Acorns: Set Up Recurring Investments, Get $20
Start investing with $5 a week and an extra $20 in your account before you finish your coffee.
Most people don’t start investing because they think they need a fat lump sum to make it worth the effort. They don’t. The boring truth is that the habit beats the amount, every time. Acorns is built around that truth: small, automatic deposits that compound for decades while you forget they exist.
Right now, set up recurring investments when you sign up and Acorns drops $20 into your account as a bonus. That’s a 100% return on a $20 contribution before the market does anything.
What you actually get
- Automatic round-ups on every card swipe, your spare change invested without thinking about it
- Recurring deposits starting at $5 a week, set once and forget forever
- Professionally built portfolios across the conservative-to-aggressive spectrum, no stock-picking required
- $20 signup bonus deposited after you set up recurring investments
- Mobile-first app so you can check progress without opening a brokerage on a desktop
$5 a week is $260 a year. Add modest round-ups and you’re realistically depositing $400 to $700 a year without noticing. At a 7% average return, that compounds to $6,000-$10,000 in ten years and $30,000-$50,000 in 25 years. The hard part is starting. The $20 bonus is Acorns paying you to do that.