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Quicken
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2009–2025), in 10 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Needs constant handholding to use effectivelyUnreviewed
20092026- Newer Quicken versions are disliked and harder to use than the old one2020-09-10
- No sane way to get my financial data out of Quicken2016-03-04
- Quicken has many small user experience problems that Money handled correctly2012-11-14
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Saving and clearing transactions is slow, errors out with no useful message, and fails to auto-match2025-02-09
- No UI consistency, screen flashes and redraws, some checkboxes can't be clicked2022-03-09
- Found it the most infuriating program the commenter ever used2021-01-12
- Newer Quicken versions are disliked and harder to use than the old one2020-09-10
- Takes seconds to tab between fields and balance is wrong until view closed2017-06-22
- Bank sites lack a 'last year' option, statements download with clashing names, and imports need manual fixes2016-03-05
- Too many bolted-on features buried in a vast menu structure the commenter never uses2016-03-05
- No sane way to get my financial data out of Quicken2016-03-04
- UI churn and added bugs made the program nearly unusable2016-02-22
- Quicken has many small user experience problems that Money handled correctly2012-11-14
- Key import and export features are disabled after three years, forcing users off the software2009-10-09
- Quicken requires constant handholding and is hard to use2009-09-14