Fidelity Charitable vs Fidelity Mobile Banking
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
Fidelity Mobile Banking
Access your bank accounts on your iPhone to check balances, view transactions, and transfer funds. Securely pay bills, find nearby branches, and deposit checks remotely.
- Check account balances
- View recent transactions
- Transfer money
- Pay bills
- Find locations
- Deposit checks
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The Fidelity Bank mobile app provides simple but powerful anytime account management from your smartphone or tablet. Features: - View real-time account balances and transaction history - Easily deposit checks from your device with Mobile Deposit - Manage your Fidelity Bank Visa® Debit Card with Card Manager - Transfer funds between Fidelity Bank accounts and other financial institutions - Make loan payments - Pay bills, view and modify pending payments, and more
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fidelity Mobile Banking at 4.8 against Fidelity Charitable's 3.6. Fidelity Mobile Banking also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 24) and review sentiment (43% vs 23%). Fidelity Charitable's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, 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.
Fidelity Mobile Banking holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fidelity Mobile Banking has 1.2K 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 43% of Fidelity Mobile Banking's.
Fidelity Charitable ships an update every 5 weeks, Fidelity Mobile Banking every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Fidelity Charitable | Fidelity Mobile Banking |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (24 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.6% of reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 225 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fidelity Investments | The Fidelity Deposit & Discount Bank |
Customer experience
Fidelity Charitable
Fidelity Mobile Banking
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
Fidelity Mobile Banking
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Great app experience
- 💡 Innovative mobile banking features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent login issues
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Unreliable app performance
- 🔒 Security concerns with password resets
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
Fidelity Mobile Banking
Reported bugs
3 issues- Constant need to reset passwords
- Face ID/biometric login not working consistently
- App crashing or freezing on launch
Requested features
3 requests- Improve password management and login reliability
- Enhance app stability and reduce crashes
- Provide better in-app support and troubleshooting
In-app purchases
Fidelity Charitable
No in-app purchases
Fidelity Mobile Banking
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Fidelity Charitable free?
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