I used Moneydance for awhile then switched to Gnucash when the company selling Moneydance dropped it.
I tried GnuCash for about a year in 2003. It took most of a weekend to compile on my PowerMac G4, an awful mess of dependencies. It worked for awhile, but scared me when my data file got corrupted. (Had to go back two backups to find a clean copy.) Also I was tired of having to use X-windows for it.
I'm back to Moneydance http://www.moneydance.com now. The original developer reacquired the code and is actively developing and selling it again. It's java-based and runs on Macintosh, Windows, and Linux.
I think the double-entry accounting features of GnuCash are a little more robust, but Moneydance is much easier to use.
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2007-01-18 18:03 (UTC)I tried GnuCash for about a year in 2003. It took most of a weekend to compile on my PowerMac G4, an awful mess of dependencies. It worked for awhile, but scared me when my data file got corrupted. (Had to go back two backups to find a clean copy.) Also I was tired of having to use X-windows for it.
I'm back to Moneydance http://www.moneydance.com now. The original developer reacquired the code and is actively developing and selling it again. It's java-based and runs on Macintosh, Windows, and Linux.
I think the double-entry accounting features of GnuCash are a little more robust, but Moneydance is much easier to use.