[X4U] Good/Simple home budget software

[Randy B.Singer]

Brett Conlon said:

>Anyone have any recommendations for a simple home budget proggy. Free is 
>best but I see the shareware ones are not too expensive anyway.


Here are some choices, some of which are free.  Check out the free 
programd C0nto and CashBox!:

Quicken
http://www.shop.intuit.com/store/jhtml/itemovw.jhtml;jsessionid=ZWXQV2CDDRZ
SYCQIBMTRXCQKBAFSQF4K?pageLocation=Quicken&priorityCode=5010348&productLine
=Quicken&categoryId=cat101202&productId=prod10047

MoneyDance $30
http://www.moneydance.com/

BudgetfM $15
http://www.budget-software.de/

Budget $30
http://www.snowmintcs.com/
http://www.snowmintcs.com/products/budgetmac/index.php

Budget $30
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/companion/budget/budget.php

Finance $20
http://www.yenco.com/
http://www.yenco.com/finance/index.html

iBank $20
http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/

iCash $24.90
http://www.maxprog.com
http://www.maxprog.com/iCash.html

Money $25
http://www.jumsoft.com/money/

My Money Minder $12.50
http://www.geocities.com/ben_blake1/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/ben_blake1/mymoneyminder.html

MYOB FirstEdge $99
http://www.myob.com/us/products/firstedge/

QuickFinance $24
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/4959
http://quickfinance-mac.com/

WhereDidAllMyMoneyGo $25
http://users.pandora.be/bert.torfs/WhereIst.html

Liquid Ledger for Mac OS X $45
http://www.liquidledger.com/

Checkbook Rec $9
http://www.cornerstonedesigns.biz/

Finance 101 - Business & Personal Finance Software $15
http://www.programs101.com/finance-101.html

CheckBook $18
http://www.splasm.com/products/productcheckbook.html

Cocoa Account and Cocoa Account Plus FREE
http://homepage.mac.com/tonyswu/tonyswu/computer/cocoa.html
http://homepage.mac.com/tonyswu/tonyswu/computer/works/cocoa/caccount/index

.html
http://homepage.mac.com/tonyswu/tonyswu/computer/works/cocoa/cap/

Conto FREE  (this one is impressive)
http://www.dimi.uniud.it/~vitacolo/macosx.html

GnuCash (via Fink and X11) FREE and open source
http://homepage.mac.com/elliottmce/gnucash_guide/

SpendThrift FREE
http://blackllamafaction.org/archives/cat_software.html

Hold-Up FREE, open source
http://www.pol-online.net/hold_up/us_home.html

Cashbox FREE (also very impressive)
http://www.fadingred.org/
http://www.fadingred.org/cashbox/



Randy B. Singer
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