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Acorns - Turn small investments into big gains

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Overview: Acorns is an app that allows you to invest your "spare change" automatically and is revolutionizing the way you could be saving for your retirement or any other purpose. I have personally started saving with this app about a year ago and find it very helpful because I have been able to save money little at a time that I would not have saved otherwise and would have spent it on non-essential purchases. Here is a snapshot of acorns and the way it looks on various devices. I have used the app on my iPhone and love it and I have logged in on my desktop computer, however I have not personally interacted with it using the iWatch. Acorns  overview Types of investments: I have set up several of my accounts for the round-ups and essentially it works the way you would think, every time I use the card associated with the linked account, it invests the spare change by rounding it up to the nearest dollar, however you have to reach at least 5 dollars for this to happen....