Personal Finance Software for Mac Systems

Personal finance data in Fortora Fresh Finance can be shared among multiple users on one computer or over a network and data works with both the Mac and Windows versions of Fortora Fresh Finance. Each registered copy of Fortora Fresh Finance can be used on up to 3 computers, tech support is free and very responsive and Fortora plans to support multiple versions of the software as it is developed.

$44.99, free trial, free upgrade to Fortora Fresh Finance version 2, scheduled to release in 2009.

Moneydance is well-supported, often updated personal finance software that runs on Mac desktops as well as Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, and Unix. Moneydance has most, if not all, of the features you would use in Money or Quicken while the interface is less cluttered.

$39.99, free trial, special upgrade pricing.

iBank has the authentic look and feel of real Mac software instead of behaving like a Windows application that has been modified for use on a Mac.

$59.99, free trial, special upgrade pricing.

YNAB is a spreadsheet template used with Microsoft Excel for Mac, OpenOffice Calc for Mac or NeoOffice. While using You Need A Budget is quite simple, this is not just a list of income and expense items that tally up and tell you if you are in the red or in the black. Use YNAB and you will likely be able to pay all your bills and save some money every month.

$19.99, money back guarantee.

If you are into budgeting, check out how Budget by Snowmint handles envelope budgeting. Budget has an active support forum and upgrades are free, so you only pay for Budget once.

$29.95 to download, $37.95 + S&H for software CD, free trial.

MoneyWell's spending categories look like buckets. As income is recorded, it distributes among the buckets according depending on how much has been budgeted for each category. When expenses are recorded, the buckets start to empty and tipping a bucket over means you spent more money than you allocated for that expense.

$39.99, free trial.