Even with auto-import, you still have to "approve" each individual transaction that is imported, at which time you can assign it to a category (or approve the auto-suggested category). So that works for me in terms of being aware of spending on a regular basis. And if you manually enter some transactions as you spend, it automatically matches them up with your bank's version of those transactions as you import so you don't end up with duplicates. So it's okay to use it in a hybrid mode where you sometimes enter transactions manually and sometimes wait for them to show up automatically.
I'll give the opposing opinion that YNAB's auto-import works well for me (I use it with a local credit union, 2 credit cards, and an online savings account). In fact, I used my own homebrew budgeting software for over a year before I found that YNAB exists and does everything I needed from my own software plus imports from banks automatically which was my biggest pain point with my own solution (it involved painful csv exports every month). I have been happy with YNAB for a year and a half at this point. Your luck may depend on which bank(s) you want it to work with. I believe their bank import api provider was recently acquired by Plaid so they are now using Plaid (as I understand it).
"We offer a free, monthly renewable plan! This plan lets you wake up 5 URLs every 30 minutes. At the end of the month, we send you a mail with a link to renew your free plan. As easy as could be!" now all I need is a free service to check my email and click the renew link once a month :)
The odd quote placement here made me laugh, though, because it almost looks like you're trying to take part of what someone said and change it by adding more: http://i.imgur.com/Ea77zIr.jpg
Tabula is also the name of a programmable logic company doing fpga-like "3PLDs" where the design implemented varies over time to increase effective size of the logic fabric. (tabula.com)
Several years ago, this app was written in about a month for an iPhone app development contest sponsored by Omniture at Brigham Young University. The app won the contest and was at one point the #1 free iPhone app in the app store. It has since been neglected as its creators moved on to professional careers unrelated to app development, but we thought it would be nice to release the source finally in case anyone can get any use out of it.
