NWPS vs WSECU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NWPS
Manage your employer-sponsored retirement plan. View account balances, investment holdings, and personal rates of return. Track your salary deferrals directly within the app.
- View account and vested balances
- Review individual investment holdings
- Check daily share prices
- Display personal rate of return
- Track salary deferrals
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Review and manage your employer sponsored retirement plan with NWPS. • View your account and vested balances in your retirement plan • Drill down into your account balance to review your individual investment holdings, your share balances and daily share prices of your investment holdings • Display your monthly, quarterly and annual personal Rate of Return • Review how much you are deferring into your retirement plan from your salary
WSECU
Manage your finances with a refreshed mobile banking experience. Securely sign in, transfer funds, deposit checks remotely, and make loan payments. Customize your view with dark mode and stay informed with account alerts.
- Secure biometric sign-in
- Money transfers
- Remote check deposit
- Loan payments via debit/credit
- Card lock/unlock
- Account alerts
- Dark mode
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Discover fresh features and a fresh look with the new WSECU Mobile Banking app. Navigate intuitively, choose dark mode and stay up to date on each step of your financial journey. Features and benefits include: • Sign in securely using biometrics. • Transfer money. • Deposit checks without visiting a branch or ATM. • Make loan payments using debit or credit. • View scheduled payments and transfers. • Temporarily lock and unlock your cards. • Create and manage account alerts. • Activate dark mode to save energy. • Find your nearest branch or ATM.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WSECU at 4.4 against NWPS's 2.3. WSECU also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 3). NWPS's advantage is review sentiment (47% vs 13%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
WSECU holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WSECU has 2.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of NWPS's written reviews are positive against 13% of WSECU's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NWPS ships an update every 2 months, WSECU every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NWPS | WSECU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.4 (2.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better | 12.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #202 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 401 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Northwest Plan Services, Inc. | Washington State Employees Credit Union |
Customer experience
NWPS
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In-app purchases
NWPS
No in-app purchases
WSECU
No in-app purchases
