Nine apps compete to track your credit card benefits, credits and offers. We ranked all of them, including our own, which finishes first — and we say exactly where each rival beats it, so you can check our work.
Quick answer: MaxWorth tracks credit card benefits for Australian cards from eight issuers, with each credit's amount and reset cycle entered by hand from the issuer's terms: American Express Australia, ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB, Westpac, HSBC Australia, Bankwest and MyCard. It never asks for a bank login. The feature that matters most for Australian cards is the anniversary-year clock: Amex Aus
Quick answer: MaxWorth tracks credit card benefits for Canadian cards from 17 issuers, with every credit's amount and reset cycle entered by hand from the issuer's terms: Amex Canada, TD, RBC, CIBC, BMO, Scotiabank, National Bank, MBNA, PC Financial, Rogers Bank, Tangerine, Neo, Wealthsimple, Canadian Tire, Simplii, ATB and Walmart Rewards. It never asks for a bank login. What it does not do for C
Quick answer: between them, the Amex Platinum and the Chase Sapphire Reserve carry credits that reset on five different schedules: monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, annual, and every four years. The ones people lose are the monthly and semi-annual ones, because they expire on a date, not when you forget. The reliable method is to track each credit on its own cycle with a reminder before it closes,
Quick answer: The Amex Gold carries 5 recurring credits worth $524 a year at face value against its $325 fee. They produce 39 separate deadlines a year, 3 of them monthly, and 4 of the 5 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Amex Delta Reserve carries 5 recurring credits worth $1,090 a year at face value against its $650 fee. They produce 26 separate deadlines a year, 2 of them monthly, and 2 of the 5 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Amex Business Platinum carries 11 recurring credits worth $4,819 a year at face value against its $895 fee. They produce 28 separate deadlines a year, 1 of them monthly, and 6 of the 11 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Amex Hilton Aspire carries 6 recurring credits worth $1,234 a year at face value against its $550 fee. They produce 9 separate deadlines a year, 0 of them monthly, and 2 of the 6 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Amex Marriott Brilliant carries 3 recurring credits worth $430 a year at face value against its $650 fee. They produce 13 separate deadlines a year, 1 of them monthly, and 0 of the 3 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Capital One Venture X carries 4 recurring credits worth $600 a year at face value against its $395 fee. They produce 3 separate deadlines a year, 0 of them monthly, and 0 of the 4 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Chase United Club carries 6 recurring credits worth $920 a year at face value against its $695 fee. They produce 27 separate deadlines a year, 2 of them monthly, and 0 of the 6 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: The Citi Strata Elite carries 7 recurring credits worth $1,770 a year at face value against its $595 fee. They produce 7 separate deadlines a year, 0 of them monthly, and 1 of the 7 need enrollment before they pay anything. The calendar below is generated from the same database rows that power the MaxWorth app; every credit links to its own page with the full terms.
Quick answer: MaxWorth runs a free, read-only MCP server at https://mcp.maxworth.app/mcp. Connect it and your assistant can look up any card in the US, Canada or Australia, list a card's statement credits with the date each one resets, compare two or three cards, pull today's cashback portal rates for a store, and quote the Credit Deadline Report, every answer carrying a maxworth.app link to cite.
For Q4 2026 (October 1 – December 31), the Chase Freedom Flex earns 5% back on three rotating categories, on up to $1,500 in combined purchases after activation: Grocery stores — supermarkets and smaller grocers; Walmart and Target are excluded Dining — sit-down, fast food, and delivery or takeout that codes as a restaurant American Red Cross donations — made through the official Red Cross channel
CardPointers is the widest-reaching credit card management app a US cardholder can buy today: the most platforms, the most banks for offer activation, the most complete churning tools — and it never asks for your bank login. The costs are two: the highest list price in the category, and thin coverage of cards issued outside the US. If all your cards are US-issued, it is worth buying. If you hold C
On September 10, 2026, Amex switched all four Hilton Honors cards to limited-time welcome offers at the same time, and the window runs through January 13, 2027. Here are the four side by side: | | Hilton Honors (no fee) | Surpass | Business | Aspire | |---|---|---|---|---| | Welcome offer | 70,000 points + Free Night | 130,000 points + Free Night | 150,000 points + Free Night | 200,000 points | |
Short answer: three benefit trackers never ask for your bank login — CardPointers, MaxWorth and kardfolio. You pick your cards from a database and the app loads every credit, perk and earning rate itself; nothing touches your credentials. The price of that is one tap: you mark credits used yourself instead of the app reading your transactions. If you want credits ticked off automatically, MaxRewar
Capital One's ecosystem can be summed up in one line: the easiest points to earn, the hardest points to spend well. Earning takes almost no thought. Most of the cards pay a flat 2 miles per dollar — no rotating categories, no quarterly activation, no caps. But spending is where Capital One diverges sharply from Chase and Amex: its own travel portal gives you no redemption bonus at all.
