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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Quite Poor

Written by DH from Cambridge

Feb 5, 2008

I thought this would be a simpler more effective alternative to quicken but I was very wrong. I tried to set this up on my Mac but finally gave up! $59.00 is sitting in the box in my desk drawer and I've gone back to quicken. Very disappointed

160 of 254 people found this useful

iBank Personal Financial Manager

Horrible and no recourse if you purchase in store

Written by AZ from Brooklyn

May 3, 2009

I foolishly disregarded the negative reviews here and purchased iBank from the Apple Store. I have a spanking new MAC and this application froze my computer. I am a veteran Quicken for PC user of 15 years so I consider myself somewhat savvy with online banking and the use of a financial application, but this one is impossible. Neither BofA nor Citibank support it and there is no number to call at IGG. I have deleted the program and lament the sixty bucks I spent as it is not refundable. If you must try it, DOWNLOAD it as then you have a 30 day money back guarantee; but don't purchase it in the store or you'll be stuck with it as a lot of reviewers here have been.

65 of 71 people found this useful

iBank Personal Financial Manager

money well wasted

Written by AR from Omaha

Jan 30, 2008

It is a very poorly written piece of software: crashes regularly, does not display data properly (on occasions some items appear to be zero, after restarting go back to the originally introduced values) etc. On the top of that iBank has very limited possibilities when compared to MS Money or Quicken. Maybe version 3 will be better, but 2.3.12 is just pure headache and nonsense. (I am new to Mac OS and I am having second thoughts about my decision to switch: if all software written for Mac OS is of that quality I should think about taking my iMac back to the store.)

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Needs a lot of work, crashes are routine, several bugs noted

Written by RS from PRESCOTT VALLEY

Jul 21, 2009

I purchased this application directly through the developers website. I was impressed, for a few minutes. There is a lot of eye candy in this application, but it really falls short as a financial manager. I loaded all my accounts and grouped all my transactions into categories, relatively easy process in ibank. Soon thereafter, ibank started to crash on a routine bases; most the time while entering/editing a transaction. Another shortfall is that credit cards are handled like a bank account. No credit limit remaining and balances show as positive cash rather than negative amount owed. After entering all my data and using the application for about a month, my amex transactions can no longer be seen, even though the balance is shown in the account tree. Way to many bugs to list. I recommend you go to the forum and look at the problems encountered by others before purchasing. I think there is potential in the long haul for ibank, but will take a lot of work to get there.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Needs Work

Written by MT from Mendota

Feb 19, 2009

I am an Apple fan and I wanted to write a glowing review on iBank. Problem is I can't.
I too got aggravated using older versions of Quicken and I had hoped that iBank would
have at the very least strong checking and savings management attributes. I am not
one for many bells and whistles yet I would like to see better Reconcile features and
even a warning about duplicate checks would be nice. It is a good start but it needs work.

55 of 67 people found this useful

iBank Personal Financial Manager

Disappointed

Written by DO from Waynesville

Dec 9, 2008

I was hoping iBank could replace Quicken, but unfortunately it needs more work. For example, generating a report (rather than a graph) is difficult, calculating daily gains and losses on securities is impossible, and scheduling recurring transactions is limited to a few choices. There are many features that are appealing, but without what I consider to be basic capabilities, it will not work for me.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Useless

Written by JN from Overland Park

Jun 4, 2008

I purchased iBank as a bundle with iBiz, software I use for billing & time management. iBiz isn't perfect, but I haven't found anything better.

Before purchasing, I checked to confirm that my banks allowed me to download data in .csv or .ofx formats. But a few months later, after I had actually purchased, when I tried to configure iBank I was in for a surprise.

Bank # 1 still allowed .csv download, but with separate entries for credit and debit which iBank doesn't support (!). Took me 30 minutes of trial and error to realize this.

Bank # 2 had discontinued .csv support in favor of .ofx, which they charge $ 9.95/month for. No way I'm paying that -- so iBank for me is useless.

TRY BEFORE YOU BUY!

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Not A Replacement For MS Money

Written by DL from STEUBENVILLE

Jan 25, 2009

I had been looking for a strong application to replace MS Money, and I thought iBank was the solution; however, I was mistaken. Shortly after installing, my MacBook started behaving erratically. In addition, the sync with MobileMe generated more errors than successes. After many hours of frustration, I ended up removing iBank. For now, I will continue using MS Money.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

DON'T BUY THIS!!!

