Starling is the rare case where you should probably not be here. It is app-native, and its own export is genuinely good: the app offers statements as CSV, PDF or large print PDF over any custom date range, back to when the account was opened, and you can take any of them as a standard or a certified statement. If you can open the app, export the CSV and stop reading. The PDF route matters when the app is not available to you — a certified statement someone issued you, a document a client sent on, or an account you can no longer log in to.
- Single signed amount column, not split in/out, so the sign on every row has to be preserved rather than inferred from a column position.
- Counterparty and reference are separate fields on a Starling statement, and they stay separate in the output rather than being mashed into one string.
- The running balance and the period's opening and closing figures are both used to verify the output, so a dropped row surfaces as a DISCREPANCY.
- Works on a statement someone else sent you, which is the case the app export cannot cover.