You Need A Budget

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You Need A Budget

Basic information
Founded	2004
Legal Structure	LLC
Industry	Finance, Fintech, Financial Technology
Also known as
Official website	https://www.ynab.com/

Founded in 2004 by Jesse Mecham, You Need A Budget (YNAB) is an online SaaS company that provides personal budgeting software that follows an envelope methodology.

Consumer impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents this company is involved in. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the You Need A Budget category.

Forced arbitration clause update to ToS (April 2026)

On April 9th, 2026, YNAB made updates to their Terms of Service, which included a forced arbitration clause stipulating a 30-day window to opt out after accepting the terms by emailing YNAB's legal support email address. An email outlining the new changes was sent to existing users on the 13th, prompting some users to post and discuss the included arbitration notice on the "r/ynab" community forum on Reddit. The notice read:

YNAB Email's notice of mandatory arbitration update to ToS

Dispute resolution: In our Terms of Service, we're moving to arbitration for dispute resolution. This means if we ever have a legal disagreement, it would be resolved by a neutral arbitrator instead of a court or jury, and we'd each bring claims individually rather than as part of a class action. If you prefer to keep your right to go to court, you can opt out by emailing [email protected] within 30 days. Opting out won't affect your account or service in any way.

A forced arbitration clause was not included in YNAB's Terms of Service exclusive to the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and EEA territories, also updated on April 9th.

Products

nYNAB App Lineup

• YNAB for Web
• YNAB for iPhone
• YNAB for Android
• YNAB for Apple Watch
• YNAB API
• YNAB Zapier integration

Pre-nYNAB Apps

• YNAB Excel spreadsheet (Sep 2004)
• YNAB Pro (Nov 2006)
• YNAB 3 (Dec 2009)
• YNAB 4 (Jun 2012 - Oct 2019)

See also

• Forced arbitration
• List of products and services with forced arbitration