I have used quilt pro in an older version and have been looking at new versions of both. I found my quilt pro to be very intuitive and did not have a lot of reading of the manual to do. Also important is your platform. E quilter is not available for mac/apple. Note the version I used of quilt pro was for pc before it crashed. Now on mac and not sure how well the mac version stands up to the pc version. Hapy shopping.