Hey everyone, last week I released version one of Observer Desktop. Observer Desktop is a utility for downloading FRED data and saving it to a database on your local machine. You can download the windows installer binaries here. Observer Desktop is free and open source. Source code is on GitHub. To use Observer Desktop you must have either MSSQL or MySQL installed on your machine or a network server. Read the docs here. Note also that Observer Desktop is mostly just a downloader. It has a pretty powerful export feature but generally speaking if you want to use the data you download you have to query it yourself or use some tool that can read the data. I am working on an API that will align multiple series and do frequency conversions. If you are interested in contributing or commenting, please raise an issue on GitHub . BTW if you need to just download data from FRED and use it in your own code, try Vyntix FredClient. This is the low level library used by Observer Desktop to acquire data from FRED. Get the nuget package here. Vyntix.FredClient is also free and open source.