Yes, you do. Besides having to pull teeth to be able to buy the NordicTrack 1750 without an iFit subscription, I bought it under the premise that I could install and watch my streaming apps on the monitor provided. Nope. You can’t do that without paying for the $400 a year subscription to iFit, which I didn’t want. You can do basics with it, but the whole thing is geared around getting you to pay for a subscription.