The Planning tab is where you can create a budget, and it works just as it has in recent Quicken versions.
But unless you upgrade to Quicken Premier, you can’t actually pay the bill from the program. Quicken offers multiple ways to view this data, including bar graphs and calendars, and you can mark individual bills paid, view the vendor’s billing statements, and set payment reminders. It scans your selected account for deposits and recurring bills and projects your daily balances over a designated time range. The Bills & Income tab allows you to see your projected income against your fixed expenses. You can toggle these to view just expenses or income and split, annotate, recategorize, and further modify individual transactions. Like most things in Quicken, this is highly customizable and you can change time period, view spending by individual accounts, or switch from spending to income.īeneath the graph is a register of all the transactions relevant to the account parameters you’ve set. The Spending tab displays your last 30 days of spending from all your accounts in a colorful donut graphic, broken out by spending category. Managing your moneyĭespite a reputation for intimidating non-power users, Quicken Deluxe makes it easy for those of us with even modest financial resources to track the in- and outflows of household budgets. But you can customize it to include a variety of graphical data such as income-versus-expenses charts, tax projections, and a calendar display of daily financial activity.
By default it includes spending summaries, bill and income reminders, and your current total-budget status. The Home tab remains the main interface and is designed to provide an easy-to-read financial snapshot. The main pane is divided into a series of tabs. Quicken Deluxe 2019’s interface will look familiar to users of previous versions.
At the bottom of the column is your net worth and a link to your credit score, though you have to sign up for free Quicken Credit Score and Monitoring to see it. Financial accounts and balances are displayed in a left side column, and you can click on any of them to see more details. Quicken looks much as it has in recent years. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Note: This review is part of our personal finance apps roundup.
Premier includes free online bill payment and priority access to customer support, and Home & Business (Windows only) lets you more easily manage personal and professional finances for $100 a year. Deluxe, which is reviewed here, adds budgeting, investment, debt, and tax management tools and costs $50 a year. The Starter plan provides basic account management features for $35 a year. This streamlined tool gives Quicken a user-friendly vibe that will likely appeal to people weaned on web services like Mint and Nerd Wallet.Īt its heart though, Quicken is still a desktop program, and as in years past it’s offered in multiple versions. Perhaps that’s why Quicken 2019 has introduced a feature that devoted users have long desired: a browser-based companion app that lets them manage their finances from any internet-connected device.
Just glance at our personal finance software guide to see how stiff the competition has gotten. Quicken is still the king of personal finance software, but the last several years have brought a legion of challengers to its throne.