This is an area that has been of great interest for me and I did a lot of research on alternatives for quicken. Therefore I am interested in what other local desktop alternatives are available besides online only sites like Mint or Personal Capital. I like having the local desktop version for security purposes - not 100% sure if safer than having my data/info in the cloud on Mint or Personal Capital sites, but feels safer after the many hacks recently of Equifax and others.
So at this point, wondering what are recommended alternatives? Plus, my Wells Fargo accounts always have connection issues and I have to regularly fight with Quicken to download them. It's frustrating that Quicken is requiring an upgrade to 2018 version and yearly subscription fee now just to keep using the same services. What are good alternatives to Quicken, now that Intuit is discontinuing connected services (downloading transactions) as of 4/30/18 for Quicken 2017 or earlier versions? I use Quicken mostly for budget tracking, to keep track of monthly budget and expenses among bank accounts and credit cards - but don't use it for investment/retirement accounts (track separately).
