Money Managers

[Rakesh]

Hi guys,

one of my resolutions for 2010 is to get better at sorting out my finances.

Anybody recommend any software packages or if they just use excel?

I'm in the UK so Quicken and Microsoft Money (i believe) are no longer supported. Would be good to hear if the independent/open source ones are actually any good. I just want to be able to enter expenditure and see where it all goes - a graph would be nice but a table of data is fine.

Thanks

Rakesh

[Kevin Wright]

Okay, that's just spooky, I've recently been discussing exactly this need over on the London Scala user group:

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/scala-london/browse_thread/thread/ac20f7c5f7518911

I took a different angle though, and was considering writing this a a showcase app for Scala, especially as nothing currently available seems to really address our fair isle.  You're correct that both quicken and MS Money no longer provide UK editions.  Currently gnucash does seem to be about the best offering available within the open source world, though it doesn't exactly have the most intuitive UI that I've ever encountered.

2010/1/3 Rakesh <rakesh.m...@gmail.com>

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[Peter Becker]

I never really got out of the research stage, but KMyMoney and jgnash
seemed decent contenders in the OSS world.

http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jgnash/index.php?title=Main_Page

The OpenDirectory has a lot of links to offer:

http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Personal_Finance/Software/

One product I noticed being mentioned as a decent cross-platform
commercial solution is Moneydance:

http://moneydance.com/

But that's just stuff I read on the internet somewhere ;-)

I have no personal experience beyond startup + 10min with any of these,
and I'm not in the UK. I'd be interested to hear proper opinions, in
case I ever bother to do my finances properly :-)

Peter

Kevin Wright wrote:
> Okay, that's just spooky, I've recently been discussing exactly this
> need over on the London Scala user group:
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/scala-london/browse_thread/thread/ac20f7c5f7518911
>
> I took a different angle though, and was considering writing this a a
> showcase app for Scala, especially as nothing currently available
> seems to really address our fair isle. You're correct that both
> quicken and MS Money no longer provide UK editions. Currently gnucash
> does seem to be about the best offering available within the open
> source world, though it doesn't exactly have the most intuitive UI
> that I've ever encountered.
>
>
> 2010/1/3 Rakesh <rakesh.m...@gmail.com

> <mailto:rakesh.m...@gmail.com>>

>
> Hi guys,
>
> one of my resolutions for 2010 is to get better at sorting out my
> finances.
>
> Anybody recommend any software packages or if they just use excel?
>
> I'm in the UK so Quicken and Microsoft Money (i believe) are no
> longer supported. Would be good to hear if the independent/open
> source ones are actually any good. I just want to be able to enter
> expenditure and see where it all goes - a graph would be nice but
> a table of data is fine.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rakesh
>
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[Luis Miranda]

I've used GnuCash on Windows, and am curerntly using it on Mac OS X.
I've found previous versions to be buggy at times, but I'm quite happy
with the current version.

I've tried out Moneydance and it looks quite good, but I couldn't
stand to lose my history from GnuCash. That's lock-in for you. :)
Their licensing terms are quite interesting though (you only need 1
license per "household", even if installing on multiple computers).

[Rob Wilson]

I've re-loaded Microsoft Money 2004, it's old, but still very good and
you must be able to pick that up cheap 2nd hand... I think it was only
£40 new at the time! I tried a few open source ones, but they all
felt rather clunky. I am using a Mac and installed VirtualBox to get
XP running on it - it was actually worth it.