Lenny Money Transfer App: Promo Code

What Lenny Was

Lenny’s pitch was aimed at students and young adults with thin or no credit history: borrow a small amount (Lenny advertised a $100–$10,000 range) at rates as low as 4.9% APR, pay it back, and build a credit history in the process. The app doubled as a peer-to-peer money transfer tool, so you could send funds to friends the same way you’d use Venmo, while your on-time payments reported toward your credit. Signing up with our code REF9L07D6N used to add a $5 bonus to a new account.

We looked for Lenny under a handful of likely domain names and couldn’t find a live, working site for the company — the domains we tried are either unregistered or now show unrelated parked pages. Combined with the app being gone from both major app stores, that’s enough for us to call this one discontinued rather than just quiet. Small fintech startups from the 2016 era had a rough survival rate, and Lenny looks to be one of the ones that didn’t make it.

We don’t have a direct like-for-like replacement for Lenny’s specific “send money + build credit via microloan” combo, but if you’re after a modern banking app with an actual signup bonus, Chime is alive and currently running a $100 sign-up bonus — a solid alternative for the banking/credit side of what Lenny offered.