Fidelity Charitable vs Daffy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fidelity Charitable
Manage your charitable giving on the go. This app allows you to open a Giving Account, recommend grants to your favorite organizations, and track the status of your contributions and future recommendations. It also provides tools to manage your investment selections and account details.
- Open a Giving Account
- Recommend grants
- Monitor grant status
- View investment selections
- Set up recurring grants
- Nominate NPO Successor
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The free Fidelity Charitable ® app lets you: --Open a Giving Account --Recommend grants --Monitor the status of grants and contributions --See future one-time and recurring grant recommendations Easy ways recommend a grant; --From a list of previously supported organizations --By looking up a new organization --Set up future, one-time, or recurring grant recommendations Other convenient features: --View your current Giving Account investment selections. --Change Giving Account name --NPO Successor Nomination To learn more about Fidelity Charitable, go to FidelityCharitable.org. Fidelity Charitable is the brand name for the Fidelity Investments® Charitable Gift Fund, an independent public charity with a donor-advised fund program. Various Fidelity companies provide services to Fidelity Charitable. The Fidelity Charitable logo is a service mark, and Fidelity Charitable and Fidelity are registered service marks, of FMR LLC, used by Fidelity Charitable under license. Giving Account is a registered service mark of the Trustees of Fidelity Charitable. Fidelity Charitable Privacy Policy: https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/legal/privacy-policy.html
Daffy
This app simplifies charitable giving by acting as a donor-advised fund. It allows users to contribute various assets, receive immediate tax deductions, grow their funds tax-free through investments, and easily donate to charities.
- Contribute cash, stock, ETFs, crypto
- Receive immediate tax deductions
- Invest funds in curated portfolios
- Recommend one-time or recurring donations
- Organize all charitable receipts
- Support over 1.7 million charities
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Daffy at 91% against Fidelity Charitable's 23%. Daffy also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.6) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Daffy holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daffy has 558 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Fidelity Charitable's written reviews are positive against 91% of Daffy's.
Fidelity Charitable ships an update every 5 weeks, Daffy weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fidelity Charitable | Daffy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (24 ratings) | 4.9 (558 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.6% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 558 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Fidelity Investments | Daffy Charitable Fund |
Customer experience
Fidelity Charitable
Daffy
User reviews
Fidelity Charitable
From 24 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Well designed app
- 👍 Great user interface
- 👍 Much better GUI
- 👍 Makes donations simple
- 👍 Simple and Intuitive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes immediately after launch
- 🐛 App crashes upon opening
- 🐛 App is unusable due to login issues
- 🐛 Fidelity steals money with fees
- 🐛 Grants can be held up for months
Daffy
From 558 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to fund and use
- 👍 Simple to contribute from brokerage
- 👍 Amazing and a blessing
- 👍 Incredible app with excellent functionality
- 👍 Makes giving easy
Room to improve
- 💡 Wish for view into overall portfolio performance
- 💡 Unable to change investment aggressiveness after setup
- 💡 Clarity needed on how it works and usage
- 💡 Desire for option to add money, let it grow, then donate for better tax offset
- 💡 Desire for ability to transfer stock directly within Daffy (from robo-advisor)
Bugs and requests
Fidelity Charitable
Reported bugs
38 issues- Latest update crashes immediately after launch
- App crashes immediately after launch
- App references to update which doesn’t work in App Store
- Feedback screen hangs
- Current version crashes
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- Not able to log in
- App no longer working
- Broken login
- Can’t log in
- Face ID not available
- Stuck in security credentials step
- Feedback screen is blank
- Update lost my password
- App doesn’t recognize login credentials
- Login prob
- App errors out when retrieving accounts
- App Stopped Working!
- App errors out
- App Hangs on User Agreement page
- Constantly forgets who I am
- Next to impossible to sign in using fingerprint
- App NOT Working
- Cannot activate FaceID
- Submit button in Feedback section not working
- Touch ID broken
- Crashes on open
- App crashing after TouchID login
- Login issues
- App blows up on login
- Crashes consistently upon loading
- Crashing on login
- Can't get past login screen
- App crashes after login attempt
- App freezes when scheduling future or recurring grants
- Not ready for prime time
- Stopped working with latest upgrade
- Keyboard will not disappear
- App won't accept user ID and password
Requested features
9 requests- Update the green “Contribute” button to match the main Fidelity app style and rename it “Transact.”
- Tapping “Transact” should open a simple menu that lets users contribute or donate from any page
- Allow editing scheduled/recurring donations within the app
- Let me invest in FBTC, the Fidelity Bitcoin Trust
- Add Touch ID support
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- Add ability to grant from a specific fund like you are able to do online
- Add the full website capability in the app, most importantly document manager (confirmations, statement and check images)
- See history of donations to a charity within the app
- Ability to contribute to my account from the app
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
Fidelity Charitable
No in-app purchases
Daffy
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fidelity Charitable free?
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