

Mac users receive a recently launched 12 month budget feature, new customizable reports that allow for tracking year-over-year income and spending and Quicken Bill Pay.Ĭoncerns about Quicken’s lack of cloud-based technology are not directly addressed in Quicken 2017, but it does offer some enhanced connectivity capabilities through an amplified mobile app. The redesigned carriage, featuring a sleek new user interface consistent across all channels, holds a robust platform on Windows that is targeted towards addressing many of the reliability concerns of its predecessor. Capital’s promise of investment in key areas such as the reliability of its Windows client made for an appetizing alternative for Intuit.įast-forward to yesterday’s announcement, and it looks like Quicken’s buyer has kept its word.

The jettison of the once-venerable money management software was due to concerns around the relevance of the largely desktop-bound platform in an increasingly modular finance ecosystem dependent on cloud-based technology.Ĭombine that with customer dissatisfaction, especially with Quicken’s latest offering, Quicken 2016, and H.I.G. Capital, a private equity firm based in Miami. Former parent company Intuit sold Quicken in March to H.I.G. New beginnings Quicken 2017 is the company’s first product release since becoming an independent entity earlier this year. “Users can also passcode the Quicken Mobile application to add an extra level of security above the passcode they create to protect their mobile phone.” “The Quicken mobile app uses the same or better than financial institution level encryption and Secure Socket Layer technology to secure the transmission of financial information over the Internet, and users’ Quicken Cloud ID password is not saved on their mobile device,” said Eric Dunn, CEO of Quicken. The Quicken 2017 offering also includes improvements to said platforms, with expanded capabilities on Mac and Windows and a new, modernized interface on Mac, Windows and the Quicken app. The upgrades come with more comprehensive sync capabilities with Quicken’s main platforms on Mac and Windows, among other additions.

Finance management platform Quicken is front loading its newly-released Quicken 2017 platform with its biggest upgrade ever to the Quicken mobile app.
