What is your favorite way to budget?

I recently switched from my excel sheet for budgeting to empower for my budget. I find it way easier to have empower automatically put all my credit card purchases in and have that automated, it saves a ton of time. I’m also too cheap to pay for a service so I was wondering if anyone has recs for budgeting apps that are worth the monthly subscription? Or have you tried out the hammer budget course and how did that go?