Masareef مصاريفLog your NBC Bank spending automatically
Masareef reads the payment alert the NBC Bank app sends to your phone and logs every transaction in its own NBC Bank wallet, with its amount, merchant and time. No typing.
What gets logged from NBC Bank
- Card payments in shops and online, in shillings or any currency you paid in.
- Outgoing and incoming transfers, and ATM withdrawals.
- Every transaction lands in its own category, and one tap changes it.
- More than one card? Add each card's last 4 digits and every alert goes to that card's wallet.
An alert the app can't read clearly isn't lost: it waits for you to confirm it with one tap.
How to log NBC Bank spending automatically
- Install Masareef from Google Play or the App Store, and create a free account to back up your records.
- On Android: open Masareef and allow "Notification access" once. After that it captures alerts even with the app closed.
- On iPhone: from iOS 27 add the ready-made automation in Shortcuts; from iOS 16.4 to 26 set up one automation for NBC Bank texts (sender NBC) once.
- Make sure alerts from the NBC Bank app are switched on on your phone: Masareef reads the alert you already receive and never contacts the bank.
- On the first transaction NBC Bank sends an alert, and Masareef logs it with its amount, merchant and time.
- Wrong category? Open the transaction and change it, and turn on "Remember this merchant" so this merchant goes there from now on. An unclear alert waits in "To review" for one tap to confirm.
How it works with NBC Bank
On Android
Let Masareef read notifications once. From then on every payment alert from the NBC Bank app is logged on its own, even with the app closed.
On iPhone and iPad
On iOS 27 or later you add one ready-made automation in the Shortcuts app, and Masareef receives alerts from the NBC Kiganjani app, NBC Bank text messages and Apple Pay alerts.
From iOS 16.4 to 26, SMS from NBC Bank reach Masareef through an automation you set up once, and from iOS 17 a second one adds Apple Pay. The bank app's own alerts can't be read before iOS 27, so share the message with Masareef or paste it.
How Masareef recognises NBC Bank
- Name in Arabic
- NBC Bank
- Android app whose alert is read
- com.nbctz.mobile.android
- iPhone app
- NBC Kiganjani
- SMS sender name
- NBC
- Names it recognises in the message
- national bank of commerce
The alert never leaves your phone
The NBC Bank alert is read on your device and its text is never sent to any server. Masareef never asks for your bank password and never links your bank account.
- No banking password
- No link to your bank account
- The alert is read on your phone only
Questions about NBC Bank
Is Masareef part of NBC Bank?
No. Masareef is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by NBC Bank. It reads the alert your phone already receives.
Do I have to enter my bank details?
No. No password, no account number, no link to the bank. The app only needs a free Masareef account, to back up your records.
Is the app free?
Yes, and the free plan is not a trial: everything you enter, your wallets and budgets, and 25 automatic captures a month. Pro raises that limit and adds features such as wallets in other currencies and a shared family record.
Does Masareef work with NBC Bank on Android?
Yes. Once you allow notification access it reads the NBC Bank app's alert (com.nbctz.mobile.android) and logs every transaction on its own, even with the app closed.
Does the NBC Bank alert or my data leave my phone?
The alert text is never sent to any server; it is read on your device. Masareef never asks for a password and never links your bank account. The free Masareef account only backs up your records.
Which currencies does it log for NBC Bank?
It logs each transaction in its amount, in shillings or any currency you paid in. Wallets in other currencies are a Pro feature.
Does Masareef read SMS from NBC Bank?
On iPhone, yes: texts from the sender NBC reach Masareef through an automation you set up once in Shortcuts, from iOS 16.4. On Android it reads the NBC Bank app's notification.
Does it work with NBC Bank on iPhone?
Yes. iPhone needs iOS 16.4 or later, and you set it up once in the Shortcuts app. On iOS 27 it also reads alerts from the NBC Kiganjani app.
What about my other banks and wallets?
Masareef reads alerts from 1,200+ banks and wallets around the world, and each bank or wallet gets its own wallet in the app.
Other banks and wallets in Tanzania
- M-Pesa (Vodacom Tanzania)
- Mixx by Yas (Tigo Pesa)
- HaloPesa
- CRDB Bank
- NMB Bank
- Azania Bank
- Exim Bank Tanzania
- KCB Bank Tanzania
- Diamond Trust Bank Tanzania
- Akiba Commercial Bank
- Azam Pesa
- Selcom Pesa
- Every bank and wallet in Tanzania
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