#Quicken essentials for mac 2011 software
#Quicken essentials for mac 2011 trial

#Quicken essentials for mac 2011 software

I did not try it out, but it is nice to know there are other options (and, if it meets your needs, you certainly can’t beat the price).įinally, if you still have a version of macOS that can run Quicken Essentials (meaning 10.11 El Capitan or older), and your Quicken Essentials software was kept up to date, you may have an option to export your data as a QXF file.

#Quicken essentials for mac 2011 trial

In the course of my research, I came across another personal finance product that offers to do the same thing - import Quicken Essentials data, and export QIF - called CheckBook ($14.95, non-subscription, free trial a “Pro” version costs $19.95). If you prefer to use current Quicken, or other personal finance software, you can export your data from Moneydance as a QIF file, and then import it into Quicken or another program. Once you’ve got your Quicken Essentials data into Moneydance, you can either pay for Moneydance ($49.99, non-subscription, free trial) and simply use it as your personal finance software, if you like it. Happily, a couple of hours of poking around the internet revealed a solution: the developers of a competing personal finance product called Moneydance reverse engineered the Quicken Essentials for Mac data format (which is, of course, a different format than all other versions of Quicken), and it is able to import its data. If you went down that road, you found yourself at a dead end. And if you’re running macOS 10.12 Sierra or later, you can’t even open the app to see that data. Just because Quicken Essentials wasn’t popular doesn’t mean it’s ok to hold users’ data hostage. Intuit spun off Quicken several years ago, but this is still inexcusable in my view.

Its support pages are, in fact, disturbingly straightforward about it: “Quicken Essentials files cannot be converted.” Recently I had a client who had been using the ill-fated Quicken Essentials for Mac, and I was surprised to discover that modern Quicken refuses to import its data. The product has always been second class compared to its Windows version.

Mac users have a long and sordid history with Intuit, the original developers of Quicken.