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A place to share and talk about Alternatives to the popular You Need A Budget App or just find an envelope/budget to zero style budget that works for you.
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The what?
YNAB is a budgeting program, they call it You Need A Budget. I understand it’s popular, but maybe not so popular an acronym to provide such little context for it.
I support the intent behind the community, free alternatives for an american app seems like a noble cause. I worry that limiting its association to a single app hidden behind an acronym that you would have to be familiar with to know what it is will probably limit its reach.
FreeBudgetApps, BudgetingApps, PersonalFinanceApps, ManageYourMoney, BudgetSoftware, EnvelopeBudgets - in my opinion any of these would be a better name with wider reach
I think the idea is to focus on apps that specifically emulate the YNAB philosophy - giving every dollar a job, building up a future buffer, etc, and focus on ‘envelope’ budgeting style.
But I agree that perhaps a different name (heck, EnvelopeBudgeting) might have been less dependent on people knowing the original app.
I just went with the same as the Reddit sub because I’m lazy 😂😂 you’re not wrong though.
My bad I didn’t realize I didn’t uncheck the box to share to this community otherwise I would’ve put some info in the post! Thanks for clarifying for me.
It’s a budgeting app, it looks like. So this community is for people to find alternatives.
Been using https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/ for a few years now, isnt updated very often and is still missing a standalone android app, but other than that fairly similar to YNABs pre-subscription. It also supports various kinds of data importing and importing exports from YNAB.
If only I could remind myself to actually fill it in more often.
That looks neat, hadn’t heard of it before! It’s a shame that even though it has a github issue tracker it’s not open source.
The one I know the best is actualbudget which you can host as a server or just use as a desktop app as well, for me comes really close to the old YNAB feeling. And comes with a YNAB importer for those last 3 people still using the old app :-)
Actual has been my favorite so far but I’ve seen some interesting ones being developed lately.
Is there a general finance based community? I think consolidating all financial matters would be cool.
Subscribed! I’m looking for a more bucket-focused approach but haven’t come across a decent app for it yet. Thinking of building my own if this search fizzles out.
Check the stickied post or the side bar, both link to the budget comparison chart!
Will do, thanks!
