Free alternatives to using quicken?

[jinduy]

is there a free software out there that lets a single user manage their finances? tia

 

[drag]

The best thing is probably just to use a spreadsheet program. Free one can be found at OpenOffice.org. You just balance your checkbook and such by adding up and subtracting this or that column.

Otherwise I had a friend that like GNUCash a lot. Used it a lot, but I never have. Don't know if there is a Windows version. http://www.gnucash.org/en/screenshots.phtml

That is known as a 'Gnome' application, ment for the gnome desktop on Linux. Another one is Kmymoney, for the KDE desktop. http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html Don't know much of anything about that one, unfortunately. Don't think that has a Windows version either...

There is a Java application called Jgnash.
http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Now that has a version for Windows and Linux, among others. Don't use that either, so I can't say how nice or bad it is either way.

A couple others I found from a quick look around...
http://www.arachnoid.com/PLCash/
That one has a Windows version...
http://www.abisource.com/~msevior/
This one will work in Windows, but you'll have to know how to work with python to get it to work.

Hopefully one of those will work out for you.

 

[doan]

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