Questions people ask about Stridefly

When your group opens, we email you the steps. You install TestFlight, Apple's free app for trying apps before they reach the App Store, then install Stridefly from it in a couple of taps.

Stridefly is free for beta testers during the beta. After launch, you can keep using it for free with accounts you add by hand or import from files. Connecting a bank or brokerage needs a subscription, monthly or annual, and starts with a 30-day free trial when you first connect, with no payment details needed. We'll share prices soon.

From subscriptions. After launch, connecting a bank or brokerage needs a monthly or annual subscription. We don't show ads, and we never sell your personal information or share your financial data for advertising.

Join the waitlist on this site. The beta is for people in the US with an iPhone on iOS 18 or later who will use Stridefly with their real accounts. We invite people in small groups and email you when your group opens.

We're running the beta to gather feedback and improve Stridefly based on what testers tell us. When it's ready, we'll launch it publicly on the App Store and email everyone on the waitlist and in the beta. We're aiming for early 2027.

You use Stridefly with your real accounts before it reaches the App Store. It's still being finished, so you may run into a few rough edges, and we want to hear about them. Send a bug report or a feature request from Settings in the app, and we use what testers tell us to improve each update.

Stridefly is built on services you already trust. You connect your banks through Plaid, you sign in with Apple, and your financial data is saved on your phone and in your own iCloud, encrypted by Apple. We don't keep a database of our customers' finances. How Stridefly keeps your data safe →

Your accounts, balances, transactions, budgets and positions are saved on your phone and in your own iCloud account. We don't run a financial database that stores them. You can lock the app with Face ID and hide your balances with a tap.

You do. Your financial data is saved on your phone and in your own iCloud, not in a database of ours, and you can export a copy from Settings whenever you like.

Yes, on its way to your phone. When you connect a bank or brokerage, your data passes encrypted through our connection service, which keeps no copy of your balances, positions or transactions. It keeps only what it needs to run: an encrypted key and the institution's name for each connection, a code Apple provides for your Stridefly account (plus your name and email if you choose to share them), basic device details such as the app version and notification token, and request logs. Ticker symbols pass through it when the app looks up prices. The Safety and privacy page has the details.

No. You sign in on Plaid's secure screen or on your bank's own site, so your bank sign-in stays between you, Plaid and your bank. You can disconnect an institution at any time.

No. We never sell your personal information, and we don't share your financial data for advertising or marketing.

No. Analytics are off until you turn them on, and you can change your choice in Settings. They never include your name, email, financial data or account details.

Yes. Export your data whenever you like. When you're signed in, Erase device data removes your financial data from your phone and its iCloud copy, and Delete Account also removes your Stridefly account and disconnects your institutions. Both are in Settings, and Delete Account cannot be undone.

Most money apps are built around one job: a budget, a net worth number, your investments or a list of subscriptions. Stridefly brings your accounts, your budget and your investments together and gives each the same care. You can import your history from CSV files and keep your current app while you try Stridefly. See how Stridefly compares

No. Stridefly compares your portfolio with targets you set and shows the amounts that would bring it back in line. It does not recommend investments and it does not place trades.

No. You can add your accounts by hand without signing up, and demo mode lets you try Stridefly with sample data. You sign in with Apple only if you choose to link a bank, or to subscribe.

The whole app with sample data. Pick one of three households and explore net worth, budgets and transactions, and investing with allocation, a rebalance plan and income. It needs no account, and you can leave it from Settings.

Yes. You can import transactions, positions and years of net worth history from CSV files, so you don't start from zero. Most transaction formats are detected automatically, rows that can't be read are skipped and listed, and possible duplicates are flagged for you to review.

When you start, a "Getting started" card on Home lists a few first steps, such as adding the other kind of account and setting a monthly target. Once you have a full month of spending, Stridefly suggests a monthly budget from your recent months, which you can use with one tap or replace with your own.

Stridefly connects to US banks, card issuers and brokerages through Plaid, bringing in balances, transactions and investments. To check yours, search US institutions in Plaid's coverage explorer (plaid.com/docs/institutions).

You can still track it. Add the account by hand, or import its transactions or positions from a CSV file, and it counts in your net worth and budget like any other.

Checking, savings, credit cards, brokerage and retirement accounts, health savings accounts (HSA), 529 education savings and UTMA custodial accounts. Loans such as a mortgage can be connected through Plaid or added by hand, and property like your home is added by hand.

It needs iOS 18 or later, which runs on iPhone XR, iPhone XS and newer, and on iPhone SE (2nd generation) and newer. To check your version, open Settings, then General, then About.

Not today. Stridefly is an iPhone app and needs iOS 18 or later.

Not today. Stridefly is an iPhone app.

Not today. Connecting a bank works with US institutions only.