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Free QIF to CSV Converter: Reading Quicken's Export Format

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Convert a QIF file to CSV

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Drag and drop your QIF file hereor click to browse your files QIFCSV

Only have a PDF statement? That converts too.

A QIF file means your bank gave you structured data — which most banks only do for the last few months. Beyond that you get a PDF, and a PDF won't open in Excel. BalanceExtract reads those directly: it works out the column layout from the document itself, handles scanned statements with OCR, checks that every running balance reconciles, and flags any row it isn't confident about before you export.

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How to convert QIF to CSV in 3 steps

Step 1: Drop in your QIF file

Drag the file onto the box above or click to browse. It is read in your browser — nothing is uploaded to a server, which you can confirm in the Network tab.

Step 2: Check what was found

Every transaction is read out with its date, payee, description, amount and transaction ID, along with any warnings about rows that need a look.

Step 3: Download the CSV

The CSV file saves straight to your device, ready to open in a spreadsheet or import into your accounting software.

QIF is a plain-text, line-based format where each transaction is a short run of prefixed lines. This guide covers what's actually in the file and a real date-format quirk worth knowing about before it silently breaks a naive parser.

Quick summary

Auditing old Quicken records or moving them into a spreadsheet without retyping every line means reading the QIF file's own real quirks correctly first. QIF files use single-letter field codes (D for date, T for amount, P for payee, M for memo) with each record ending in a bare "^". A real quirk: Quicken's own apostrophe-year date shorthand (1/15'26) trips up parsers that only expect slash-separated dates — this converter handles both.

What's Inside a QIF File

Field codeWhat It Contains
DTransaction date — including the apostrophe-year shorthand (1/15'26)
TAmount
PPayee
MMemo

A Real Parsing Quirk This Handles

Frequently Asked Questions

Where do I get a QIF file to convert?
QIF is a Quicken export format — you'd have one from Quicken itself, or from another finance tool that supports exporting to QIF (Banktivity, MYOB, GnuCash, and others).
What information does it extract?
Date, payee, amount, and memo from each transaction record.
My QIF file has dates like 1/15'26 — will that parse correctly?
Yes. That apostrophe-year notation (Quicken's own shorthand for 2000s dates) is handled directly, alongside the more common slash-separated formats — tested against real QIF exports, not assumed.
Is my data uploaded anywhere?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.
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