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I am trying to keep a much closer eye on where every penny goes during the month. I just need something where I can input how much comes in, what I spend it on, and any "surprise" income or expenses, that will tell me how much money I have left til X date, and how much that comes out to per day until X date. The only requirement other than that it run on OSX is that it's free.

I'm currently wandering through the instructions for:

Budget Tracker.

Buddi.

The PearBudget spreadsheet template that works with Excel and OpenOffice.

Mint.

Are any of you using any of these? What do you like about it? Do you use something that isn't on this list that you like?

Thanks for any info!

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Mint is cool, I use it to track various accounts, but it only recently(ish) added a forward looking feature (like, put 70 bill here for next week). But, I've had issues using that, since the hypthetical future stuff can get confused with the actual.

The one I do use (on a more than daily basis) is http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/index_lite.shtml AceMoney Lite. It's the freeware version. They have a full version, but I've done perfectly fine for a year+ using it. It's not fancy looking, and IDK exactly how many accounts you can track w/ the lite version, but since I really only track my checking account (nothing else has that sort of traffic) it's perfect for me.

Mint is great, however, for gathering all your info in one place and having graphs of the current state of your accounts, but for making sure you remember that you've got that cable bill coming out next week, so spending $10 now will make your rent (coming out two days after that) bounce, Ace money is my rec,.