MS-Money is one option, but it too costs money albeit generally less than Quicken. People have reported that the various data-provider websites like Morningstar and Globefund provide free portfolio record-keeping, however, again they have limited functionality and/or charge for some of the more useful features. Then there are roll-your-own spreadsheets that some people swear by (and others swear at.) Feel free to add your own favoured alternatives or comments.
Anyway, what prompted me to start this thread was an invitation to participate in the voting for this year's open-source SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. It's worth following this link just to see what the open-source community considers to be their best work. Most of it is quite impressive. When I looked in the Financial software category, these two entrants popped up.
In addition to these, I'm aware of two other free programs:KMyMoney wrote:is the Personal Finance Manager for KDE [alas *NIX only... Bylo]. It operates similar to MS-Money and Quicken, supports different account types, categorisation of expenses, QIF import/export, multiple currencies and initial online banking support.
Gnucash wrote:allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports... GnuCash now runs on Mac OSX, as well as GNU/Linux, *BSD, and the traditional Unixes: Solaris, AIX, and so on.
I haven't given any of these more than a very cursory look (apart from an old version of PLCash.] Part of my motivation in posting this list is the hope that those who are closer to abandoning Quicken than I am might want to take these for a test drive and report their impressions here (Also I don't have a Linux or Mac system at hand.)PLCash wrote:is a platform-independent personal financial program... Import and export data from/to Quicken and other financial programs... Because PLCash is written in Java, it will run on virtually any computer you can name...