simplebanking shows your bank balance directly in your Mac's menu bar. Connect your bank via Openbanking and see your balance update in real-time without opening any apps. ✨ Features: • Menu bar widget with live balance • Search all transactions instantly • Automatic subscription detection with cancellation links • Financial Health Score (3 rings: income, savings, stability) • MoneyMood heatmap for spending patterns • Multi-banking support (Sparkasse, N26, ING, Volksbank, etc.)
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Maik, and I built simplebanking because I was tired of constantly opening banking apps just to check my balance.
**The Problem:**
I work in the banking industry (Germany), and even I find modern banking apps annoying. Want to check your balance? Open app → Face ID → wait → navigate → finally see number. Repeat 5x/day.
**The Solution:**
A native Mac app that lives in your menu bar. One glance, you know your
balance. Click for details. Search transactions. See subscriptions.
Check financial health.
**Why PSD2 / Openbanking?**
It's read-only access mandated by EU banking law. No write permissions,
no transfers, just viewing. Completely safe.
**Why Open Source?**
Banking tools should be transparent. You can audit every line of code, build it yourself, or fork it. No tracking, no data collection.
**Built with AI:**
I used Vibecoding (AI-assisted development) to build this in a few weeks. The entire process was documented, and I learned a ton about SwiftUI, PSD2, and menu bar apps. For Balance I used the only really privacy-focused open banking provider, Yaxi (https://yaxi.tech)
Try it, break it, fork it, improve it. I'm here all day to answer questions!
Download: https://simplebanking.de/download
GitHub: https://github.com/klotzbrocken/...
About simplebanking on Product Hunt
“Your bank balance in your Mac menu bar”
simplebanking launched on Product Hunt on March 19th, 2026 and earned 84 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #27 on the daily leaderboard. simplebanking shows your bank balance directly in your Mac's menu bar. Connect your bank via Openbanking and see your balance update in real-time without opening any apps. ✨ Features: • Menu bar widget with live balance • Search all transactions instantly • Automatic subscription detection with cancellation links • Financial Health Score (3 rings: income, savings, stability) • MoneyMood heatmap for spending patterns • Multi-banking support (Sparkasse, N26, ING, Volksbank, etc.)
On the analytics side, simplebanking competes within Open Source, Fintech, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 168.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how simplebanking performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted simplebanking?
simplebanking was hunted by Maik Klotz. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of simplebanking including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Maik Klotz