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What It Is

Peek for YNAB is a Chrome extension designed to help YNAB users quickly check their spending plan. It shows the current month’s Available amount for categories and the Working Balance for accounts, and emphasizes that the data reflects the current state of your YNAB budget. If bank transactions have not yet been imported, they will not appear in the extension.

Core Features

The product focuses on lightweight actions from the browser. Users can view category and account balances, pin frequently used categories and accounts, and reorder them via drag and drop. They can also add transactions directly from the extension and view recent transactions. For reminders, it supports alerts for overspending, newly imported transactions, and reconciliation, although system notifications are described as experimental and may have limited reliability. It also supports split transactions, multiple budgets, multiple currencies, dark mode, and the Alt/Option+Shift+Y shortcut to open the popup.

Pricing and Integrations

The captured text does not disclose plans, pricing, a free version, trial information, or payment methods. In terms of integrations, it clearly depends on YNAB: the extension retrieves budget, category, account, and transaction status data from YNAB. If users use YNAB Direct Import, transactions entered through the extension are handled like manually entered transactions in YNAB, and once matching bank imports arrive, they need to be approved in YNAB.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are a lightweight entry point and fast operation, making it suitable for frequent budget checks and quickly logging expenses. Support for multiple budgets, multiple currencies, and split transactions also improves practicality. The drawbacks are that it is a third-party extension, and the FAQ explicitly says not to contact YNAB support for help. Key details such as security and compliance, data storage, permission scope, and SLA are not covered in the main text, and system notifications are still experimental.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is best suited for individual users who already use YNAB and want to quickly check balances and enter transactions from a desktop browser. If you need enterprise-grade permissions, auditing, team collaboration, or local deployment, the text does not indicate that these capabilities are available. Access from China cannot be determined from the text alone. In addition, the experience with YNAB accounts, bank imports, and foreign-currency payments may be affected by network and payment conditions, so YNAB’s official apps or local bookkeeping/budgeting tools may be worth considering as alternatives.