YNAB You Need A Budget

[whatever]

+1 for WM application

[lizaoreo]

I'll throw in my vote for this. Just got my wife a Focus and I'm looking to upgrade from my iPhone as soon as the C&P update rolls out

[dfields]

+2

My wife and I both just got WP7 phones (HTC Trophy from Verizon) and really like them. We'd definitely pay for a YNAB app if there was one. I've even considered trying to write one myself (in all that "spare" time I have laying around ).

(Full Disclosure: I work at Microsoft as a software developer.)

[nathaneilw]

+1 for Window Phone 7

[jasonkruys]

+1 more. I got bored of waiting for the Android version, and didn't get into beta, so I switched my HD2 back to WP7. Liked it so much, I bought an HD7 for the 'proper' experience....

[rocksteadyequine]

I love my HD7, I'm definitely waiting on a windows 7 app!

[Belua]

+1 for a Windows Phone 7 version. I love my HTC7 Pro, but finding a decent budget app which also has a good desktop counterpart has proven more or less impossible. I also love YNAB, and I'd hate to abandon it for an inferior product like Toshl just because I can use it on both platforms.

[RTuring]

+2 for Window Phone 7

[thailer]

Count me in as well

[blackdiamond]

The original post on this thread was on Thu Jun 24, 2010 at 8:52 am. A more recent thread indicates that the current market share for Windows is still under 4%. I assumed that they were newer to the market and some were expecting them to make significant gains. It doesn't appear that it has happened in the past 2+ years yet which means there's little reason to assume that people will suddenly switch from Android and iPhone in the future. I would suspect that Windows would need a solid market share compared to Android and iPhone before YNAB could justify the cost of developing yet another app.

[patrick59au]

I was hoping to move to the lumia 920 win 8 from ip4s but because there is no YNAB for win, I am stuck with iOS

[rodeoclown]

At this stage there is absolutely no plan for a windows 7 version, it's just not going to happen.
As for Windows 8, we're taking our usual wait and see approach, but they would have to take off in a BIG way before we make an app for it.

Just to throw some numbers around to help show why:

Assume there's 100,000,000 (one hundred million) iPhones in use now (this is probably significantly understated)
Assume there's 20,000 copies of YNAB running on iPhones (I don't know the numbers at all here so this is purely a guess)
That means that one in every 5,000 people with an iPhone have bought YNAB, at a cost of $5 = $100,000 (like I said, this number is based on some terrible assumptions, but you can see that it isn't that much money - especially after Apple takes 30%!).

As of December 2011, there were 5 Million Windows 7 phones sold. Assuming they've doubled that now, that would mean we'd be working from a base of 10,000,000.
If we assume the same level of YNAB apps sold (1 in 5000), then we could possibly have 2,000 copies of YNAB sold (and this is a HIGH estimate). At $5 a piece, we're talking $10,000 total revenue. At best! It would probably be significantly less.

I'd imagine we're actually losing money on the iPhone and Android apps at the moment based purely around those guesses above (and I haven't seen the numbers for those apps, so I could be wrong), but they are so useful, and make the desktop app work so much better that we want to keep developing them. So looking at these (very simple, and wrong) numbers, you can see why we are very much waiting to see what happens with the new Windows 8 Phones. $10,000 is not much money at all when you are talking about hiring a developer full time to get the app built and integrated with the desktop/cloud sync, along with support and bug fixes, and ongoing improvements and development. It might still happen, but I wouldn't hold your breath!

[Will]

I was hoping to move to the lumia 920 win 8 from ip4s but because there is no YNAB for win, I am stuck with iOS

I'd much rather have a YNAB-less Windows phone (which I do) than an iPhone (which I used to).

[kalindu]

i also want an app. a window app. currently using a nokia lumia 900

[clayschu]

How about for windows phone 8? I switched from iOS and this is the one app I don't have a solution for! Heck, I'd write one myself if you'll let me! Sounds like a fun project and a good way to get used to a (kinda) new platform.

Just noticed above where you said not likely. Kinda what I expected. The offer to write one still stands but I assume you don't want to give away your secrets!