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GoHenry Is Now Acorns Early: What Changed and What the New $8/Month Pricing Means

If you logged into GoHenry recently and saw a new name, you are not confused. GoHenry is now Acorns Early. Acorns, the investing app known for round-ups, acquired GoHenry in 2023 and spent the next two years merging it into its own family of products. In 2025 the GoHenry brand was retired in the US and the kids debit card and money-learning app now live under the Acorns Early name. Your child's card, chores, and savings goals did not disappear. The logo and the pricing did change.

Here is the plain-language version of what happened, what is different, and how the new pricing compares to what you were paying before.

What actually changed

The short answer: the name and the price structure. The product your kids use day to day is largely the same debit card plus a parent-controlled app, with chore lists, allowance automation, savings goals, and spending controls. What moved is the wrapper around it.

• New name: GoHenry (US) is now Acorns Early. The app icon, website, and card branding reflect Acorns.
• New pricing: Acorns Early is $8/month and covers up to 4 children on one plan. GoHenry historically charged per child (around $4.99 to $9.98/month depending on how many kids and which plan).
• Same core features: Kids debit cards, parent-set chores and allowance, savings goals, real-time spending notifications, and the in-app money lessons carried over.
• Tied to the Acorns ecosystem: Acorns Early is available inside the broader Acorns subscription tiers, so families already investing with Acorns can fold kids accounts into one login.

The new pricing, compared

The headline change for most families is cost. GoHenry billed per child, so a two-kid family often paid close to $10/month. Acorns Early's $8/month for up to 4 kids can be a real savings for bigger families and roughly a wash for a single-child household.

If you have two or more kids, the math now favors Acorns Early. If you have one child and were on GoHenry's cheapest tier, you may pay a couple dollars more per month, but you also get room to add siblings later at no extra cost.

Do you need to do anything?

For most existing families, no. Accounts, cards, and balances migrated automatically as GoHenry transitioned to Acorns Early. If your child's physical card still says GoHenry, it generally keeps working until a replacement arrives. Check the app for any prompts to confirm your plan or update payment details, and verify which Acorns tier you were placed on so you are not paying for investing features you do not use.

New families signing up today go straight to Acorns Early. There is no separate GoHenry signup anymore in the US.

Is Acorns Early still worth it?

A paid kids debit card makes sense when you want hands-off allowance automation, chore tracking, and spending controls in one place. But paying $8/month adds up to $96/year, and plenty of families get the same learning outcomes with a free card plus a simple system at home.

Before you commit, it is worth comparing against the no-fee options. We keep a running list in our best free debit cards for kids guide, and a direct head-to-head in our Greenlight vs GoHenry (Acorns Early) comparison. If the appeal is really about teaching allowance and chores rather than the plastic card itself, you can replicate most of it for free.

Recreate the good parts for free

The features parents value most in Acorns Early, setting an allowance, assigning chores, and helping kids split money into save and spend, do not actually require a monthly subscription. A few of our free tools cover the same ground:

• Use the allowance calculator to set an age-appropriate weekly amount instead of guessing.
• Print a chore chart to track jobs and tie earnings to real tasks.
• Teach the split-your-money habit with the wants vs needs sorter before your child spends.
• Plan bigger goals with the kids budget planner so saving has a target.

None of this means Acorns Early is a bad choice. For busy parents who want automation and a real card, the new $8-for-4-kids price is more competitive than GoHenry's old per-child billing. But the rebrand is a good moment to ask whether you are paying for convenience you will use, or for features a free card and a chore chart already handle at home.

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