iBank
iBank is an intuitive personal and small business financial manager designed to track bank accounts, credit cards, loans and investments, to analyze income and expenses with live updating charts, and to plan your financial future with easy budgeting and forecasting tools. Wrapped in a familiar, Mac-like interface, iBank is a robust financial application able to meet the needs of both casual home users or sophisticated investors. iBank offers many of the features not found in other Mac finance applications, such as password protection for your accounts; check printing; the ability to export data to standard formats for use with TurboTax, Excel or Quicken; or advanced investment tracking of buys, sells, dividends and cost basis. iBank can directly connect to your bank to download transactions, or sync transactions entered on the go from iBank Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch (sold separately). Other features allow you to track mortgages or loans, see your account balances through time, create budgets and reports, attach images to transactions, sync items to iCal, backup automatically to MobileMe accounts, and much more. iBank’s developers listen their customers, releasing frequent improvements, updates and fixes, and offering responsive tech support and customer service.
iBank Features
- Set budgets and analyze your income versus expenses to gain complete control over your personal finances
- Monitor all of your account balances at a glance and manage your portfolio by tracking buys or sells as well as dividends and ROI
- Import your previous transactions and categories from versions of Quicken for Mac and PC or from MS Money and export data in standard formats to TurboTax or Quicken or Excel
- Set up and organize all of your existing accounts including credit cards or investments with easy downloading of transactions from most major financial institutions
Price: $47.99
User Reviews about iBank
Not sure why I did not pay attention to all these wonderful "3rd party app." that on the market at great prices until I became exasperated by the changes and conflicts with "tried and true", major corporation apps. I recently upgraded my long used Intuit's Quicken and was alarmed at how it had become very "Microsoft" in mentality. That is, designed by technicians for technicians and not for the end user. The corporate team decision that complication is progress. After discovering EazyDraw 3 as the perfect continuance of the now defunct, Appleworks vector drawing program, I decided to hunt through 3rd party apps. for a simple, easy to use, accounting/bookkeeping software. An app. that I could just plug in my bills and deposits and not have to be a software engineer to figure out. I bought iBank 2 through Amazon and it has been all that I wanted it to be. Easy to use, intuitive, visually pleasing and with enough 'under-the-hood' that I could grow and develop with it. Fully recommend iBank. If you are a Mac user, start looking at and supporting all these creative developers. -- iBank ... Great 3rd Party app.
It looks really neat. But I wanted to import my last years and years from quicken. So far, I have not been able to do that. The import box comes up, but NOTHING happens. I haven't really been able to use it for my banking yet. -- didn't do what I wanted
Quicken PC user for 15+ years, then switched to a Mac and Quicken 2007 for Mac which works, kinda, and is quirky to say the least. Then I installed Quicken Essentials for Mac with great anticipation, but found it to be the ultimate loser! I despaired of finding a product that is both reliable and fairly simple. Fortunately I discovered iBank thru an internet search, though I have since learned that it is available at my local Apple store. It is very reasonably priced, installed easily and I transferred my Quicken 2007 files without any problems. It took little time to learn the iBank program and the Help material is great - written in simple English and easy to follow - how refreshing! Importing transactions from the internet is seamless and intuitive. The screen appearance is logical and attractive and the icons are visually pleasing.
I do not track investments, so cannot comment on the usefulness of that part of iBank.
For those who wish to record and track and categorize income, spending, bank, credit card accounts and budgets, this is a super program which is reliable, attractive and stable and feels like it was truly designed for Mac users. My wife of 54 years thanks iBank for saving my sanity and appreciates my calm demeanor since I "discovered" this software. -- Mental Health Saver!