Comparison

StashBox.ng vs Aella MFB

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

Head to head
About

StashBox.ng

This app helps users save and invest money with flexible plans and competitive interest rates. It also offers opportunities to earn through referrals and provides access to car lease financing. Funds invested are lent to licensed pharmacists in Nigeria.

Highlights
  • Flexible savings plans
  • Investment opportunities
  • Referral bonuses
  • Car lease financing
  • Digital lending to pharmacists
  • Quick withdrawals
Features
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StashBox App allows users Save, Invest and On-lend. Users save daily, weekly, monthly, or casually by linking debit cards or funding in-app Wallet. Savers earn between 0-13% per annum interest on 7 flexible savings plans while investors earn between 10-18% per annum. Save with tenor, without tenor; in NGN, in USD; short term, long term; with card or wallet; Save individually or invest in groups. Earn N1,000 when you refer a new saver or earn up to 50% p.a when you sign up for Investment referral network. Withdrawal takes only 5 seconds. Invested funds are availed digitally to licensed and regulated Pharmacists in Nigeria as loans up to N2m via the same app. Savers enjoy car lease finance to procure vehicles after saving 50% vehicle cost on the app. Save anyhow, anywhere and anytime with StashBox. StashBox is the Most Innovative Financial Technology company in Africa according to Africa Banking Brands Award 2020. Don’t miss out. Please download StashBox now.

About

Aella MFB

This finance app offers loans, investments, bill payments, and micro-insurance. It simplifies financial access for individuals and businesses, especially in emerging markets, by leveraging technology. Features include address verification through location monitoring for enhanced transaction limits.

Highlights
  • Loans
  • Investments
  • Bill payments
  • Micro-insurance
  • Peer-to-peer transfers
  • Address verification via location monitoring
Features
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Aella MFB takes the hassle out of Finance - whether you are a business or an individual, we put control back in your hands with simple, straightforward products. Our "true north" is designed to help customers build financial independence by building simple products; loans, investments, bill payments, micro-insurance plans, and peer-to-peer money transfers. Why Aella MFB? We exist to simplify and open up financial access for all in emerging markets - by leveraging technology and widespread mobile adoption, we build products to make an impact at the frontier of Financial Inclusion. Our app has a feature for verifying addresses, which requires the ability to monitor regions and receive location updates in the background. This feature is essential for accurately verifying a user's address and providing access to higher loan limits and tier 3 level transaction limits. We have created a video showcasing this feature, which we have attached for your reference. You can see in the video how the app monitors a user's location and registers a region around their address. Once the user has visited the region a certain number of times, the address is verified. We understand that enabling the "Location" background mode can have an impact on battery life, and we have taken steps to minimize this impact. For example, we only monitor regions that are explicitly registered by the user and don't monitor location updates when the user is outside registered region. We believe that our use of the "Location" background mode is essential for the core functionality of our app and we have demonstrated this in the video.

Screenshots

StashBox.ng4 screens
Aella MFB4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: StashBox.ng at 83% against Aella MFB's 38%. StashBox.ng also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Aella MFB's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (200 vs 20). On price, update cadence, 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

Aella MFB holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Aella MFB has 200 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of StashBox.ng's written reviews are positive against 38% of Aella MFB's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StashBox.ng ships an update every 3 weeks, Aella MFB every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
StashBox.ng versus Aella MFB: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStashBox.ngAella MFB
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (20 ratings)4.6 (200 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better37.5% of reviews
Number of ratings20200 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStash Fintech LtdAella Microfinance Bank Limited

Customer experience

StashBox.ng

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

Aella MFB

All ratings192 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral4.2%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive37.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative62.5%

In-app purchases

None

StashBox.ng

No in-app purchases

None

Aella MFB

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StashBox.ng free?
StashBox.ng is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aella MFB free?
Aella MFB is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StashBox.ng or Aella MFB?
Aella MFB is rated higher. StashBox.ng averages 4.3 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Aella MFB averages 4.6 from 200 ratings.
Do StashBox.ng or Aella MFB have ads?
Neither StashBox.ng nor Aella MFB shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StashBox.ng or Aella MFB?
StashBox.ng ships an update every 3 weeks, and Aella MFB every 2 weeks. Most recently, StashBox.ng was updated on November 3, 2026 and Aella MFB on November 5, 2026.

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