In the full version of AceMoney, your accounts will be grouped by type: Cash Accounts, Bank Accounts, Credit Accounts, and so on. You’ll enter transactions by clicking the name of the appropriate account (it’s a hyperlink that takes you to the Register view) and then clicking the NEW TRANSACTION button in the left sidebar. That’s AceMoney Lite’s “Accounts” page, which doubles duty as the splash page when you open the program. This is no-frills financial tracking - and that’s certainly not a bad thing, especially if you’ve grown tired of Quicken’s endless bells and whistles and forced advertisements on your desktop. There’s no visual razzle-dazzle in AceMoney. (They have a very informative FAQ page, too.) The features are pretty much what you’d expect: AceMoney can track your bank, cash, and credit-card accounts, and it allows for rudimentary budgeting and investment tracking. It’s also available in more languages than I feel like counting.Ī full listing of AceMoney’s features can be found on its homepage. AceMoney’s website tells us that the program runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. AceMoney Lite (their trial offering) is free, but feature-limited. As of this writing, the full version is priced at $30, which includes free lifetime upgrades. (I’ll be discussing at AceMoney Lite, which has all the features of the full-blown AceMoney but allows the user to track only two accounts.) AceMoney: The BasicsĪceMoney is standalone personal-finance software created by MechCAD. (How anyone can still use Simply Money without falling into a mental time-warp is beyond me, honestly.)ĪceMoney hasn’t garnered that much attention, understandably, but it seems worthy of a look in any case. Now, I’ve gotten lots more reader opinion on software like YNAB, which has developed quite a following, and Simply Money. Today, that “what’s out there” brings me to AceMoney.Ī couple of readers have mentioned that they use AceMoney, and like it. It occurred to me last night that some of the lesser-known programs on that list are due for a bit of “review” work on my part. So I direct people to my “Alternatives to Quicken” article, first penned in 2006. It’s something of a ritual: I’m consistently greeted with reader emails asking for good alternatives to Quicken and the now-defunct Microsoft Money.Īs a lifetime fan of Quicken and a current user of Quicken 2013, I sometimes have to put my now-very-iffy love of Quicken aside and consider that MAYBE, JUST MAYBE other folks might be better off with simpler personal-finance software. I’m updating prices, hyperlinks, and a few other items here. NOTE: This is a republishing of a review I originally wrote in 2010, back when I was using the Blogger platform.
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