Bank notifications,
straight into YNAB.
No direct import for your bank? Keep your unlinked accounts current without CSV exports or manual typing. NotifSync turns the transaction alerts your banking apps already post into YNAB transactions. You tag the amount, payee and date once, and it recognises that format from then on.
Three steps, then it runs itself.
A payment alert hits your phone. A clean line lands in YNAB. That's the whole thing.
NotifSync quietly listens for the alerts your banking apps already send.
Tap the amount, payee and date right in the text. NotifSync remembers the pattern for next time.
Review the queue, then push to YNAB with a tap. Nothing syncs without you.
Built for people who actually budget.
Visual pattern builder
Tap the amount, payee and date right in the notification text. That's the setup. NotifSync saves it as a pattern and matches it from then on.
On-device parsing
Every notification is read and matched on your phone. The only thing that ever leaves is the transaction you send to YNAB.
Works with unlinked accounts
Direct import isn't the only way in. If your bank posts a notification, you can sync it — no bank connection, any currency, no CSV exports. One pattern per notification format, as many banks and cards as you like.
You approve every sync
Every match lands in a review queue first. Check it, fix anything, then push it to YNAB on your terms.
Inflow & outflow
Mark a pattern as income or spending, so money coming in never lands in YNAB as money going out.
Looks like part of your phone
NotifSync follows whatever your phone is already set to, light or dark. Nothing to pick, nothing that looks bolted on.
Your money data never meets a middleman.
NotifSync has no backend, no analytics and no account to sign up for. It talks to exactly two things: your phone, and your own YNAB account.
Read the full privacy policyProcessed on your device
Notification text is read and parsed locally. It is never uploaded anywhere.
No servers, no accounts
There's no NotifSync cloud to leak. Your data has nowhere to go but YNAB.
Your YNAB sign-in stays local
The key that lets NotifSync talk to YNAB is kept in your phone's app storage and used for nothing else. You can revoke it from YNAB whenever you like.
You control what's stored
Patterns and transactions sit in a local database you can clear at any time.
Stop typing in
transactions by hand.
Install NotifSync, point it at your banking apps, and let your notifications keep YNAB current. It's not public on the Play Store yet. Early access is through closed testing.
A few things to know first.
Is there an iPhone version?
No. NotifSync is Android only, 8.0 or newer. It works by reading the transaction alerts your banking apps post, and iOS doesn't let apps do that.
Why does it need notification access?
That permission is the whole mechanism: NotifSync reads the transaction alerts your banking apps post so it can turn them into YNAB transactions. Every notification is parsed on your phone. There is no NotifSync server to upload anything to.
Will it recognise my bank's notifications?
If your bank sends you a transaction notification, yes. Nothing is pre-configured, and that is exactly why there's no supported-bank list to be on. Instead of guessing at your bank's wording, NotifSync learns it from you: tag the amount, payee and date once in a real notification, and it saves that as a pattern it recognises from then on. Each format your bank sends — payments, refunds, transfers — gets its own pattern, and you can add as many as you like, across as many banks and cards as you use.
Is this made by YNAB?
No. NotifSync is an independent app built by one developer, and it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by YNAB. It connects to your budget through YNAB's official API. You sign in to YNAB to authorise access, and you can revoke it from your YNAB account at any time.
Help ship NotifSync. Become a tester.
I'm Nicolas, and I built NotifSync for my own budget before opening it up. It's in closed testing on Google Play now, and I'm looking for a handful of YNAB users to try it on their own phone. If your bank sends you transaction notifications, you can help me get it ready for everyone.
- Install the app and keep it on for about two weeks. That's what Google needs to graduate from testing.
- Use it like you normally would: let your bank notifications turn into YNAB transactions.
- Tell me what breaks. Honest feedback is the whole point.
Opens a short form in a new tab. After you sign up, you'll get an emailed invitation to the testers' Google Group. Accept it, then open the Google Play opt-in link inside and tap "Become a tester" to get the app. You can leave testing anytime. Privacy is unchanged: everything is still parsed on your device, no servers.