Just curious to learn from our community members here, how many of you are coming from Quicken?
I can’t really tell how much of a market share Quicken really has anymore. Then there’s Quicken Simplifi … which one did you use specifically?
If you came over from Quicken, how difficult was it to switch? Both from a technical (these are the steps) perspective as well as any required shifts to your mental model or way of thinking about your budget.
Are there things you miss about Quicken that Tiller doesn’t offer?
Would love any input you can provide, especially if you moved over recently or are still using Quicken on the side 
I still use Simplifi along with Tiller. What has been nice about Simplifi is their superb bank syncing and having multiple aggregators. They do try to fix issues with syncing as soon as they can. One problem with them, though, is their budgeting workflows are very rigid and Savings Goals do not link with transactions. I’ve kept with Tiller because of its versatility and flexibility. If Tiller supported a truly Envelope based budget that was easy to use, I wouldn’t need to build my own, like I have. I’ve made great progress with QFX imports into my Tiller sheet (no duplicates!), so that is alleviatingthe aggrevation of the myriad of sync issues I have with Canadian Banks.
I used Mint happily for many years, then switched to Quicken Classic when Mint was discontinued. Quicken was a bit heavy to use and had a dated interface. It worked well for me. Tiller is simpler to use and having the data in a spreadsheet vs a propriety format is very nice. Quicken gave me more granular categorization (sub-categories) and was useful for tracking investments.
I think I was using Quicken before 1990, and thanks to Tiller, have finally stopped using it now in 2026. Originally, I had one of the first (1984) Macs, and originally used Quicken in conjunction with Excel. I designed the family budget spreadsheet in Excel, while Quicken did the work of getting account transactions, as well as helping keep totals for tax purposes (I was a public school music/band teacher for 45 years, so I used it especially to track all those teacher expenses that could go into Schedule A). The hard thing with Quicken more recently has been whenever I could not reliably download transactions for an account. This happened earlier this year with one of my bank accounts, and I decided that I could finally move exclusively to Tiller thanks to its reliability. So now, I still use my original Excel budget worksheet, but it has been moved into the Tiller Foundation sheet (still in Excel, but also a second version in Google Sheets), which I have automated to fill my Budget cell data automatically. I also like cross comparing the Tiller Yearly and Monthly worksheets to my own Budget sheet design, and it really is cool watching everything automatically drive itself, as it were. (It almost reminds me of a type of car that is known for doing this.)
I would be remiss if I did not mention I have also been using YNAB, mostly to do what Quicken did. That is, YNAB gets the account data for me that I could then manually enter in the Excel Budget. But I really did not use YNAB’s built-in budget features themselves as much, and like Quicken, although it has been more reliable for account data, I think I will be able to cut it loose as well, and go 100% with Tiller.
It has really helped that Tiller brought on a 2nd aggregate by way of Plaid. Between Plaid and Yodlee, I do get all of my accounts to work reliably. So for me, Tiller really has managed to get me to migrate away from the Quicken world.
I was using Quicken Classic for many years up until January 2026 when I started using Tiller. I use Excel and have created my own version of Quicken’s Home page for Account Balances, Register, and Reconciliation. Hated Quicken’s budgeting workflow whereas Tillers’ is more straightforward and allows me to customize my way.
Hi Heather,
I currently run both Quicken Classic and Tiller. Perhaps the biggest item missing in Tiller for me, is a true account ledger with a running calculated (and online) balance that makes daily reconciliation easier. Also, since the ledger includes a daily calculated ending balance, Quicken Classic provides the ability to future date transactions making cash flow forecasting easier. I have tried several new apps over the years and will continue to do so. There is clearly a movement toward de-coupling transactions and account balance, Quicken Simplifi, Tiller etc.
I have been in accounting and finance my whole career, so spreadsheets are also a way of life for me. I don’t see Tiller ever replacing Quicken Classic, but I certainly understand the value and will likely continue to use it. There are several things I love about it.
Always happy to contribute.
Best,
Chris B.
I used Simplifi for a couple years before switching to Tiller. I tend to prefer the spreadsheet format so I wasn’t fond of the UI in Simplifi but that’s likely just a personal preference. The biggest issue I had with quicken was the budgeting, not only were the budgeting settings way too rigid as was mentioned above, but I ended up with way too many duplicate transactions and, worse, ghost transactions that would just sit there in “pending” until I could go in and clear it out.
I like Tiller for it’s customization, and the clean interface, and I think I just prefer the look of spreadsheets. I also like how the same data can be used across different sheets to show different information, such as savings goals and debt payoff progress. I also like how I can add custom accounts such as my home as an asset.
I have had a little difficulty adding my mortgage as a debt, but I can still keep track of the payment history so that is really only an issue when it comes to calculating net worth. Otherwise, I’m happy with the move.
I moved from Quicken in November of last year as I was sick of the bugs and the inability to see the data the way I wanted. Tiller has been SUCH a breath of fresh air and I tell my class I teach at university about it each term (these are IS students who are natural fits - you should consider doing student discounts to get these students into it).
Quicken was great back in the day, but with the advent of modern collaboration tools (google sheets), it’s a dinosaur that will certain die a slow death as the older folks still on it pass on.
Thanks for all the great feedback here, folks! Keep the thoughts coming and glad you’re all enjoying Tiller as an alternative! @jemmoa7 @kevandcan and welcome, @scurryman @dsrtsng9 @watkindom @brockettchris99 and @stbailey ! 
