Existing users, 
After praising iBank 3 when it was released I have changed my opinion of it. I spent the last few weeks entering all my data into iBank 3. Now I am encountering errors trying to reconcile my bank statements. I sent a message to tech support twice letting know of the problem and they failed to respond. I even emailed asking to acknowledge receipt of email and I received no response.
Guess its back to Quicken and spending hours replicating my data into Quicken. iBank 3.0 had great potential.
iBank
Intuitive money management app.
Version: 3.5.4
Disappointed!
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: donperreault Thursday, March 13 2008 @ 10:28 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
Not me! - Kevin_Hayes_585
What exactly is the reconciliation problem? Please explain, as I seem to have no problems.I'm pleased with iBank 3. They could support automatic import from a few more banks (especially Canadian banks) but I can download the files from their site and import them into iBank just fine.
My only serious request right now is to allow arbitrary amounts of money in budgets instead of having to have actual income transactions.
Monday, March 17 2008 @ 01:52 PM PDT
Yes me! - robbyx--2008
I've been using Quicken for years and never have a problem reconciling. With iBank, I've never reconciled successfully. The reconcile UI is rather odd, too. Don't get me wrong. I'd like to see an alternative to Quicken, but this isn't it.iBank's got glitz to spare, but when it comes down to functions, I don't find it very intuitive, nor easy to use. Data entry is the biggest problem for me. I hate having to use negative numbers. I hate having to specify a transaction type from a drop-down. It's slow and inefficient. Say what you will for Quicken, but the ledger/register entry is the way to go. Tab through the fields, enter deposits into one field, payments into another, no negative numbers, no drop downs. It's fast. iBank is slow and clunky.
I've looked at every version of this software and always approached it with high hopes. However, each time I give it a try, something doesn't work. And I can't be bothered to spend a lot of time figuring out why. I've been an avid computer user for the past 25 years and have dabbled in programming, so I'm not a total noob. But I just can't get comfortable with iBank. I don't like the data entry method one bit and I can't get it reconcile properly.
I wouldn't advise anyone to waste his or her time with any of these finance apps - iBank, Cha-Ching, etc. Moneydance is the only one that works, but it has its own short-comings. Now that I know that Quicken is working on a Cocoa-native re-write, I'm going to wait for that to arrive. I've tried iBank enough to know that it just doesn't work for me.
Tuesday, March 18 2008 @ 07:25 AM PDT
Disappointed! - robbyx--2008
This company knows how to produce a very nice *looking* application. Unfortunately, features just don't work as they're supposed to. I can't get iBank to reconcile for anything. As much as I hate to say it, I'm looking forward to Quicken's re-write.iBank's had 3 version to get it right - and it still can't handle something as basic as reconciling without problems. Data entry is a mess too. One simply can't trust it. Sadly, with the exception of Moneydance (which is okay), the rest of the Mac Quicken alternatives are quite weak as well.
Stick with Quicken. Yeah, the interface is horrible and there are obvious missing features but, unlike the rest of the OS X financial management apps, it actually works.
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Monday, March 17 2008 @ 11:01 AM PDT