My primary financial management software was written by me (in Filemaker) to do budgeting how I do budgeting (as I could not find anything on the market that did exactly what I wanted). As an automated way to sync with Bank data - none of my institutions require Direct Access As a balance double-check on my other software (I enter into Banktivity AND my other software) I have Banktivity 7 for two reasons - I will not be paying for a subscription regardless, the value isn't there for me (YMMV). Turbo Tax is the same way but I don't have a choice because my returns are a PITA without being able to process the number of accounts and transactions. Sorry it's a bit rent-seeking, as it was for Quicken when they broke off from Intuit.
But a continuing $50 or more (almost the full price of the standalone) every year? Yes the convenience of aggregating all your accounts and producing an integrated view is worth something.
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But it's easy enough just to go to the brokerage site to look them up, to download and archive them. What I won't have are the records of each transaction, though I could probably import them to a spreadsheet. I can do investment tracking on Google Sheets for free, with much more reliable securities prices updating than Banktivity. I don't think that justifies a annual $50 and above continuing charge. But the bulk of the development work has been done. Yes they can deliver incremental features and bug and security fixes. Just get the software you have working reliably. I'm not against paying subscriptions for sustaining development but I question whether there's much innovation left to bring in personal finance software. I generally don't like subscriptions, though I've been paying for Adobe Creative Cloud.
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