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Yes. Intuit sold Quicken to another company, and they've gone to a subscription model, enforced by killing the ability to download patches or (importantly) bank data unless your subscription is current. There is no longer a "buy it once, use it until _you_ decide to upgrade" option for this product. Unfortunately Quicken is still sorta the gold standard in the class of personal finance software that keeps the data on your machine rather than in the cloud somewhere. Despite all its warts. Some of the others are starting to catch up, but Quicken monopolized the data download business by having their protocol become the default standard. There is a competing protocol, but it isn't yet available from all banks and at this time it too has a (much lower!) yearly subscription fee.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes I THINK they went to one year subscriptions in 2019
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