Written by TW from Oxford

Mar 20, 2008

I, regretfully purchased this. $60 purchase price. 3 weeks after i installed it, a pop-up asked if I wanted to download an update that was available. There is no mention of having to BUY the update. If you click yes, your software is hijacked ... unusabel ... until you provide a registration number that doesn't exist. A purchase number or serial number you can find, but they want a number from a company called Kagi that, in my experience, doesn't exist. After owning the product for 3 weeks, I had to cough up another $30 to free up my software. Guess what. I purchased the product twice and still never received a "registration number". I just got that pop-up again. I have had iBank 6 weeks now and they want another $30 for an update to fix the last update that I purchased 2 weeks ago. This company will continue to extort money from you. Buy another product from a better company.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Not ready for prime-time

Written by WG from Denver

Sep 5, 2008

I have been anxiously awaiting something with which to replace Quicken. I am so unimpressed with Quicken for Mac, that I am predisposed to think that anything would be better. I had real hopes for iBank. After downloading it and starting it in trial mode, I created a portfolio account and added a secutity to that account. I then attempted to BUY shares of that security, and after an unreasonable amount of time searching every menu and context-sensitive menu, and after trying every clickable tool and button in the human interface, I could not find a way to accomplish this routine task. Nor am I an unfamiliar user; I have been using and designing computer software for over 30 years. This product is simply not a realistic candidate for anyone doing more than maintaining a check register.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

only because I can't give it zero stars

Written by JM from Hatfield

Jul 2, 2008

this application is terrible. As a long time MS Money user who never had an issue with it, I find myself constantly correcting every transaction that I attempt to download. It has gotten to the point a couple times now where I found it easier to delete an account and reset it. I'm looking around for something else now. Avoid at all costs.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Finding Something Else

Written by TM from Arkansas City

Jul 12, 2009

After 9 months of this nonsense, I am cutting my losses both money and time. I am going to find something else for my personal finances (back to First Edge most likely.) I just wanted something quick to keep track of accounts since most transactions are online. I didn't need all the features but if I am paying for them they should work. Reports and charts are a joke. It's easier to set up a budget on Quickbooks. Forget reconciling to a statement. Data entry in cumbersome, especially dates. I liked the idea of using my ipod touch to enter as I go, but not as easy as it seems. A Numbers spreadsheet would work better.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

DOESN'T COME CLOSE

Written by CM from Raymondville

May 21, 2008

I am a long time user of MS Money. iBank doesn't even come close. iBank seems to crash on me all the time. I finally installed Parallels on my iMac and run MS Money through there. I wasted $59.00 on iBank and now the program just sits in a drawer cause Office Depot will on replace it with another copy of iBank. DO NOT BUY!

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

very bad

Written by TR from Bement

Apr 21, 2009

I bought iBank as a replacement for Quicken, because Quicken didn't seem to have an intuitive interface when it came to budget monitoring. Although iBank does have a straightforward budget monitor, it crashes frequently (on my old PowerPC MacPro), and the reconcile feature is completely counter-intuitive. Split transactions are horrible, I still don't understand how they are intended to work. The product looks good on the surface, but it takes more than a few good visualizations to make a product worth the money, and this product is poorly designed from a user interface perspective. Wait for Financial Life from Quicken.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Huge Disappointment

Written by AG from Alpharetta

Aug 7, 2009

I'm so disappointed in iBank. It doesn't support almost any of the financial institutions that our family uses...including some of the big ones...Vanguard, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, etc. Without proper institutional support, it's useless!

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

THIS PRODUCT STINKS!

Written by PC from Haverhill

Jul 18, 2009

I bought this because I was sick and tired of Quicken constantly creating problems with my 'widget' every time I saved my data. I also did not like the way quicken kept wanting to 'reconcile' my account, when I know it is right. BUT, I spent about an hour with IBANK and after creating all of my accounts, it asks me to save the information. No matter how small/short I made the name of the file, it would not accept it. Even 3 letters was too long. I had to quit without saving, and of course lost everything. THIS PRODUCT IS WORSE THAN QUICKEN. I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE. THE INFORMATION AREAS ARE SO SMALL AND INADEQUATE FOR ANY REAL DATA INPUT. I have a complaint to the software support, but I don't know how I can make the file name any shorter. Try another product. If there were a lower star than 1, I would have picked it.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

iBank better then Quicken?-----NO and NO AGAIN NO

Written by CG from Cookeville

Apr 2, 2008

I read a couple reviews about how good iBank was and that it was much better then Quicken. Having used Quicken and MS Money, I decided to give iBank a try. What a waste of money that turned out to be. You can't schedule a re-accruing deposit to happen on the 3 Wed. of a month in iBank or MS Money. Quicken allows for deposits and such to happen on a specific week and a day with in that week. It doesn't revert back the the numbered calendar day. So it is much more flexible.

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iBank Personal Financial Manager

Save Your Money

Written by MK from Richmond

Feb 6, 2008

This is a very basic database. I could get something more out of a few Excel spreadsheets than what this has to offer. Save your money

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