Comparison
Everykept vs Quicken
Quicken is a thirty-year-old personal finance suite that grew to cover almost everything. Everykept covers much less on purpose. Whether that is a feature depends entirely on what you need.
What Quicken is
Quicken is the most feature-complete personal finance software available, with a desktop heritage and product lines spanning personal finance, rental property and small business. It handles investments, loan amortisation, bill management and detailed tax reporting, and its business tiers let you attach images to transactions. It is genuinely powerful, and it is genuinely a lot of software.
Which one you should use
Taken seriously, because recommending the wrong tool wastes more of your time than saying so plainly.
Choose Quicken if
- You track investments and want portfolio performance and cost basis
- You need detailed tax-category reporting and schedule-level exports
- You manage rental properties and need tenant and property reporting
- You want invoicing, accounts receivable or payable in the same product
- You are already years into a Quicken file and the history matters more than the interface
Choose Everykept if
- You want receipts attached to charges without buying a full accounting suite to get it
- You want something you can open on any device with a browser, with nothing to install
- You want a monthly view you can read in thirty seconds instead of a reporting engine
- You want personal and business separated cleanly without tiering up
Feature by feature
Including the rows Everykept loses. A comparison table with no losses is an advertisement.
| Capability | Everykept | Quicken |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic bank sync | ||
| Receipt attached to an individual transaction Quicken supports attachments on transactions, depending on the product tier you are on. | ||
| EXIF and location stripped from receipt photos | ||
| Works entirely in a browser, nothing to install | ||
| Separate personal and business books Quicken separates them in its business tiers. | ||
| Investment and portfolio tracking | ||
| Net worth tracking | ||
| Invoicing and accounts receivable | ||
| Rental property management | ||
| Detailed tax category reporting | ||
| Native iOS and Android apps Everykept has no native app yet; the web app works on a phone, including the camera. | ||
| Budgets per category | ||
| Cash and manual accounts | ||
| Multi-currency, per set of books | ||
| Free while in beta Quicken is sold as an annual subscription across several tiers. |
Compiled from each product’s public documentation. Competitors ship changes without telling us; if something here is out of date, it is a mistake rather than a tactic.
The honest summary
Quicken is the right answer for a genuinely complicated financial life: investments, properties, invoicing, and tax reporting that has to line up with a filing. Nothing in Everykept competes with that, and nothing in Everykept is trying to.
Everykept is the right answer when the complicated part is not the finance but the paperwork — when what you actually need is every transaction in one place and the receipt attached to it, in something that opens in a browser and takes a minute to understand.
More on the thinking behind these trade-offs on the why Everykept page, or see the full feature list.
Try it against your own accounts
Free while Everykept is in beta. Connect one account, attach one receipt, and judge it on your own money.
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