$20 rebate for Quicken Essentials for Mac Early Adopters; Improvements Promised

Intuit has announced today that they are dropping the price for Quicken Essentials for Mac from $69 to $49, and is offering a $20 rebate to those of us who bought the software before April 19, 2010. Go to quicken.com/macrefund to find out the details of this rebate. Act fast -- the rebate period ends on May 31st.

In the same email that announced the rebate, the Quicken team has made promises of updates in the months to come. By the end of April, you'll be able to password-protect your data file and export transaction data to spreadsheets. By August, they're promising that we'll be able to:

• Get a complete picture of current net worth by entering investment holdings from brokerages that do not connect to Quicken
• Better understand spending by comparing between different time periods
• Export tax-deductible expenses to tax filing programs like TurboTax
• Track a budget across several months

We welcome these changes, and we'll check 'em out when we get them. (The second bullet point sounds like they're talking about the comparison report, which we noted was missing in action in our post about reports).

Update 4/24/10: Feel free to use this feedback form to tell Intuit what you think about Quicken Essentials for Mac.