GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
I've used this software for years (on Linux) and it works great. It is easy to get data both in to and out of it. The double entry accounting system ensures that you track your expenses and liabilities properly. It can import from several different bank output formats and learns what transactions go to which accounts (somehow, perhaps using pattern matching). It can also download directly from your bank, although I have not tried that. It can get stock quotes from the internet, but that requires some low level configuration. Overall, it is a good, solid program that is easy to use and powerful.
I have been using GnuCash for 5 years. It does all that I want it to do. It's still too hard to build on Mac OS X, but things are getting better.
GnuCash is the best software for personal accounting. Also good as educational software.
Copyright © 2009 Geeknet, Inc. All rights reserved. Terms of Use
Thanks for your rating!
Would you also like to write a review?