I don’t like online banking, do I still need to buy connected services? The big change was slipped into the FAQ regarding connected services: When it was originally released a few days ago, the FAQ for Quicken 2017 in Canada stated that all future Quicken releases will be subscription products. If true, it is likely to push increasingly push Mac users towards better and cheaper Quicken alternatives such as the free Personal Capital. If users choose not to renew their annual subscription to Quicken on Windows or Mac, they will no longer be able to manually update their accounts, although they will still be able to access them, edit them and run reports. The Canadian version of Quicken 2017 has just been released and is using a subscription payment only model.

Quicken Inc has dropped a big hint that both Quicken for Windows and Mac may soon be subscription payment only in the US meaning no more one-off payments for the product.