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omarlittle
Member since Mar 2011
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| Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 10:37 am)
Late to the party on this one, but better late than never. I'm looking for suggestions on personal finance / budgeting software to track family spending habits. Those of you who use this type of thing, which one of the existing (Mint, Quicken, etc.) modules works for you? Or am I better off creating one via Excel spreadsheets (and does anyone have a template they use)?
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I Love Bama 
Alabama Fan
Alabama
Member since Nov 2007
26978 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 11:07 am to omarlittle)
Mint or YNAB
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RickAstley 
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Reno, Nevada
Member since May 2011
1283 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 11:39 am to omarlittle)
I use excel and I have created my own spreadsheet to track all of my income/expenses. The layout occasionally changes if I want to introduce a new category, or manage it better for data analysis. It doesn't have all the fancy tools packed in with it, but I do have full control over the data and how I want to analyze it. Very time consuming due to lack of automation, although I don't have an issue with it. As long as I have receipts or record how much cash spendings I have incurred in a day or so on my phone/notepad, I have no problem keeping my spreadsheet very accurate.
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Vols&Shaft83 
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Member since Dec 2012
3066 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 11:52 am to I Love Bama)
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Mint or YNAB
Have you used an App called SigFig? A buddy of mine mentioned it the other day, says it's awesome.
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LSUTiger13
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Morgan City
Member since Feb 2004
16 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 12:26 pm to omarlittle)
I am a fan of Quicken. I like to be able to pull reports and use the tools that are available.
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foshizzle
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Member since Mar 2008
25054 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 12:50 pm to omarlittle)
It depends a lot on what you want to do with it. If you're looking for budget software many people swear by YNAB. Personally I use Quicken for the easy transaction downloading.
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TheDiesel
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Houston via Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2010
1642 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 12:58 pm to foshizzle)
I use Quicken as well. It is a very easy software to use
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jso0003 
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Birmingham/Atlanta
Member since Jun 2009
4454 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 4:52 pm to RickAstley)
As far as just a transaction aggregator Mint is awesome. You could always then export data from there to get more flexible with it.
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wegotdatwood 
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Member since Aug 2009
13678 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/21/13 at 8:04 pm to jso0003)
To all:
With YNAB, would I manually have to input every purchase I make?
This post was edited on 2/21 at 8:05 pm
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CQQ
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LC
Member since Feb 2006
6980 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/22/13 at 8:44 am to wegotdatwood)
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With YNAB, would I manually have to input every purchase I make?
I am interested in this as well. What is the basis?
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wegotdatwood
Arkansas Fan
Member since Aug 2009
13678 posts
| re: Recommend a personal finance software (Posted on 2/22/13 at 3:23 pm to CQQ)
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With YNAB, would I manually have to input every purchase I make? I am interested in this as well. What is the basis?
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