How to track Emirates NBD transactions automatically

Emirates NBD 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.

What PennyWise reads from your Emirates NBD messages
SMS from EmiratesNB
AED 2,500.00 credited to A/C xxxx on 24-Dec-25. Available Balance: AED 25,750.00
Read on your phone — nothing sent anywhere
+د.إ2,500.00
Money in
Account
Balance after
د.إ25,750.00

A real Emirates NBD message format, run through the same parser that ships in the app. Try it on your own message in the parser tool.

How it works

  1. Install PennyWise and grant SMS permission. That permission is the whole product — it is how the app sees your Emirates NBD alerts.
  2. PennyWise scans the Emirates NBD messages already on your phone and back-fills your transaction history in seconds.
  3. Every new Emirates NBD alert is picked up as it arrives and categorised automatically. Budgets and spending trends update on their own.

Why not just use a bank-login app?

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.

Common questions

Does PennyWise work with Emirates NBD?

Yes. Emirates NBD is one of 157 banks and payment services PennyWise recognises. Transaction alerts from Emirates NBD are detected automatically and turned into categorised transactions in AED.

Do I have to type my Emirates NBD transactions in by hand?

No. PennyWise reads the transaction SMS Emirates NBD already sends you and creates the entry itself — amount, merchant, date, account and running balance where the message includes it.

Does PennyWise need my Emirates NBD net-banking login or password?

Never. PennyWise has no login to your bank and no connection to Emirates NBD at all. It only reads the SMS already sitting on your phone, which is why it needs SMS permission and nothing else.

Is my Emirates NBD transaction data sent anywhere?

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.

What if a message from Emirates NBD is read incorrectly?

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.

Other banks PennyWise supports in UAE

6 supported in UAE — see them all.

PennyWise is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) expense tracker. Bank SMS are parsed entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. Browse all supported banks.