!ynabalternatives@piefed.social
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.
YNABAlternatives
https://piefed.social/c/ynabalternatives
https://piefed.social/c/ynabalternatives
!ynabalternatives@piefed.social
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.
12 Comments
MagisterSieran@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 189d
The what?
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 189d
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
hoppolito@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 189d
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.
greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social · 2 pts · 189d
I just went with the same as the Reddit sub because I'm lazy 😂😂 you're not wrong though.
greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
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.
celeste@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 189d
It's a budgeting app, it looks like. So this community is for people to find alternatives.
GreedyPrivatize2@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 189d
hoppolito@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 189d
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 :-)
greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social · 1 pts · 189d
Actual has been my favorite so far but I've seen some interesting ones being developed lately.
myrmidex@belgae.social · 2 pts · 189d
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.
greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.social · 3 pts · 189d
Check the stickied post or the side bar, both link to the budget comparison chart!
myrmidex@belgae.social · 2 pts · 189d
Will do, thanks!
Elextra@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 189d
Is there a general finance based community? I think consolidating all financial matters would be cool.