How Amblee makes money

Members pay for it. Today, nobody else does.

Where the money comes from, who else can be paid out of it, and the rules we hold ourselves to if that ever changes.

Today

Subscriptions, and only subscriptions

In the United States, a subscription costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. Every account starts with a 7-day free trial that asks for no payment method and does not turn into a paid subscription.

There are two places to buy one, and both are live. In the iPhone app, Apple takes the payment and is the seller. The free trial the app offers when you buy is a different thing: it is Apple’s introductory offer, and when it ends the subscription renews at the price shown until you cancel with Apple. On amblee.co, we sell it and Stripe processes the card.

Buy in the iPhone app and Apple bills you, and you cancel in your App Store subscriptions. Buy on amblee.co and we bill you through Stripe, and you cancel in the Stripe billing portal, which you open from Billing in your Amblee account.

Credit unions. There is also a program a credit union can sponsor for its members. No credit union uses Amblee today, so it brings in nothing. For credit unions has the detail.

Your data

Not a product we sell

No ad-tracking SDKs
The app and this site contain no ad-tracking SDKs and no third-party advertising pixels, and we do not use your data to build advertising profiles. When you create an account, the iPhone app asks Apple whether an Apple Ads ad in the App Store led to your install. We use Apple’s answer to see which ads work and to decide which offers we show you.
No data sales
We never sell your personal data, and we never share it with advertisers or data brokers.

The privacy policy lists every provider that touches your data and what each one does.

Creators

A share for creators, once one is approved

A creator in our creator program is paid a commission out of the subscriptions of members who join with their code, on the terms the program sets out, and it comes out of what Amblee receives. No creator has been approved yet, so none is paid today.

We never give a creator your name, your email address or anything else that identifies you. The privacy policy says exactly what a creator does see.

The rate, how long it runs and the rules are on the creator program page.

Paid links

None today, and the rules if that changes

Amblee does not earn referral fees today.

One day we may be paid when someone opens a savings or investing account through a link of ours. If that happens, every such link, and every list of accounts one appears in, follows these rules.

  1. A link we are paid for is labelled “Paid link”.
  2. A disclosure sits next to it, not in a footnote or on another page.
  3. Any savings account, and any brokerage Amblee recognises, counts the same toward the unlock, whether or not we are paid for it.
  4. Which brokerages Amblee recognises is never decided by what we are paid.
  5. The list is the same for everyone.
  6. The list includes accounts we are not paid for.
  7. The list is never ordered by what we are paid.
  8. A paid link never appears on the block screen.
  9. We never use anyone’s bank data to choose what they are shown.

Never

What Amblee never does

Hold, move or invest your money

Amblee is not a bank, a broker or a money transmitter. The bank connection is read-only: Amblee can see money move through it, and cannot start a transaction with it.

The rest of it

What counts toward your goal is on Saving with Amblee. The prices are on Pricing, and the agreement itself is in the Terms.

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