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Which banks are supported

There is no bank login anywhere in PocketVault Finance, so “supported” does not mean connected. It means the app can read something your bank already gives you: a statement you download, or a message it sends to your phone.

That makes the answer different depending on which route you use.

PDF bank statements

A statement is the most complete route in, because it is your bank’s own record rather than a stream of alerts. The layout differs per bank, so each one has to be worked through individually.

India — HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Axis, Bank of Baroda.

United States — Chase, Bank of America, Capital One, Discover, SoFi.

Those ten are offered in the import picker. Others are deliberately absent rather than present and failing, which we think is the less annoying of the two.

Worth being precise about how far this goes: a profile reconciles against the published layout of that bank’s statement. It is not a claim that your particular statement, from your branch, in your account’s format, has been through it. If one does not import cleanly, that is worth telling us about — it is how the next profile gets fixed.

Password-protected statements are supported; you are asked for the password at import and it is not stored.

Outside India and the US, no statement layout has been worked through yet. CSV and manual entry still work everywhere.

Bank text messages

Indian banks text you when money moves, and on Android the app can read those messages from your inbox and turn them into transactions. It covers the major banks — HDFC, ICICI, SBI, Axis, Kotak, PNB, Bank of Baroda, Yes Bank, IndusInd — along with UPI notifications.

A message from a bank the app does not have a template for is not discarded. A general set of rules looks for the amount, the direction and the account, and anything that cannot be read that way goes to the review queue rather than being guessed at or dropped.

Two limits matter more than the bank list:

This is Android only. Apple does not let an app read your messages. On iPhone the equivalent is a Shortcut you set up yourself that hands each message to the app, and that route is part of Premium.

The messages are not a complete record. Your bank decides what to text you about, and a payment it stayed quiet about cannot reach your ledger. From 1 January 2027 alerts become mandatory only above ₹500, and some banks already skip small amounts. The fuller version of that is here, and we measure how much it costs.

CSV, from anywhere

Any bank or app that exports a CSV can be imported, whichever country you are in. You map its columns to dates, amounts and descriptions once, and the file lands in the review queue like everything else.

This is the route to use if your bank is not listed above, and the one to use when moving your history out of another app.

If your bank is not here

In rough order of how much history you get:

  1. Export a CSV from your bank’s website or your old app. Usually the fastest way to bring years in at once.
  2. Import a statement anyway — if the PDF is a normal text-based statement rather than a scan, it is worth trying, and telling us what happened either way.
  3. Let the messages do it, if you are in India on Android. Templates cover the major banks and the general rules cover a good deal of the rest.
  4. Add transactions by hand. Always available, on every platform, and the only route that never depends on what your bank chooses to provide.

Telling us which bank you are stuck on genuinely changes what gets worked on next — the feedback form goes to a person.