Bank of Abyssinia already texts you every time money moves. PennyWise reads those messages on your phone and builds your spending record from them — no manual entry, no bank login, nothing leaves the device.
A real Bank of Abyssinia message format, run through the same parser that ships in the app. Try it on your own message in the parser tool.
Apps that aggregate accounts ask for your net-banking or account credentials and hold your transaction history on their servers. PennyWise asks for neither. It has no account system, makes no network calls to read your money, and its full source is published under AGPL-3.0 so the claim is checkable rather than promised.
Yes. Bank of Abyssinia is one of 157 banks and payment services PennyWise recognises. Transaction alerts from Bank of Abyssinia are detected automatically and turned into categorised transactions in ETB.
No. PennyWise reads the transaction SMS Bank of Abyssinia already sends you and creates the entry itself — amount, merchant, date, account and running balance where the message includes it.
Never. PennyWise has no login to your bank and no connection to Bank of Abyssinia at all. It only reads the SMS already sitting on your phone, which is why it needs SMS permission and nothing else.
No. Parsing runs entirely on your device. There is no server, no account and no analytics on your financial data, and the source code is public so this can be verified.
You can paste the message into the parser tool on this site to see exactly what PennyWise extracts, and report it in one click if it is wrong. Parser fixes ship in the next release.
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