GlidePath Money

Pricing

Buy the desktop app. Keep what you bought.

Own the app, don't rent access to your own numbers. $129 Personal / $199 Personal + Business — one time, first year of updates included. Keep using the version you bought with no required subscription; an optional $39/yr keeps your tax rules and features current, and your price stays locked as long as you keep it.

  • $129 / $199Desktop license, first year included.
  • Keep using itThe version you bought keeps working.
  • 30-day refundTry it on your real numbers.

GlidePath Money Desktop

Personal

For households tracking their own finances.

$129 one-time license

+ $39/yr maintenance, first charge ~1 year after purchase (auto-renews; cancel any time) · 30-day money-back refund · install on 3 devices

First year of maintenance is included. It keeps you eligible for new releases, annual tax-table refreshes, bank/export parser fixes, security and compatibility updates, Glide AI, and email support. Mechanically it’s a 365-day free trial: your card is saved at checkout, and the first $39 bills automatically about a year after you buy (around 365 days), then once a year, unless you cancel. We email you 7 days before each charge, and you can cancel in one click from the in-app Manage subscription link or your Stripe receipt. Missed the reminder and got charged anyway? Email us within 30 days for a full refund — see refund & cancellation.

Retirement & tax planning

  • Retirement Monte Carlo — 1,000 simulations, sequence-of-returns risk, adjustable assumptions
  • Tax Valley + Roth conversion windows — estimate your low-tax conversion window and the bracket room each year
  • Backdoor Roth pro-rata + Form 8606 trail — see the IRA basis, pre-tax IRA balance, taxable conversion share, and caveats before tax season
  • HSA stealth IRA planner — contribution room, age-55 catch-up, marginal-rate tax value, and tax-free growth illustration
  • Tax-loss harvesting scanner — taxable-lot losses, wash-sale risk, conservative exclusions, and ordinary-offset/carryforward estimates
  • Social Security claim-age scenarios — side-by-side at 62/67/70 with spousal & survivor math
  • ACA bridge cost modeling — what early retirement actually costs in healthcare

Debt, cards & subscriptions

  • 0% balance-transfer tracking — countdown, monthly clear pace, post-promo cliff, plus a cascading what-if simulator that shows the tax + retirement impact of each payoff decision. It's one of GlidePath's signature differences.
  • Subscription rollover tracker — warn 30 days before the "$0 trial becomes $99/yr" auto-renew hits
  • Loan amortization with balloon-payment warnings; multi-loan aggregates

Your money & net worth

  • Holdings + asset allocation — positions, tax lots, per-symbol prices shared across accounts
  • Net worth history, cash-flow tracking, multi-partner household
  • Insurance inventory + coverage gap — policy breadcrumbs, life-needs estimate, and disability after-tax benefit gap
  • Calendar of due dates — BT promos, subscriptions, loan payments, bills, tax deadlines on one filterable view
  • Unlimited accounts, cards, loans, transactions

Getting your data in

  • CSV / Excel import from Mint, Simplifi, Monarch, YNAB, and Quicken · PDF statement review with transaction import for Chase, American Express, and Bank of America today
  • Browser extension — auto-capture from Chase, Amex, Citi · popup-flow for BoA

Access & clarity

  • Explain Mode — toggle plain-English context next to the planning numbers
  • Resources & plain-English guides — curated official IRS, SSA & Medicare references for each topic, plus our own “what it is / how to use it / what to look for” walk-throughs of the trickiest tax pages and a glossary for the scary terms. For anyone who finds the IRS intimidating.
  • Find a fee-only fiduciary — when you want a human, a neutral directory of fee-only fiduciary advisors, the official tools to vet them, and a “questions to ask before you hire” checklist. No referral fees, no specific advisor pushed.
  • Shared household planning — add each person on the in-app Partners page, tag accounts by owner (you / your partner / joint), and filter any report by person or the whole household
  • 3 device installs

Runs on Windows 10/11, macOS, and Linux. Secure checkout via Stripe. Sales tax added based on your billing address (US/Canada only). You'll get your license key + download link by email within a minute of purchase.

GlidePath Money Desktop

Personal + Business

Adds a small business or self-employment side.

