Back in February of 2010 I replaced Quicken for Windows with Moneydance on the Mac. Since then I’ve written briefly about SEE Finance and more recently about iBank 4.
As a Moneydance user it seemed only fitting to also talk about the latest Moneydance release, Moneydance 2011. As I write this, version 2011 is currently in release candidate state. Since release candidates are feature-frozen I don’t feel I’m jumping the gun by writing now. Moneydance 2011 has been officially released and can be downloaded from here.
I’m going to assume that readers are already familiar with Moneydance 2010. If not, you might want read the original article I wrote, or visit the developer’s website. Having said that, I thought I’d mention some of what I consider to be the more salient improvements Moneydance 2011 brings to the table.
First off, the general look and feel of the software is the same; the interface has undergone only cosmetic changes. The application is still written in Java and is still available for all three major OS platforms. Moneydance still isn’t the prettiest software, but its strengths have been and continue to be functional in nature.