01 / Fast steps
- Drop or select the .qif file.
- Sections and records are parsed, dates normalised, amounts read as numbers.
- Download the CSV and open it anywhere.
QIF to CSV Converter
Drop a .qif file, the format Quicken and many older finance programs exported for decades, and get a CSV with one transaction per row: date, amount, payee, category, memo. Years of financial history stop being trapped in a format nothing modern opens, and none of it leaves your browser.
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QIF
02 / Best for
- Recover transaction history from an old Quicken, Microsoft Money or MS-DOS era finance archive.
- Move years of records into Excel or Google Sheets for analysis.
- Prepare old data for import into a modern app that accepts CSV but not QIF.
- Read what a QIF file actually contains before trusting an import.
03 / Why here
- Understands the whole line-oriented QIF structure: sections, records, dates, amounts, payees, categories, memos, check numbers and cleared flags.
- Day-first and month-first dates are told apart by scanning the entire file for a row that settles the question, not by assuming your locale.
- Amounts in both American (1,234.56) and European (1.234,56) writing come out as plain numbers.
- Runs offline once the page is loaded: financial history never reaches a server.
04 / Keep in mind
- Investment sections carry positions rather than simple transactions; their basic fields are exported but security-specific ones are not.
- QIF has no account identifiers inside records, so multi-account files rely on their section headers, which the CSV preserves in an Account type column.
Tool connections
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Good to know
Questions & answers
01What is a QIF file?
QIF (Quicken Interchange Format) is the text format Quicken introduced in the late eighties to move financial data between programs: sections opened by a !Type header, one field per line keyed by its first letter (D for date, T for amount, P for payee), records closed by a caret. It was replaced by OFX around 2000 because QIF has no transaction IDs, which makes duplicate detection impossible, but decades of archives still exist in it.
02Why do dates in old QIF files look strange?
Quicken wrote dates in the local convention of the machine, sometimes with an apostrophe separating the year, like 5/13’24. Whether 5/13 means May 13th or is impossible depends on day-first versus month-first writing. This converter scans the whole file first: a single date with a component above 12 settles the convention for every row, which is far safer than assuming a locale.
03Is my financial data uploaded to convert it?
No. The file is parsed by JavaScript in your browser tab and the CSV is written straight to your disk. It works offline once the page is loaded. Old finance archives are complete pictures of years of life, which is exactly why this tool has no upload step.
04Can I import the resulting CSV into modern accounting software?
Usually yes, most apps import CSV, but be aware of what QIF lacks: there are no unique transaction IDs, so importing overlapping periods twice can create duplicates. If your target app accepts OFX, a cleaner path is converting the CSV again with the CSV to OFX tool, which generates stable IDs precisely to make re-imports safe.
05Is QIF to CSV free?
Yes, completely free, with no sign-up and no limits. It runs in your browser, so your files never leave your device.