How to track Saudi National Bank transactions automatically

Saudi National Bank 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.

How it works

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

What PennyWise reads from your Saudi National Bank messages

Everything above is extracted by an on-device parser written specifically for Saudi National Bank's message formats. You can see it run on your own message, without installing anything: open the parser tool and paste in one of your Saudi National Bank messages.

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 Saudi National Bank?

Yes. Saudi National Bank is one of 157 banks and payment services PennyWise recognises. Transaction alerts from Saudi National Bank are detected automatically and turned into categorised transactions in SAR.

Do I have to type my Saudi National Bank transactions in by hand?

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

Does PennyWise need my Saudi National Bank net-banking login or password?

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

Is my Saudi National Bank 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 Saudi National Bank 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 Saudi Arabia

7 supported in Saudi Arabia — 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.