iBank Personal Financial Manager
Customer Ratings
Based on 69 reviews
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Not Ready For Prime TIme
Written by RB from Paris
Oct 17, 2009
For simple personal financing the user interface is excellent. For small business use, the report options are weak and limited. To enter a credit in an expense categories is difficult and in no way intuitive. After two months of use, I am looking for another option.
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Buy from iBank not Apple
Written by TL from Dunwoody
Aug 23, 2009
It is better than Quicken for Mac, but not nearly as good as Quicken for Windows. If you buy from Apple or anyone else and don't like it you're out $60. If you buy from iBank online you can try for 30 days and if you don't like it you can get a full refund. I wish I could get my $60 back.
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Big gaps in check printing
Written by DB from Belmont
Jul 9, 2009
I have used quicken to run my household checking account for a long while and wanted a replacement for mac.
Unfortunately, iBank does not seem to have thought through the paper check use case at all.
1. Does not track which checks are to be printed
2. Does not automatically assign check numbers, based on the last number used + 1, with options to change the starting number at print time
3. Does not assign check numbers at print time
4. Does not allow user to confirm that the checks printed properly, with cancel or retry starting at an adjustable check number
5. Does not present a list of checks available for printing, in check date order
6. Does not allow user to select how many checks should be printed on the first page (I have 3 checks per page and often will need to print on a partial page left over from earlier printing)
I would consider these features to be among the minimum requirements to offer a product that manages a checking account. Quicken has had them for over a decade, and workarounds are manual and awkward.
It's great that they got an Apple Design award, but I frankly don't care about the pretty pictures as much as ease of use and functionality.
If I could get a refund, I would; but I bought it through the Apple store. If IGG fills the gaps, my rating will move to 4-star.20 of 23 people found this useful
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Not Very Good
Written by MM from Waukesha
Jun 29, 2009
The only program I had that locks up consistently. I tried it for budgeting. Cannot print any reports. I returned it for a refund and now use Quicken online for free.
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
needs lots more work
Written by MW from Fort Pierce
Mar 20, 2009
I expect software to be pretty user friendly, a couple clicks here and there, and for the most part having pretty good accuracy......Perhaps I just need to play ore but nothing went right in downloading from my bank, making all my ending balances in the negative. I was excited to find something i could use with my iphone but so far I can't even get the thing to work on my computer, much less the iphone.
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Disappointing. Look elsewhere for a Quicken replacement
Written by JY from Riverside
Dec 9, 2008
I wanted to write a glaring review of this product and at first, that's what I expected to do. I'm a life long Quicken user who just went Mac at home and I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to dump Quicken.
Here goes...the import from Quicken worked well. A few old items came over so it took a few minutes to clean up my data and delete some old accounts. Overall, I was very pleased with the export/import process. Setting up my accounts for online download was a snap and I liked the look and feel of this true Mac program. This is where the “love affair” ended.
As the day progressed I came a cross a few things that ruled this program out as my Quicken replacement. First, it crashed twice and I needed to restart the program two additional times. That’s pretty bad. Second, even though you can download data from your bank, it does not have online bill pay functionality built into the program. You must use your bank's online bill paying services (if available) on their web site. Finally, the reports are quirky and have bugs. With tax season coming up I need to have accurate numbers on easy to read, configurable reports. iBank offers none of these. This is probably the worst part of the program. I wish I could recommend this program, but I can’t.
I will hold onto the program for now, but will look elsewhere for my long term solution. I downloaded a demo of another program last night and so far it looks very promising.
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iBank Personal Financial Manager
Still too many shortcomings
Written by TY from Alexandria
Jul 2, 2008
I've tried really hard to like this app but I continually found frustration in using even the most basic functions, so annoying in fact that I've given up and am going back to Quicken. I might add that this is my 2nd attempt to migrate to iBank so I've given it a serious go. The app looks great and the iPhone functionality is fantastic, in fact it was the driving factor in me giving the software another go, but the assorted bugs, flaky widget, forced mouse input, horrible reconciliation method and lack of the ability to do even some basic functions make it's use too much of a compromise for my needs. At version 3 I would expect better. I hope that it improves & will take another look at v4 or 5.
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