Shares 175 For the past few years my wife and I have been using as our main budgeting software for our household. I am a big believer in the where you allocate every dollar of income to a spending, saving or giving category. To setup a zero based budget that's easy to track, so not a single cent of your family's money goes unaccounted for. YNAB has served our family well, and it has really helped us to improve our financial well being.. The team at recently announced that they are going to be doing something pretty incredible.
They are making YNAB free for college students. Table of Contents • • • • • Making YNAB Free for College Students Jesse Mecham, founder of YNAB, posted on the company's blog that they wanted to help college students avoid graduating with crippling debt, and as such they are making YNAB free for college students. More kids are graduating from college absolutely weighed down by student debt. I don’t know what portion of their debt is avoidable, but I’m confident that if those students were following, they would graduate with less debt. Starting today, if you’re a college student (even only part-time), we’ll let you use YNAB for free while you’re in school. So if you're now enrolled in college, as an undergraduate or graduate student, you can get a free copy of the best budgeting software out there (normally $60). What does YNAB get out of it?
They get to help a group of people that typically is saddled with a large amount of debt to do better with their finances, and in the long run I'm sure they're confident that the students will convert to be paying customers once they graduate. So if you're a student, how can you can your free copy? How To Get Your FREE Copy Of YNAB Getting your free student copy of YNAB is pretty simple. First, download a trial copy of YNAB via the following link: • Email the YNAB team at and include proof of registration at your college. (This may include a school ID card, a report card, a transcript, or a tuition bill or statement.) • They’ll email you a special license key (essentially an extended free trial key), good until the end of the calendar year. • At the end of the year, just shoot them another email with proof of registration for the coming year, and they’ll send you a new license key that’s good for the entire next year.