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Quicken 2017 Review – The Year of the Comeback?
last updated onSeptember 30, 2019
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After the Quicken 2016 debacle, I was very leery to even think about purchasing Quicken 2017 Canadian edition. I did notice that there was a Quicken iPad (and iPhone) application, which said it should work with Quicken 2017 Canadian edition, so that tipped the scales for me.
Intuit has stepped away from this product, so it is back to being a Quicken product. Actually the Quicken brand is owned by HIG Capital, but it looks like they are letting the Quicken team run things. What this means for the Canadian Edition of the product? So far it suggests they are trying to make the Canadian product a more practical product, but again, we shall see.
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I ended up buying Quicken 2017 Home & Business with Premium Support, using the discount message from Quicken 2016, which brings you to a purchase page. The interesting part of this was that the price quoted was $80.77 for Business and Home (the deluxe version), but after I purchased it, there was no delivery charge, or taxes charged either. I suspect this is a mistake they will remedy (i.e. Charge HST). The delivery was only a download, so maybe free delivery is OK too.
Imagej for mac. I am concerned that this is a subscription (that is what my invoice shows). I have not purchased anything, I have paid for a yearly subscription. My suspicion is this means I will have to renew this yearly.
The new version installed just fine, and didn’t seem to have any issues with my huge archive of transactions (it is massive).
I then tried to get things set up so I could use the iPad and iPhone app, which is where things got interesting. If you want to use these applications, you will need to use the Quicken Cloud. The Cloud is not a back up of your data, but where data transferral can transpire. Quicken is very specific pointing out their Cloud is not a backup (you will need to keep doing that yourself). The Quicken cloud relies on having a Quicken login, so you will need to set up an account, if you want to use these apps.
The cloud seemed to rely on being able to download automatically to your Quicken, so I tried to get that working with my TD accounts. It didn’t work, however, after a few failed attempts, the Cloud suddenly was getting the correct data, and that meant I could use the iPhone app.
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The iPad and iPhone apps are good, and free too. Please note there are two separate apps, the iPad version works as an iPad app (i.e. it uses the whole screen and will rotate, and other nice features). The major things these apps let you do are:
- Input transactions on your phone, which will then go into the cloud. It works quite nicely, and gives you the ability to store a photo of your receipt as part of the transaction.
- You can look at your current financial status, and you get some nice graphics that show where you stand, and get some elementary reports.
- Other things I haven’t explored yet.
All in all I think the apps are worth using.
I have used the product for about 2 weeks now, and it seems to work just fine. I have had no crashes (which I had many, with Quicken 2016), however, start-up is quite slow. The startup on a regular PC Laptop with 8 GB of memory should not be this slow, and the need to log in each time slows things down too. The update of the cloud seems relatively quick, but I never got the update with your bank automagically to work. If you download the file from your bank web site, this is not a problem.
Verdict Quicken 2017 Canadian Edition
For the price I paid, and the added features of the apps, I think this version of Quicken is worth buying (especially if you haven’t bought it in a few years). The subscription angle has me concerned, but we shall see what comes of that. Quickbooks 2016 for mac. I also haven’t tried out the Premium Support part of my subscription yet, again another area I will investigate further.
The drawback is there is no official Canadian Mac version just yet. I have heard you can buy the U.S. Firefox for mac. version and it should work, but I wouldn’t chance that just yet.
One final concern is the Cloud, how secure is it? We have seen many security breaches in these type of data configurations, let us hope this does not happen here.
Overall Review: A good restart on a product that needs a lot of fixing.
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originally published onApril 24, 2017{10 comments}
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April 13, 2019, 12:39 PM
“The drawback is there is no official Canadian Mac version just yet”Actually Quicken for Mac has ALWAYS supported Canadian FIs/Banks (including QM2007 to now, QM2019 subscription). And now they have officially included a Canadian setting but all it does is hide US specific features that do not work in Canada and set the home currency to CAD otherwise, it is the exact same software.
