$ is among the better ones, but the only true multi currency one I found here is ChequeBook. Considering its reasonable price of 15$ I'd call it the best option beside mini$, but using Java it has some big advantages (e.g. working elsewhere) Kind Regards, Werner Keil Creative Arts & Technologies

This is the final release of mini$ and will be hosted by MacUpdate. It was a pleasure to contribute to the community. Enjoy.

Sweet. There are some currencies lacking that I use often: Danish Crowns (DKK) Indonesian Rupiahs (IDR) Please add.

I just love the new version. A real improvement over the last one. Only one grip. Why didn't version 1.4 automatically upgrade. I even checked for upgrade in the application and it says I have the latest version. If it wasn't for MacUpdate, I wouldn't have known about the new version.

Is it my imagination or wasn't this identical app called EZMoney?

REPLY TO KC_CHEIFS Buddi plug-ins are not created by it's developer. If you would use Buddi without them it will never crash. I have been using it for the last few months on my iMac Intel 10.4.10 - without the plug-ins - and it never crashed. You should not import data from your bank account into a personal finance application as this defeat the purpose of bank account management. Bank account management means entering the every day transactions you make, e.g. issuing a cheque, into the personal finance application and then when the bank sends you a statement, reconciling the entries in the application with those on the statement. Buddi is a double entry application so if, for example, you want to transfer money between bank accounts you record the transaction once and it post it to both accounts, debiting one and crediting the other. In buddi, you can create unlimited income and expense accounts and thus, categories your incomes and expenses. The current version of Buddi is the best free personal finance application.

I can't understand why people fell in love with this application - Buddi IS the best free & simple personal finance application