Stax - Automated USSD Banking

4.4
1.75K reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Do you have more than one financial account (traditional and digital bank, mobile money etc.)? We created Stax to help manage them all in one place. It is fast, secure, convenient, free and works offline. It takes less than 1 minute to download. Just Stax it!

What can you do with Stax?
- Send money
- Buy airtime
- Keep your balances hidden
- Transfer money between your accounts
- Securely transact with all your existing financial accounts.
- Check account balance & transaction history across all your accounts from one place
- Create payment links to request money and send the links via WhatsApp, Social Media, or SMS.
- Do all of these without an internet connection or data
- Automated USSD Banking: Never dial a USSD code again, Stax does it for you
- USSD library: Access our in-app USSD library where you can search, view and dial USSD codes of all banks and mobile money operators in Africa.

How does Stax work?
We dial USSD codes in the background for you, so you don't have to. Stax is USSD Redefined. For all transactions and across every service we cover, we have automated the USSD flow so you can spend and receive money faster, easier and with less stress.

Why Stax:
- It's free to download
- It is lightning-fast and secure
- We never charge you any extra fees
- It is a light-weight app (less than 10MB)
- You can transact offline for up to 14 days
- We never store your pin and no signup is required
- Experience a new type of USSD banking
- Stax is built by Hover Developer Services, a U.S. company with team members across four countries on a mission to build an inclusive Internet, starting with mobile payments. We want to build an internet that has you and your convenience in the centre of it all.

What do you need to do:
- Download the app
- Give us overlay and accessibility permission to dial USSDs automatically for you
- Connect your Bank or Mobile Money accounts
- Start spending, sending and receiving money.

Coverage:
Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, Zambia, Congo, Cameroon. Across these countries, we cover multiple services and are adding more each week.

This is an open-source app supported by a community of developers across Africa. Please be informed that we do not provide direct customer support. If you require any assistance, would like to report a bug, or request new features, please visit our GitHub page. Thank you for your understanding.

How Secure is Stax? The short answer is very secure!
- Stax requires a fingerprint or passcode authentication before you open the app. This means that random persons will never be able to gain access to your Stax account.
- Stax lets you hide your account balances when you are in public. So even when the app is already open, people won't immediately see much you have in any of your accounts.
- Stax uses 2-factor authentication by design for every single transaction. Every time you refresh a balance, send money or buy airtime, you need your unique SIM card and your bank or mobile money PIN.
- Stax never stores your PIN. Your PIN never leaves your device. Whenever you are asked for your PIN in the app, we encrypt the PIN on your device with Android Key Store and delete it as soon as you complete your transaction.

Why & How Do We Use Accessibility Services
Stax uses Accessibility Services to act as a user assistant for USSD-based services. With Accessibility Services, Stax is able to read and parse information from your USSD sessions and auto-fill responses based on your input. Stax makes USSD-based services accessible to people with motor impairments by eliminating the need to race through time-based sessions and to people with visual impairments by making USSD-based services work with Android's core voice command functionality.
Updated on
Jan 15, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
1.74K reviews
Peace “Kaycee” Ejenobi
July 28, 2021
I love Stax. It's great and easy to use. However the app keeps flashing across the screen occasionally. Like every 5 minutes. The only way to stop it is to force stop the app and that breaks the seamlessness for me because I have to grant accessibility all over again. (It flashed just as I was writing this review) By flash I mean the app quickly shows on the screen for less than a second and disappears. It's too fast to be screenshotted. EDIT: Issue has been solved. Thank you and great app.
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Hover Inc.
July 23, 2021
Hi Peace, can you please update your app to our latest release. I believe the new release has solved this problem but if the issue persists, please send me an email at peace@usehover.com and I'd find a resolution for you ASAP.
Nike
June 22, 2022
Not sure if the issue is that I don't know how to use the app, but since I've had it I've been able to perform any transaction. Can't see my account balances or anything. Edit: Thanks for the feedback. Seems to be working for my Wema and Stanbic, but not my Zenith or First Bank. I still get the error message 'service integration broken'. I'm trying to check my balance and buy airtime.
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Hover Inc.
June 25, 2022
Hi Nike. Thank you for replying us again. We have fixed the issue with Zenith bank and first bank now. Please confirm and let us know.
Elyon Akanya
November 29, 2021
The app looks okay, but there's 2 things I don't like about it; 1. There's no real strong reassurance that asking for our PIN is completely safe and secure. (offline or not) 2. To check the account balance of my bank, the app just dialled the base USSD code to enter the main menu and I got charged twice after it didn't even work. I think that this defeats the app purpose.
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What's new

This release includes updates specific to our ongoing research on USSD reliability.