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DuckyHelper in Ynab

DuckyHelper sees Ynab on your screen and, in early access, works in it with its own cursor to list budgets and accounts, review transactions, create and update scheduled transactions, track categories, and manage payees. It's built to ask before it sends or pays, and explains or draws on Ynab when you want to learn it.

Try asking
  • “List the budgets and update a transaction”
  • “Create a category in Ynab”
  • “Show me how to create a transaction”

Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask out loud. Doing the work for you is early access on Mac.

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Budgets in YnabDone in 5sExample
List the budgets and update a transaction
  1. Listed the budgets in Ynab
  2. Updated a transaction

Done in Ynab.

Ynab
5s · 1 app
Done
Updated a transactionin Ynab
Worked for 5s
Listed the budgets
Updated a transaction

Drawn from Ynab's own actions · early access on Mac

WHAT TO ASK

Things you can ask it to do in Ynab

Each one is something Ynab itself lets you do, said the way you'd ask. Questions about your screen work today; having it do the job is early access on Mac.

Ask about it

Works today

It sees your screen, answers out loud and draws on it.

  • “Explain this transaction to me”
  • “Where do I find the categories in Ynab?”
  • “Show me how to create a transaction”
  • “What does this button do?”
  • “Walk me through this screen”

Read and find

Early access

It opens Ynab and looks things up for you.

  • List the budgets
  • List the transactions
  • List the transactions by payee
  • List the scheduled transactions
  • List the categories
  • List the transactions by category
  • List the transactions by account
  • List the payees in a budget
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  • List the accounts
  • Look up a transaction
  • List the budget months
  • Look up a category
  • Look up a scheduled transaction
  • List the payee locations
  • Look up a month category
  • List the payee locations by payee
  • Look up a payee
  • Look up a budget
  • Look up an account
  • Look up a budget month
  • Look up an authorized user
  • Look up the budget settings

Write and send

Early access

It's built to ask before anything is sent or paid.

  • Update a transaction
  • Update a scheduled transaction
  • Create a transaction
  • Create a category
  • Create a scheduled transaction
  • Update the transactions
  • Update a category
  • Update a month category
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  • Update a payee
  • Create a new account in a budget

Manage

Early access

It tidies up and changes things in Ynab.

  • Delete a transaction
  • Delete a scheduled transaction

Why Use DuckyHelper?

Works in Ynab like you do

  • Early access: it sees Ynab on your screen and works in it with its own cursor, while you keep using yours
  • Nothing to set up: it works in Ynab signed in as you
  • Finishes multi-step jobs across Ynab and your other apps

Built to ask before it sends or pays

  • Built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything
  • Built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you
  • It listens and looks only while the pill is open

Shows you, not just tells you

  • Explains Ynab out loud and draws right on your screen
  • Works it out with you on a blackboard when you want to learn it

Always there, in every app

  • Press one key in any app and ask out loud: fn on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux
  • Runs jobs on a schedule (early access)
  • For Mac, Windows and Linux

Want it in every app you use?

One account works in every app on your computer. Try it for 10 minutes, no card, then pick a plan.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

On your screen, the way a person at your computer would. Press fn (Ctrl+Shift+Space on Windows and Linux) and ask about what you see in Ynab: it answers out loud and can draw on Ynab to show you where things are. In early access on Mac it also works in Ynab with its own cursor, signed in as you, while you keep using yours.

For example: “List the budgets and update a transaction” and “Create a category in Ynab”. Or ask about what you see: “Show me how to create a transaction”. Doing the work for you is in early access on Mac.

No. Open Ynab and sign in yourself, the way you always do. DuckyHelper works in the window you have open, signed in as you. It's built not to type your passwords or card numbers for you.

It's built to ask first before it sends a message or pays for anything, and to wait for your yes. It may not recognize every send or payment, so keep an eye on tasks that involve messages or money.

Yes. Press one key and ask out loud. It answers out loud while you keep working, draws on your screen to show you where things are, or works it out with you on a blackboard.

Yes. DuckyHelper works in any app on your computer, so one job can move between Ynab and the other apps and pages you use.

Doing the work for you is new and in early access on Mac. Asking out loud, drawing on your screen and the blackboard work today on Mac, Windows and Linux.

No. It listens and looks only while the pill is open. When the pill is closed, nothing is heard or seen.

No, there is no charge per app. Try DuckyHelper for 10 minutes with no card. Plus is $20 a month, $14 a month for your first 3 months. See pricing.

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later), Windows and Linux. Download DuckyHelper.

No. DuckyHelper is made by MingLLM, Inc. and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ynab. It works in Ynab the same way you do, on your screen.

Try it in Ynab.Press one key and ask.

It sees Ynab, explains it out loud and does the work with you.Try it for 10 minutes, no card.

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Questions and jobs

Do anything

Ask it a question or hand it a job, in any app.

Doing jobs for you is in early access on Mac. Asking works on Mac, Windows and Linux.