Intuit Quicken Reviews

Nightmare and disaster. I have to spend hours and hours to fix the balance due to self entries. I downloaded transactions and I find items disappeared and others came by them self. Really??? And keep increasing this garbage software price instead of fixing the bugs.

Absolute garbage. I have to manually reconcile the bank downloads as this is unreliable. I get duplicates, errors, and omissions. I am almost to the point of just using Excel.

Continuous price hikes while previously working features quit working. 20 years ago this was a robust software with all kinds of useful features for financial planning. Now it's total garbage. Software as a service is the worst thing to happen to the software industry. The vendor creates a revenue stream and the customer gets nothing but broken features.

I've been using Quicken Premiere Home and Business for over 20 years. It used to be a great program for sole proprietors. But, the latest update (Release 65.29) has changed all of my jobsite addresses on my invoices and even after restoring to earlier dates, they are still changed. I've tried the recommended procedures to repair the program but nothing seems to work.

Quicken betrayed their users by going to a subscription-based product. Greedy business model! After being a loyal Quicken user for over a quarter of a century since 1993, I took the hint. Quicken has lost me forever. I'm not going to agree to continually pay them an annual subscription fee. I've moved on to using the open-source and totally free GnuCash. It does everything I need for my financial record-keeping. It's actually more accurate and complete than Quicken. And I strongly recommend that all the other unhappy Quicken users out there move on to GnuCash also. The move for me was long overdue; and I'm glad I made it.

The Quicken representative was unable to assist with an online download from PayPal Credit. The Quicken Community indicates I am not the only one with the same issue. I have called PayPal, PayPal Credit, and followed the suggestions from Quicken to no avail.

11/18/25 Quicken wants to force you to use online Quicken ID password even if you do not want to access any accounts online. Which I do not. You get the nag screen, since 11/18/25 on my desktop, even after you sign in to your desktop version. The nag screen is "Enter Quicken ID password." But there is nothing but the nag and nowhere to sign in. You hit the nag close "X" multiple times to close the nag. Quicken user since DOS.

I've used Quicken Mac for about three decades. I started so that I could track the cost basis of individual stock lots, instead of having to spread-sheet it when I wanted to make a sale. The package got progressively better - adding features like direct connect/bank bill pay, loan amortization, etc - up until Quicken Mac 2007. At that point, Intuit effectively stopped supporting Mac users with anything useful, and released a series of real crap like Quicken Essentials. My view is that when Money (the competition) stopped being supported by Microsoft, Intuit allowed maintenance of Quicken to lapse. Features were slowly added back over the years, as long as you kept buying "upgrades," and after about a decade Intuit had something for Mac users that approached Quicken Mac 2007.

Quicken is always updating, especially when you don't want it to, as you're in a hurry. Also when updating accounts it wants to reverify online accounts. When you update online accounts, you want to be able to leave your computer while this is updating, but you can't because of reverifying some accounts. Quicken is becoming a slow operation when updating anything online. Oh, you have to pay big money for using this program and if you stop, your data file becomes useless. Maybe time to find a different program....

I have been using my old version of Quicken that I purchased 4 years ago until this week. When I contacted Quicken I got the statement that my subscription expired, and when I said I did not have a subscription I was told I did. I explained I purchased it years ago and they sent me some past payment with a credit card number I never owned for an amount they could not tell me. I am so angry with quicken. It is not worth using, all of my data is locked, the program I have used for years is locked and I am now looking for an alternative. Look elsewhere for your personal accounting. Customer service is all about buying subscriptions and locking you out.