I feel pretty overwhelmed at the shift since, once I go to lion, I cannot go back and pick up Qicken 2007 if the one I choose doesnt seem to be the best plan.

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Its shareware so you dont have to pay until you know youll be using it.

After several days, heres my assessment: Imported QIF file without a problem, very easy.

Awesome job on this.very fast and downloads 6 accounts with one click.

Budget doesnt handle quarterly payments yet Handles investments just as good as Quicken.

Overall, Id say definitely worth the 30 bucks or so if youre looking to cut the Quicken chord.

I too have about 15 years of financial data and was using 2007 up until I heard about the coming Lion incompatibility.

I have tried Moneydance, Ibank, SeeFinance, Moneywell and even gave Mint.com a shot - they all had their issues, some more than others.

What I needed was a reasonably decent replacement for 2007 that would allow me to run end of year tax reports from a few business and personal categories, help keep track of my approx.

After trying all of the other options I ponied up 49 for Quicken Essentials and tried it out.

Data import went pretty well, just some adjustment transactions to make balances agree.

I do use QE to connect and download transactions, but I enter receipts by hand and double check the matching.

One nice thing about QE vs.

As for investments - QE will allow you to enter share buys for investment accounts that arent linked for download, but you wont have any ROI tracking ability.

It took a little time to rebuild my reports, but it wasnt more than an evening of work - building them, running them on historical data and comparing them to 2007 reports to make sure I had built them correctly.

All in all, it was the least painful option and had the fewest problems.

I too have a long Quicken history, and I wanted to make sure that my data would carry over.

On the crossover website, they do indicate that Quicken 2011 is a bronze in compatibility and it may have bugs and not all features may be available.

How long have you used it I am looking at ibank right now, hoping to find something to switch my quicken 2007 files to before Lion comes out.

When I get a some time Ill try to put together a list with these titles and some of the plusses and minuses of each as posted.

From what I have seen so far SEEFinance did the best job of importing the Q2007 data, but wasnt particularly impressive in managing investments, an item that is particularly important for me.

Quicken 2007 For Mac 16.2.4