Thanks Nora, all this is so helpful.  

I guess they want to drive us away, good job indeed.  Wish I had a job where I 
could ignore 10% of the market and hopefully will be 15% in the not too distant 
future.  Arrogance or stupidity.



John


On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:38 PM, Nora Probasco wrote:

> John,
> 
> I just went to their website and learned a lot about iBank. You might want to 
> check it out, especially the tutorials:
> 
> http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/
> 
> It does import .qif files. That is how it brings in your data from Quicken. 
> It looks a lot like the regular Quicken. I hated Quicken Essentials and sent 
> them a scathing letter telling them how lousy a program it was!
> 
> Nora
> 
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:31 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rick,
> 
> Thanks, glad to hear.  If others have used iBanking let us know for soon we 
> will have to be making a decision on Quicken.  I suppose iBanking is Lion 
> ready? 
> 
> I also use a payroll program for the office and it integrates with Quicken by 
> exporting a .qif file to then be imported to Quicken.  Does anyone know if 
> iBanking will import .gif files or is that a Quicken format that is handled 
> by the payroll software and is specific to Quicken?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Rick Burnett wrote:
> 
>> I've been using iBank for a few years now and I prefer it to the other 
>> solutions that I've tried.
>> the iPhone app is nice to have (especially with over the air syncing) and an 
>> iPad app is on the way.
>> It really has helped us get control of our finances. Now I can track where 
>> our money was spent down to the penny.
>> 
>> Rick
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:24 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Andy,
>> 
>> By the way, please let us know how you like iBank. I had never heard of it 
>> before your email so if you take the plunge could you update us on your 
>> likes and dislikes?
>> 
>> Many thanks.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Andy Arnold wrote:
>> 
>>> Here was my response to Intuit after receiving their email today:
>>> 
>>> I've used Quicken for Mac since 1996. I'm letting you know how disappointed 
>>> I am that I am switching to iBank. You have consistently failed to deliver 
>>> a quality product for at least 4 years (really you should have had feature 
>>> parity with Quicken for Windows years before). Not having a timely solution 
>>> for Lion is the final straw. There are now plenty of feature-rich 
>>> alternatives. Switching was painful, I really didn't want to do it, but 
>>> felt like I had no worthy option from Intuit. Mint.com with no transaction 
>>> history? Are you kidding? Switch to Quicken for Windows? I'd rather use 
>>> paper and pencil. Quicken Essentials? Do you even read your own press 
>>> coverage?   I was a Quicken Inner Circle participant, so am very, very 
>>> disappointed... 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 7:47 PM, [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> Well, did any of you receive the email I did today from Intuit?  Seems 
>>>> they are "evaluating support for the Mac".  
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this screenshot doesn't make the email too large
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <PastedGraphic-1.png>
>>>> 
>>>> And of you plan to go to Lion and don't upgrade to their cannibalized 
>>>> program for the Mac you can always....
>>>> 
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>>>> Any other options out there besides Quicken that work well on the Mac and 
>>>> will be allowed by most banks?
>>>> 
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>>>> John
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