Comparison

Cauze vs Daffy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cauze

Create a personal foundation to manage your charitable giving. Discover and support over 2 million charities, automate monthly donations, and track your generosity to build a habit of giving.

Highlights
  • Create a personal foundation
  • Search and give to 2M+ charities
  • Add local charities to profile
  • Set monthly giving goals
  • Automate monthly donations
  • Track all giving in one place
Features
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Description: Unleash Your Good with a Personal Foundation on the Cauze App. Cauze is the app for the altruistic, the philanthropists, the samaritans, the benevolent, the advocates, the humanitarians, the compassionate, and the kind. The people who realize this world is what we make of it. Those who give back and those who give a damn. Features: - Name your personal foundation. - Search and give to over 2M charities (yes, even the ones in your neighborhood). - Add your favorite local charities to your profile as an outward expression of the causes you care about. - Build a habit of generosity with a Monthly Giving Goal: track all your giving in one place, receive reminders to keep you on track, and celebrate your impact every month. - Cauze RECUR - a new way to give monthly! Automate monthly donations to as many nonprofits as you want from one simple dashboard for as little as $1. Cauze empowers changemakers to amplify their good to create a lifetime of giving, and is influencing a new generation of philanthropists to unleash more good into the world. Cauze - The Social Network for Social Good.

About

Daffy

This app simplifies charitable giving by allowing users to set aside funds, invest them tax-free for growth, and donate to any U.S. charity. It consolidates donation receipts for easy tax tracking and supports various asset types for contributions.

Highlights
  • Set aside funds for charity
  • Invest funds tax-free
  • Donate to any U.S. charity
  • Track donation receipts
  • Contribute with cash, stock, crypto
  • Recurring contributions
Features
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Make giving a habit with Daffy, the Donor-Advised Fund for You™. Set money aside for the causes you care about and give to more than 1.7 million U.S. charities—all in one modern app. Think of a donor-advised fund like a 401(k) or IRA—but for charitable giving. You contribute today, receive an immediate tax deduction, your balance can grow tax-free, and you decide when and where to give. - Fund your giving. Contribute cash, publicly traded stock, ETFs, crypto, or other appreciated assets. - Get your tax deduction. Receive an immediate charitable tax deduction in the year you contribute—even before you've chosen a charity. - Grow your impact. Invest your balance in expert-built portfolios—including Conservative, Standard, ESG, and Crypto—or build your own from more than 680 ETFs and 2,200 individual stocks. - Give anytime. Recommend one-time or recurring donations to nearly any IRS-qualified charity, whenever you're ready. - Stay organized. Keep all your charitable donation receipts in one place, making tax season simple. More than $1 billion has already been set aside for charity through Daffy. We're one of the nation's largest donor-advised funds by account count, and Fast Company named Daffy one of the Most Innovative Companies of 2024. "Daffy provides access to the lowest-cost, and lowest-friction, way to set up and use a DAF, a kind of 401(k) for charitable giving." — TechCrunch "Daffy has helped us be so much more intentional with our giving." — Chris Hutchins, All the Hacks Download Daffy for free today and make giving a habit. Sources: (1) https://tinyurl.com/yfd2ydf5 (2) https://www.allthehacks.com/giving-adam-nash/

Screenshots

Cauze4 screens
Daffy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Daffy at every 6 days against Cauze's every 2 months. Daffy also leads on ratings volume (528 vs 4). Cauze's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cauze against 4.9 for Daffy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daffy has 528 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Cauze's written reviews are positive against 90% of Daffy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cauze ships an update every 2 months, Daffy every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cauze versus Daffy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCauzeDaffy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.9 (528 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.3% of reviews
Number of ratings4528 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB92 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCauze Charitable FundDaffy Charitable Fund

Customer experience

Cauze

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Daffy

All ratings528 ratings
Positive98.3%
Neutral0.6%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive90.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.7%

Bugs and requests

Cauze

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Daffy

Requested features

4 requests
  • View into overall performance of personal portfolio
  • Option to add money, let it grow, then donate for better tax offset
  • Ability to transfer stock directly within Daffy from robo-advisor
  • Allow use in the UK for UK charities

In-app purchases

None

Cauze

No in-app purchases

None

Daffy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cauze free?
Cauze is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daffy free?
Daffy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cauze or Daffy?
Cauze is rated higher. Cauze averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Daffy averages 4.9 from 528 ratings.
Do Cauze or Daffy have ads?
Neither Cauze nor Daffy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cauze or Daffy?
Cauze ships an update every 2 months, and Daffy every 6 days. Most recently, Cauze was updated on September 7, 2026 and Daffy on September 21, 2026.

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