Comparison

Awaken Tax vs Ascend

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

Head to head
About

Awaken Tax

Manage all your onchain financial assets in one place. Track tokens, NFTs, and DeFi positions across multiple wallets and exchanges. Supports a wide range of popular blockchains and platforms.

Highlights
  • Onchain financial management
  • Token tracking
  • NFT tracking
  • DeFi position tracking
  • Multi-wallet support
  • Multi-exchange support
  • Support for Ethereum, Solana, Sui, Coinbase, Base
Features
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Track your crypto portfolio and taxes for free. Awaken is trusted by 40,000 users to track billions of dollars of assets. Supports Ethereum, Hyperliquid, Solana, Coinbase, and a whole lot more. All your tokens, NFTs, DeFi positions, perpetuals positions, etc in one place.

About

Ascend

Consolidate all your financial accounts, including investments, real estate, and cryptocurrency, into a single, up-to-date net worth figure. Gain insights into your financial growth and performance with AI-powered analysis and market comparisons.

Highlights
  • Consolidated net worth tracking
  • Read-only account linking
  • AI financial analysis
  • Performance vs. S&P 500
  • Retirement projections
  • Real estate and crypto tracking
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Track net worth across brokerages, manual accounts, your home, and self-custodied crypto — read-only, in one number. Ask an AI that can see your actual holdings. Track manual bank and retirement balances, real estate, and self-custodied crypto for free. Pro adds automatic read-only brokerage sync. Manually entered balances need to be updated by you. Ascend shows how your net worth has grown and what is driving it. ONE CLEAR PICTURE OF YOUR NET WORTH • Your accounts in one place — investments, cash, 401(k)/IRA, home value, and on-chain crypto • Your net worth over time, not just a snapshot • Allocation and holdings across your accounts, combined SEE HOW YOU'RE REALLY DOING • A basic retirement projection built on your real numbers, available for free • Pro: your returns measured against the S&P 500 • Pro: weekly rundown of what moved and why AN AI COPILOT THAT KNOWS YOUR PORTFOLIO • Ask plain-English questions about your money and get answers grounded in your actual holdings • Free includes 15 Ask Ascend messages each month • Pro adds unlimited AI chat with a stronger model • Pro stock research is capped at 30 generations per month; upcoming events and research teasers are available for free PRIVATE AND READ-ONLY, BY DESIGN • Ascend is read-only — it can never move money, trade, or make transfers • It never sees your brokerage password; read-only linking is handled by SnapTrade • Your linked credentials are encrypted at rest with a key separate from the database • Request account deletion from Settings — Ascend immediately locks the account, then revokes supported connections and erases user-scoped app data. If a provider is temporarily unavailable, deletion stays pending for automatic retry. An active App Store subscription does not block deletion, but Apple billing must be managed separately. Ascend is a personal-finance tracker, not a financial advisor, and does not provide investment advice. Membership: Free includes manual accounts, crypto wallets, net-worth history, basic planning, and 15 Ask Ascend messages per month. Pro adds automatic brokerage sync, unlimited AI chat with a stronger model, weekly reports, returns-vs-market, and advanced planning. Monthly and annual Pro subscriptions unlock the same features and renew automatically. Payment is charged to your Apple ID; it renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel in your App Store settings. Prices shown in-app. Terms: https://app.ascendwealth.app/terms.html Privacy: https://app.ascendwealth.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Awaken Tax4 screens
Ascend4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Awaken Tax at none against Ascend's 2. Awaken Tax also leads on ratings volume (96 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Ascend's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Ascend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Awaken Tax asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ascend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Awaken Tax has 96 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Awaken Tax ships an update weekly, Ascend every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Awaken Tax versus Ascend: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAwaken TaxAscend
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (96 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings96 — better3
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB10 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAwaken TaxRYAN KEITH BEALL

Customer experience

Awaken Tax

All ratings96 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ascend

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Awaken Tax

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Ascend

Subscriptions2
  • Ascend Pro Monthly7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Ascend Pro Annual7 Days trial$99.001 Year

Questions

Is Awaken Tax free?
Awaken Tax is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ascend free?
Ascend is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Awaken Tax or Ascend?
Ascend is rated higher. Awaken Tax averages 4.8 out of 5 from 96 ratings, while Ascend averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Awaken Tax or Ascend have ads?
Neither Awaken Tax nor Ascend shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Awaken Tax or Ascend?
Awaken Tax ships an update weekly, and Ascend every 2 days. Most recently, Awaken Tax was updated on November 4, 2026 and Ascend on October 31, 2026.

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