SoFi: Bank, Invest & Crypto

This is a great app! I plan on moving my wife and I’s direct deposits here. However, I did have a couple of suggestions. 1. Please add scroll-to-top functionality for clicking at the top of the screen. 2. Separate all of the SoFi articles and such either into a separate tab or separate area. Most people want the “home” of their finance app to just be account overviews and such. Not a barrage of articles and suggestions. Also, every time the app is opened, it loads all of this stuff which is probably slowing it down a bit. 3. Add the ability to remove some of the “Accounts” at the very top of the Home tab. Such as life insurance (which I already have through my employer) and Student Loan Refi. 4. Refine the ability to create and maintain budgets. I’d even be willing to pay for this feature if it is refined enough. Monarch is able to charge $100/year for their budgeting app. By refine, I mean: a.) Add other connection options (Plaid is the main one, but doesn’t work with some providers). An example of one I’ve seen in Monarch is MX. b.) Make it so that reoccurring charges can be added/modified/maintained. Currently, they can only be recategorized. And it’s not picking up on my monthly mortgage payment from what I can tell as well as one of my utility bills. c.) Add the option to view all daily/monthly/yearly reoccurring charges at once. Currently, “reoccurring activity” only allows you to add or manage accounts. Pretty useless in my opinion as it is right now.

I am currently trading in 7 platforms right now. SOFI is my second favorite platform. I came back today in Sofi to add more money to my IRA and noticed that some stocks that I have I am not able to buy it anymore. I can only sell it but then I realized why I can’t buy it anymore. Sofi actually trying to help me to not keep losing money to those stocks that became penny stocks and then later on do a 1 to 25 - 1 to 100 reverse split. Thank you sofi for saving me. 😁. I do have couple suggestions though since I have invested quite an amount here and trade. First suggestions: If SOFI could add a modification like modifying an order the amount or the price without cancelling it. It is a hassle to cancel and then redo the order. Maybe try a simple button or something that we can modify an order quicker without canceling? You know what I mean? 😁 I always have issues when I am trying to change and especially when the price went low and wanted to buy the stocks low or even trying to sell it as well. I ended up missing the opportunity on buying it when it is really low and then selling it when it is really high because you have to cancel the entire orders instead of just pressing something to modify it. Second suggestions: If Sofi make a way that we can name our watchlist by category etc… between the 2 suggestions I prefer the first one that I can modify my orders without canceling the entire orders. Other than that SOFI is a great platform and I like it.

This banking app is pretty much “Nerd Wallet” without the checking and savings accounts. Being able to track all your financial accounts, monitor your debt, and have some neat features on the side (like receiving bonus cash just for opening up certain accounts) is really cool. It’s far more convenient to check one app instead of having to open up and check multiple ones trying to find out the information that you want, and I really like that a lot! However, my only complaint about the app so far is how “clunky” everything is when you first log in. I went into settings trying to disable all the irrelevant information that pops up onto my feed cause I like for things to be “minimalistic” and free of clutter, but I wasn’t able to find an option that allows me to do just that. Compared to all the other banking apps, this one certainly has a lot of fluff and extra information in it that I don’t really care or use, whereas my Capital One account just shows my “checking account” and “savings account”. That’s it. And that’s all I want to see. Also, the lack of any widget support kinda bothers me but it isn’t a huge dealbreaker. But it would certainly be nice to have it, so I can quickly glance at how much I have in my account instead of having to log into the account and having my whole screen display my financial information (which isn’t safe if you’re out in public and want to check your account when other people are present). All in all, the app is “okay” but it could be great if they included the features that I’ve listed above.