Privat24 Releases New App. What Has Changed?

The design has become fresher and simpler.

PrivatBank has released a new app for Privat24 online banking. For now it is only available for iPhones, but an Android version will be coming soon.

It announces:

• faster login
• a fresh design
  
• a new chat and messaging system
  
• automatic creation of templates for quickly repeating payments
  
• sorting of cards in the wallet
  
• management of cash withdrawal limits
  
• analytics of expenses and income
  

The new app features a fresh logo, where only the colors have changed. The green circle remains, but the background has been changed to dark, and the "24" digits to white.

The app really looks completely different. Cards are now displayed not as a vertical list but as horizontal images, the way they look in reality (except for internet cards, which do not physically exist).

Directly below the horizontal scroll of cards are the most essential banking options: transferring money, topping up a mobile phone balance and payments (utilities and so on).

The old app was criticized for including too many unpopular services that cluttered it. The creators of Privat24's competitor monobank (who are former top managers of PrivatBank) treat this issue very carefully and add each new feature with caution. The new Privat24 has apparently taken a different path: it will allow users to choose for themselves which services they need.

True, for now the choice is limited to the three most essential ones.

The card page now offers, in addition to the statement, analytics with graphics. It shows how much was spent and received over the selected period and which categories the spending went to.

On iOS, users need to download the new app, as the old one will not be updated through the App Store, because the code was rewritten from scratch, Ain.ua reports.

On Android, PrivatBank will first release the new app separately for testing, and then start updating the current one.