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A personal loan can beat a credit card on rate, but it can't fix the pay-period gap that built the balance, and that gap is what decides if it stays paid off.
The debt-vs-savings debate skips one step: whether your paycheck timing creates a gap that manufactures new debt, no matter which side you pick first.
Semi-monthly and biweekly pay break a budget in different ways. See exactly where each schedule fails and how to fix it by date, not paycheck count.
The usual roundups rank the same shared dashboards and manual privacy toggles. See why couples shouldn't have to configure privacy account by account.
Two households with the exact same monthly bills can need very different sized emergency funds, and the three-to-six-month rule cannot tell you why.
Two households can carry identical overall credit utilization and still land on very different scores. Here is the per-card math most explainers skip.
Most credit card payoff advice assumes extra cash you don't have. This plan works around the paychecks you're actually getting, not a bigger one.
Most YNAB alternative roundups compare price and syncing. The real gap is whether a tool projects forward or just categorizes what's already spent.
See the exact split between interest and principal in a minimum payment, this billing cycle and fifteen years from now, with the full math shown.
Paying down a card usually helps your score, but the date you pay matters as much as the amount, since issuers report the statement balance, not the paid one.