$199 one-time license

+ $39/yr maintenance, first charge ~1 year after purchase (auto-renews; cancel any time) · 30-day money-back refund · install on 6 devices

First year of maintenance is included. It keeps you eligible for new releases, annual tax-table refreshes, bank/export parser fixes, security and compatibility updates, Glide AI, and email support. Mechanically it’s a 365-day free trial: your card is saved at checkout, and the first $39 bills automatically about a year after you buy (around 365 days), then once a year, unless you cancel. We email you 7 days before each charge, and you can cancel any time in one click. Missed the reminder and got charged anyway? Email us within 30 days for a full refund — see refund & cancellation.

✓ Everything in Personal — all the planning, money & balance-transfer tools on the left

Plus the business toolkit:

  • Invoice creator — branded PDF invoices with your own logo & color in about a minute, then record each paid one as income on your Schedule C in a click
  • Schedule C P&L preview — auto-maps business transactions to IRS lines
  • Schedule SE + QBI estimates — self-employment tax and qualified-business-income deduction planning numbers with CPA-facing caveats
  • Solo 401(k) / SEP maximizer — employee deferral, employer contribution, catch-up, and annual plan-limit receipts
  • Asset depreciation tracker — Section 179, MACRS5, MACRS7
  • Home office deduction — simplified method + an actual-expense estimate
  • 1099 prep — payee totals + reporting-threshold detection
  • Mileage log — trip record + import from MileIQ/Everlance/Stride/CSV
  • Accountant pack ZIP — year-end bundle: P&L HTML + worksheets + CSVs + README. Email it to your CPA, they have everything in one folder.
  • 6 device installs (covers the spouse + the work laptop + the home machine)
  • Already paid for Personal? Add Business later for the $70 difference — open the License page in the app and click “Add the Business tier.” No re-buying the whole thing, same license key.

Runs on Windows 10/11, macOS, and Linux. Both tiers include the same retirement math + balance-transfer tooling. The delta is just /Business.

Try it with nothing to lose. Every purchase has a 30-day money-back refund, no questions asked — install it, load your real numbers, and if it’s not for you, email us for a full refund.

Not sure yet? That’s reasonable — it’s your money. It should run on your terms, not the bank’s or some app you had to hand your login to. No rush, no expiring deal — we’ll be here whenever you’re ready.

Wondering how this stacks up against Monarch, Quicken, or YNAB? See the full comparison →

GlidePath Money is intended for users 18 years or older. The Software is a tool for educational and informational purposes — not financial, tax, investment, or legal advice. Tax rules change and vary by situation; every figure is an estimate based on the numbers you enter — verify with a qualified professional before filing or making decisions. See our Tax and Investment disclaimers. By purchasing, you agree to the Terms, EULA, Privacy Policy, and refund & cancellation policies.

✨ Included with every license

Glide — your in-app AI helper.

Click "Ask Glide" anywhere in the app. Get plain-English answers about retirement math, tax concepts, how to use a page, what a number means. Bundled in your annual maintenance — no separate add-on.

Doesn't see your accounts

Glide never receives your balances, transactions, or net worth — only your typed question and the page you're on. Ask "what's a Roth conversion window?" → great answer. Ask "what's my balance?" → it'll tell you it can't see and point you to the right page.

Unlimited questions

Unlimited, subject to fair-use limits that only kick in to stop abuse — normal everyday use is never blocked. Prefer to bill your own Anthropic account? Paste your API key on the in-app License page and Glide bills Anthropic directly (typically less than a dollar a month), fully unmetered on our side.

No advice, ever

Glide explains concepts. It won't tell you "buy X" or "convert Y to Roth this year" — those calls need a real financial advisor or CPA. It's planning software, not a fiduciary. Glide knows it.

Built on Claude Haiku 4.5. Runs through our Worker so your license key stays out of the browser. Renewing your annual maintenance keeps Glide active; if you skip a renewal, Glide stops while the rest of the app keeps working.

5-year cost vs the subscription tools.

Subscription apps quote you the monthly. We show the longer-term cost. Here's what you actually spend over 5 years if you stay current on each.

Prices and plan behavior as of July 2026.

