In my review of the best free personal finance managers, I found eight products good enough to warrant recommendation with the best of these being as good as any commercial product. Some choices for online money management are also included in this article. Check them out and select the one that best suits your needs.
Fully-featured and easy-to-use; secured login; accounts and plannings, import and export; reporting and printing; backup, repair and restore; extensive help file.
A sunset version, no more online services, self-help online support only. One user account at a time.
Fully-featured and easy-to-use; secured login; accounts and plannings, import and export; reporting and printing; backup, repair and restore; extensive help file.
A sunset version, no more online services, self-help online support only. One user account at a time.
Simple, clean, attractive, easy to navigate and use. Program supports 41 different installation languages and 11 GUI languages. A multitude of budget-transaction and report options; supports numerous editing and setting choices. Supports themes and patterns. Help File provides ample guidance on how to use the program.
The program must be run in Administrator Mode (for Vista OS and above); looks dated to new operating systems; no import from CSV file formats and export created tables to other file formats.
Simple, clean, attractive, easy to navigate and use. Program supports 41 different installation languages and 11 GUI languages. A multitude of budget-transaction and report options; supports numerous editing and setting choices. Supports themes and patterns. Help File provides ample guidance on how to use the program.
The program must be run in Administrator Mode (for Vista OS and above); looks dated to new operating systems; no import from CSV file formats and export created tables to other file formats.
Simple and attractive GUI; multiple languages; support categories and filters; password protection; payment scheduler, loan calculator and currency conversion; import and export data; local help file.
Simple and attractive GUI; multiple languages; support categories and filters; password protection; payment scheduler, loan calculator and currency conversion; import and export data; local help file.
Mint is an attractive personal finance on-line service. It helps budgeting and keeping track of your finances. Users need to create a Mint account before adding bank, credit card, home loan and investment accounts. As claimed by Mint, "it works for you without requiring any personally identifiable information from you. Your Mint account is anonymous; set up requires only an email, password and zip code. Mint doesn’t know your name, address, social security number, account numbers, or PINs".
Rudder lets users review all accounts in one place, get bill reminders, budget and manage cash flow. It is an email-based system with similar privacy issues. My details could be adequately protected, but how do I know that they are and always will be? I'm just not willing to bet the bank to build some charts of my budget or an email summary of my accounts. That said, these offerings really do look like promising planning tools for the less paranoid.
Money Strands: This service is 100% free, and allows users to import their bank data automatically. In addition, the website service automatically classifies financial data into meaningful categories, based on users' information. Per the site's FAQs section: CSV/QFX/OFX formats are supported. Finally, the site's owners invite people to submit their bank's name to them if a bank is not currently supported via Money Strands.
Other freeware products to be reviewed:
jGnash, cross-platform, supports double-entry based transactions, etc.
Money banking software. Downloaded same. Went to make out regular bills. Found you can only enter. SEND CHEQUE. whatever happened to Direct Debits and Standing Orders.
Hi guys I was looking for Linux finance software and I landed on this page. Not sure if it's only related to Linux or any other OS, but may I suggest some more free apps, the review is nice but seems a bit incomplete. How could one miss KMymoney, the KDE counterpart of Gnucash, very complete, free and open-source personal finance app. But my favourite is moneyGuru, also available in linux, windows and mac. Very fast, simple and complete. Graphs are everywhere and constantly inform you in a glance about your finances.
I complete agree. KMyMoney is a much better piece of software than many of these apps listed here. It should be on this list.
Thanks for a good list Jojo.
I have used Money Manager as a replacement for Quicken over the past few years, and it is gradually maturing.
A major improvement in the latest update, is encryption, so that is no longer a minus point.
It has always been portable as well, so it might be worth changing the info in the listing. They give the option to make it portable in the install program.
It is very fast and small. I think I'll stay with it :)
For anyone considering it - have a look at their changelog.
Best wishes
Thanks Freecycler for your kind comments. The major improvement has now been updated in the article.
Hello,
I'm the author of Metalogic Finance Explorer. First of all, I'd like to say thanks for this great review.
Also, I wanted to note a couple of things about Finance Explorer:
1) It is mentioned above that there is no reporting. That was accurate when the review was originally written. However the latest version does introduce reporting. There is currently one report with more coming in future releases.
2) It's also mentioned that the portable version is not available from the developer. While it is distributed by portableapps.com as correctly mentioned above, we do build the portable version at Metalogic at the same time as the regular version and then make it available to them. So it does come from us.
All the best,
Metalogic Software
Thank you for the information. The program details have now been updated in our products database. MC - Site Manager.
Fantastic. Thank you for the quick reply MidnightCowboy.
The review of Homebank lists 2 items under Cons. I don't know what version the reviewer used, but version 4.5 has both extensive local help in HTML format and exports CSV.
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Money banking software. Downloaded same. Went to make out regular bills. Found you can only enter. SEND CHEQUE. whatever happened to Direct Debits and Standing Orders.
Hi guys I was looking for Linux finance software and I landed on this page. Not sure if it's only related to Linux or any other OS, but may I suggest some more free apps, the review is nice but seems a bit incomplete. How could one miss KMymoney, the KDE counterpart of Gnucash, very complete, free and open-source personal finance app. But my favourite is moneyGuru, also available in linux, windows and mac. Very fast, simple and complete. Graphs are everywhere and constantly inform you in a glance about your finances.
I complete agree. KMyMoney is a much better piece of software than many of these apps listed here. It should be on this list.
Thanks for a good list Jojo.
I have used Money Manager as a replacement for Quicken over the past few years, and it is gradually maturing.
A major improvement in the latest update, is encryption, so that is no longer a minus point.
It has always been portable as well, so it might be worth changing the info in the listing. They give the option to make it portable in the install program.
It is very fast and small. I think I'll stay with it :)
For anyone considering it - have a look at their changelog.
Best wishes
Hello,
I'm the author of Metalogic Finance Explorer. First of all, I'd like to say thanks for this great review.
Also, I wanted to note a couple of things about Finance Explorer:
1) It is mentioned above that there is no reporting. That was accurate when the review was originally written. However the latest version does introduce reporting. There is currently one report with more coming in future releases.
2) It's also mentioned that the portable version is not available from the developer. While it is distributed by portableapps.com as correctly mentioned above, we do build the portable version at Metalogic at the same time as the regular version and then make it available to them. So it does come from us.
All the best,
Metalogic Software
Fantastic. Thank you for the quick reply MidnightCowboy.
The review of Homebank lists 2 items under Cons. I don't know what version the reviewer used, but version 4.5 has both extensive local help in HTML format and exports CSV.