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Add Lifetime/Retirement Planner to Quicken Mac (70 Legacy Votes)

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  • jacobsjacobs SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2019

    I don’t know how many people have not even tried the Lifetime Planner. Mind boggling. It’s what got me through most large life and financial hurtles. I “knew” I could do it thanks to Quicken.

    Reporting is many times easier in the windows versions also. Mac “hard codes” most. Not flexible.

    I don’t understand why recent updates haven’t fixed this difference.

    I’ve never used Regina. But I am familiar with remote viewing and usage. I find them slow. But then so is windows under Parallels. I give up.

    John, I agree. I have to imagine there is some plan for rewriting the Quicken Windows app at some point, because continuing to graft patches onto patches onto patches of code that has been created in different development environments over three decades probably has some finite limit. But any misstep in that process could send users scurrying away to competing products, so they need a really well-thought out approach to any such project.

    As we've seen with the Quicken Mac redevelopment from the ground up, there are many landmines. First, the developers decided not to try to build an exact replica of the old Quicken Mac (nor Quicken Windows), but to build a product that offered similar features, re-thought, to see if they could be done better, and leaner. That approach resulted in some things that are indeed better about the modern Quicken Mac than the old -- but I think they underestimated how many features, large and small, from the old product that users would clamor for; I think they had hoped to eliminate some of the things that had been grafter on over many years of development, only to find that users wanted those features back.

    Now, the Mac project was a mess from the start, so it cannot be looked at as a good, clean-sheet rebuild. It was first conceived to be a pretty different product, and was infused with a bit of DNA from Mint, which Intuit bought and then promptly installed the Mint CEO as head of the Quicken division. The first effort of the Mac re-write didn't even make it out of beta. The second effort was the severely under-powered Quicken Essentials. When sales of Essentials floundered because it didn't meet the needs of many users, and the former Mint CEO departed, new Intuit management eventually decided it was time to build on the start of Essentials and turn it into a full-fledged Quicken Deluxe for Mac. Unfortunately, they assigned only a few people to the development team, so the progress was slow; when the new Quicken came out as Quicken 2015, it was really a minimum viable product -- an upgrade for long-suffering Essentials users, but a step backward for Quicken 2007 users. Over the past five years, the developers have slowly worked to build out the feature set of Quicken Mac, and after separating from Intuit, the development team was enlarged to help speed up development -- but they still have a very long list of feature requests to implement.

    Bottom line: hopefully Quicken learned a lot from the Mac re-write project, and has incorporated those lessons into their long-term plan for what to do with Quicken Windows. 
    QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
  • hwoolfhwoolf Member
    When will Quicken for Mac have a lifelong planner?  I recently converted from the Windows version to the MAC version of Quicken but really miss the lifetime planning feature.  When will that get added to the features on the MAC version?
  • hwoolfhwoolf Member
     adding the same feature that is now in the Windows version will enable the MAC product to fulfill a significant gap in the MAC product by providing a financial planning capability and open the applicable sales to a broader market as well as solve a limitation in your installed base.
  • dhammabobdhammabob Member ✭✭
    Yes, please add my vote to add this feature to Mac version. it is critical for me staying on top of my retirement planning. Thanks.
  • smayer97smayer97 SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • I am converting to a Mac computer and am really disappointed to learn that the Lifetime Planner is not available in Quicken Premier for Mac. Not having the Planner is a deal breaker as I navigate by the thing. Any idea if it is scheduled for release anytime soon?
  • Hello vigiolto,

    Welcome to the Community and thank you for bringing your concern here!

    I went ahead and merged your post with an existing Idea thread requesting the same feature.

    Our developer's review Idea threads to get an idea of what people would like Quicken to offer. 

    This Idea thread has received a large amount of support and is currently marked as Under Consideration, so please be sure to add your vote to it!  :)

    Hope this helps!

    -Quicken Natalie

     
  • jacobsjacobs SuperUser ✭✭✭✭✭
    @vigiolto To cast your vote for this feature, you must go to the first page of this thread click the green "1" below, or just click here. In the blue box under the first post, click the little gray triangle under the vote counter; you'll see the vote go up by one.
    QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
  • PLEASE add Lifetime Planning Tool capability to Quicken for Mac! Thanks!
  • raus0046raus0046 Member
    Please add in Retirement / Planning Tools for Mac. It would be great to get the Mac version on par with the Windows version. thanks.
  • Adding the Lifetime Planner module to Quicken for Mac would provide a strong differentiation with the other personal financial software available for this platform. Just make sure it has the horsepower that the Windows module has, thank you.
    God bless you and your precious families - Langston
  • okrentokrent Member
    Please please please! I deeply want to switch from the PC version - which I've been using for more than 30 years! - to the Mac version, but the retirement planner is essential!!
  • I have to keep a windows pc that is only dedicated to Quicken because there is no lifetime planner for the Mac version and I rely on it for many financial decisions. This is a criminal discrimination against Mac users. Please please prioritize this programming. It will help Quicken sales greatly. If this isn’t added soon, I’ll change to Personal Capital later this year when my subscription expires and Quicken will lose another subscriber.
  • kinseattlekinseattle Member ✭✭
    Switched to the new Mac version a couple of years ago and am glad I did so with one major exception - I dearly miss the lifetime planner. The voting buttons aren't work but please add my voice to the clammer
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