Looking for a personal finance software

I have been looking for alternatives to Microsoft Money for a while. While annoying to have to keep a virtual Windows machine just for Money (which you can freely download from Microsoft by the way), it was working just great. The features I really liked about it are:




  • Keyboard shortcuts made it very easy to quickly enter multiple entries

  • Importing my monthly credit card statement made it very easy to reconcile and catch any potential errors

  • Easy to get monthly reports about my spending



But then one day the latest import made Money crash and I was forced to look for alternatives.



Gnucash



Pros:




  • easy to match imported transactions to already existing transactions

  • has android app that is easy to import from

  • sufficient support for multiple currencies



Cons:




  • clumsy interface

  • reports are almost unusable

  • OFX support is buggy


    • crashes on legitimate OFX files

    • imported categories from the mobile app create duplicate transactions




Skrooge



Pros:




  • very nice interface

  • automatic download of the latest exchange rates

  • OFX support seems mature

  • reports look nice

  • supports importing Microsoft Money files



Cons:




  • importing OFX creates duplicates

  • importing OFX does not let you pick an account to import into

  • the interface can be overly complicated

  • requires most of KDE



Homebank



Pros:




  • nice interface

  • importing seems mature



Cons:




  • transaction entry screen is uncomfortable (I like to enter directly into the transaction register)



Quicken



Cons:




  • no Linux support

  • not free



Mint.com



Cons:




  • I am not ready to put my finances on the cloud



Grisbi



Cons:




  • It was a long time since I tried it but it seems immature

  • UTF-8 support is lacking

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