MoneyWell has progressed greatly since the first release and the latest beta of version 1.4 has finally won me over!

This is a very complete financial program that is well presented and easily handles my various accounts. Data entry is quick and simple (the current beta has really tightened things up here, especially for users that prefer the keyboard to the mouse) and the various auto-fill features minimise the effort needed to enter amounts and to assign income and expenditure to budgets. I had never worked with the "envelope method" before but MoneyWell makes it seem like the most natural way to manage your finances. Kudos to the developer for making such a mundane task enjoyable!

For anyone reading earlier reviews, it is worth noting that features that were initially missing from MoneyWell, such as recurring transactions, transaction matching on import and localised formatting are all included and work flawlessly. I especially like the attention to detail that the developer has shown to things that are often simply taken for granted. For example, after I imported my weekly cash spending as a CSV file from my iPod touch (an easy task thanks to the options offered in the slide-down import pane) I assigned each item to a budget bucket. MoneyWell took note and now imports are all automatically assigned to the correct bucket. Very nice.

It has been mentioned elsewhere but I will repeat it based on my own experience: the developer is very helpful and very responsive, he really does care about his product and his customers. MoneyWell is also supported with a web site brimming with screencast tutorials and useful articles. I especially liked the tip about not getting bogged down in minutiae when planning your budgets!

Rather than continue for the pages it would take to list everything that MoneyWell offers I will simply recommend that anyone who is looking for a powerful, user-friendly way to manage their finances checks out this gem of an app.

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…