Quicken for iPad

Maui21hawaii22

why not a stand alone quicken for iPad so that I don’t need my desktop when I travel.

Chris_QPW

I think Quicken Inc's answer to this is either you use Sync to Mobile/Web and use the companion App which has "partial functionality of the Desktop" or you go with Simplifi, which is their personal finance software that is server based Mobile and Web only.

In my opinion it is technically and resource impossible for them to make a full version of Quicken for iOS.

EDIT: Seeing that you are on Quicken Mac I will add this. If Apple somehow makes it possible for Mac programs to run on iOS that would change the answer. I think someone mentioned this might happen in the future. It will certainly have to be something that Apple does, not Quicken Inc. Quicken Inc is a small company and can barely support what they have let alone create another version for iOS.

[Deleted User]

@Maui21hawaii22 depending on how you use Quicken Mac, maybe Quicken Simplifi might be a good solution?

george.toh

with the latest support for resizeable windows, files, mouse/trackpad support on the iPad, I wonder if this is a good time to revisit this. It will certainly improve/change the usage of quicken for Mac users to be able to use full fledged quicken on the go.

Matjaz

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20494168#Comment_20494168

I’m running iOS26 dev release and this is a huge improvement in ipad being more like a computer than tablet. As I use quicken all the time i really miss it on the ipad and forces me to carry my MacBook Air around.

I have tied Simplify…garbage as it is just rebranded mint. Does not even come close to my needs

Mobile companion app is useless and ugly for anything serious on iPad

Web version of Quicken Classic is half baked product as it has no investment tracking odd UI.

If at least web version was feature complete and wrapped in the app that would be a min bar and would try to use it.

I started looking to Banktivity as there is native iPad App, but have not made any decisions. Lack of good iPad support might soon be a dela breaker for me.

with iPadOS26 I just love what iPad can do.

Chris_QPW

It isn't what iOS can do that determines if they can put Quicken Classic Mac on it or not. No different than if we were talking about Linux. Clearly Linux has always had all the needed features, but still no Linux version, why?

Because they are two different operating systems that what have to be coded completely differently.

Unless Apple come up with a way to run MacOS programs on iOS, Quicken Classic Mac is never going to be on iOS.

Matjaz

I disagree. Technically problems can be solved. It is about whether there is a market opportunity for having such a version that would strengthen your user base or prevent it to leave for another product and potentially increase market share or increase revenue by raising subscription price. It goes of course against investment needed to build such a version. It is pure financial math and has nothing to do with technology.

With current AI advancements rewriting software is becoming easier and easier. Take it from someone who has done Product Management for software for ages in large tech company.

NotACPA

"Unless Apple come up with a way to run MacOS programs on iOS, Quicken Classic Mac is never going to be on iOS."

There's really nothing else to be said.

And a Product Manager isn't a developer, or retired developer, which QPW and I both are.

Chris_QPW

@Matjaz I didn't just based on technical problems, even though that is the lion share of the problem.

Technical:

Quicken Classic Mac: start of rewrite: 2007, not completely done to this day (missing lots of features).

Quicken Classic iOS: a major rewrite, this would again take many years.

Business:

Quicken Inc is a small company of about 200 employees which are spread out between Quicken Windows, Quicken Mac, Quicken Mobile, Quicken Web, Quicken Simplifi, not to mention not all of these are all developers. You have developers, managers, support, QA, forum moderators, … Quicken Inc doesn't have the resources for such a project.

Product demand:

So far three people have voted, for this. Even though I know that there are other threads and this vote count is low even if you collected all these up, the point is this idea has never even got enough votes to have it passed to the development group for consideration.

AI advancement 

Yes, it is helping, just like any tool, but is way overhyped in the statements that programmers are going to be replaced in the near future. Or more accurately, certainly some of the mundane coding (and any programmer doing only that), but at least in the near future it isn't going to replace programmers that handle the complex critical code and the debugging of such. That isn't just my opinion, as a programmer with over 40 years of experience. The speed up that AI will provide will not make up for the need of years of development.

MrsC0207

https://community.quicken.com/discussion/comment/20494426#Comment_20494426

I tried Quicken and gave it up because of no stand alone iPad up. [Removed: Third-Party Mention].