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Starling Bank: Current account reviews

Name: Current account
Rating: 4.87 (27464 reviews)

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4.87

Based on 27,464 reviews, last reviewed 26th Aug 2026

77% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

50% decrease in 1 star reviews

in the past 90 days

96%

Latest highest rating:

5

Great app Great app and when my account wa hacked, I received my money back pretty quickly. Reviewed on: 26th August 2026

Latest lowest rating:

1

Avoid Starling Bank they don't let you use your own... Avoid Starling Bank they don't let you use your own money by stopping you transferring it between your own accounts and also returned a £20 direct deb... Read more Reviewed on: 21st August 2026

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About this product

Starling Bank offer a current account that allows you to track your spending across 56 categories.

You can manage your current account through Starling Bank’s award-winning app. Current accounts include the option to set up Saving Spaces which are like virtual change jars within your account.

Starling Bank current account reviews help you find out what it’s like to be a customer. If you’ve used Starling Bank before, you can also leave a review and share your experience.

Starling Bank Current account reviews (27464)

Review of the Starling Bank, Current account:

The bank of the times

I have had an account for a couple years and I have watched other banks fade away. When I joined Starling, I signed up through the application on my phone. It was very easy. I confirmed my identity online, with somethey help me via live chat. I can upload cheques to my account. When I am a little out of pocket, I find a few spare pennies that have been automatically saved for me with each purchase. Starling is progressive and targets the current age and that is wonderful. Older people seem to get left behind in the times. This encourages them to adapt and embrace them. It welcomes them into the new age. Reviewed on: 5th March 2021

Great and Simple

Starling is a great product, very easy and simple to use. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Brilliant bank very current

I like starling bank as the account is very flexible and very current age. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

The best user experience ever! For a uk bank

I just love how easy simple I feel as a costumer of this newly established bank Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Great app-based banking

Great app that provides everything you need to manage your account. My family members also now have starling accounts after recommendations from me. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Digital First, Customer First bank

Starling is the first bank that I have signed up completely using just my phone - they make the process of verifying my identity, setting up my card and reporting on my monthly statements quick and easy Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Love the spaces section

Stealing bank have been great, no issues with them. They have great ways to save caked spaces. It allows you to set goals and move money easily Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Banking done simply

Starling Bank offers everything that I need from a bank account & I can access my bank any time, any place, as long as I have internet access. I really like the instant notifications about payments made from the account or money paid out of the account. It keeps me right up to date with regards to what is happening in my Starling Bank account. All in all, Starling Bank makes simple banking very simple for the customer to use & to understand. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Banking finally using technology sensibly

Easy to set up, yet very secure and much better service than the usual high street banks. Starling is leading the way in modern banking. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Best and most instinctive banking experience ever

I've tried almost all the banks throughout my life. Began migrating online a few years ago. Starling has consistently come out on top in every aspect that matters to me and there is very little I can think about regarding improvement. The accessibility is excellent with easy to read layouts; colour scheme and visuals. It has a pleasant friendly feel to it which has achieved that elusive quality of feeling sincere. Simple, plain English with the most important information displayed without obscuring important details. Step by step security features that, ok, let's be honest, can feel like a hindrance but serve a vital role. A wide range of customer-control facilities, such as freezing a card; limiting types of transactions and being able to access a forgotten PIN, to keep you moving smoothly without clogging up a call centre; waiting on the postman or being embarrassed at the shops. It's happened to us all and clearly to those at Starling. You can tell it's a bank that has been lovingly created by normal people having frustrating experiences elsewhere and researching the most typical grumbles. Truly projecting the traditional banking model into the contemporary, everything about it says safe; streamlined; supportive and as a customer I feel valued. The only thing I would change is something for the whole banking sector - I would BEG them to have a facility to enable a customer to block the use of the account / card for transactions overseas / alternative currencies. I am a recovering gambling addict but the conmen are working around the traditional blocking methods by serving blocked / self-excluded Brits abroad! Starling do the most any bank can though and I can't imagine ever leaving them. Every bank should work this way. the app is superb and never a single technical issue. Top of the heap! Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

Easy peasy

So easy to open the account, and just so easy to use. Reviewed on: 29th March 2021

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