supports downloads from just about any financial account that’s available online. Quicken Starter Edition supports downloads from checking, savings, and credit card accounts Quicken Deluxe adds support for downloads from loan accounts (this is new in 2013) and investment accounts. With the $40 Quicken Starter Edition (available only from online retailers, and not even shown in the product comparison page on Intuit’s web site) and the $70 Deluxe Edition, the choice between Quicken and boils largely down to whether you prefer to keep your financial data on your PC or online-and how much you’re willing to pay for the former.īoth products offer tools for categorizing expenditures and income, creating budgets, and sending e-mail or text messages to alert you when you overspend in a budget category, let your bank balances fall too low, or the like. The difference between the two products varies greatly depending on which issue of Quicken you’re looking at. No matter which you choose, you’ll only realize its full benefits if you’re willing to put a bit of time and effort into monitoring and augmenting the automated data entry-and using all the program’s features.

Both help with data entry by providing support for downloading transaction information from your accounts at literally thousands of financial institutions.

Both the just-released Quicken 2013 (with editions ranging in price from $40 to $160) and the free cloud service (which replaced Quicken Online a few years ago) provide useful tools for tracking and planning your finances.

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