Samsung pay - Starling Bank vs Monzo

[Jeffmorgan1991 (Jeffrey Morgan)]

I was wondering why Monzo doesn’t support Samsung pay when Starling Bank does. This could be a deciding factor for me to not switch over to Monzo fully but switch to Starling instead. It would be great to see this on Monzo as I prefer the app interface.

[16bitkieran (Kieran)]

Support for Samsung Pay

As of right now there’s no plans to add it. It is a significant amount of work for something that will have quite minimal takeup. Last time I looked, our userbase remains around 70% iOS and 30% Android. Of that 30%… I haven’t seen detailed device stats but I know that we have a significant amount of Nexus, Pixel and OnePlus users. Once you remove them, and all other OEMs, and Samsung devices that don’t support Samsung Pay…Like I said, it’s a small figure. Even smaller when you also remove the …