Keep 15%

Keep 15% of this month’s income.

A challenge on your own YNAB budget. Whatif checks every day against your transactions after each sync, and before it starts, shows what it would do to the lowest point in your forecast.

Days
The rest of this month
Counts
Your whole budget

Every part of it can be changed before it starts.

Start

It runs on your own YNAB budget, which connects read-only. Start with a free trial. No card needed.

Day 18 of 29

Invented days, in the shape a real month takes.

65% of this month’s income kept so far — 15% holds it.

  • held
  • missed
  • excused
  • not synced yet
  • a pass
  • not counted
  • still to come

A day can still change for three days after it ends, as late purchases are read. Then it’s final.

How Whatif counts it

Most of these are the same in every challenge.

  • Checked after each sync

    Every day is checked against your own transactions once Whatif has read them. Nothing to tick and nothing to log: YNAB already has the record. A day not synced yet never counts as one with nothing spent.

  • A month at a time

    What came in less everything that went out, from the month’s 1st, judged on its last day. A month that ends after the challenge isn’t judged, so spending before payday never reads as a miss.

  • Every purchase counts

    Bills and planned spending included: a share of what came in is kept, or it isn’t.

  • Refunds don’t undo a purchase

    Returning a jumper on Saturday doesn’t undo Saturday’s takeaway.

  • Final after three days

    Banks import late, so a purchase that arrives on Thursday can still turn Tuesday into a miss. After three days a day is final, and the result waits for the last one.

  • Nobody sees an amount

    A rule is days, counts or a share of your own figures. The card you can share says those, and never an amount.