People ask me ALL THE TIME what I use for budgeting. Now, I could have invented a pencil and paper method, told you it was the bestest, and sold you a budget printable, but that’s not how I budget. For the last few years, unless you already had a copy of YNAB 4 (a freezer stocked with fancy berries), you couldn’t conveniently implement anything I was showing you! I love to share practical budgeting tutorials using our actual budget, not just the amounts, but also the tips and tricks that make the budgeting tool itself so nice to use. Well that’s pretty much what has happened with me and YNAB 4.
Sorry guys! My freezer may be full of fancy berries, but you can’t have any. You’re so excited to make your own Fancy Berry Pie, and then I break it to you that you actually can no longer buy fancy berries anywhere. (Yes, I just made that up, but follow my analogy on this one.) I feel like I’m taunting you with pictures of, say, the most delicious “Fancy Berry Pie”. Now that YNAB 4 is not generally available, it doesn’t work as well for me to share our budget with you. I still hear from many of you who became faithful YNABers from my recommendation!
Hundreds of you who tried it out back then with a month-long free trialdecided that YNAB 4 would be a good fit for you. Readers like you could see how we actually budget, and get a peek inside how YNAB really works and how we use it. This was all well and good when YNAB 4 was around. As time went on I made videos sharing the screen of our actual budget. When Six Figures Under was new, I shared YNAB budgeting tutorials filled with screenshots of our actual budget. Yes, we made the switch in large part to conform to the modern budgeting world. Let me start by saying the decision wasn’t an easy one. Why we finally switched from YNAB 4 to the new YNAB Then I’ll share a hack for the new YNAB that helps preserve my favorite YNAB 4 feature. We took them up on that for exactly 3 years! Now we’re making the switch to the new YNAB.įirst I’ll explain our reasons for switching and our reasons for dragging our feet so long. YNAB (the company) understood that parting would be hard so they let us keep using YNAB 4 indefinitely. YNAB 4 was a part of how we handled money in our family and we weren’t ready to part ways when the new online YNAB came along. It was with us through nearly our entire debt-free journey. We'll respond with everything you need to get YNAB installed on your computer(s).We’ve been using YNAB for a long time. Now send an email to with a subject of "Register Mac App Store Purchase" and an attachment of that screenshot you just took. Double-click it to open the screenshot and verify it's the right file.Ĥ. A file will be dropped on your desktop called "Screenshot" with today's date and time. Take a screenshot of your screen by holding the Command-Shift-3 keys at the same time. Find your order of YNAB 4 in the list of purchases, and click the small arrow on the left of the order to display it.ģ. Note: Mac App Store web order details can only be seen in the iTunes purchase history (not the Mac App Store application).Ģ. On your Mac, view your purchase history in iTunes by following these instructions. If you don't have the receipt, you can follow these instructions instead:ġ.
If you send me your receipt from Apple, I can set you up with a key for a copy of YNAB 4 you download from our website.