The Top Fintech Apps & Platforms of 2022

25 January 2022

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Acorns
Acorns

It is a financial wellness app that guides users about how to get more return on the invested money by offering videos and articles of financial advisors/experts. It allows customers to deposit and withdraw money whenever they want. Acorn teaches investors how to spend smartly at no overdraft fees, using nationwide ATMs. It also guides how to earn an investment bonus up to 10% from the selected local businesses. The app is supported by leading innovators, press, and investors such as PayPal, CNBC, BlackRock, and Ashton Kutcher.

Addepar
Addepar

Addepar is a performance reporting platform used by individuals, private banks and wealth advisors. The platform consolidates and manages all information across the investment world, providing a broader view and allowing investors to make more informed decisions.

Affirm
Affirm

Affirm is a lending platform that allows users to pay for online purchases in small installments. The company offers interest rates as low as zero percent and allows users to choose plans ranging from three to 36 months so they can pay over time for trips, electronics, furniture and more.

Atom Bank
Atom Bank

Atom Bank is the UK’s first bank designed specifically for digital, offering a range of personal and business banking products including Digital Mortgages by Atom, four market-leading Fixed Saver accounts and secured Business Lending to SMEs. The company, which has no physical branches, allows users to login using face and voice recognition and receive support from a 24/7 customer service team.

Avant
Avant

Avant is an online lending platform and the leading provider of credit alternatives to middle income consumers. Avant offers unsecured personal loans ranging from $2,000-$35,000 with funding as soon as the next business day, and has served more than 600,000 customers worldwide.

Braintree
Braintree

Braintree enables merchants in more than 45 countries worldwide to accept and process payments in more than 130 currencies. It provides payment services to businesses of all sizes. Accepting payment types ranging from credit cards to Venmo, its products help companies that operate online and as marketplaces to bolster security, prevent fraud and safeguard user information.

Chime
Chime

Chime, the fastest growing challenger bank in the U.S. is a technology company focused relentlessly on helping our members achieve financial peace of mind. Chime has all the basic features users appreciate in a fintech app. Americans are increasingly choosing it for its transparency, without hidden fees. Moreover, you get some really useful functions, such as automatic multiple saving options or free use of their ATMs.

Coinbase
Coinbase

The app focuses on the cryptocurrency exchange. It provides information about the relevant tools and introduces the world of cryptocurrency to newbies. Coinbase helps all the beginners and experts of crypto investors to build and manage their crypt portfolio.

Credit Karma
Credit Karma

Credit Karma is focused on championing financial progress for over 100 million members in the U.S., Canada and U.K. While its best known for pioneering free credit scores, its members look for resources as they work towards their financial goals. This includes tools for credit and identity monitoring, credit card recommendations, shopping for loans (car, home and personal), growing their savings* and filing their taxes with Credit Karma Tax -- all for free.

Cuvva
Cuvva

It offers hourly insurance for travel and motor. When a user doesn’t know exactly how many days of coverage he’ll need, he could get a Cuvva insurance for approximately £11.40 per hour. This app works on similar principles as Zego. The company has so far covered more than 40 million hours.

Dave
Dave

Dave is the highest ranked personal financial management app in the country. Dave helps the 4 in 5 Americans who live paycheck to paycheck thrive, not just survive. The company is a financial ecosystem that empowers all Americans with the tools they need to live stable financial lives.

Earnin
Earnin

The app allows users to access up to $500 between paychecks, earn cashback on your purchases, avoid unnecessary overdraft fees, and explore saving options on medical bills. The app uses four tools such as cash out, health aid, balance shield, and cashback rewards to simplify the financial system for the users.

Emma
Emma

It helps the user become truly aware of all his/her expenses. Many people have at least one forgotten subscription which draws money monthly from their accounts and this app will help avoid such situations. Use Emma to gather all your bank accounts into a single app for better management.

Finch
Finch

Finch is an Australian fintech startup, whose main purpose is to convince young people, Millennials, that good financial management can and should be part of their social lives using phones. The app lets you split bills with friends by sending and requesting different sums, or track how much the group spends. These are simply displayed in the app, without the confusing bank-specific details. Thus, you and your friends can improve the management of your common and personal money.

Gravity Payments
Gravity Payments

Gravity Payments is a payment processing platform for small businesses that features lower rates and flexible processing solutions. The company’s platform streamlines financial transaction processing for everything from credit cards to POS systems and even gift cards.

Insurify
Insurify

Insurify is your smart, virtual car insurance agent. It is powered by a robust technology platform that provides fast, accurate, personalized recommendations and quotes to help you make confident decisions about your car insurance coverage and carrier.

