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Honestly I can import my bank statement into it. I used to use an excel template up until I grabbed your product. If you want to do it in Excel, you're more than welcome to :) That said, not everyone wants to spend hours and hours writing an Excel spreadsheet that does all this stuff, so YNAB is for them. I mean, we even give away what you need to do, right here: Originally posted by RodeoClown:I've yet to see an Excel template that can import transactions from your bank, or auto-synchronise with your phone, but you can replicate most of the basic budgeting functionality in Excel, for sure. I have used it actively now for over 5 hours (check my profile), after setup I only have to go into it maybe a few times each week for a few minutes, so its obvious from the time spent that I actively use it each month and to me it is worth every penny and has kept my finances on track.

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YNABs simple insertion of new data fields and creation of your template, handling of calculations dynamically from month to month and as you add more elements, its import facilities - none of these would be a simple feat to implement in excel even using some fairly advanced VBA code - I certainly would not spend the time it would take to generate something along those lines for my personal use, instead I bought this program to do it.Дon't let the relatively small size of the download or initial simplicity fool you, it certainly does the job well and I have been using it for some months now to handle my budgeting. If I produced something myself it would be tailored to my current needs but also fairly inflexible should my budgeting 'goalposts' shift and not as polished without putting in some major effort.

I picked the product up as it was inexpensive and would save me time writing something myself, to look after my budget.

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YNAB is way better at things like bi-montly bills that use income split up each month.I worked as a software dev and systems admin for 15 years (Ingres ABF/4GL, BP3, VB, C, etc - mostly working on Sun Solaris and PC Windows platforms) and I am also pretty handy with excel, there are no doubt some cool spreadsheets out there to help you budget (I have made up some of my own in the past when I felt the need previously to budget my expenses), but I have yet to see a free one that works in such a polished way as YNAB and is as simple to use.

Their offers seem to be whoever bought ad space this month instead of what would improve my financial situation. I never found their charts all that useful. There are so many ads garbaging up the interface. I guess kind of like changing my diet instead of trying to make my next meal 'healthy.' I don't really see myself setting a budget, but more tracking categories to find outliers. My needs have changed a lot since I was clawing out of debt. Or I could skim through and mark deductions when filing taxes or looking for medical expenses. After not touching Mint for a year I could go through and touch up categories and answer if 'eating out' was something I'm doing more of in Nov/Dec than January. I often will dump a CSV or troll through old transactions since I can't remember which account was used. YNAB seems to pretty actively want you to 'Fresh Start.' One of the giant values for me with Mint is historical information. Last week I started taking another stab at it. I've tried multiple times over the years to pick up YNAB. I've had a Mint account almost since launch.