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April 13, 2019, 12:41 PM
Oh, one more thing…QMac actually supports FIs/Banks in both Canada and US within the SAME product, unlike QWin, which can only work with one OR the other.Of course QMac is not as feature rich as QWin, so YMMV.
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April 25, 2017, 7:03 PM
Thanks for the review!
I’m a big fan of YNAB, I even bought the yearly subscription after paying month to month for over a year.
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April 24, 2017, 11:30 AM
The 300% was referring to the fact that you only needed to update once every 3 years to keep the online features… Now, it’s yearly.Another problem is that: if for some reason, they go belly up, since the application calls “home” every so often, you could effectively be locked out of your data… Maybe not this year… but what about in 2-3 years? It’s not like Office where you have alternatives… I have 20+ years of data… not sure it’s a risk I’m willing to take. Although I’m probably one of the few that upgrade every year but not this time…Also, once you’re locked in, what prevents them from raising the price to 500$ next year? Or 150$, if they lose 60% of their customers.It will be interesting to see how many “new features” will be added during the year. Intuit tried the whole subscription gig a few (many) years ago and didn’t realease anything. We’ll see…
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April 24, 2017, 11:04 AM
Subscription means you have to pay 90$ a year which is effectively a 300% increase. I guess the biggest issue is that if you do not renew, you lose the ability to enter transactions – meaning you have read-only program.
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My rMBP is running macOS Mojave 10.14 build 18A389. Quicken 2017 version 4.6.8 runs fine. Version 4.7.2 and 4.7.3 both hang with the beach ball of death shortly after launch. Any plans to fix the hang? Thanks.
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edited September 2018macOS 10.14 Mojave is not scheduled for full release until Sep 24. You would have to wait until then to follow up on that issue.
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edited October 2018Dana, they will no doubt release an update after Mojave ships, if they determine something is broken in Quicken 2017 once Mojave is final. The general advice is to not try to be the first on your block to upgrade your operating system each year; you're already running a production/live program on a beta, so you've decided to deal with the consequences of being on the bleeding edge. I typically wait months after the release of a new OS to allow my software apps to play catch up and get past the initial bugs and problems.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
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edited September 2018Jacobs, I have been running the developer previews of all 4 OS’ since WWDC because I am a developer helping Apple find and fix bugs. I expect to have software issues. I am running the candidate golden master of Mojave and wanted to alert Quicken of the problem. If there are no plans to fix then I will have to stay on 4.6.8 or go to 2018. Thanks.
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edited September 2018Jacobs, I have been running the developer previews of all 4 OS’ since WWDC because I am a developer helping Apple find and fix bugs. I expect to have software issues. I am running the candidate golden master of Mojave and wanted to alert Quicken of the problem. If there are no plans to fix then I will have to stay on 4.6.8 or go to 2018. Thanks.
They might be aware of a problem with Mojave, and have a fix they plan to release around the time Mojave ships. Or they might not be performing their full testing on old versions until Mojave ships, with a plan to release a compatibility update if needed within a month. But Quicken 2017 is still supported software, so if there is a bug with Mojave, they will definitely need to get it fixed.
About all you can do is wait until Mojave ships, and then use the Report a Problem feature on the Quicken Help menu if the problem still exists.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993 -
edited September 2018Running the released version of Mojave (18A391) and new version 4.8.0 hangs. The last version I can run is 4.6.8
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edited September 2018Great.. Glad I did not upgrade to Mojave after downloading it just now.
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edited September 2018Tech support just confirmed to me on the phone that 2017 and 2018 are NOT yet compatible with Mojave.
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edited September 2018Tech support just confirmed to me on the phone that 2017 and 2018 are NOT yet compatible with Mojave.
What I would like to see though, is Dark Mode options for Quicken Mac. That would make it look unbelievably cool. -
edited September 2018Tech support just confirmed to me on the phone that 2017 and 2018 are NOT yet compatible with Mojave.
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edited September 2018Opencv for mac. Tech support just confirmed to me on the phone that 2017 and 2018 are NOT yet compatible with Mojave.
If they would say that there are compatibility issues and bugs, now that's a different story. -
edited September 2018Tech support just confirmed to me on the phone that 2017 and 2018 are NOT yet compatible with Mojave.
