A place to share and talk about Alternatives to the popular YNAB budget. Check out our [Budget Comparison Chart](https://docs.google.com/sprea…

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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.

  • BougieBirdie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    10 days 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

    • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      9 days 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.

    • greatwhitebuffalo41@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      9 days 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.