It’s currently in development but looks pretty stable and has a lot of personal budgeting features, you can also try it before you buy it with a free download, so definitely check this one out.

If it has Apple’s stamp of approval, it’s probably a pretty great app although I have yet to test it myself. Squirrel – €14.99 – Free beta test – Squirrel won an Apple Design Award in 2008 for the best Mac OS X Leopard Student Product, which is no small feat. If you can put the appearance aside, then Budget could be a great software option for managing your finances. It’s certainly feature rich and full of stellar reviews, competitively priced, and has been around a while, but at a risk of sounding shallow, I just don’t think it LOOKS that good, especially compared to the some of the alternatives. Priced a bit cheaper than iBank, it’s definitely a good alternative, but again it’s Mac only.īudget – $39.95 – I have smart friends that swear by Budget, so apparently it’s a great app.

The ‘envelope budgeting’ feature looks pretty nice and would certainly be useful. MoneyWell – $49.99 – MoneyWell is a lot like iBank, it’s feature rich and looks very attractive, it’s just a bit less well known. The main downside that I see is that it’s not really cross-platform compatible since it’s Mac only. From appearances alone, this app takes the cake (the screenshot above is iBank) and it’s also pretty feature rich. As an added bonus, it syncs with your iPhone so you can see all your budgets and finances on the road. You can easily import banking and finance data to help create a budget and track your finances and has a pretty cool feature that lets you visit online bank accounts through the app to import any data that otherwise wouldn’t be accessible.

IBank – $59.99 – iBank is very much a Mac app, it’s very attractive, easy to use, has an intuitive interface, and, well, it just plain looks good. It’s cross-platform compatible which is also a bonus if you’re a recent switcher. It works very well as long as you’re willing to keep the data recent, and it’ll hook up to some online bank accounts (or you can import data). Quicken – $69.99 – almost everyone has heard of Quicken, it’s basically the industry standard for consumer budgeting software.

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