YNABAlternatives

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• MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The what?

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  • Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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    • hoppolito@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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    • greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there a general finance based community? I think consolidating all financial matters would be cool.

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• GreedyPrivatize2@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • hoppolito@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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 :-)

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    • greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Actual has been my favorite so far but I’ve seen some interesting ones being developed lately.

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• myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Check the stickied post or the side car, both link to the budget comparison chart!

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    • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Will do, thanks!

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