Allow Quicken for Mac to use Zillow and expand to the Mobile App (12 Legacy Votes and 1 merged vote)

@Nah said: It exists for a PC, but it does not exist for Mac! This seems really odd. I only recently converted to Mac. I like the Quicken interface on Mac more (takes some getting used to), but the lack of features is surprising. Not sure why that is?

Well, there's a long, tortured history to explain. I won't go into all the details, but here's the basic version… 😉

Quicken for Mac existed for more than 20 years from the 1980s through 2007. It never had all the features in the Quicken Windows version because during much of tat time, Mac market share was very small compared to Windows, and then-parent company Intuit allocated fewer developer resources to the Mac product. After Quicken 2007 was released, Into halted development because the old code dating back to early days of the Mac was not going to be compatible with Apple's announced plans for the evolution of the operating system. It wasn't something they could just update; the entire core of the program, from the database to the screen display technology, was on the way out.

So they set out to re-develop a new Quicken Mac for the modern Mac operating system. There were multiple management and development missteps over the yers that followed — a first iteration new product which didn't make it out of beta testing, a scaled back version released in 2010 (Quicken Essentials) which many Mac users rejected because of its limited functionality, and a dismantling of the Mac development team during one of several management shakeups. Finally, in 2012, they hired a new product manager and a few programmer to build out the features in Quicken Essentials, and the modern Quicken Mac finally came to market in late 2014. It was still lacking a lot of functionality.

Over the ensuing years, and especially once Quicken became independent of Intuit in 2016, more programmers were hired and more features were added. Fast forward to 2023, and the program has advanced by leaps and bounds over those early releases, but the developers have hundreds of not-yet-implemented features on their roadmap. Each year, more features get added and the gap between Quicken Mac and Quicken Windows gets a little smaller. The developers more often focus on adding things which cannot be done at all in Quicken Mac, rather than things which might add to ease of use or would be "nice to have" — such as the Zillow integration — but have work-arounds. Whether we'll ever get to true feature parity, as promised by the CEO many years ago, no one knows. But the fact is that the company seems committed to continuing to enhance Quicken Mac and add features users have been asking for for years.

@dimaua They don't talk about upcoming features until they're released. We know it's planned, and that's all the information we're going to get.

@nmayben This feature request is marked as “Planned” by the development team. There is never any update on the progress (or lack thereof) until one day it appears in an update. Quicken never provides a time estimate for any planned features.

More than 1 ½ years since DCKiwi requested Zestimates be trackable in Quicken—I can scarcely believe it's still not available? What's taking so long?

@Fred9 There are some feature requests here which are 8 years old and still not implemented. 😉 It's all a matter of limited resources to implement the many, many feature requests, so it depends on which ones are prioritized as most needed by the most number of people. Entering a Zillow estimate is something users can do manually if they want; automating it will be a nice plus, but it isn't a game changer, so other new features were prioritized for implementation sooner. We all use Quicken differently, so your top wish may not matter to someone else, and their top wish may not be yours.

But… the developers marked this as "Planned" last year, so the good news is that it will likely be coming soon.

That feature requires either a Premiere or a Business & Personal subscription, it’s not available for Deluxe or Starter subscriptions.

If you have the appropriate subscription, you can add Zillow downloads to an existing real estate account in Account Settings on the Downloads tab.