iBank 4 for Mac [Download]
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- Import from Quicken or MS Money
- Direct downloads
- Budgets and reports
- TurboTax export
- iPhone sync
- Compatible with OS X Lion
iBank 4 is an intuitive personal and small business financial manager designed to track bank accounts, credit cards, loans and investments; to analyze income and expenses with powerful reports; and to plan your financial future with easy budgeting tools. Wrapped in a familiar, Mac-like interface, iBank is a robust financial application able to meet the needs of both casual home users or sophisticated investors. iBank 4 offers many of the features not found in other Mac finance applications, such as password protection for your accounts; check printing; the ability to export data to standard formats for use with TurboTax or Quicken, or to to drag-and-drop tables to your favorite spreadsheet; and advanced investment tracking of buys, sells, dividends and cost basis. iBank can directly connect to your bank to download transactions, or sync transactions entered on the go from iBank Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch (sold separately). Other features allow you to track mortgages or loans, see
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Not so bad!,
We have been using Quicken 2001 forever on a PC, but the PC was ready to die, and we were tired of the PC hassle….so we bought an iMac. It’s our second iMac, actually, and we love it. But I digress…
We never upgraded Quicken since the 2001 version. In my opinion, Quicken is bloatware…just lots of stuff we didn’t really need and weren’t going to use that much, so we didn’t really have a good reason to ever upgrade. The reviews on Quicken for Mac scared us away from it, but most reviews on this product seemed okay, so we gave it a try, and have liked it enough to convert from the 30-day free trial to the licensed version. So far, it’s working well. The auto-downloads from the credit cards are great. We use small, local banks from which account activity downloads are not supported, but I doubt Quicken would have supported them either. I imported all our Quicken accounts, which was pretty much painless. I have a brokerage account that I downloaded from Ameritrade, and I did have to hassle a little with that to show purchases I made over a year ago, and I had to do an entry then to adjust the cash balance, but I’m an accountant, so for me it wasn’t too bad. Other people’s mileage with less experience adjusting account balances may vary.
The only place I’m going to ding this product a little is account reconciliation. I do like the way Quicken does this better, but iBank is not awful at all. You just have to pay a bit more attention when you do the job. All in all, I think we will like this product. We have used it for a month and have gone through a full month banking cycle, so I feel pretty good about recommending this product.
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|A good alternative for Quicken Mac users.,
I purchased iBank as a replacement for Quicken for Mac. As many Mac users are aware, when Apple upgraded their OS to Lion, that broke Quicken for Mac v. 7 or earlier, due to the removal of the Rosetta code from the Mac OS. Quicken Essentials was not an option for me, due to it’s almost complete inability to track investments. I researched the various alternatives (Mint, Moneydance, Quicken Essentials), and chose iBank. I’m overall happy with iBank, but can’t give it 5 stars because there are still things I’d like to see improved or added.
The Pros for iBank for me were: 1. Ease of Transition. I exported my Quicken file (I was using Quicken Deluxe for Mac v. 6) and followed iBank’s very detailed instructions on the import process and it worked just fine. 2. Thirty day fully functional trial. I initially downloaded the trial from iBank’s website. I was able to use all of it’s functions for 30 days without paying, and it gave me a good opportunity to get the feel for the program and decide if I liked it. 3. Ease of use. While it does do some things differently from Quicken, as an almost 20 year user of Quicken I found iBank pretty easy to learn to use, and I’m very comfortable with it now. 4. Online Banking and Transaction downloading. I decided to try to start taking advantage of these features in iBank, since that really didn’t work too well for me in Quicken, and I’m glad I did. iBank works well, either downloading transactions directly from the banks that support it, or using iBank’s Web Connect feature to download them from the bank’s website using iBank’s built in browser. It’s been a nice timesaver. 5. Mobile Device Sync. While I haven’t tried this yet, iBank has an iPhone mobile version and the two can sync data that I’ve heard works pretty well. I may be giving this a try later.
The Cons (and these aren’t really bugs, more like feature requests): 1. No built in Bill Pay. I was a Quicken Bill Pay customer, and no Quicken alternative has a built-in bill pay feature like that. I use bill pay through my bank now, and that works fine, but I still have to enter those transactions into iBank if I want to be able to see them reflected as upcoming transactions. I can’t get them by downloading from my bank till the day they actually post. 2. Options tracking in investments. While you can enter Options as investments, and you even put in the Option Ticker when you set it up, iBank doesn’t download daily quotes on the Option, so your final result on the option isn’t reflected in your portfolio till you close the Option. iBank says they are working on adding this feature. 3. Account Reconciliation. This feature just doesn’t flow right somehow. It works, and I think it really might be more efficient than Quicken’s, but it still just feels off and a little clunky to me. I think this could be improved.
That’s my two cents on iBank. It’s definitely worth a try if you need to move out of Quicken on your Mac.
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|Review of iBank,
This application is very workable. It follows Quicken, a program hard to beat. But Quicken seems to have made the decision that it is so good that no change or tweaking is needed for Mac programs, despite the fact they (Macs) have changed many times since 2006. I never had the confidence to link directly with bank balances with Quicken, particularly where recent Mac upgrades seemed to cause some quirkiness. There is a small learning curve to get up to speed with iBank. If you are as disorganized as I, you may find yourself doing balances several months old. iBank manages this easily but you must pay attention to where the highlighted line went when you hit return. It won’t be at the bottom of the page, as with Quicken. It will be snuggled in with the old date range. I like it. It is great for Mac users.
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