The 5-Minute Guide to Setting Up YNAB on Your Phone!

If you thought that whole sliced bread thing was cool, wait until you discover the mind-blowing wonder of having a detailed, ready-for-battle, knows-your-finances-better-than-you-do budget that fits right in your pocket. Follow Hannah as she walks you through the basics of setting up your YNAB budget all on your mobile device—emojis and all!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Download Your Free Trial
0:29 Estimates Your Expenses
1:43 Budget for Savings
2:22 Curate and Customize
2:41 Add Your Bank Accounts
3:08 Assign Your Dollars to Your Budget
4:35 Live By the Budget
4:57 Outro

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[YNABofficial]

New bucket list item to cross off: explaining YNAB in five minutes. 🥵😏😎

🌻 Hannah

[bone-a-lisa]

Just started my budget middle of last month, and after watching literally ALL of your videos, I am in love with this style of budgeting.

I've tried other ones like Mint before, and it was hard to wrap my head around.

Thank you Hannah for these absolutely S tier videos!!!

[davidhart]

Hello Hannah. My granddaughter just graduated high school and is going to college this fall. I told her if she would get YNAB and try it then I would buy her a subscription for it. This will be good for her to look at and decide.

[ToThePowerOfFour]

Been a long time YNABer and whenever I see videos like this uploaded I get so tempted to completely blow up my budget and start over haha 😂

[mattlindy]

This is absolutely the best tool out there.

[toddw]

Suggestion for upcoming Hannah video…5 minute how to setup widgets. This feature is a little tricky to setup, but is extremely useful. There are a few categories that are a bit harder to predict these days…groceries, fuel, power bill. Widgets help keep a real close watch over challenging categories.

[tessloggins]

I love these videos!!! Keep them coming.

[protectiondogsalesPDS]

Can a husband and wife "both" see the app on their phones/computer, make updates and they synch up?

[Vanessa-pefo]

I'm older then most of the people I'm sure on here, but I would like to start using the software. I'm feeling a little stupid as I've tried doing it now twice with the trial offer and I seem to not really understand. My questions is there a video that shows you how to start inputting everything, how to delete something if you made a mistake, etc? I won't be using the software on my phone, only on the main computer. Is it better to start the program on the 1st of the month? I've already paid most of my bills for the month.

[aliferguson]

Can you do a video on what to do with auto savings account. Should I keep them or cancel? Example: Digit, acorn, save as you go on wells fargo, and such? Thanks Ali

[FartsandChuckles]

I cant figure out how to split payments on mobile. Is it possible?

[justloirt]

Can Ynab handle biWeekly payments - Example Car payments that are due bi-weekly (I haven't found an option for biweekly)

[Allaiya.]

I get they have a 34 day trial but it is hard for me to stick with a budget in the first place

[anaveragemuppet]

Can you add in “every 4 weeks” for payments? I have to pay medical bills every 4 weeks and another one every 12 weeks

[rewiredfinance]

Can you categories a transfer transaction on the mobile app? Seems only possible on web.

[alexanderz]

I don't understand how this app works is it automatically tracking categories with the budget and how does it know which transaction goes in which category?

[ashleynicolemiller]

Is this for personal accounts or business accounts? And can I get a report of past transactions after uploading my bank accts?

[JG-yrtk]

is it possible to get hacked on this app ?

[mleet]

If i cant forcast future money, how can i stay ahead of shortfalls of my income? My paychecks vary drastically.... and living off the lowest ones isnt possible.

[sandraarn]

Hi Hannah! I really liked your tutorial and though I‘m fluent in English, as I‘m an English teacher in Austria (no - not Australia) 😂, I still would like to be able to use the app and web interface in German. You know that it‘s just much smoother to use one‘s mother tongue than having to switch languages back and forth. Do you have any plans for translating YNAB to German? If not, I could offer to help start off this mission by contributing to the translation workforce.