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edited November 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
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edited October 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
1) Quicken has a lot of screens -- more than most typical applications. If they are all created using standard Apple system calls, it might be possible to implement dark mode without a lot of work. But my guess is that it's more likely that it would take a lot of work because of the complexity of the screens (e.g. multiple regions, animated graphs) developed over time with potentially different tools (e.g. the new reports screens might be created differently than screens which date back to Quicken Essentials circa 2010). Would this take a week or two of work, or many weeks or months?
2) The developers' approach over the past several years has mostly (not exclusively) been to tackle functionality that simply doesn't exist and areas of the program that don't work well or correctly, and to put on the back-burner things that work but could be enhanced. Dark Mode seems to fall into the latter area; it's definitely not necessary to do what people need to do in Quicken, but some users think it would be nice to have. Should this be a higher priority to keep up with a new Apple technology than missing features or feature refinements users have been clamoring for for years?
I have no insight into the answers to either question -- and we likely would only learn something if product manager Marcus happens to mention they are/aren't working on it in one of his posts. I just thought it was worth noting that it's not a 'no-brainer' for Quicken to implement dark mode.
And your specific question raises one more: if they implement dark mode, will they go back and add it for Quicken 2017 users? Quicken 2017 continues to get updates for bug fixes and some functionality issues, but it certainly doesn't get all the changes implemented in Quicken 2018/2019. Unless it's a very easy change to implement, my guess is that if/when dark mode appears in Quicken, it will only be for the current product, and not the older version(s) which are still supported.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993 -
edited October 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
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edited October 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
Also, Quicken is moving towards only supported one version. So their focus is the latest version.
That said, since 2019 is sharing more and more of its code with 2018, 2017 and even 2016 (if not all the code) there is a small chance that if/when they develop this for 2019, they will enable it for other supported versions BUT their stated goal is to move users onto only one version, so again, this is highly unlikely.
BTW, in case you missed it, Quicken quietly moved to naming it 2019 only yesterday. It is still the same Quicken 2018 just renamed..most likely to accommodate the old naming convention and communicate the move away from / expiration of the older versions.
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edited October 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
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edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
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edited October 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
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edited October 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
Sarah
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edited October 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
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edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
Sarah
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME so I can open Quicken again -
edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
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edited November 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
And I use 'Dark Reader' with Chrome and Mojave..which converts ANY webpage to Dark Mode.
So, no..it can't be that difficult to do.
Just look at the Mac App Store and see all the apps that now support Dark Mode. These AREN'T new apps either.
And Dark Mode apparently is controlled by the Preferences in Mojave..because the software that I have downloaded that use Dark Mode have no settings..they just pick it up from the operating system.
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edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
Sarah
Either roll back to High Sierra using Time Machine or purchase a subscription to Quicken Mac 2019, which will convert your QE data file. -
edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
Sarah
It's not easy to roll back your operating system; upgrading your Quicken is probably a lot easier and faster. Note that although Quicken is now sold as a subscription product, as long as you buy Quicken Deluxe, not Starter, you can buy a subscription for one year and then discontinue your subscription; you'll lose data downloading (but you haven't had that for years with Essentials, so I'm assuming you don't need it) and be able to continue to use Quicken 2019 manually indefinitely.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993 -
edited November 2018I am running macOS 10.14.1 beta 2 Mojave and I installed and updated to Quicken 2017 v4.8.0 and it is working fine so far. It doesn't conform to Dark Mode though. I hope it will with the next update.
Quicken is a program with a large number of different screens, windows, tabs and panels, so it likely takes more work to make it able to run dark mode than many other applications with simpler screens.QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993 -
edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
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edited November 2018Hello All,
I just wanted to take a moment to confirm that all currently supported versions of Quicken for Mac (2016, 2017 and 2018/2019) are compatible with the newest MacOS Mojave. This information has also been updated in our system requirements available at https://www.quicken.com/support/quicken-system-requirements.
Thank you,
SarahQMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993