Gil Akos

Astra for iOS - Automate your finances

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Astra helps you achieve your personal savings goals — automatically. Simply connect your bank accounts, create savings goals, and manage the movement of your money with programmable “actions” all in one place.

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Ashley Parikh
This is amazing! So easy to use and get started! I love Otis
Gil Akos
@ashley_parikh 🐙💌 Otis loves you back. Eight tentacles equals big hugs! You can always say hello by emailing him at otis@astra.finance.
PJB VH

I love this app since it helps me save money and time. No more need to login into different banking apps

Pros:

Helps save money and time!

Cons:

None so far.

Jon Brown

No issues so far and they just need to get it on Android so I can use it on my personal phone too!

Pros:

Easy to use app to manage money

Cons:

Waiting on Android, which they said should be here soon!

Gil Akos
It’s true! 🤖Android is the top priority on our development roadmap.
Brette Brier

Great for young professionals starting a savings plan.

Pros:

Use friendly and convenient

Cons:

None

Gil Akos
Thanks for the review Brette! Our goal is to make it super easy to save. Let us know if there are any other ways we can make it even easier!
Davis Baer
Nice work Gil! Looks great :)
Gil Akos
@daviswbaer Thanks! Our team did an amazing job over the past 6 months building this app. Props to all our Makers: @sam_o @zachnolan @diogovk @joshprincipe @teamjordy @melissajoykong!!
Peter Christoff

Astra is simple and easy to use. Would recommend it to anyone.

Pros:

Total ease of use, right from the start.

Bank interaction was seamless.

Great way to set goals and achieve them.

Cons:

Would like to see setup of all accounts before deciding on goal of what to save for.

Gil Akos
Thanks for the review Peter and for taking the app for a spin! It sounds like more flexibility for the onboarding process is in order - we are on it!
Armon Jahanshahi

Astra has given me a new outlook and agency over my finances...where was this tool 10 years ago :p

Pros:

The interface is professional and intuitive.

Allows for clear and realistic goals.

Cons:

I haven't run into any yet.

Gil Akos
Thanks for the great review Armon! At least we can use some automation for the future. Now, about that money time-machine... 🚀
Eileen Soddick

This is a really cool product. It's great because I spend less time worrying and stressing about my finances; everything is automated. Gotta move money to my savings? Nope, Astra's done it already. Need to pay an account once a month? Oh, look, Astra is taking care of it. I also love the goals and need them to ensure I can make it to Greece next summer. Astra for the astronomical savings.

Pros:

An amazing product that replaces the bad mint app I gave up on because it has too many ads.

Cons:

I don't have any yet!

Gil Akos
Thanks Eileen! Less time stressing about your money is good. And I'm going to set up a goal to go to Greece too - sounds wonderful!! 😎
Colin L.
A great product for beginner savers or experienced folks looking to the future. Something useful to anyone who want to improve how they budget, but also just generally good for creating a culture of healthy personal finance. This solves a real pain point for me and so many people I know. It's far more useful than Mint or even other micro-savings features because it actually does the most important part: keeps my savings organized around my goals and what I care about. This could be really interesting. For someone new to personal finance, it helps create healthy habits about saving before buying the products they want instead of using credit and getting into that awful debt cycle. For someone a bit farther along (like myself), it can help me organize my savings goals for the future without maintaining separate accounts or tracking sheets. Great work, Astra team!
Gil Akos
@xolin Thanks Colin! We definitely wanted the app to be useful across a range of use cases. Proud of the whole team who brought this together!
Dave Messina

Astra makes it so easy for me to to move my money to the right place, automatically. And I always know where I'm at with all my accounts in one place. I no longer have to log in to each account separately.

Pros:

So easy to use and so powerful!

Cons:

haven't gotten my wife on it yet. :)