Everything that has changed in Notch, in the order it changed. Written for the person using the app rather than for the person who built it: what is different, and why it is better. Both the web app and the iPhone app are built from one shared core, so unless a note says otherwise a change landed on both.
Notch is in beta. Things move quickly and this page is the record of it. Something behaving differently to how it did last week will be explained here — and if it isn’t, that’s a bug, so write to support@usenotch.co and it will be.
August 8, 2026
Beta- Fixed A day in the Log reads in the right order. Canadian banks send a posting date and no clock at all, so Notch had nothing to order the purchases inside a single day by, and fell back to the order the feed happened to arrive in — which rendered the day backwards. It now records where each purchase sat in the bank’s own listing and reads that listing’s direction off the data instead of assuming one. Rows with a real timestamp still outrank everything.
- Fixed A subscription’s next charge follows the merchant. A charge expected on the 9th that actually lands on the 8th used to still say “next charge: the 9th” — tomorrow — on the very day it had gone through. The schedule now counts a full period from when the charge really landed, so it tracks whoever is billing you rather than arguing with them.
- Fixed Buy-now-pay-later instalments count as spending. Klarna and its relatives are filed by banks as loan repayments, and Notch read that as money moving between your own accounts — so the instalment vanished from your spending totals. Only credit-card payments are treated that way now.
- New “Not this type of transaction?” At the bottom of every transaction, a way to say what it really was — an expense, income, a transfer, a goal contribution — without deleting it and typing it in again. Notch fills in what it can work out from the entry, from your bank’s own words and from where you usually file that payee, and only asks for what’s genuinely left. Above it, a line explaining why the entry was filed the way it was in the first place.
- New Notch tells you when a bank has stopped talking. A disconnected bank used to be something you found out by wandering into Accounts days later. It now says so on open, on every page, with the reconnect right there.
- New Catch up on transactions a bank missed. Under Preferences → Your data → Transactions: pick a date and Notch goes back for anything the feed never sent. It only ever adds — nothing is deleted, and days you already have are left exactly where they are. It replaces “restart bank imports”, which answered the opposite question.
- Changed Correcting a category teaches Notch. Re-filing a purchase now sets where that payee lands from then on, automatically. And “Apply learning” no longer overwrites categories you set by hand — it used to, which meant fixing a row and pressing the button un-fixed it. It also gained real controls: which payees, which fields, how far back.
- Changed Holding to notch finishes the job. On the phone the hold now carries a run of haptic ticks that tighten as the mark completes, and finishing it moves to the next purchase by itself. The Next button is gone — the gesture the app is named after should be the thing that commits.
- Changed Preferences is the same screen on both. The browser now has the phone’s six destinations — Profile, Region & money, Your data, Alerts, Insights, Help — instead of one long page that had drifted into a different shape. Alerts is new on the web: notifications for arriving purchases and for a bank dropping out, while Notch is open.
- Changed Smaller things. The sales-tax read-out at the foot of Region & money is gone (it restated the picker above it). The information marker on a bank card is gone; test and refresh remain.
August 6, 2026
- Fixed Signing out stops forgetting the phone. Signing out cleared data the app needed to open offline next time.
- Changed The phone gets the browser’s merchant logos. Both now draw from the same shared logo book, so a payee looks like itself wherever you opened it first.
August 5, 2026
- New A second factor. Linking a bank, reconnecting one, and closing your account now ask you to confirm it’s you.
- Changed Your answers change the read, and compound. Telling Insights that a suggestion landed — or missed — now shapes what it writes next, rather than being noted and forgotten.
- Fixed The last open write in the database is closed. A security review of the database rules, and the one path it found.
August 4, 2026
- New A bank is a place you go, in its own colours. Every linked institution has its own page, themed from its own brand, with its accounts, its connection health and its payment methods on it.
- New Alerts stopped being one switch. Purchases and “a bank disconnected” are two very different interruptions, and quietening the chatty one no longer costs you the warning you actually wanted.
- Changed Your job moved in with you. Income and employment now live under Profile. They describe a person, not a currency setting.
- Changed Nineteen type sizes became six. A pass over the whole app: one type scale, one kind of modal, one bank card that depresses under the finger.
August 2–3, 2026
- New Notch lets people in a few at a time. New accounts wait for approval, and an account can be closed for good — with everything kept for thirty days first, in case it was a mistake.
- Fixed A bank descriptor is a routing string with a name buried in it. “SQ *THE CLEVER CUP 604-555” now arrives as the shop’s name.
- Fixed Every published security advisory on the board, closed. Including one in the server that shipped a prototype-pollution gadget.
- Changed The web app stopped being a release behind the phone.
Before this
Notch was rebuilt from the ground up over the first half of 2026 — one shared core, two apps, read-only bank connections through Plaid, and support for Canada, the United States and Mexico. The notes above start from the point the beta opened to people other than its author.
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