QuickBooks
Ranked 4 of 5 accounting software by recommenders
Bookkeeping software whose bank transaction matching and integrations save time, though critics find its recent UI changes, ads and weak Mac support frustrating.
Bookkeeping software whose bank transaction matching and integrations save time, though critics find its recent UI changes, ads and weak Mac support frustrating.
40 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 28
- approval share
- 30%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Integrates with banks and other tools
“they integrate with many banks and expense management platforms to automate closing”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Claude for Small Business” “synced to your ledger (Zoho, QB, Xero)”
Comment from 26 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: I built an AI that turns emailed PDFs into ledger entries in 60s”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Intrusive UI changes and ads
“QuickBooks has annoying suggestions that shift the whole UI and cannot be disabled. Misclicks now happen.”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff” “After a year with a disastrous UI change, spammy ads everywhere throughout the UI and by email”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung” “It's far easier and faster to use than QuickBooks, I don't have to put up with ads”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung” Weak Mac and ARM support
“not supported on ARM, although with some hacking you can get it to sort of work”
Comment from 1 Jun 2026 in “MacBook Pro Rival with the Nvidia Powered Surface Laptop Ultra” “Intuit has historically treated the Mac version as a feature-lagged port”
Comment from 10 Mar 2026 in “Setting up phones is a nightmare” Needs manual checking of entries
“If the quickbooks api says the sky is blue, you should double check just to make sure.”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “The Valley of Webhooks” “current version requires line by line verification for even simple forms and data sets”
Comment from 18 Nov 2025 in “AI is a new computing paradigm – Karpathy”
Other accounting software people recommend
The four most recommended other accounting software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 5 accounting software, rankedWhat people said
38 of the 42 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It used to take me whole day because of the Quickbooks.”
“how other programs like QuickBooks and Sage can integrate with it”
“Hence my using Gnucash over Quickbooks.”
“I try to spend as little time in QuickBooks as possible.”
“i'd like to get rid of quickbooks because yesterday it was down and i couldn't log into it”
“QB desktop will nag you to death to get the latest but it is still a pay once arrangement. BTW QB desktop has also been seriously enshittified.”
“It's a dumpster fire now like everything else”
“got sick of paying for 7 QuickBooks subscriptions”
“If the quickbooks api says the sky is blue, you should double check just to make sure.”
“Which means QB is not that good.”
“QuickBooks has annoying suggestions that shift the whole UI and cannot be disabled. Misclicks now happen.”
“not supported on ARM, although with some hacking you can get it to sort of work”
“I literally reached for the oldest version of QB I had available. 2014! Greatest experience of my life.”
“I despise what they've done to QB Desktop over the years”
“which they intentionally tried to make impossible”
“O great so Quickbooks will be cheaper next year? Ha.”
“yes on paper they make it easy to properly setup good accounting practices, but you’ll spend an additional 500/month+ to get those features”
“they integrate with many banks and expense management platforms to automate closing”
“I feel it is high time to replace quickb00ks.”
“After a year with a disastrous UI change, spammy ads everywhere throughout the UI and by email”
“It's far easier and faster to use than QuickBooks, I don't have to put up with ads”
“I don't have to put up with ads”
“there is currently no way to disable their extremely intrusive AI”
“they barely work well enough under native windows”
“a really janky accounting/bookkeeping software that is almost universally hated”
“The principal limitation of qbe is lack of multi-location support.”
“Boy would I love to give my agent access to my Quickbooks.”
“Intuit has historically treated the Mac version as a feature-lagged port”
“The biggest pain was definitely connecting to QB because I had to create a developer account to get a key”
“synced to your ledger (Zoho, QB, Xero)”
“its pattern matcher does a pretty good job of matching credit card transactions to expense categories and accounts”
“Intuit sucks as a company, but I can hack my way around their requirements for upgrades”
“tax tables being up to date are worth the price”
“held captive paying whatever QuickBooks cloud demands”
“categorize transactions based on rules you create. That's it.”
“Most invoicing tools are either overkill (Freshbooks, QuickBooks)”
“QuickBooks mobile app has so many bugs still in it for example and it's like 1/10th their web app.”
“current version requires line by line verification for even simple forms and data sets”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.