Jars vs Avestor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jars
This app helps you manage your money using the envelope budgeting method. It allows you to divide your bank accounts into virtual "Jars" for specific purposes, providing a clear overview of your spending. It offers smart automation and can be used with connected bank accounts or manually.
- Envelope budgeting with unlimited Jars
- Connects to bank accounts for automatic transaction download
- Smart suggestions for assigning transactions
- Manual account creation option
- Automated deposits with Paycheck Plans
- Shared accounts for family budgeting
- Junior Accounts for teaching kids financial literacy
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A MODERN WAY TO BUDGET How do you know if you can afford something? Do you just look at your bank account balance and hope it's enough? Jars Budgets answers that question using the power of envelope budgeting. It lets you break your bank accounts into small, purposeful containers of money—known as Jars! With an unlimited number of bank connections and unlimited number of Jars, you can know exactly how much money you have for each purpose. If you ever find yourself short in one Jar, you'll immediately know what will be impacted by overspending. Simple. Smart. Secure. Forget complex spreadsheets and manual data entry. Jars connects to all of your bank accounts, allowing you to automatically download your daily transactions. When you're ready to assign them to your Jars, the app learns your habits and makes smart suggestions, so you can finish in seconds. And don't worry! Jars uses industry-leading, private, and secure means of connecting to your accounts. Your bank login credentials are never seen or stored by Jars. We use end-to-end encryption and the best protections from Plaid to ensure your data remains safe and private. Jars also understands not everyone wants to connect their bank accounts. You can still get the full benefits of Jars by easily creating manual accounts that remain disconnected from the bank. POWERFUL, FLEXIBLE FEATURES • All Accounts, One Place Unlike banks that offer sub-account features, Jars works with all of your accounts to give you a unified view of your money. • Smart Automation Our powerful Paycheck Plans let you automate routine deposits into your Jars, saving you time and ensuring your savings goals are always on track. • Built for Collaboration A single Jars membership covers the whole family. Budgeting should be a collaborative effort, and our shared accounts make it easy. • Teach Financial Literacy to the Kids Give your kids a safe, limited view of their own finances with a dedicated Junior Accounts. It's the perfect way to teach financial responsibility early.
Avestor
Build custom alternative investment portfolios alongside fund managers. Access over 200 private funds across real estate, startups, forex, and crypto. Diversify your investments with flexible, transparent, and customizable fund options.
- Customizable investment portfolios
- Access to over 200 private funds
- Invest in real estate, startups, forex, crypto
- Collaborate with fund managers
- Diversify across various markets
- Transparent fund options
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With Avestor, Investors can build custom alternative investment portfolios side by side with fund managers. With over 200 private funds on our platform, Avestor provides investors with the opportunity to invest in asset classes that span commercial real estate, startups, forex, crypto and more. Avestor is the leader in Customizable Funds. These funds give investors more flexibility and transparency than traditional pooled funds. Investors can select the investments they want to allocate their capital into and build a custom portfolio side by side with a fund manager. Investor can join multiple funds to diversify into various markets. The application is only available to existing investors on the platform. New investors must first be approved by a fund manager on the Avestor platform and then be invited into the application.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Avestor at none against Jars's 2. Jars's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Jars sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Avestor asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Jars against 5.0 for Avestor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Jars ships an update every 2 months, Avestor every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jars | Avestor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Greentree Studio, LLC | Avestor, Inc. |
Customer experience
Jars
Avestor
In-app purchases
Jars
- Monthly Plan$9.991 Month
- Annual Plan$79.991 Year
Avestor
No in-app purchases









