[s1mplicissimus]

my favorite negative example for this move:

YNAB (You need a budget) - https://www.youneedabudget.com/pricing/

they had a perfectly fine working offline app that i gladly upgraded for the full price every time it was available. now it's subcription/online only and i haven't left a dime there since. bye ynab i'm gonna miss you!

[brewdad]

Which is ironic since the whole point of the app is to teach users to plan cash flows and find areas of excessive spending they didn’t recognize before when it came in periodically. I stopped using it once they pivoted but really, once you learn the basics, a spreadsheet or any other tracking method works just as well.