Free money tracking software?

[williaminajetfighter]

I'm looking for a money mgmt/tracking software that I can download or access for free.

I used to have Quicken until my hard drive blew up. It was great but unable to now find. I downloaded Moneydance but turns out it was a free trial and I have to pay full whack for the software if I want to continue.

Any advice or links appreciated. Ps. I prefer software for mac vs an app which I find too fiddly (Luddite!)

Google drive has a spreadsheet program, and some institutions allow you to download statements in xls or csv formats which you can open in google docs. I can do this with our three banks/bsocs and two credit card companies. I then sort it into columns by spend type, splitting certain figures up between columns ie grocery shopping by essentials/fripperies/non-food/clothing/booze etc.

I think that any free money tracking programs are not really free if you see what I mean. Someone has spent time and money writing the program and putting it out there - if they are not charging you to use it, then how do they benefit from it? Ads aplenty or data gathering I would imagine.

We've just started using Gnucash at home and like it so far. I haven't used Quicken myself but Gnucash seems quite similar, judging from the comments I've seen on other fora. We use the Linux version but it seems to be available for OS X and Windows as well. It's quite geeky, in that it's based on proper double-entry accounting, but it sounds as if Quicken is the same so you'll be used to that. It's quite addictive accounting for every single penny in your purse: DH and I are still at the stage where the novelty hasn't worn off and we rush to the computer every evening to enter the day's receipts

Open source, baby!

Gnucash looks very similar what we use (KMyMoney on Linux). We've been doing it for 3 years or so and I like the reports! Now that I can download my statements from bank and credit cards in .qif format it makes entering things much quicker. I think you'd like it, willamina, as it's compatible with Quicken files.