> why? Privacy. It's your personal data. It should belong to you.<p>Well, it uses Google sheets to store the data. So I don't agree with this 'benefit'.
Nice work! I've been mulling something like this for awhile. I use YNAB (classic) to track our budget, but I haven't made the switch to their new subscription-based version because it just doesn't fit my workflow as well. The experience made me think more deeply about what I actually need in a tool like this, and I came to a similar conclusion that you seem to have: I need a convenient way to enter my expenses and balances, and a way to analyze them. A spreadsheet is perfect for the latter purpose, but isn't very good at all for the former.<p>Having said that, the thing I care about the <i>most</i> in YNAB is importing expenses from my bank accounts. My thought on replacing this was to be able to add download URLs to my spreadsheet and kick off a script which would prompt for manual username and password entry (so that the credentials aren't saved) before downloading and parsing the exports. I haven't gotten around to creating this yet - if you added it to your project, I would seriously consider using it!
I created a clone of the new YNAB as a standalone desktop application. It is available at <a href="https://github.com/envelopes-app/envelopes-desktop" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/envelopes-app/envelopes-desktop</a> with installers for mac/windows.
I'm aware this isn't a place intended for troubleshooting questions, but when one adds a read-only Google Sheet to their drive, doesn't it just make a shortcut? I clicked on the Drive icon as shown in the tutorial but the document is still read-only, and the app says that it isn't in my Drive. I tried making a copy with the same name, but no dice either. What am I missing?
Is there a demo I can try without connecting it to my Google account? Also, why does it say the app is "Tracking Numbers" when clicking Login? Makes it seem fishy.