Free/OSS personal finance software for Windows?

edmicman

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I'm getting tired of tracking my basic finances with Excel - what are some suggested free or open source programs out there that are similar to Microsoft Money or Quicken? I'm tempted to try that new MS Accounting Express 2007, but it sounds like that would be overkill for personal finance stuff. GnuCash sounds awesome, but it's linux only, and I'm on Windows so I'm SOL. Any other ideas?

Edit: I'm browsing the accounting group on sourceforge, but there's a whole lot there...
 

drag

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Originally posted by: xaeniac
GnuCash.org

Not aviable for Windows.... Plus it's more a 'serious' sort of accounting software. Not big-business serious, but something that is typically more complex then what a average person needs.

Very usefull though and double entry accounting is a proven method to avoid human error.

Another thing along those lines would be Turbocash, which recently went GPL. Very well established, but not very common in the U.S. More for medium sized business stuff, I guess.

Kmymoney, for the KDE desktop, is one that is designed for a simplier personal finance standpoint.


There is http://www.grisbi.org/download.en.html which is Gnome-based, but they have a Windows version. I don't know much about it.

I don't actually use any of this stuff.. Although I probably am going to try out gnucash in a while to help get things straightenned out.

Unforunately most are going to be targetting Linux users. Maybe grisbi. There are others, but I don't know much about all of them.

Check out Freshmeat.net for open source software database. Lots of software and descriptions and such. Mostly targetting Linux again, but it will tell you if they have Windows versions. Just be sure that whatever you've choose they've done updates recently, like in the past year or so. Don't want to start in with a dead project...
 

MrChad

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If you use personal tax software (i.e. TurboTax or TaxCut), there are often some excellent bundle deals with Quicken (for TurboTax) and Money (for TaxCut) between January and April. Last year I got a copy of Money 2006 Deluxe free after rebate when I purchased TaxCut. Just keep your eye out for ads in your local paper.