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by tome 2790 days ago
Why not support an interface on something that's not a phone too? It doesn't sound like supporting a web SPA would be stretching their core competence.
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They have an emergency-access version at http://web.monzo.com but they're a mobile app bank.. not really much more than that to say, website wanters aren't the market they're serving
So young relatively poor users or those that do a lot of travelling the free ATM withdrawals is a big plus.

I prefer the traditional physical bank only for security I only do online banking with my secondary bank which I only keep 100 quid in.

What's the big difference between website wanters and app wanters? Don't most people want to sit down on a chair at a keyboard and large screen if possible?
The UI of the monzo app is actually pretty good on a small screen. I've never felt I need to use a desktop to view it (same for the "traditional bank" app I use too to be honest - going desktop doesn't really add anything since its just a table of numbers really).

The reality is that you never really use the app anyway apart from very occasionally. The "UI" for this bank account is the card itself.

If you look at most device splits on the web, its predominantly mobile, by a fairly significant margin.
Predominantly mobile is still not 100% mobile.
Great news if you're wanting to open a web-based challenger bank then :)