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I love it! A big part of my financial philosophy is based on a similar thought exercise: Before you make an impulsive decision, imagine a stranger walks up to you. In one hand, he has the thing you're about to buy. In the other hand, he has the amount of money you are about to spend. He will give you one or the other for free with absolutely no catch. Which one do you take? Besides that, I like the "hold to add cash"…
Based on my experience at least, YNAB (You Need A Budget -- http://www.youneedabudget.com/ ) is the best budgeting software out there. It's a lot more complex than this, and unlike something like Mint it does require you to manually enter transactions. However, it is really the best interface I've found for setting a budget. Probably the best feature is that it can naturally incorporate overspending. If you set your…
I'm a big fan of YNAB.
Being fully automated would certainly be nice, but grabbing a set of CSVs from my bank once a month is a not a big deal and the software does a reasonable job of matching categories once it has some data.
>'Unless you're a multimillionaire, you can probably benefit from using it.'
I'd imagine so.
What I think makes YNAB really valuable is that is that it's loose enough so as not to become a mess if you aren't consistent and exacting about keeping it up to date.
You're going to get something out of it even if you don't bother to create a specific allowances. Simply going with suggested categories and generating a budget based on prior outflows will provide a useful perspective.
A direct input would be nice. It took me five seconds to keep eight dollars by holding, but it could have taken only one second with direct input. Any particular reason that it's limited to this mechanic? Also, it seems to be stuck on the eight dollar screen. It keeps asking me to hold to $8, but never shows me a new photo. This is the stock Note 3 browser. EDIT: Now I can't even get it to register $3. Perhaps we are…
hmmm... We've been optimizing for safari and chrome. Maybe give it a try in one of those?
FYI, it looks like the mobile site has some issues in IE on Windows Phone. The white text is a bit hard to read with the background image [1], and refreshing the page results in this [2]. Looking forward to trying it out though! [1]: http://imgur.com/vtp2PnZ [2]: http://imgur.com/3iEI4kw
Based on my experience at least, YNAB (You Need A Budget -- http://www.youneedabudget.com/ ) is the best budgeting software out there. It's a lot more complex than this, and unlike something like Mint it does require you to manually enter transactions. However, it is really the best interface I've found for setting a budget. Probably the best feature is that it can naturally incorporate overspending. If you set your…
I thought no one did that anymore ?
Based on my experience at least, YNAB (You Need A Budget -- http://www.youneedabudget.com/ ) is the best budgeting software out there. It's a lot more complex than this, and unlike something like Mint it does require you to manually enter transactions. However, it is really the best interface I've found for setting a budget. Probably the best feature is that it can naturally incorporate overspending. If you set your…
It requires a win / mac machine? Why? I thought no one did that anymore ?
Based on my experience at least, YNAB (You Need A Budget -- http://www.youneedabudget.com/ ) is the best budgeting software out there. It's a lot more complex than this, and unlike something like Mint it does require you to manually enter transactions. However, it is really the best interface I've found for setting a budget. Probably the best feature is that it can naturally incorporate overspending. If you set your…
I used Mint for a number of years, but the automated stuff was constantly wrong and the passive downloads broke all the time after Mint switched away Yodlee's data aggregation.
it's really annoying that you wont allow me to open m.trykeep.com on my desktop.. without even telling me why I can't .. simply redirecting to the not-mobile page where I was before is asking the end-user to go away, like I did
And the mobile app: https://budgetapp.azurewebsites.net/