Some of the tools that I had tried to keep my finances organized:
Desktop Tools
- Microsoft Money: Remember trying it few times. I think this was the last one I tried before leaving US.
- Eye candy interface
- can download transaction from banks
- somewhat confusing interface
- overkill
- Quicken: Somehow I never had plesant experience with Quicken. Iam sure its just me since it has millions of happy users.
DIY
- Spreadsheet: Riight after moving to India, I used to maintain a spreadsheet with some formulas. Not to fancy and it did work for me for few months. Then I just got lazy.
- Simple
- Not shared.
- Google SpreadsheetsThere are several innovative usages of google spreadsheet, including this one.
- work proxy blocks google docs. Sigh!
- SimplePlanning:
- Excel based formulas ($10). have n’t tried.
Online Tools
- ExpenseRegister
- simple interface
- supports categories
- supports sub catagories
- support type
- has several report types
- ExpenseView
- Simple, clean web2.0 interface
- Supports categories
- No type (cash/debit/…)
- breakup, summary, etc.
- Integrates into igoogle
- mint
- Interface looks polished
- has some positive reviews elsewhere
- requires to enter bank and card info. — skipping
- Geezeo:
- a review here.
- signed up and it looks much too jazy for me.
More Info:
- This blog has some reviews.
