Have you looked at AceMoney?
http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/

Frank

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"Frank Rocco" <farocco[at]hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I guess what has me leaning toward Quicken, is that I've had three crashes
in Money since the update, and a few prior to that. Quicken has not crashed
on me once, let alone a bunch of times. Quicken has links to services, but
not actual picture ads in various parts of the program which is a plus for
Quicken. Quicken is faster. Quicken 2005 worked with Vangaurd from day 1.
The only area I like money better in is the UI which is probably a poor
thing to base a decision on. Also scanning both NGs I see many more posts
on corruption in Money. I guess data integrity would/should be the on of
the most important things to base my decision on rather than the UI. Also I
would say the direction Money 2005 is trying to take (forcing us to a web
service) doesn't thrill me.

If either vendor made a completely ad free, no touting additional services
product for a few dollars more I would buy it. Ads piss me off. When can I
expect to see them in Word? It would be so nice if I sat down to type a
letter, maybe a box could pop up telling me that for a selection of fonts
that most users prefer I could click here and add them for $3.95/month or
something like that.

I've pretty much decided what direction I'm going. Although Money 2004
works a lot more like I want it to, the problem is someday I will need to
upgrade. At that point what will Money have become. I'll stick around here
and answer as I can and evaluate a little longer, but unless something
changes drastically, Quicken it is.

I haven't noticed any remarkable changes. The Money software seems
incredibly hard to use, Quicken is so user friendly. Just don't like
quicken's new policy. You can no longer download from Presidential Bank into
Quicken 2005
because Presidential Bank is not supported because they refuse to pay the
fee. The fee would mean lower interest rates to me. So I can buy Quicken
once and then keep buying it with my reduced interest payments.!!

Money just seems comparatively hard to use - I have to scan it constantly to
check for repeated payments, and have to keep accepting the same payments
downloaded time and again. I never used Money before and am not sure if this
is new to the program, but it really is a nightmare. Would definitely take
Quicken back if they supported Pres bank without charging them a fee. They
don't make enough from the customers buying the software??

Jaime


"Frank Rocco" wrote:

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Hello,

users comparing Quicken 2005 and Money 2005, has your opinion hanged
after the Money 2005 update?

I'm still on the fence between the two.

Thanks

Frank