Itās horribly inconsistent.
Home page has no title bar (!! - not even iOS does that)
Spending and account have fixed title bars
Payments and help have disappearing title bars
Home page has search on a floating button
Payments has search on the title bar
Help has search below the title bar in a separate box
Seriouslyā¦ pick a style and use it.
Totally agree with all of this.
Its very very inconsistent not sure why Monzo think making iOS and Android Apps same is good for users. I know I will probably get use to of this interface in few days but it just doesnāt look right for now.
Feels like Monzo canāt win sometimes 
Users complain about space for feed items, they remove some y height by removing the Title Bar / shifting Search to a FAB and people dislike it 
I think the FAB looks quite nice down there - not interfering with the Pulse 
Plus it vanishes when I scroll down my feed 
Pulse is super nice, Iāve been using it for months though and seen how itās developed over that time 
Itās come a long way - trust me! 
I canāt wait to see what happens next! Iām hoping for more intelligence in the (what Iāll call) āPrediction lineāā¦ I.e. if Iāve got an SO (Standing Order) going out on the 14th, a line in the future of my Pulse will drop on the 14th, by the amount of the SO. Seems like a nice idea to me 
Merchant Feedback!!!
I hate seeing missing icons on my feedā¦ I equally hate bothering support with my silly icon requests 
So I just went down my entire 1.5yr old (or so) feed and submitted correct merchant locations, icons, websites, etc. 
Probably a couple dozen or so missing but Iām super happy that in a few days time I should in theory only be missing icons for; DDs, Refunds, Monzo.me and ATMs! 
(Yesā¦ I know itās sad 
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Tabs
Theyāre inconsistent. It kinda sucks but itās not awfully out-of-whack, everything is functional and as individual components theyāre spot on. As a collective itās a bit hit and miss but Iām certainly not unhappy with the app Iād much rather see work on Pulse etc. than see a little cosmetic fix (thoughā¦ when Iām developing I feel like I get more satisfaction from fixing the alignment of icons than I do coding the thing which uses those icons )
Cross-platform similarities
As long as itās done right I donāt care. IMHO Monzo are going in the right direction. Theyāre adopting platform specific features and design languages to their full extent(s) which results in both apps looking sharp and modern 
iOS and Android are different platforms. They do and will remain to look different (even if only slightly) think about how often this happens though! Who complains that Snapchat looks the same on their iPhone 8 and their Samsung Galaxy S7?
I think itās wonderful (so long as Monzo donāt screw it up! ) Means that I could, for instance, move to a pesky iDevice and still know what Iām doing in the Monzo app
To me, bear in mind I donāt have Monzo on an iPhone (or an iPhone at all for that matter!), based on screenshots / mockups, the Monzo app is similar on both platforms but I donāt for a second scroll through the app on my Pixel 2 XL and think āHmm, this feels very iOS-eyā the font is great, the colours are lovely, the material design language is followed very well and I completely trust that itāll continue to adhere to the Android design guidelines
Thatās my ramble for the night 
I love the Monzo app, exciting to see all these updates, canāt wait to see whatās next 
though I have a good idea 
It doesnāt adhere to the material design guidelines. Thereās no app bar . This is not optional UI on android. It is on iOSā¦ funny that.
The Android screenshots Iāve seen on this forum have had a big space at the top that just said āMonzoā ā is this the app bar? It always seemed like a huge waste of space to me with basically no functionality, so maybe this is why it was removed? That way thereās more space for transactions, information, navigation, etc. Or am I missing something (as I havenāt used Android, I could well be!)?
Itās pretty useful. LHS for page title or app name, and on the right hand common actionsā¦ settings, favourites, that kind of thing. That space is also the primary place for entering search details.
The payments screen actually largely gets this rightā¦ faced with a similar problem of wanting more real estate it simply temporarily hides it when scrolling.
Thereās loads you can do with transition effects to maximise screen real estate. If you ever get to see the national trust app on android, have a look at how it solves that problem in various ways. Iāve based quite a lot of my own designs on ideas from it.
Has anyone got a screenshot of the tabs on an iPhone 5? If I set my phone to large font (how my parents use phones) the text goes horrible and gets cut off. While iOS guidelines now state 5 tabs is maximum before a āmoreā button is added, I regularly find the following issue when people add 5 tabs:
on the largest text on my iPhone 5s the actual account page text is fine but the text on other pages the text gets cut off
Ah thanks, itās definitely better than on android but clearly still has issues. Luckily I only work on hybrid apps (using Cordova, write once, deploy to both platforms) which makes working with dynamic font sizes a bit easier. Also the designer I usually work with only has a 5s so we only have to worry about all the whitespace we end up with on a 8/x.
My regular device is a Google Pixel (1st gen, non XL) but I use the font size on small, so I actually have quite a bit of space:
As a UXāer Iām really not keen on āHelpā as a 5th tab. Generally, tabs should be used to navigate between the most frequently accessed content/features - and I donāt consider āHelpā to be something I need to access frequently (or at least, Iād hope not!). Yes, it needs to be easily discoverable etc, but Iām not convinced this is the best solution.
Version 1.22.0 
Nothing major 
changelog below!
No mention of a fix for the pulse graph / balance status being unable reach the 1st of any month when scrolling through the feed 
Developer options shows interesting promiseā¦ Fingerprint lock support
nice! Shame itās disabled 
trolls!! 
Give it time! 
Plenty of things that we all want adding, removing or fixing
I can tap on the 1st of the month and then scroll and itāll put me on the 1st of the previous month not sure what the issue is 
Well, the catās out of the bag - yep, fingerprint lock is almost here, weāre testing internally right now and it works great.
Just working on the copy text and design before itās ready to ship
One thing to be aware of, this is just the first implementation so is literally just a security lock right now (so, we donāt support using fingerprint instead of PIN to send money yet as we do on iOS).
Looks like somebody forgot to send my copy who do I need to email?
Canāt wait to see this in action! Itāll be nice to see the feature expand into replacing pins for payments etc. But v1 sounds like itāll be exactly what everyone has been asking for for a while
Will there be a pin fallback if the device doesnāt have Fingerprint support?
not only if the device doesnāt have it, but if user choses not to use it for medical reasons (accessibility issue)?
Unfortunately not at this stage.
All the work weāve done so far has been client-based.
Implementing any type of PIN also requires backend work, so we arenāt at that stage with this feature just yet.
I donāt think this is strictly true. Thereās no reason you couldnāt encrypt credentials on device through use of a device-specific pin, in exactly the same way that fingerprint storage is device specific.
I can certainly believe that it would be more work, as youād probably have to implement more of it yourselves rather than having a service provided by the OS, but itās not true that a PIN login necessitates any sort of network service