Personal Finance Software?

[jeff061]

What do you guys use, Quicken still the go to package? Looking to track how much I'm spending(and where) and how much I'm saving. Hoping to be able to export transactions from my banks website and import it for historical data. Future imports being automatic would be great, but manual export/import is fine. Though I'm not looking to manually type each transaction.

I'm thinking I should be buying a place while the prices are so low, honestly I'm an idiot for paying rent for as long as I have. So I'm looking to gather info so I can properly gauge what I can afford in regards to mortgage payments and whatnot.

I'm awful with money, looking for simple help and guidance :D.

[wade moore]

Might want to start with mint.com - free website owned by Quicken. See if it gives you what you want before you go pay for something.

I've used several packages. Quicken is immensely in-depth. Which, for me, is actually a negative. I have to do so much, I end up not keeping up with it. Mint.com offers a more high-level view and does everything you've mentioned

[gstelmack]

Quicken because my data stays with me, not in someone else's cloud, and because of the ability to import data from nearly everywhere. But they keep tweaking with things just to sell it every year, and reports are that 2011 has built-in banner ads, so I'm still with 2009. Used to upgrade every other year, now I think I'm skipping and waiting for 2012, but the odds of it having anythign besides continually improving downloads is remote.

[Kodos]

I think I'm still using Quicken 2004 or something. :)