Acorns Early User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.8% of reviews
Neutral7.7% of reviews
Negative experience39.4% of reviews

~ Based on 426 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Acorns Early Safe?

Acorns Early: Kids Money App appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Acorns Early is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 9,791 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,791 App Store ratings for Acorns Early.

Is Acorns Early Legit?

Acorns Early: Kids Money App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Acorns Early is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Difficulty setting up accountss

I had a lot of issues having to re-create passwords unnecessarily for this app

Inconsistent

Was great when it was GoHenry. Since changing to Acorns app, we have had quite a bit of trouble with the card functioning.

Easy to use.

Have three kids on this app. Easy to give them an allowance, spending limits , and track their spending. Been using it for four years now, very happy!

Slow transfers

Not a bad idea, but the transfer from accounts is ridiculously slow, and items are not tracked weekly/monthly. Not worth the $8 a month in my opinion.

Poor navigation - Great app though

I couldnโ€™t find a way to get in touch with the developer. They just have Automated AI tools. The biggest thing this app needs to improve it and would probably give it. Five stars for me is if the daily task list was collapsible and if it auto scrolled to the current day. Or even simpler put Saturday through Sunday tabs at the top of the task list and only show those days on the page. My kids have 10 or more tasks every day that they can check off and having to scroll through 100 tasks by the end of the week is just really poor design.
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No notification optionโ€™s

Having a really hard time liking this app. Unlike GoHenry, this app does not appear to have any ability to send parents notifications. It does not appear in my notifications settings on my phone and within the app settings itself. It has no options to turn on parent notifications.

Great!

No issues!

Excellent for teaching about money!

Excellent for teaching about money!

Why do you want my address? Why?

Iโ€™m seven and they need my Social Security number my address WTH

Great app

Kids are teaching me about money

Z kids

My kids Love it

Why?

It is so hard to login ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜’

Acorn

Amazing app for kids and a great way to trader funds from your account into your childrenโ€™s. Amazing app 8/10

Multiple account linking can be improved

Adding more than one bank account, and labeling them properly is difficult or impossible. Small thing, unless you need it for multiple kids

Customer service

You would expect this so called bank for children to provide excellent customer service because they will be interacting with children, but unfortunately, they do not. They fail to provide any information. FYI, make sure your children do not make any default purchases.

Not Good but Not Bad/ Perfect for parents who want chores to be done!

๐Ÿค I got this app because I wanted to earn more money. First it was super fun! But present time now, no matter how much chores I check off, I still canโ€™t seem to earn any money on my paycheck day. Developer, please let me know how I can fix this!!๐Ÿค

Wonโ€™t refund moneyโ€ฆdonโ€™t use this app

I rarely write reviews, but I feel I must share my experience to help other parents avoid this app. We had this app for several years and my kids are now older teens so we donโ€™t need it. (Honestly after the first week or two they lost interest.) Regardless, I kept putting in an allowance every week for them and they had over $600 in the accounts when we decided to cancel the app. Itโ€™s been over a month and we still canโ€™t get our money back! The first time I called they said it would be 3-5 business days. Then a week later they sent an email stating they needed my bank account information in order to refund our money from the account. (Initially they said it would be refunded to the card on file.) I reluctantly gave them that info and 4 phone calls later, and 3 more weeks have went by with no money returned to me. Yesterday I called again and they said they would have a manager call me by the end of the day. Guess whatโ€ฆstill no phone calls! Please save yourself the hassle and donโ€™t use this app! Your kids wonโ€™t get their saved money back!
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I love the app make my life more easy and for my kids

I m donโ€™t have to worry no more my kids with out money

Amazing

Amazingly so it taught my children to save and teach them skills that arenโ€™t taught in school

Great app

Easy to use