If you use Quicken, you already believe in the importance of managing your money. That’s great. But are you getting all the insights and awareness into your personal finances you want or need? Perhaps you are looking to try a different approach. Tiller lets you manage your personal finances with spreadsheets.
We think this is a better way. A found 96% of the people who switch from a personal finance app to a spreadsheet are satisfied with using a spreadsheet and 92% are more aware of their spending habits. Tiller doesn’t use just any spreadsheet. Tiller runs on Google Sheets, which are secure and collaborative. If you want some general reasons why you might want to use a spreadsheet, check out Here’s we’ll explore which Quicken features are found in Tiller and which are not. Since Quicken has different features across its various versions and platforms, we’ll stick to Quicken’s major features.
Unlike Quicken, Tiller is the same for everyone and works on Windows, Mac, smartphones and tablets. Any platform or device that can access Google Sheets can run Tiller. 6 Quicken Features You’ll Find In Tiller #1. Track Your Transactions Both Tiller and Quicken track all your financial transactions. In Quicken, you can view an Account Register with all the transactions for each account. In Tiller, all transactions are listed on the Transactions sheet. It’s easy to sort and filter them to create your own customized views.
For example, by a single account or category. You can also create separate sheets for each of your specific accounts. Searching your transaction data is quick and easy. Tiller can bring your daily transactions and all your account balances right to your inbox every morning. You can also send a that tracks your progress on your budget.
Quicken 2018 downloads your income and expenses from your accounts, so you don’t have to enter transactions manually and avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. See Exactly Where Your Money Is Going – Quicken 2018 automatically categorizes expenses like groceries, entertainment, and more, so you don’t have to edit them manually. Quicken for Mac vs. Quicken for Windows. Be aware Quicken 2019 for Mac does not function exactly the same as its Windows counterpart. In some ways, this is good, because Quicken can take advantage of features available only in Apple’s MacOS operating system. On the other hand, Quicken for Mac operates slightly different than the Windows.
Securely and Automatically Import Your Bank Transactions Quicken automatically imports your bank, credit card, and other financial transactions. So does Tiller. Tiller has no access to your bank credentials, and no ability to move any of your money.
No one at Tiller will see your private transaction or balance data, nor do we have access to your Google Sheet unless you specifically choose to share it with us. Categories and Tags Both Quicken and Tiller provide automated categorization features. In Tiller, it’s the that you can add to any of your Tiller spreadsheets. Both make it easy to add and delete categories and subcategories.
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You can in both as well. Quicken lets you split a transaction into various categories. Using you can easily split transactions in Tiller. Financial Reports and Budgeting Quicken includes dozens of standard reports for your financial data.
Tiller can match these reports, plus it gives you the ability to create any financial report you can imagine. Tiller comes with several. Tiller’s pre-built templates provide in-depth reporting around weekly category spending, monthly budgeting and net worth just to name a few.
The Raw Data or are great places to start if you’re spreadsheet savvy and want to build out your own custom dashboards or reports. The Tiller Help Center also offers many great resources on how to build.
Tiller’s not limited to just rows and columns of numbers. We show you to visual your transactions and spot trends or problems. Both Quicken and Tiller give you several ways to watch your Account Balances and track your budget. In Quicken, you can only set up a budget the way the software allows.
With Tiller, you can track your budget any way you want With Tiller, you can track your budget any way you want. Tiller offers and has partnered with several personal finance experts to create different budgeting approaches. Auto Categorization Quicken automatically categorizes your transactions. Sometimes it guesses correctly. Sometimes it doesn’t. Tiller takes a different approach. Unless you chose to use our free, we purposely don’t auto-categorize your transactions (other than providing a category hint).
This gives you the option of seeing each of your transactions to become more aware of your financial picture. By manually categorizing a transaction, you are acknowledging the transaction. This makes it easy to discover charges that shouldn’t be there. AutoCat is a powerful way to automatically categorize financial transactions in a Tiller spreadsheet. You can easily create your own custom rules for how you want your transactions matched to categories. AutoCat will then either match new transactions when then they’re added to your Tiller-powered Google Sheet, or when you click a button to tell it to run.
Security In Quicken, your financial data can be protected behind a password to unlock the application. Since Tiller uses Google Sheets, all your financial data is protected by your Google password. Google places a high priority on accounts security and combined with their (which we highly recommend you activate) you get an added layer of powerful security. 4 Quicken Features You Won’t Find In Tiller #1.
How Transfers Are Handled Quicken uses double-entry accounting principles. That means if you make a transfer from one account to another, Quicken will automatically place a corresponding transaction in the account where the transfer is being made. This system works as long as the transfer gets completed. Since transfers between banks and credit card companies usually take a few days, there might be a few days when a transfer is automatically listed in an account, but the actual transfer hasn’t yet taken place. Tiller takes a different approach. For each account, transactions are downloaded and handled separately.
Tiller won’t automatically create a transaction in one account due to a transfer in a different account. With Tiller, you can assign each of these transactions to the When all your transfers have been completed, the transfer category should have a balance of zero. A nice benefit of Tiller’s system is you can easily identify what transfers might not have been completed if your transfer balance is not zero. Detailed Investment Information Quicken keeps detailed information about your investment portfolios. You can view information about each stock, bond or mutual fund you own.
Quicken also generates capital gain reports and tracks cost basis information for your investments. Tiller keeps track of the transactions in your investment accounts, such as purchases, sales, and dividend reinvestments, but, it doesn’t keep detailed records for each of your investments. You can use Google Sheets to make your own portfolio and investment reports. Google can retrieve price, change, and dozens of other financial attributes by using the function. Putting =GOOGLEFINANCE(“GOOG”,”price”) into a Google Sheets cell returns Alphabet’s (Google parent) current price. Using this function, you can build customized Portfolio views with Google Sheets.
Bill Pay Quicken offers the ability to pay your bills inside of the application. Since Tiller has no access to your money, it doesn’t offer any way to pay your bills.
Many banks offer free bill pay on their websites. When using your bank’s bill pay directly, there is less chance something can go wrong with a third-party payment provider. Annual Releases Quicken releases new software most years, which require a paid update. Currently, there’s Quicken (Starter Edition, Deluxe, and Premier) 2017 for Windows and Quicken 2017 for Mac. Not all Quicken users have upgraded to the latest version, so they might be running older software.
Usually, new features are not introduced until a new version ships. Tiller uses the software-in-the-cloud model. There’s no software to install and you never have to buy or upgrade to new software. Both Tiller and Google Sheets are constantly making improvements and adding features.
Give Tiller A Try Now that you have a better idea of what you can and can’t do with Tiller, give it a try. Tiller offers a free 30-day trial so you can test it out.
You can run both Quicken and Tiller at the same time to see which best fits your needs. Tiller’s friendly support team can answer your questions and help you make the switch.