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Quicken Deluxe 2013 review: Intuit bumps the price on its personal finance software, but adds free mobile apps |
November 09, 2012
Intuit this year increased the prices of all Quicken editions by $10 over their previous levels. But it also provided extras in the form of free mobile apps (for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Android devices) that can sync transaction data from cash and credit card accounts you choose (from within the desktop software) through a free cloud service. In fact, the mobile apps—the first Intuit has created for Quicken—are the major innovation with the 2013 editions.
I tried the iPad app, which looks quite handsome. It delivers some of the same graphics to visually depict spending patterns and trends that you get with the desktop edition. It shows recent activity on accounts you've synced. If you set up a budget on the desktop version, you can see how your current month's spending in every budget category stacks up against the amount you've budgeted. The idea here is to provide information that could help you with a spending decision when you're away from the desktop.
You can add items to an account register that will sync to the desktop version, but you cannot perform transactions on the mobile app. It can't sync with investment accounts, either. And since many financial institutions provide their own mobile apps (which generally support transactions), the main reason to use Quicken's is to get a snapshot of your overall spending while on the road.
Setting up mobile syncing is pretty easy from the desktop software. A Mobile & Alerts menu item brings up a window from which you can choose the accounts you wish to sync from, and you then initiate syncing. In the same window, you can also configure another new feature: alerts via email or text message for financial events that you choose and customize from a list (a feature that Mint also supports). Examples include budget overages, high bank fees, expensive purchases, low account balances, changes in interest rates, and so on.
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