Comparison

Acorns vs Afterpay

Two neobanks compared on customer sentiment, app-store ratings and regulation.

Best on sentiment
Tie
Best on ratings
Acorns
Best on app quality
Afterpay
Best on review volume
Acorns
Acorns
sentiment
Google Play
App Store
Trustpilot
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Afterpay
sentiment
Google Play
App Store
Trustpilot
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Customer sentiment
NeoBase sentiment
94.7
95.1
App & store ratings
Trustpilot
4.0
4,173 ratings
4.6
237,380 ratings
BEST
Google Play
4.7
408,945 ratings
4.8
169,764 ratings
BEST
App Store
4.8
958,365 ratings
5.0
37 ratings
BEST
Total ratings
1.4M
BEST
407K
Service & responsiveness
1-star reviews
2.4%
1.6%
BEST
Replies to reviews
98%
BEST
95%
Typical reply time
~4 days
BEST
~2 weeks
Markets served
1
10
BEST
Company
Founded
2012
2014
Country
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇺 Australia
Headquarters
Irvine, California, USA
Melbourne, Australia
Status
-
acquired

Recent coverage

Press we captured in the last 90 days: 1 for Acorns, 4 for Afterpay. Not scored - coverage volume says how often a brand is written about, not whether it is doing well.

Acorns
Afterpay

Acorns vs Afterpay: the verdict

Acorns and Afterpay are two neobanks tracked by NeoBase. Here is how they compare across the signals we measure - customer sentiment, store ratings and, for exchanges, MiCA regulation.

Both score around 94.7 out of 100 on NeoBase's composite sentiment index.

Afterpay holds the stronger app-store ratings across Google Play and the App Store.

Across 8 tracked metrics, Afterpay comes out ahead on 5.

How is the winner decided?
For each metric we take the higher value - the higher NeoBase sentiment score, the higher store rating, more ratings, and MiCA authorisation over none. Missing data is not counted.
Where does the data come from?
Ratings and sentiment are aggregated from Trustpilot, Google Play and the App Store; regulation from the official ESMA MiCA register. Scores update every month.
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NeoBase is an independent information platform, not affiliated with the brands compared. Figures are indicative and update over time.