Portable Money Management softwares

quicken. MS Money. These could be some of the software that come in to your mind  when you heard money management software. However, can you think of FREE money management software?

In this posting let me list some of the money management software that are not only safe but also free and portable. you will not be spend any single cent. They portable. You can bring it anywhere with you. Portability of these software are good for you specially when you want it for personal use.

1.RQ Money is one of the great portable personal finance software application. It is simple, fast and effective financial software. RQ Money uses SQLite database to store data which is not only fast but also small. The database was awarded by google-o’reilly in category the best open-source project of year 2005. RQ Money allows the user to print reports, export data (e.g. for MS Excel), filter and sort data choice and more.  Databases can be password protected. It supports languages like Brazilian, Portuguese, Chinese, traditional Czech, English, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, and  Slovak.

rqmoney screenshot

Authors Website: rq.sk/rqmoneyen.html

License: Freeware

Download: HERE

2. Money Manager Ex is a free, open-source, cross-platform, easy-to-use personal finance software that can be run directly from a portable device. This software helps the user to organize finances and keeps track of where, when and how the money goes. It is much like maintaining an electronic checkbook wheteher it be Checking, Savings, Credit Card or Loans, Stock Investment Accounts, Assets or loan accounts. You can even use it to track your Bills and Deposits. Never miss a payment or deposit with this software. Setup your budgets for a calendar year and see how you are doing over time

It s advantages over RQ Money are its design and its support for different operating system. The design is simple and user friendly. It is cross platform with support for windows ox, ubuntu, suse, debian and mac os. It supports 24 international languages. The software also allows the user to print reports, export data and more. Import information from Excel in CSV format and QIF format (Microsoft Money & Quicken).You can export information from any account to Excel format. View reports of your inome expenses through its builtin reporting system in variety of ways.

money manager main page screenshot

Website: http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/index.php

License: Open Source

Download: Here

3. GnuCash Portable is a Free Financial  Management Software that can be run entirely from a portable device, so you can take your financial data with you. It  includes many of the same features and options found in other free and paid commercial money management software available. I think this one is the most flexible among the list here but this is more complicated among the list here. It is suited for personal finance but at the same time powerful enough for business use.

Here are the feature listed from the website:

• Double-Entry Accounting
• Bank/Liability/Expense Accounts
• Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
• Small-Business Accounting (Customers, Vendors, Jobs, Invoices, Accounts Payable/Receivable)
• QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
• Reports, Graphs
• Scheduled Transactions
• Financial Calculations

Website: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/gnucash_portable

License: Open Source

Download: sourceforge

These are the list that I myself have tried in the past. There are still other software that are available for download for free. Let me list some of them:

1.  AceMoney Lite

2. IngenMoney 3

If you are still interested in fing out other alternative. Try searching in google or go to download.cnet.com.