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First off, I will say I have been using Quicken for over ten years. It is an extremely valuable tool and I rely on it to manage my finances. I NEED a tool like this and will happily pay for it annually…if it works well. With that said, it needs a complete rewrite to be worth a penny. Charging people money for this app that currently looks, feels, and operates as if it was programmed by kindergarteners should be a crime. Here are some of the issues you will have if you choose to use this horridly written software: - On lower resolution screens AND screens that use scaling - critical pop-over windows will be cut off. This makes entering transactions much more fun because the category you are trying to pick is completely off the screen so you have no idea what you have selected until you press enter. - The program will randomly and frequently crash. - If you enter a transaction, the entire app will flicker as it recalculates god only knows what. Its feels like is suddenly factoring large prime numbers and as it freezes and nearly crashes. - I will take a solid 5-10 seconds to start Quicken if have one of the latest and most powerful i7 processors and 32gb of ram. If you have a less powerful PC, good luck. - If you click on any account or main tab in the app, it will take a solid 5 seconds to load as graphs and account windows painfully appear and get painted in. - When you download transactions from your financial institutions, the app will certainly become unresponsive, sometimes will crash, and the download will take an absurd amount of time to complete. - If your downloaded transactions ever get out of sync and Quicken suddenly downloads 80 plus transactions from the last three months that are already in your register, you will have to painfully delete them one by one as to not accept a duplicate into the register. Is a multi-select with a delete button really that hard to pull off? - Choosing to sync to the Quicken Cloud is a mistake you will only make once. Yes, the idea of using Quicken on a phone is enticing. But unless you want data duplicated and missing do NOT attempt it. - If you have a high-resolution monitor that uses DPI scaling, text in the app will be cut-off, too small, too large and just generally screwed up. - If you try to copy and paste in the app, it might or might not work. Toggling the setting in the app to override ctrl-c might or might not fix the problem. It solely depends on the time of day or how Quicken feels at the moment. It makes copying and pasting transaction numbers from excel or financial websites more challenging. - If you enter a transaction when one or more reports is open, the reports reload and scroll back to the top completely losing your place in the report and collapsing all expand boxes. Ever year a new version. Ever year it gets a little be more unusable and unstable. Perhaps it is time to start over from scratch with a new philosophy and new team of managers/developers? I can only hope.