Intuit is planning to offer a web-based version of Quicken on January 8th and the first iteration will be optimized for iPhone users as well. The online version will have comparable features to the lowest end version of Quicken’s desktop client. That should allow for basic money management, spending trend analysis and checkbook balancing. Intuit also plans to have an online version optimized for RIM-based and other mobile devices, but no details on when.Although it makes sense for a web version and then optimizing for mobile devices, I figured we’d hear about an iPhone application from Intuit considering the iPhone SDK should roll out a month after the web-based version of Quicken. At $3 a month does this sound appealing to you? I would hope that you can export your financial history and data if you choose to unsubscribe as well. Although it likely has fewer features than Intuit’s planned offering, I have to say that I’m impressed with Mint, a free service to help manage the home budget.
Quicken coming to the web, iPhone for $3 a month
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Intuit is planning to offer a web-based version of Quicken on January 8th and the first iteration will be optimized for iPhone users as well. The online version will have comparable features to the lowest end version of Quicken’s desktop client. That should allow for basic […]
Man I get sooooo tired of every company trying to reach for my wallet on a monthly basis.
I don’t mind buying a software product, heck I buy lots of them, but right now I’m pulling the plug on every subscription I can, and giving business to folks to try to sell me ‘a’ thing instead of perpetual licenses.
My take, this should be a free service if you buy the (any of) the desk top version. They don’t want to host it fine, let people sync the data real time from their MS home server or whatever.
Three bucks a month might not sound like much but it ss a sea of fee’s out there.
With services like Mint and Wesabe, I really don’t understand why they’re doing this. Unless their customers are absolutely stuck using Quicken.
I got sick of all of Quickens stupid UI and keyboard shortcut inconsistencies, not to mention a next-to-useless help file, and jumped ship to Microsoft Money, and I haven’t sworn at a financial software package since. But I now have a Wesabe login and I’m just waiting for my other financial institution to get registered with their service before I ditch Money for the foreseeable future.
Another option that isn’t as Web 2.0-ish is Yodlee (http://moneycenter.yodlee.com/ ). I hadn’t heard of them before (after checking out Mint and Wesabe), but they are a very good site. They actually rebrand their app for other customers (http://corporate.yodlee.com/customers/consumers.html ), which are large financial organizations. I also love Mint and Wesabe, though, but this is a more established company to have my login information for my financial sites.
Mint is cool but their site doesn’t allow you to manually enter uncleared transactions in your register. Yodlee supposedly does but there is a bug in that the manual transactions don’t appear so it’s kind of useless. If Quicken provides this, I will use it. However I would like to see Mint offer it as well.