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by ssully 3732 days ago
I'll vouche for Simple. Their app and Goals feature are great, but the thing I love is the real time purchase notifications. It's kind of amazing to me that no bank (that I have used yet) have apps with this functionality. It's incredibly comforting to get a notification everytime I buy something. It also helped me identify falsified purchases the moment they happened, which enabled me to put a hold on my card and file a report of the incident within minutes (and all through the phone app!).

I really hate gushing about products and services on public forums, but Simple deserves it.

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Chase gives me this for my Visa card (I can set an 'alert' level). I buy nearly everything with that card (and use it to pay most of my other bills as well).
Card Guard from America First Credit Union also has realtime notifications. It helped me catch a double charge from a merchant that came through days later.
Heh apparently this isn't that unique! I had 2 banks prior to simple and none had notifications close to the level that Simple offers. It's great to hear others have it because I wont use a bank that doesn't offer something similar.
I get real time notification from my Amex card and my Capital One visa.
Those aren't bank accounts though.