Searching for a Cha Ching replacement

Today I downloaded the latest beta for Cha Ching. And I had mixed feelings. I did not start on my PowerPC Mac. I did start on an Intel one and I was able to import my old data. However the import did miss some parts. The beta still crashes from time to time or hangs. It seems to have a scaling problem.

The new system misses the possibility to focus easily on a date range

The information within Cha Ching can not be nicely exported. It does support an export function, but that contains to few information.

The most important thing a new application must be able to do, is to import my old data from ChaChing.

CheckbookPro has a bit old fashioned interface, so I did not investigate any further.

EasyMoney is to easy.

Flowing Pennies is much to simple.

Fortera Fresh Finance - forget it. It does not even have a standard Mac interface.

iBank managed to import my csv after some fiddling. However ... crash.

iCash looks to OS9’ish. And has no csv import option.

iCompta can not import my (adapted) csv.

Money looks Ok, but I am not able to import properly. It seems that withdrawals and deposits must be in separate columns. I do not feel like changing the csv-file. I guess I could if I knew regular expressions.

Moneydance forget it. It is from the MacOS8 age.

MoneyWell looks interesting. I was able to import my data after changing the number formats in the System Preferences. I played a bit with it, but its workings were not obvious to me.

Squirrel can not handle my csv-file. However after fiddling with my csv, it did handle it well. I find the application a bit to limited for my needs though.

This list does not make me very happy, so I will stay with ChaChing for a while. I do like this app much better.

 

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