Quicken Starter Personal Finance – Start taking control of your money – 1-Year Subscription (Windows/Mac)

I thought this was the quicken program turns out it said access to quicken subscription I do not want that I want just the program

Its so easy to keep track of your Income & Spending

Used Quicken as a check book register for over two decades. Quicken started to demand an account a few years back and offered services I do not want or use. I only use the register function and resented the account creation requirement. As my renewal period approached for Quicken Deluxe, bought in 2020, Quicken forced one NAG screen onto my display. After the renewal period came and went, Quicken forced a second NAG screen onto my register view that obscures needed information. I can work around this but Quicken harassment of my register view is maddening. I own the software. I do not need or desire the other services. Ill be contacting my state Attorney General with a complaint over Quicken forcing NAG screens onto my register view. Quicken tech support was useless. If you are only using the register function of Quicken, I suggest you do not purchase Quicken.

Easy to use for personal needs. Requiring a yearly subscription is stupid. Always wasn’t like that. Older versions didn’t require a yearly subscription. People don’t use the subscription services so don’t charge them for it. I don’t use them. Need to allow users opportunity to choose what specific services they want.

I decline to keep paying just to use software I bought even though Quicken is a great product. Im a Quicken user all the way back from 1995. It used to be you would pay a one-time charge for Quicken and thats it and buy a new version every few years when absolutely needed for new releases of Windows. Now it is subscription software. You will need to pay for a subscription after the initial subscription that comes with Quicken expires. Otherwise, you will get ads that block out part of your screen and makes using it an irritating experience. You also get frequent emails to pay up. Instead of paying for recurring subscriptions, I suggest trying out for free an alternative called Moneydance (or others like it). It is not subscription based. Pay for it once and thats it. No more annoying nags and ads.

Ive been using quicken for 10+ years and it used to be the de-facto go-to product for tracking your finances and downloading transactions from online. Since Quickens sale from Inuit to HIG in 2016 (not many users know about this), this product has been driven into the ground by agressive attempts to monetize the userbase without providing new features or values. They added a buggy online sync system that frequently corrupts your historical data causing you to go to backups and have to re-enter data. Even if that system is off, new patches will actually corrupt your historical data causing you to have to chase down 1yr+ back in historical data to find a random transaction that is corrupted/buggy. Worst part, HIG switched Quicken into a recurring subscription model for online services, but if you let the subscription expire to use the tool offline, they fill 20%+ of the application with red and yellow nag screens. Since being sold to HIG, its clear that Quicken is now just trying to squeeze every last dollar out of its userbase before enough people leave the tool and the product ultimately dies. Recommend everyone stay away from this tool.

I like how organized it is.

my review is based on the fact that the product is not as advertised or the advertising is misleading and once you upload the product you cant get a refund of the money spent only the tax you paid. Dont waste your money this product isnt worth it.

In the info for this product Quicken says: Youll always have full access to, and full ownership of your data. That is a lie, You could work around the large banner ads that you need to renew that take over the screen, but After your membership expires you will get a pop-up message that you cant complete that action without renewing for every single action you perform. You need to click through the message each time and in entering one split transaction you have to click through it ten times or more. That is hardly full access to your data, it is unusable.

not simple enough for old folks trying to convert to computer