How to track Trading 212 transactions automatically

Trading 212 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 Trading 212 messages
SMS from Trading212
💸 You earned £0.24 interest on uninvested cash!
Read on your phone — nothing sent anywhere
+£0.24
Money in
Merchant
Trading 212 Interest

A real Trading 212 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 Trading 212 alerts.
  2. PennyWise scans the Trading 212 messages already on your phone and back-fills your transaction history in seconds.
  3. Every new Trading 212 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 Trading 212?

Yes. Trading 212 is one of 169 banks and payment services PennyWise recognises. Transaction alerts from Trading 212 are detected automatically and turned into categorised transactions in GBP.

Do I have to type my Trading 212 transactions in by hand?

No. PennyWise reads the transaction SMS Trading 212 already sends you and creates the entry itself — amount, merchant, date, account and running balance where the message includes it.

Does PennyWise need my Trading 212 net-banking login or password?

Never. PennyWise has no login to your bank and no connection to Trading 212 at all. It only reads the SMS already sitting on your phone, which is why it needs SMS permission and nothing else.

Is my Trading 212 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 Trading 212 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 United Kingdom

2 supported in United Kingdom — 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.