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[stephenrea]

Very misleading title.

I though it was going to be an anti-Mac diatribe from some PC fanboy review saying the Mac is so expensive, you need to budget extra money to pay for owning it.

[sbbeebe]

I started using YNAB earlier this year, and have found it to be great! Yeah there might be some minor interface issues, but the approach the developer has taken to managing family finances is much better than any competing product. Not a big learning curve - wy wife and I read through a few posts on the site for people getting started, and watched a couple of short videos. Then we up and going!

Way better than Quicken!

[lightnquick]

'...any system that supports Adobe Air...': So - it relies on a piece of bloatware?

[RonaldRobson]

I've tried several personal finance programs (Quicken, Mvelopes, iBank and YNAB) over the years and I think this one beats them all. No, it doesn't have everything like Quicken does, but it is absolutely the best at helping a person keep a useful and meaningful budget. The learning curve is well worth it. This program is all about focusing on what you are going to do with your money not what you did with your money. Most other programs are focused on the past. If you're familiar with Mvelopes, it uses a similar budgeting scheme but unlike Mvelopes it doesn't ask you for the username and passwords of every account you haved, instead it imports standard QFX or Microsoft Money files.

[Kennethfcooper]

I left Quicken because it was buggy and also because it could be very difficult to undo mistakes. I started using YNAB because the main feature I want in a financial program is aid in budgeting. I didn't find the learning curve to be that extreme. Maybe, it is if you are not thinking "budgeting". I used Quicken for years and felt that I hadn't yet got past the learning curve.
I had to give up some things, like integrated online banking, but since it never worked dependably, I didn't mind giving it up.
Finally, I feel connected to the developers, and like them. That, of course, is subjective, but it takes effort on their part to create that sense of community.