In a departure for Quicken, the familiar two-row transaction is gone. It just feels like the application was written. I can only hope they plan to leave it good enough alone. Quicken Essentials Features The Overview. How good is Mint? Good enough that Intuit has since purchased it. I ditched Quicken for Mac years ago, moved to iBank, then eventually quit that and moved entirely to Mint which has a great iPhone app. Did you see that? If you want to do anything useful, you have to buy their three year-old product. A few alternatives available include using Quicken Mac 2007 or using the bill pay functionality on Quicken Bill Pay. While you cannot pay bills within the product itself ('direct bill pay'), you can track your bills and make sure you have enough cash to pay them when they're due. If you'd like that functionality, we recommend trying Quicken Mac 2007. Quicken Essentials for Mac does not support that capability. that is flexible with your all business essentials and helps to increase the business economy. If you need more more advanced investment features, try Quicken Mac 2007. Open your Quicken file that has the data file password. It will not, however, track investment buys and sells, nor will it provide some advanced investment performance reports. Yes, Quicken Essentials for Mac allows you to track the overall value of your investment accounts and the value of your specific holdings.