diff --git a/Casks/q/quickboot.rb b/Casks/q/quickboot.rb
index 6610be2390..1df2291292 100644
--- a/Casks/q/quickboot.rb
+++ b/Casks/q/quickboot.rb
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ cask "quickboot" do
   name "QuickBoot"
   homepage "https://buttered-cat.com/product/quickboot/"
 
-  livecheck do
-    url :homepage
-    regex(%r{href=.*?/QuickBoot-(\d+(?:\.\d+)*-\d+)\.zip}i)
-  end
+  # no release in the past 10 years
+  # user has reported it stopped working in catalina
+  # https://github.com/jfro/QuickBoot/issues/5
+  deprecate! date: "2024-01-01", because: :unmaintained
 
   app "QuickBoot.app"
 end