As a basic budgeting approach, they both seem to utilize the same “envelope budgeting” ( categorize money that’s actually in your account) approach, which seems way more intuitive than the traditional “forecast budgeting” (predict your expected earnings and expenses in a month and assign future earnings to future expenses) approach.

I actually found Every Dollar to be very good at forecast budgeting, by allowing you to plan every paycheck amount and date. And then show you a day by day forecast of your balance throughout the month. I don't see anything like that in ynab.

I understand that YNAB doesn't have that, lechatchila

YNAB and frum.finance very much try to move you away from forecasting.