Commons: Smart Money for Good

Commons App

About this app

Join hundreds of thousands of people using Commons to align their money with their values.

FIND MORE MONEY FOR WHAT MATTERS

With all your spending in one place, Commons helps you find more money to spend on what matters to you by spending less on what doesn’t. Use Watchlists to personalize and track your financial ins and outs. Use Personal Challenges to hone in on one goal for the month. Plus, get weekly personalized spend reports.

TRACK YOUR NO-BUY STREAKS 

Use No-Buy streaks to save money, curb overconsumption, and cut down on waste where it matters most. Whether you want to ditch Amazon Prime or cut back on Fast Fashion, there’s a No-Buy Streak waiting for you.
 
SEE EXACTLY WHERE YOUR MONEY IS GOING 

See trends, savings, and insights across every card and every category. Want to see your environmental impact? Toggle between spending and emissions to track your sustainability 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.  

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 that values 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 support innovative, trustworthy climate solutions around the world. You’ll also find dozens of discounts from expert-rated, sustainable brands. 

MORE SMART SPENDING FEATURES:
• 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.
• 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.

The articles are informative and the challenges are a great way to save money and gain points that can be donated to environmental causes. I uninstalled the app and only use the website for the articles only now because I find that the CO2 footprint tracker is inaccurate and focuses only on what you spent, not on what you don't.

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

What’s new

Do you want more money for what matters? With Watchlists, your guilt-free financial life is personalized. Make lists for your financial ins and outs and get insights to stay up-to-date on your progress.