# Jesse Mecham (slim)

> Jesse Mecham is founder of YNAB. YNAB on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder, YNAB.

Jesse Mecham founded YNAB.

## What Jesse builds

- [YNAB](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ynab.md), graded B, 65.1/100, in 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 2026-10-28.

## Questions

### Who is Jesse Mecham?

Jesse Mecham founded YNAB.

### What does YNAB make?

Anchor Terminal lists YNAB from YNAB.

### 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.

## Sources

- https://www.ynab.com/
- https://www.ynab.com/about
- https://www.ynab.com/help-center
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YNAB

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.