Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have introduced Apple and Android mobile banking apps.

Customers will be able to view transactions and accounts, make intra account transfers and check available funds.

They will also have the ability to set up and manage text message alerts which will notify them when they are nearing the limits they set up.

The service is one of the key requests from customers picked up in the recently launched Clydesdale Bank Connects and Yorkshire Bank Connects programmes, which have involved over 20,000 customer responses to date.

Andrew Pearce, retail director for Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, said: “We are a strongly customer focused Bank, very much committed to serving and supporting the communities we’re part of.

“Customers very clearly told us that they rely on their smart phones and tablets more than ever before and the app has been developed in direct response to that feedback.”

The new banking apps are available to all customers with a personal current account and can be downloaded free from the app store for Apple users, and from Google Play for Android devices. An app for Blackberry devices will follow.