Very Happy to Find CheckBook Pro for Mac
I’ve been using a different app for years which just went to a web based subscription model so the search began for a replacement. I asked some friends for suggestions and one of them who’s used the original CheckBook app (still available here also) for many years told me about this. So I decided to go with the Pro version after looking into it and I am very pleased with the app. It does just what I need without a lot of stuff I do not need. It’s easy to make it your own so far as what accounts you want to setup and handles all the basics as you’d expect. It has some nice configurable reporting options with a bunch of useful reports already setup for you. Each of these you can easily modify to suit yourself or you can just roll your own as desired. I like that it supports saving my data on iCloud and also has a back up feature so I keep an extra folder in iCloud where I save the backups periodically just in case.
Like any new app of this kind, there’s a few things to learn but honestly I found it very intuitive and when I did have a couple questions the developer was quick to return a helpful reply answering them for me. They are friendly and offer good support. It’s no wonder this company and this app has been around for a long time.
It supports import and export to various common formats and I had no problem importing years of data on the first try. It was flawless. I love it when stuff just works and this app does. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this to a friend. I consider it a 5 star app. It does what they say it will, does it well and has been rock solid stable.
The only caution I would offer is that if you are looking for something to be just like Quicken for Windows was, this app does not attempt to do budgeting, money spent vs the budget, charting that stuff, tracking net worth over time, etc. Personally, I am just fine with this because I prefer to do it my way in the Apple Numbers app. I’ve always done my budgeting in a spreadsheet going back to the 80s. So an app like this is perfect for me. Keep in mind though, the reports do offer some simple bar charts of income and expenses summarized in various ways, etc. so this app does provide useful features like that. It’s just budget vs actual and forecasting stuff it does not do as of this version anyway. The name CheckBook Pro is fitting as such where that’s the focus although certainly not limited to checking account and it does a lot more than a simple check register. Again, I am very happy with it myself.
Last but not least, please keep in mind that it is possible that while I have been using it a lot since I got it, I may have missed capabilities it has where I never felt the need (yet) to go check out their help videos and other support on their site. So, maybe it does track net worth over time somehow for example and I am incorrect about that. You could use the link above and to the right on this page to go visit their site for more detailed information or to pose any questions you might have.
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