Tool Annual 5-year cost What you have if you stop paying
Monarch Core $99.99/yr $500 Read-only access to your data, then nothing
YNAB $109/yr $545 No access; export-only window
Copilot Money $95/yr $475 No access
Quicken Classic Deluxe ~$60/yr $300 Read-only desktop app
Simplifi by Quicken $71.88/yr $360 No access
GlidePath Money (renew yearly) $129 license + $39/yr × 4 $285 The full app, frozen at year-5 version, with all your data
GlidePath Money (never renew) $129 license $129 The full app, frozen at year-1 version, with all your data

Prices and plan behavior as of July 2026. Figures use each tool's regular annual rate (first-year promotions often run lower). Subscription tools were chosen at their lowest single-user tier. Our 5-year totals assume you let the auto-renew continue every year. Cancel any year and your total drops to whatever you've paid so far — the version you already have keeps working.

Why keep maintenance active after year one.

The version you have keeps working either way. Maintenance is for the parts of personal finance software that keep changing around you.

Tax rules keep moving

New IRS brackets, Social Security wage bases, IRMAA thresholds, ACA cliff math, Section 179 caps, and Schedule C details are folded into current builds.

Banks change exports

CSV formats, PDF statements, browser flows, and extension capture rules drift. Maintenance keeps parsers and import helpers current as those formats change.

Security and compatibility fixes

You keep getting dependency fixes, installer/update improvements, and compatibility work as Windows, browsers, and libraries evolve.

New features during your window

When we improve the daily loop, trust checks, import review, reporting, or planning surfaces, active maintenance gets those releases without re-buying the app.

Glide AI and cloud helpers

Online extras that cost us money to operate stay active while maintenance is current: Glide AI and related cloud helpers.

Real support when you need it

If an import gets weird, a release confuses antivirus, or you need help understanding where something lives, maintenance keeps email support available.

Skip a year and your install keeps running with the tax rules, parsers, and features it had on the day you stopped paying. Future major versions may be offered as optional paid upgrades, but your financial files stay yours either way.

Want to talk before you buy?

Email us your questions before you decide. Tell us what you’re currently using and where it’s falling short — we’ll tell you honestly whether GlidePath is a better fit or not.

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FAQ

What happens if I cancel the maintenance renewal?

Your install keeps working with the version you already have. You just stop receiving new app releases, updated tax rules, parser fixes, security and compatibility updates, and new features. Online extras included with maintenance, like Glide AI, pause, and email support pauses too. The version you had on your last paid day keeps working. Your data is plain files on your disk; nothing locks you out of your own records.

How to cancel: click "Manage subscription" inside the app, or follow the link in any Stripe receipt or renewal-reminder email. One click; takes ~5 seconds. The first annual charge is about a year after you buy, and we email a reminder 7 days before each one, so you always have time to opt out if you want to.

What's the 30-day refund?

Buy GlidePath Money, install it, decide within 30 days you don't want it → email us for a full refund. The refund is processed through Stripe, which handles our checkout. We'll deactivate the license on our side; since the app re-checks its license about once a week, within about a week it stops opening — but the data files you've created are yours to keep on your disk. We never delete your data.

Why a desktop license?

Local-first applies to commerce too. You own your data; your financial files should not depend on an active subscription. GlidePath is a desktop license with maintenance for updates, support, and online extras. Future major versions may be offered as optional paid upgrades, but cancelling maintenance never locks you out of the version you already have or the data files you created.

How many devices can I install on?

Personal: 3 device installs. Personal+Business: 6 device installs. Each install is a full copy of the app on a separate computer. If you need to move to a new computer, you can deactivate an old install from inside the app to free a slot.

Do you have access to my data?

Your core financial file stays on your computer by default. Your accounts, balances, and transactions are stored as plain files in the app’s data folder; we don’t upload or host them. On Windows, the default is %LocalAppData%/GlidePath Money/. Optional cloud features — license activation, AI, and market-symbol lookup — are described on the Privacy and Trust pages.

Why not connect to my bank like Mint did?

Two reasons. First: the intake path is more useful when you can see the source, preview the rows, and keep the accepted result in your local file. Second: Plaid-style bank-sync services can break when banks change their UIs, leaving you with stale data. We give you non-Plaid intake paths instead: drop a CSV or PDF statement in a folder, or use the browser extension to auto-capture downloads from your bank's site.

Will the price go up later?

Maybe. The $129 / $199 starting prices are what we believe the app is honestly worth in 2026. If GlidePath grows into a larger major version later, new-customer pricing may change. Your existing license won't change. The version you bought keeps working. Active maintenance keeps you current on eligible updates. If we ever introduce a paid major-version upgrade, we’ll publish the price and terms clearly before anyone is asked to pay.