Founder of a listed tool

Jesse Mecham

Founder, YNAB, named behind the YNAB listing on Anchor Terminal.

Founder, YNAB

Jesse Mecham founded YNAB. He built the first version as a spreadsheet in 2003 while a college student, around the rule of giving every dollar a job, and developed it into standalone software in 2004 while studying for a master's degree in accounting.

What Jesse builds

YNAB B · Subscriptions, bills & personal finance
YNAB is a subscription budgeting app for people. Its REST API reads and edits a user's plans, accounts, categories, payees and transactions, with personal access tokens or OAuth for apps other users authorise.
Founder, YNAB, researched 28 October 2026 · the people behind it

Questions

Who is Jesse Mecham?

What does YNAB make?

Anchor Terminal lists YNAB from YNAB. YNAB is a subscription budgeting app for people. Its REST API reads and edits a user's plans, accounts, categories, payees and transactions, with personal access tokens or OAuth for apps other users authorise.

How are Jesse's tools graded?

YNAB is graded B, 65.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

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