Ally's great. I haven't used them as long as LeRainDrop, but I've been happy with them.
If you want to jump through hoops, you can earn 3% interest with a checking account at Consumers Credit Union. The first three hoops are easy, but it's the last one that trips people up- 12 debit card transactions per month. I send money to my friend with Square Cash using my debit card, and he sends it back (he also has a CCU account). Sadly I don't know of a way to automate this.
If you are interested in this setup, I can refer you to Square Cash and we'll each get $5.
ETA: Consumers credit union is cool in that you can even do cash deposits despite it operating as a mostly online only credit union. They're part of the Co op network of credit unions. There's 30k ATMs nationwide, and you can deposit cash at any of these ATMs and the cash will show up in your consumers credit union account.