Notice something different about how your Monzo app looks? We have a new Home screen!
The new Monzo Home screen is designed to give you an even better overview of your money
Get to know the new Home screen and see how you can make it your own in our latest blog post.
If you donāt see this in your app yet, donāt worry. Weāre slowly rolling this out to make sure itās working smoothly for everyone
This new Home screen is yet another step forwarded in our mission of making money work for everyone. And it will be easier for you to keep customizing as your needs change.
As always, a big thank you to those who have already sent in their thoughts on how to make it even better Keep letting us know what you think through the in-app feedback form - we read every piece of feedback we get!
Let the change sit for a while and get used to it and see how you feel later. I think itās a better interface than the one it replaces all around, and I think a few folks who hated it initially have come around.
It also isnāt quite finished yet.
Do you any constructive feedback you could add? Why do you hate it specifically? What would make it better?
Itās completely pointless. It adds nothing takes away lots.
The Home Screen is now a top-to-bottom āsummaryā of my cards, pots, virtual cards etc.
My balances and Just 4 recent transactions are visible. Scrolling down reveals Pots and virtual cards. These are āoccasional useā things. Why was it deemed necessary to promote pots and virtual cards to Home Screen and demote the transaction list to a sub-screen?! A totally crazy decisionā¦. Unimportant things are now front and centre and important things like transactions are an extra tap away.
I donāt want āsummaryā I want detail. Compared to the old Home Screen it has LESS. And all the useful stuff is an extra tap away.
Imagine this Home Screen from the point of view of a user who has a single account and doesnāt use pots or virtual cards very often (The vast majority of users). This new home screen is completely redundant for that use case. Itās a pointless pre-home-screen in front of the real Home Screen.
Hereās an idea have a full list of transactions on the Home Screen that I can scroll. Maybe the cards and balances at the top will shift up to save space when I scroll the transactions. Oh wait! Thatās how it was before!!
Another issue. My card gets declined at the supermarket as itās frozen (happens a lot). Mad panic to open the app after the checkout lady tells me itās declined. With the old Home Screen I was immediately faced with a pic of a frozen card and a ādefrostā button so it was obvious what the problem is and how to fix itā¦ Now what? Thereās nothing on the new Home Screen that indicates my card is frozen or how to defrost it.
What do you think is good about it?
I was invited to āupgradeā to this. How can I downgrade?
Iāve given my feedback on the new UI at length throughout the various other topics about it, so Iāll keep this to a brief summary of things I find much better in the new interface.
Itās organisationally much cleaner. Things are easier to find now, and navigating around the app feels much more logical to me.
I find the simpler of the two new UI options to make a much better use of the screen real estate than the old interface. The stuff that matters is visible below the fold, and itās faster to get a glance of the stuff that doesnāt just by scrolling down. And it achieves this without feeling overwhelming.
itās made the app dramatically more usable for me.
I think it looks a lot nicer.
There are things I dislike about it as well, I have many criticisms, and I think you raise some good pain points there, which is useful feedback. Overall though, I think itās an improvement.
But I never really liked the previous UI to begin with because it replaced this one which I really loved:
Thanks for the reminder @N26throwaway - Indeed, the US has got its own custom version of Overview in the US. Weāve been working closely with our UK teammates to enable this to be a very flexible system for us to build Monzo for international markets.
For example, the US version weāve recently launched is specifically tailored to the US teams vision on how to manage money with a clear way to illustrate your Expenses and Savings. Additionally, weāve enabled some really fun educational content geared towards the US. Thatās just the start.
Over the next several weeks, weāll continue to extend atop this foundation with improvements that will help our customers see their income cycle, expenses, and savings to easily see how they are on track (or off) on their goals and know exactly what is truly left to spend as a result on the Monzo card.
While I canāt provide much insight into what the UK team is doing or plans to do, we do have some improvements to the new Home screen for our US customers
You can now choose between a list view versus an image view for Savings and Expenses
To view as a list: tap the 3-dot menu under the Savings or the Expenses section, then tap āView as listā
To change back to the picture view, tap the 3-dot menu again, then tap āView as imagesā
A new combined feed experience
As part of our paying from Pots rollout, we also made improvements to your activity feeds!
With all your account transactions in one feed, itās still important to know where each transaction is coming in and out of, especially if youāre set up to pay directly from Pots or have multiple accounts.
So for certain transactions, youāll start to see little badge icons attached to the main merchant or Pot image, such as:
account badges - a single silhouette to indicate your personal account or a double silhouette to indicate your joint account
Pot image badges - shows which Pot the transaction was paid from
We still have even more planned for this, including a better transaction search experience and more customization options, so be sure to watch this space
I really find it much more confusing than what it originally was.
Itās an unnecessary step added to just get to the original account screen.
Also, I used to be able to swipe down on the original account screen and it would show me all of the pots for my account and total balance (money available and money in pots). This is the most annoying thing thatās gone now too. Unless thereās a way to do this with the new design?
Keep letting us know what you think through the in-app feedback form - we read every piece of feedback we get!
or a double silhouette to indicate your joint account 
