AceMoney has been my salvation from the likes Microsoft Money and Quicken.
Here’s what AceMoney doesn’t do:
- It doesn’t force me to sign up for an online service.
Microsoft Money has a bad habit of wanting to integrate with a Windows Live account. I don’t like that. - It doesn’t have any ads.
As though paying through the nose for the software weren’t enough, Microsoft Money is riddled with ads trying to sell me more financial services. - It doesn’t make funny noises.
The user interfaces on Money and Quicken are over-sweetened, with unnecessary animations and sound effects that only serve to bog me down. - It doesn’t need 500mb ram to run.
Quicken takes ages to load up, and bloats up to half a gig of memory, probably caching all the sound effects and interface animations. AceMoney peaks out at about 20mb.
There you have it. It does all the things I need it to do (track money, setup budgets, schedule bills, etc.), but more importantly, it doesn’t do any of the things I don’t want it to do.
Try the freeware Lite version. Don’t expect anything flash, just sweet straightforward simplicity.
(I wasn’t paid to write this)
