This app has totally changed the way I think about my spending habits. With MoneyWell, I understand what it takes to control my finances. I recommend this program to anyone looking for more than a way to track their accounts; MoneyWell causes you to control your financial future.

I've tried nearly every finance managing app available for Mac... and finally found out that MoneyWell was the best for my personal use.

The great thing about MoneyWell is the way it allows you to manage your budget : it uses the envelope method, so you put money in different "buckets"/envelopes and use it until the bucket is empty... you're not checking the way you spent your money after spending it (like in most apps). It allows you to really control your spendings, not just analyse them through reports and stats.

The UI is great. Yeah, there're still a few features missing, but the developper is one of the most reactives : 2 updates this week, answers to every question... The 1.3 is on the way, with scheduled transactions for example. The last updates corrected a lot of things, and I think things like handling non-US date formats (when importing QIF at least) and QIF import in general [cf. sentience post] are now fixed.
Besides, I like the fact that it doesn't have a handful of features useless to most of all or that a specific app would handle better. I don't like for example mixing budget management with stocks management.

Having used a lot of conventional finance applications, I find MoneyWell a breath of fresh air. It really helps you to monitor (and maybe even stick to) a budget rather than just act as a list of your transactions. While it does lack a few features such as scheduled transactions, it is continually being improved.

I have not tried as I have aborted as such MS Money.

cdcolt - were you able to import your MS Money files into MoneyWell?

Amazing app. A month ago I have trashed MS Money (via Parallels) and switched totally to MoneyWell. Did I mentioned that the developer responded all my emails within 2 hours? Now that's called support. Worth every penny!

Gorgeous UI, but beauty is only skin deep. To be avoided until (unless?) it matures into a more feature-rich application, especially at the price they’re asking!

I’m a fan of the envelope method of budgeting, but when Budget was not quite up to the UI standards I was after, I gave MoneyWell a try. It took about 3 minutes for me to discover missing features I could not do without, such as multiple currencies, basic localization (e.g. non-US date formats), and transaction matching on QIF import.

For now, Moneydance remains the king of Mac finance apps for me. It seems I might just have to write my own envelope extension for it…