Customizable home screen (45 Legacy Votes) (Q Mac)
I want to be able to customize the content and look of the home screen. I'm not a fan of the pie, would rather see bars. Would like the home screen option to include the calendar view and upcoming bills rather than a separate tab on Mac 2017
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(Canadian Q user since '92, STILL using QM2007)
The current home tab in Quicken for Mac only has three reporting areas that can not be customized to view what you want to view. As a long time windows user, the windows version allowed you to customize what you wanted to see in your home tab. I think this is a great way to get a snapshot of your financial picture the way you want to see it. Please vote for the ability to customize your home tab
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This one may get merged with that, but you should visit that thread and cast your vote (click the little gray arrow under the vote counter in the blue box).
there are lots of thoughts about exactly what users should be able to put on a Home screen; hopefully, the developers will review the entire thread for ideas if they consider making changes in this area of the program.
But I would say a few things, starting with the fact that a disparity has always existed between Quicken Mac and Quicken Windows. Even the beloved legacy Quicken 2007 for Mac lacked many features that existed in the Windows product. In modern times, since the debut of the new Quicken Mac in the second half of 2014, the two products were priced the same. They weren't equivalent, but I'm guessing the company would say the products were never intended to be priced "by the feature." If you wanted to run Quicken on a Mac, you got Quicken Mac; it was not touted as being identical to Quicken Windows (although sometimes their marketing people intentionally blurred that fact).
For the past several years, since Quicken switched to a subscription model, they changed the paradigm. Now, you are paying for a subscription, not the product per se. So with your subscription, you can use Quicken Mac, Quicken Windows or both -- all the for the same flat price. They don't offer a "Quicken Mac subscription" which could be priced differently than a "Quicken Windows subscription."
The fact remains that these are two different products which share a lot of common features, but are not equivalent. The Mac version has some advantages, such as being built on a modern, industrial strength database (no validate and super validate here!) and a much newer and more consistent development environment compared to the Windows version which is a more complicated code base developed over three decades. The company has a stated goal of making the products more functionally equivalent, although that will likely never reach 100% parity, and they are making slow but steady progress in that direction.
For us Mac users, all the history of the technology and the pricing may or may not be interesting, but there's a really simple three-part bottom line: does Quicken Mac meet your needs, as well or better than anything else on the market, for a price you find delivers enough value to you? If yes, yes, and yes, then you're set. If you answer no to any of those conditions, then you look to find something else that better meets your needs and/or costs less.