If your like me and are a Quicken fanatic and are like me a Mac user, then you have most likely been anticipating the latest version of Quicken that was due to be released summer of 2009.
I have bad news for you. An Intuit Quicken blog post says that the next version of Quicken for Mac (Quicken Financial Life For Mac, or whatever they call it) is now slated for February of 2010. It was first supposed to come out in 2008, then 2009 and now 2010.
Intuit will release a new version of Quicken for the Mac platform in February 2010.
I don’t know why I’m having a hard time believing Intuit. They must have one programmer who is new to Mac programming working on Quicken for Mac.
The one killer feature that keeps me using Quicken 2007 is the integration with financial institutions. I can write checks and schedule transactions with all of the banks and credit cards I use and have all of my information in Quicken up to date. I almost never have to visit the individual website of any of these banks and rarely write a paper check.
There are a number of better application than Quicken for the Mac but none of them have this integration with banks that is a huge time saver.
I have attempted to sign up with Intuit to be a beta tester for years and have never been selected. They have a new program called Quicken Inner Circle that might get me closer.
Being a quicken beta tester was an exercise in frustration. It is good to know that they will eventually come back with something new, as opposed to the big bag o’ crap that they had been repackaging year after year. new doesn’t have to mean better, but it would be hard to be worse.