Spendify is a personal-finance app that helps people track spending, manage debt, and budget. It connects to thousands of financial institutions, aggregates every account in one place, and turns raw bank activity into a clear picture of where someone's money is going.
That picture only works if it's readable. Raw bank descriptors are cryptic, so Spendify uses Context.dev to show the real merchant behind every transaction, the actual logo and a properly formatted name instead of an opaque bank string. The team resolves the merchant's domain, pulls the curated brand from Context.dev, and self-hosts the logo variants, giving users an instantly recognizable view of each purchase.
Here's how the Spendify team put it:
"Getting started with Context.dev was genuinely smooth. The SDK was clean and well-typed, the docs were clear, and we had it wired into our product in about a day. What won us over was the data quality, give it a domain and you get back curated, high-resolution brand logos and a clean brand name, which let us replace a more fragile in-house approach. The team has been great to work with too, responsive and proactive about resolving edge cases. Highly recommend."
The use case
Spendify came across Context.dev while researching brand and logo APIs. The goal was simple to describe and hard to maintain: show clean, curated merchant logos and names next to users' transactions. Building and keeping that current in-house had become a brittle, never-quite-finished project.
Why Context.dev?
For Spendify, the win came down to a few things:
- One domain lookup: Resolve a merchant's domain and get back a curated brand, no scraping or hand-cleaning required.
- High-quality assets: Curated, high-resolution logos and a properly formatted brand name, ready to display.
- Clean, well-typed SDK: Clear docs and a typed SDK meant the integration was wired in within about a day.
- Responsive support: The team resolves edge cases quickly, so the data keeps fitting the product as it grows.
By leaning on Context.dev, Spendify replaced a brittle in-house logo pipeline and noticeably lifted the quality of its transactions experience, every purchase now shows the merchant's real logo and a clean name instead of a raw bank descriptor.
Want clean, recognizable brand logos and names from a single domain lookup, without building and maintaining the pipeline yourself? Context.dev gives you the brand data layer so your team can stay focused on the product your customers actually see.