I’ve spoken about this before on here, when will UK banks start releasing iPhone applications that can be linked up with current, savings and credit card accounts? Nothing annoys me more than not knowing my current financial status. Yes you can login to your bank to access your information on computer but I want to do this whilst walking to the office leaving me more free time.
I’m not that up on secruity protocals but if PayPal can release an application that allows you to send money and check your balance surly the service is virtually there?
Come one, first bank to release a great working application gets my business.
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Try Mint, it lets you hook up multiple accounts – only downside is that you have to run them through a mint account first (but that is free).
http://www.mint.com/features/iphone/
Yeap I’ve had a look at Mint. Its great but only looks at the American market.
The UK market has http://www.moneydashboard.com/ but its still in development, hopefully it’ll support all UK banks.
If you have an egg credit card, or sign up for one (even if you dont use it) their website allows you to add all accounts that have an online facility. I have my Egg Card, HSBC Bank Account, HSBC Savings Account, HSBC Credit Card, Baclaycard, Capital One Card, Nationwide Account, Halifax account all in one awesome grid with current balances etc. Also clicking on the account automatically takes you to the banks website, logs you in and displays the account. I wish more people offered this service! (Oh please dont judge me on the amount of accounts i have lol)
Yeah I used to use Egg money manager when I had an account with them but there is still nothing out there for the UK market yet on the iPhone. I’ve used a few account management apps (mostly focused to the US market) but they all require manual entry.
I belive Natwest have released one, read it in a magazine today.
Nice, good to see that a bank are reacting to demand. This is the most popular post on my blog so I hope that Abbey will react shortly.
Makes perfect sense to just allow read access to information, hopefully it won’t be long before we can securely move money etc.
Yes, Natwest/rbs/lloyds/ulster have an iphone app called natwest which is so cool to setup using petsonal info with card info it should be generic so that any credit card or debit card acct
can be used with it so come on RBS sell it up coz its short of brilliantly simple! I love it & use it to manage both business n personal money at present.
Have recently come across Yodlee who are the company who provide the bank connection platform that the likes of Mint use. Their own personal finance web site seems to have broad coverage of UK financial institutions (but alas no iPhone app yet)
This firm also provide the backend for lots of websites here in the UK that let you aggregate your content.
Let’s just hope banks don’t forget Android users as well :)