HouseCrew Money vs Quicken Classic
An honest comparison for Quicken users on Windows: what each does better, what each costs, and which to choose.
Checked October 2026
Quicken Classic is the app many people have used for twenty years, and it still does things Money doesn't: automatic downloads from your bank, investment tracking, and a Mac version. Money is for the people who mostly use Quicken to know what's coming and to keep their records matching the bank, and want that in a modern app.
| HouseCrew Money | Quicken Classic | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59 a year or $6.99 a month for the household, or $89 once for Windows | Classic Deluxe from $6.99 a month, billed yearly (Quicken’s first-year offer; it renews at the then-current price). Premier from $7.99 a month |
| Runs on | Windows and the web, including a phone’s browser | Windows and Mac, with a companion phone app |
| Getting transactions in | You download files from your bank (QFX, OFX, CSV, QIF or the statement PDF) and drop them in | Automatic downloads from thousands of banks, or Web Connect files |
| Looking ahead | Each account, day by day, for 31, 60 or 90 days, with alerts and a suggested covering transfer | Projected balances from your bill and income reminders |
| Card payments | The statement balance, minimum and due date, read from the statement PDF, then scheduled from the right account | Credit card bills as reminders you set up |
| Reconciling | Against the statement, matching the PDF’s lines, with “Why it’s off” | Against the statement’s ending balance |
| Investments | No | Yes, in depth in Premier |
| Where your data lives | On your PC, or online for your household; your choice per budget | A data file on your PC |
| Sharing | Up to 5 people on an online budget, each with their own sign-in | One data file, opened on one computer at a time |
| If you stop paying | Your budget stays readable and exportable; adding and importing stop. The one-time Windows licence keeps working | Deluxe and higher keep full access to your data, including entering transactions by hand; downloads and updates stop |
Choose Quicken if…
- You want transactions to arrive on their own, without downloading files.
- You track investments, lots or capital gains.
- You use a Mac, or need bill pay from inside the app.
- You rely on its reports, or on features Money doesn't have yet, like tax planning.
Choose HouseCrew Money if…
- You want to see each account's balance on the days ahead, and a warning before one runs low.
- You reconcile every month and would like the statement to do the ticking.
- You share the money with a partner, each on your own computer.
- You'd rather not give any app your bank password.
- You'd like to pay once and keep your data on your PC.
Moving across
Money reads Quicken's QIF export: your bank, cash and card accounts with their categories, splits and transfers. Our guide Moving from Quicken for Windows walks through it. Your bank's Quicken (QFX) downloads are exactly what Money reads best from then on.
Quicken's prices and features are from quicken.com/compare and Quicken's help pages on projected balances and its Data Access Guarantee, as of October 2026. If something here is out of date, please tell us at[email protected] and we'll fix it.