Lemonade
Lemonade

Lemonade Insurance Company is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. By replacing brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, Lemonade promises zero paperwork and instant everything. And as a Certified B-Corp, where underwriting profits go to nonprofits, Lemonade is remaking insurance as a social good, rather than a necessary evil.

Liquid
Liquid

QUOINE provides trading, exchange, and next-generation financial services powered by blockchain technology. It was the first global cryptocurrency exchange to be officially licensed by the Japan Financial Service Authority. Liquid is a cryptocurrency one-stop trading portal launched by QUOINE that allows users to access a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges. Liquid enables users to match trades across multiple transactions and cryptocurrencies.

Lumio
Lumio

Lumio is an Intelligent financial mentor for users. Using tailor-made technology to grow their money around their lifestyle, in minutes. Lumio empowers customers to connect their accounts in one place, de-clutter the marketplace and begin growing their money in a meaningful manner.

Mint
Mint

Mint, available online and mobile, brings together a user's total financial life—bank accounts, bills, free credit score, credit cards and investments. It also offers personalized tips and advice to help you make the most of your money and get more out of life. It is a leading personal finance app from Intuit, makes it even easier to manage personal finances, budgets and bill payments.

MoMo
MoMo

Momo offers a mobile, electronic wallet and payment application for iOS and Android devices. Its products help customers in Vietnam make nationwide cash transfers, pay more than 100 types of bills, recharge mobile phone accounts, settle personal loans, and purchase services such as software license and online game cards, airline and movie tickets, etc. The company’s payment system partners with 24 domestic banks and foreign payment networks, including JCB, MasterCard, and Visa.

Monobank
Monobank

It is the first fully mobile bank in Ukraine that does not have any mobile brand across the country. It allows users to pay money to friends, replenish your mobile phone, or pay a communal apartment for free and just with a few clicks on your smartphone. Monobank allows users to make payments, free replenishment, installment purchase, cashback up to 20%, and expense & currency accounting online. The app allows users to track expenses for all goods of each category, analyze what the users spend the most on and make well-informed decisions about the budget.

Nubank
Nubank

Nubank is useful for keeping track of invoices and payments as well as classifying your spending by categories and using Nubank Reward points to cover some expenses. The system updates in real-time, thus always giving an accurate view of your financial situation.

Opploans
Opploans

OppLoans is a leading financial technology platform that provides accessible products and top-rated experience to credit-challenged consumers. The application process takes minutes and the lower interest rate loans are issued in a matter of days. Applicants can apply for loans to cover everything from home and car repairs to family bills, medical emergencies and major purchases.

Oval
Oval

Oval is the one of the smartest solutions available for digital natives to manage their personal finances all in one unique, intuitive app. It speaks to a new generation with flexible income, variable expenses and limited access to financial products. With Oval, everyone can find the tools they need to start small and make their money grow. It lets users pay smart, track expenses, save automatically, realize your goals, and invest easily.

Paytm
Paytm

Paytm is India’s largest payments company that offers multi-source and multi destination payment solutions. It offers comprehensive payment solutions to over 8 million merchants and allows consumers to make payments from any bank account to any bank account at 0% fee. Paytm also offers financial services products such as insurance, mutual funds and operates a domestic payment bank.

Penfold
Penfold

Penfold is a digital pension platform managed fully on mobile phones. Penfold ensures almost 4 million freelancers from the UK to have their retirement period secured. It adapts to their flexible income without interfering with people’s real needs.

Plum
Plum

Plum is an automated savings bot, which doubles up as a wealth-management app for millennials. Plum also offers an easy on-ramp by calculating how much you can responsibly save (or automatically invest). Plum gives daily insights on the account balance and how much it can put away to save, rather than serious analytics.

Pluto
Pluto

The company combines behavioral economics with AI to guide Gen Z towards their financial goals starting in college and beyond. It is backed by Techstars & Barclays, and has been featured on Apple's New Apps We Love. Pluto analyzes a user's finances to create a personalized, gamified financial plan consisting of simple, money-saving challenges it can do to reach a user's saving goals. Pluto also enables a user to anonymously compare his finances against similar peers, even on the same campus. Finally, Pluto bridges the intention-action gap by enabling a user to easily transfer savings into Pluto and providing tips, hacks and deals that help him spend, earn and save better.

PolicyBazaar
PolicyBazaar

PolicyBazaar.com is India's prominent online life insurance and general insurance aggregator. The company is specialized in making comparative analysis of the insurance products. The basis for the comparison is price, quality and key benefits. Based on user input’s, various options in the desired insurance product are showcased to him. To facilitate the user understanding of the products, there are special segments like knowledge.policybazaar and ask.policybazaar. Under these segments, customer queries are answered and information about new insurance products and trends are shared with the users.

