r/portfolios • u/Evening_Hawk_7470 • 15h ago
Best net worth / portfolio tracking apps with stable account connections based on reviews
In the Kubera alternatives thread, a lot of replies came down to one thing: the app is great until your bank or broker connection breaks. So I asked Claude to go through the written reviews of 15 net worth and portfolio apps (App Store, Google Play, and Reviews(.io) for Kubera, about 27,000 reviews collected in October 2026) and to look only at what people say about account connections. Everything is in the tables below, so compare and pick what fits you.
🟢 rarely complained about
🟡 comes up regularly
🔴 one of the top complaints
⚪ not enough data, or most users enter holdings by hand
📊 How often connections break
Share of reviews from the last 2 years that are rated 1–3★ and describe a connection breaking, going stale or needing a re-link. It's a complaint rate, not measured uptime.
| App | Broken-connection reviews | Data providers | Usually broken | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔴 | Wealthica | 32.8% (small sample) | Yodlee | RBC, TD, Scotiabank, Manulife, EQ Bank |
| 🔴 | Quicken Simplifi | 14.8% | Quicken's own | Vanguard, BofA, Venmo, Coinbase, Fidelity |
| 🔴 | getquin | 14.3% | Broker APIs | Trade Republic, Scalable, comdirect, IBKR |
| 🔴 | Monarch | 11.0% | Plaid, MX, Finicity | Canadian banks, 401(k)s, 529s, TSP, Fidelity |
| 🔴 | Copilot | 10.2% | Plaid | Amex, Chase, Fidelity, Schwab, Robinhood |
| ⚪ | Mezzi | 10% (only 20 reviews) | Plaid | — |
| 🟡 | Delta | 9.1% | Exchange/broker APIs | Coinbase, Binance, KuCoin |
| 🟡 | Origin | 6.2% | Plaid, MX, Finicity | TIAA, Voya, Fidelity 401(k), Webull |
| 🟡 | Empower | 5.7% | Yodlee, Plaid | Morgan Stanley, Marcus, TSP, Chase cards |
| 🟡 | Rocket Money | 5.3% | Plaid | Chase, Robinhood, Cash App, Chime |
| ⚪ | Stock Events | 2.1% | Broker linking new in 2026 | — |
| 🟢 | Snowball | 1.7% | Yodlee, Plaid, SnapTrade | Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, Trading 212 |
| 🟢 | Kubera | 0.3% | Plaid, Yodlee, MX | eToro, Trade Republic, non-US banks |
| 🟢 | 8figures | 0.1% | Plaid, Yodlee | - |
Sharesight is left out: too few reviews, and none were about connections.
🔧 What happens when you try to fix it
This is where apps really differ. A dropped connection is annoying. Losing three years of categorized history because of the fix is why people cancel.
| App | Usual fix | What it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| Monarch | Delete and re-add the connection | Edits, rules and history are gone |
| Empower | Delete the account, re-add it | History wiped. Tickets stay open for months |
| Quicken Simplifi | "Disconnect and reset" | Categorized history can be wiped |
| Rocket Money | Re-link the bank | History wiped or duplicated. No manual fallback |
| Origin | Re-sync an expired connection | Account value resets, net worth chart jumps |
| Copilot | Reconnect | Duplicate transactions |
| getquin | Wait for the broker API to come back | Imports have no purchase history |
| Wealthica | Wait for the connector to be fixed | Failed syncs show up as fake losses |
| Delta | Wait in the sync queue, or go manual | Many users give up and enter everything by hand |
| Kubera | Switch to a different data provider | Reviewers say this mostly works |
🧨 How connections fail
| Problem | Where it comes up | What reviewers say |
|---|---|---|
| Stale data that says "synced" | Origin, Empower, Monarch | "says it synced as of 3 minutes ago" but the day's transactions are missing |
| Re-login every day or every 30 days | Monarch (Canada), Simplifi, Empower | "Accounts disconnect every 30d" |
| One institution down for months | getquin, Simplifi, Wealthica | "hasn't worked for 8 months" |
| Investment accounts break more than banks | Monarch, Simplifi, Origin, Empower | 401(k), 529, TSP, Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab named over and over |
| Worse outside the US | Monarch, Wealthica, getquin, Kubera | Canadian banks, Trade Republic, non-US banks |
| Support blames the data provider | Copilot, Monarch, Empower, Snowball | "It's Plaid's fault", which people hate more than the outage |
✅ What I'd look for
| Look for | Why | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| More than one data provider you can switch between | When one gets flaky, you switch instead of waiting | Kubera, the most praised feature in its reviews |
| A reconnect that keeps your history | Most of the anger comes from fixes that wipe data | Nobody gets consistent praise for this |
| A manual "refresh now" and an honest sync status | Stale "synced" labels are worse than a visible error | Most-requested fix in Empower reviews |
| A manual fallback that works | So one broken bank doesn't break your net worth | Delta, Snowball, Stock Events. Rocket Money has none |
Review complaints lean negative and come mostly from people who had problems, so treat the percentages as a comparison between apps, not real failure rates. If your experience is different, especially outside the US, tell me and I'll update the tables.