Commons: Smart Money for Good

Commons App

About this app

Join hundreds of thousands of people using Commons for a better wallet and a better world.

GET MORE FROM YOUR MONEY

Find all the tools you need to spend on what matters and save where it counts. Use Commons to see all your spending in one place, get weekly updates on your spending, and stay on top of your savings goals. 
With streaks, you can save money, curb overconsumption, cut down on waste, or all of the above. Plus, every Monday, you can use your Spend Report to see where you spent last week and get insights on how to save this week.

DISCOVER BRANDS YOU CAN TRUST

Skip the greenwashing with hundreds of expert sustainability ratings. Our experts have rated hundreds of brands’ sustainability efforts based on their accountability, materials, circularity, and marketing. Search before you shop to compare brands’ sustainability and find verified reviews from a dedicated community of people who value quality, durability, and circularity.

SEE YOUR MINDFUL SPENDING PAY OFF

With Commons, you’ll get gift cards as you earn points for good spending choices. From taking public transit to thrifting, earn points on hundreds of everyday spending choices. Redeem your points for gift cards from sustainable brands or by supporting innovative, trustworthy climate solutions around the world. You’ll also find dozens of discounts from expert-rated, sustainable brands.

MORE SMART SPENDING FEATURES: 

• Real-time Footprint Tracker: See the emissions of each purchase and track your progress over time. To give you the most accurate carbon footprint, Commons calculates the emissions of each transaction based on your carbon profile and what you purchased. 

• Monthly Collective Challenges: Together, thousands of users buy less and buy better to make a bigger impact. Our challenges have included: Skip Amazon, Shop Secondhand, Boycott Fast Fashion, and more. 

• Personalized Insights: Transaction by transaction, get tips and insights to improve your spending over time. 

• Trusted offsets for any budget: Offsets are a way to compensate for our unavoidable emissions. When you offset your emissions with Commons, you invest in a vetted, diverse portfolio of climate solutions that are lowering global emissions, supporting local communities, and restoring ecosystems.  

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Ratings and reviews

I've been using this app for about a month and it feels more like a marketing center for their partnered brands than a budgeting or sustainability app. The app constantly shames you for your purchases while trying to get you to buy from their overpriced partners instead. Example: every supermarket except for the one they're partnered with isn't "doing enough" for the environment, even though it won't even let you browse their stock without signing up for a subscription. Skip this app.

Love this app and the different challenges! I wish there were more options for a sustainable purchases. I shop mostly secondhand, and it's frustrating that Goodwill purchases are the only ones I get rewards for. I also take the bus and put money on a bus card, yet for all the promotion of using public transportation, that transaction isn't recognized by the app as a sustainable purchase. This isn't to say I don't love the app, I just wish they could expand the sustainable purchase options

I like this app! It's nice that there's educational articles, community challenges, and store alternative recommendations! I also like the spending tracking. The one gripe is that, when it comes to the emissions scores on stuff/amount of points you earn for buying from sustainable stores, they only count the stores they're partnered with! I put effort into researching sustainable stores (that they don't always have that type of in their recommendations, btw!), only for the affiliate stores count

What’s new

Offset at your own pace: Now, you can offset any purchase and support our verified portfolio of science-backed climate solutions.