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Microsoft Money. I didn't have to give access to all my accounts to some website, or pay an annual subscription for upgrades. I got keyboard shortcuts and reports and I could search for things to find out how old my computer is or when I went to Vegas.

It seems like in the physical economy, if you create something of value and you aren't making money off it, you will sell it and someone else can make money off it. With software like Picasa, it's just gone. Some programs release a sunset version, but you never know how long it will work and you can't promote it because they might take it down.

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The interface may not be the same, but I highly recommend http://plaintextaccounting.org. I've used ledger and currently am using beancount. Both are great!

There's also gnucash, never used but its interface may be similar to Microsoft Money (which I also never used).

I've found Beancount [1] to be a nicer version of Ledger. It is similar syntax but it enforces rigid rules to ensure you don't make as many mistakes. You can also use Fava [2] as a nice local web-based account browser.

[1] http://furius.ca/beancount/

[2] https://beancount.github.io/fava/

I’m a tortured Gnucash user. The best I can say of it is that it’s free, and it works.

I would not recommend anyone start using it if they are not already.

I use MS Money (2004 edition) in a Windows 2K VM. Unless I write my own finance software, I don't believe I'll ever stop.

You should be able to use "Money Plus Sunset Deluxe" (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) which works for me on Windows 10.

My Dad used Money 99 for years until he wasn't able to run it any longer. He switched to gnucash and seems to like it well enough.

In the case of Money, they did release a sunset version (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=207...) that continues to work...

I know it's not going to be popular, but mint.com has far more features and is a much better package all together. Yes, you need to give your bank login info.

I use AceMoney for this, and it's still great after more than a decade of use in our businesses. Great support. Highly recommended.

Money dance is the closest I found that will download from financial institutions and auto import. I switched when my banks stopped supporting my Msmoney vm.

Since 2007 I have all my expenses (every single item, drugstore, stocks, funds, etc.) in KMyMoney. It works very well.

yes!!!!!!! hate hate hate quicken with a burning passion.

The parent comment immediately reminded how I loved the ux and flow of "quicken home and business 98" - I have hated every quickbooks version since.

Didn't inuit buy and kill / sell quicken or something. If they would of just kept the ux wrapper from Qhnb 98 and layered that over the DB of quickbooks it'd be okey with me.

I too hate hate hate quickbooks, and price structure, layout and all that.

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