Request an invite

How Hasala works

Hasala reads your bank’s alert emails on your iPhone, turns each one into a transaction and sorts most of them into categories. You confirm the rest.

Connecting Gmail

You give Hasala read‑only access to your Gmail. Your iPhone asks Gmail only for messages from your bank’s alert senders and reads them on the phone, so the rest of your inbox is never downloaded.

Hasala can’t send, change or delete mail. If an email only looks like it came from your bank, Hasala checks just its sender details and sets it aside. Nothing is sent to an AI service.

Before you start

Turn on email alerts in your banking app. Hasala reads card and account alerts from these banks:

  • Dubai Islamic Bank

    Card and account email alerts

  • Emirates NBD

    Card and account email alerts

Use a different bank? Tell us which when you request an invite. It helps us pick the next bank to add.

How sorting works

Each alert becomes a transaction. Hasala sorts it into a category on your iPhone, in this order:

  1. your own rules;
  2. a built‑in list of UAE merchants;
  3. Apple’s on‑device model, which reads English merchant names.

You confirm the rest. Correct a merchant once, and Hasala remembers it.

L New merchant

Lulu Hypermarket

LULU HYPERMARKET DXB MARINA

AED 214.30

Spent · Fri 9 Oct, 18:42 · DIB card ···8891

Looks like Groceries Use

Sorted as Need

Reviewing new transactions

Transactions Hasala can’t sort on its own wait in a short deck. Tap Use to take its guess, or swipe to Want, Need, Save or Transfer and then pick the category. Hasala remembers the merchant, so it won’t ask again.

  • WantSwipe left
  • NeedSwipe right
  • SaveSwipe down
  • TransferSwipe up

Tap Undo to put one back.

Signing in

Sign in with Face ID, using a passkey, or with your email and a password.

A password signs you in but doesn’t unlock your data on a new iPhone. Your passkey or your 12‑word recovery phrase does. See a new or lost phone.

iPhone and English only, for now

Hasala does its work on the iPhone itself, and its sorting uses Apple’s on‑device model, which reads English merchant names. Starting with one platform and one language lets us get every bank alert right before we promise more.

You need an iPhone with iOS 26 or later. The app is in English and in light mode only for now.