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      <description>The real 2026 price hikes, service by service, plus the exact retention discounts, the rotation math that saves $400 a year, and a step-by-step audit you can run this weekend.</description>
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      <description>Magpie watches your transactions in the background and surfaces the leaks (price hikes, dormant subscriptions, missed deductions), each with the dollar amount and the transaction behind it.</description>
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      <description>Most finance apps want your bank login. Magpie asks for a statement instead: read-only, encrypted, never sold, and yours to delete. Here is why that is the more private design.</description>
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