Akimbo - Budgets and Allowance

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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 3518 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Great card, nice app no real fees unless you use an atm

   I use my Akimbo card to do medical and dental copays with my ex-wife (with whom i share custody) and my older kids who don’t live at home any more. I’ve got the card set up with direct deposit from work and then have automatic transfers for her and for one of my older kids who needs regular medication. It’s easy to use, you can have a bunch of cards, you can easily & instantly transfer between cards and I don’t need to worry about sudden copay bills because my ex took the kids to the doctor and didn’t tell me. The deal we have is if she fails to use the akimbo card, the copay is on her. Love it.

   Luq07 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Unreliable/No Customer Service

   Akimbo Card has unreliable customer service. Unreliable is almost an overstatement, as in my experience, there seems to be zero customer service. My employer is forcing us to use this card, which I would be okay with if I could link the card to my bank account and transfer the money from the card to my bank. In the mobile app, my bank is not listed as a possible bank to link. So I called customer service about a dozen times over three different days. There was either a dead dial tone or I would be transferred to immediately be hung up on. My coworkers who have tried to contact customer service have also told me they waited over half an hour on hold to only be disconnected. Finally, I got in touch with a CS rep, and they told me I could link bank accounts by emailing them a bank statement. I did that last week and still have not received a response. I try to do the cardholder login on their website and the web page is broken every time. At this point, I have almost $1000 on my card that I need to put in my bank account and I just can't. Not only that, but there is seemingly no way to get a hold of them to fix the problem except to write reviews like this. My wages from work are locked away from me. I could use the card in place of my debit card, but there are fees for purchases and the card isn't even accepted everywhere. Do not get an Akimbo Card if you don't have to. If you run into a problem, you're out of luck as there is no customer service.

   Stoicalsnake · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5Terrible app, terrible customer service.

   I can’t login half the time, and sometimes I can but can’t see my children’ subcards (the whole point of having this account is for my kids’ cards. Transfers take forever, and if you miss an auto transfer (which I recently did) you are immediately prohibited from bank transfers. And the only way to turn it back on was to contact customer service, who take days to respond. Can I give this less than one star?

   Cosmic_8522 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 1/5Used to be better, but it has gone downhill

   Was using Akimbo successfully for over a year, when suddenly I started having ongoing login issues. Password changes sometimes would work, but other times their site/app would time out so I could not access my account. Recently, scheduled transfers and card loads (from my bank) would randomly fail, and in other cases It would load lesser amounts than I requested. I tried contacting support multiple times via support email ticket and never got a response. I called their support phone number and after a 45 minute wait, I got through to a rep who refused to believe that it was possible to load funds from a bank account. After arguing with him for another 10-15 minutes, he spoke with his supervisor and eventually acknowledged that loading funds from the bank was possible, but he couldn't help me and that I needed to send screenshots to their support email ... which again, I never got a response from. After almost 2 months, not a single response -- only the automatic message acknowledging that a support ticket was created. No help whatsoever.

   Kingofheartsx44 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 4/5Good idea, thankful finally fixed app

   I like the idea of Akimbo a lot. Myself and my wife use the cards for budgeting purposes. We each have one card and another one for Kids Activities. We find this works much better than budgeting plus credit cards which for us meant oh it’s the end of the month budget is spent but we really need this let’s just put it on the credit cards whatever. Also thankful app no longer seems to crash 90% of the time on iPhone X.

   vladdtar · 31 Jul 2026

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