MR and UR are built on opposite philosophies. Chase optimizes for cleanliness: 14 partners, nearly all 1:1, no hidden costs. Amex optimizes for reach — 21 partners including ANA, Avianca, Qatar and Emirates, none of which Chase can touch, plus transfer bonuses running most of the year. The price is complexity: uneven ratios, a tax on US airline transfers, and a balance that vanishes if you close y
If you remember one thing: Chase points no longer have a stable, knowable value. For years the logic was simple. Hold 100,000 points, book through Chase Travel with a Sapphire Reserve, get a flat 1.5 cents, walk away with $1,500. No research required. That floor is a big part of why people picked Chase over Amex — you couldn't really lose.
Between March 2025 and this year, Chase and United tore up the whole consumer card lineup and rebuilt it around a simple trade: you pay a meaningfully higher annual fee, and they hand you a stack of statement credits plus real elite-status fuel. The refresh landed in stages — new applicants got everything from March 24, 2025; existing cardholders started paying the new fees at renewal from August
Trip delay insurance is the most-used, least-understood travel protection on a credit card. Flight delays are not rare events — several percent of US flights misconnect badly enough to strand someone overnight every single day — and unlike lounge access or elite status, this benefit pays out in cash. A single claimed hotel-plus-dinner night is worth $200–400, which is more than most annual fees.
Every variable that matters in US credit — the age of your oldest account, your payment history, your relationship with the issuers who matter later — starts counting from your first card. Get it at 22 instead of 25 and, at 30, your credit file is literally three years stronger for the rest of your life. The first card is also the one you'll likely keep open forever (it anchors your average accoun
Quick answer: a card-linked offer (Amex Offers, Chase Offers) and a cashback shopping portal can both pay on the same purchase, and the card's own earn rate pays on top. The offer tracks your card's spend at that merchant; the portal tracks the order you started from its link; the two systems never see each other. The only work is knowing, for this store today, which of your cards carries the offe
Chase is pushing a wave of elevated Sapphire welcome offers to select customers — big enough to deserve its own writeup: | Card | Targeted offer | Current public offer | Spend requirement | |------|---------------|---------------------|-------------------| | Sapphire Reserve | 175,000 points | 100,000 points | $6,000 / 3 months | | Sapphire Preferred | 125,000 points | 75,000 points | $5,000 / 3 m
For eight months the U.S. Bank Altitude Reserve has been carrying an IOU. When U.S. Bank gutted the card in December 2025, the softener was a banner in the rewards center promising that points transfers to airline and hotel programs were "coming soon." In May 2026 that banner quietly disappeared, and most of us wrote it off.
Since the September 2025 refresh, the Amex Platinum carries its largest single credit: up to $600 a year toward prepaid hotel bookings made through Amex Travel, split into two windows — up to $300 for bookings made January–June, and another $300 for July–December. It only works at two collections of hotels: Fine Hotels + Resorts (FHR) and The Hotel Collection (THC). No enrollment needed, which mak
If you're comparing MaxRewards and MaxWorth expecting two very different products, the honest answer is that they aren't. Best card by category, card-linked offer activation, nearby merchant maps, benefit and credit tracking, points valuation — both do all of it.
The Citi / AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard is getting another premium-card makeover. Starting August 23, 2026, the annual fee rises from $595 to $695 — but Citi is adding a collection of American Airlines, hotel, rental-car, and rideshare benefits designed to offset the increase.
The Platinum Card from American Express is the most famous premium card in the world, and in 2026 it costs $895 a year — the highest mainstream card fee in the U.S. Understanding whether it's worth it starts with one mental shift: the Platinum is not really a credit card. It's a travel-and-lifestyle membership that happens to process payments.
The Robinhood Gold Card was already a good story: $0 annual fee, a flat 3% cash back on everything, cell phone protection and an IRA match, bundled with a Robinhood Gold membership. A strong cashback card with a brokerage attached.
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