Prism
Prism

Prism is a great app if a user struggles with all his regular bills and necessary transactions. The app sends him reminders for all his bills so nothing will be forgotten. It manages all types of transactions, including credits, debts, or simple payments. It also gathers all his accounts in the same app which saves a lot of time and energy, as he no longer has to check different websites for each bill. The current balance and history of his transactions is visible for every account and his financial situation and personal data are secure.

Qapital
Qapital

Qapital offers a personal finance app that encourages users to save for things they want (like a vacation, wedding, or down payment on a home) by making behavior changes to achieve results. The app allows users to set a goal and accumulate savings triggered by everyday behaviors, such as grabbing a morning coffee or ordering take-out.

Revolut
Revolut

Revolut is a well-known app that helps you master financial managerial skills. As well as the basic transactions and balance checks, there are many other features, the system offers instant notifications, monthly reports, and the possibility to set limits for your budget.

Starling Bank
Starling Bank

Starling Bank is an award-winning and fully-licensed bank built to give people a fairer, smarter and more human alternative to the banks of the past. With four different account types – personal, business, joint and euro – and a pioneering payment services proposition for businesses, Starling’s world-class tech reimagines banking for life today, putting the tools people need to feel good about money in the palm of their hand.

Stash
Stash

Stash is pioneering the future of financial services by uniting investing, banking, and education into one seamless experience. Nearly 4 million people use Stash to create the lives they want with the money they have today. At its core, the company believes the status quo established by legacy financial institutions clearly doesn't work for most Americans. That's why it makes products that champion its customers by prioritizing affordability, accessibility, simplicity, and education.

Tala
Tala

Tala provides credit access to people in underserved parts of the world like Kenya, the Philippines, Tanzania and Mexico. Through its app, the company employs alternative data to underwrite potential users that have no traditional credit history.

Toss
Toss

Toss, created by Viva Republica, is a mobile finance app that provides P2P money transfer services. The platform offers a range of financial services in one app, including a financial dashboard, credit score management, customized loan/insurance plans, as well as multiple investment services.

TransferWise
TransferWise

It allows to send money overseas easily and quickly at the cheapest rate. The supports 28 currencies and uses real exchange rate to help foreign businesses and students. Using the app, users can send money abroad at the 8X cheaper rate than the high street banks and at the real exchange rate. TransferWire allows users to send money to friends and family, pay off your loan or mortgage abroad, get paid in multiple currencies, pay bills in another currency, and more.

Trilo
Trilo

Trilo is a user-driven payments network and enables users to earn cashback whenever they pay. Merchants receive their money in minutes. Merchants simply add Trilo to their app, website or shop, and customers can pay in seconds. Trilo uses Open Banking to give consumers and merchants the best experience possible.

Upstart
Upstart

Upstart is the leading AI lending platform partnering with banks to expand access to affordable credit. By leveraging Upstart's AI platform, Upstart-powered banks can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. Upstart's patent-pending platform is the first to receive a no-action letter from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau related to fair lending.

WeFox
WeFox

The InsurTech wefox is a digital platform that connects insurance providers, distributors and customers. It was founded by Julian Teicke, Dario Fazlic, Fabian Wesemann and Teodoro Martino in 2014. It is currently headed by Tasos Chatzimichailidis. The company has set out to reinvent the way people experience insurance: by simplifying its complexities, ensuring total transparency and eliminating inconvenience. wefox knows that 91% of all insurance products are still sold by human agents. That’s why it focuses on brokers as the most important distribution channel. The platform has become a trusted digital home for the insurance industry. wefox is a technology, services and data company that has build the underlying platform for the insurance ecosystem of the future. It is able to provide its service for all insurance companies in the market.

WeLab
WeLab

WeLab’s improves lives through gamechanging technology and innovation. The company’s lending platforms are powered by WeDefend, the company’s proprietary risk management technology, which combines machine learning and big data technologies to deliver a streamlined risk management and customer experience. The company acts as a platform for users to apply for credit using their mobile phones in the B2C segment, while offering fintech-driven solutions to traditional financial institutions in the B2B segment.

Wealthsimple
Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is a financial company on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by providing products and advice that are accessible and affordable. Wealthsimple started by providing smart, simple investing, without the high fees and account minimums associated with traditional investment management. It invests its clients money in a globally diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds, and our cutting-edge technology helps customers earn the best possible return.

eToro
eToro

eToro's platform enables people to invest in 2000+ assets, from stocks and commodities to crypto assets. eToro is a global community of more than 13 million registered users who share their investment strategies, and anyone can follow and copy the approaches of those who have been the most successful. Users can easily buy, hold and sell assets and monitor their portfolio in real-time.

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