Track your spending at boycotted companies — automatically

You want to align your spending with your values. The problem is visibility.

You've seen the lists. You know which companies you'd rather not support. But when you're standing in a grocery aisle or scrolling through an app store, are you really going to look up the parent company of every single brand?

The BDS boycott list includes approximately 4,700 companies — many of them subsidiaries of larger conglomerates. That bottle of water, that cleaning product, that streaming service? Could be owned by a company on the list, and you'd never know without research.

Manual tracking is unsustainable. That's not a moral failing — it's just reality. You need automation.

How Sable's BDS tracker works

Sable connects to your bank through Plaid (read-only — we can see transactions but never move money). Once connected, it automatically matches your spending against the BDS boycott database:

• Automatic merchant matching — Sable recognizes the merchant name from your bank feed and checks it against the BDS list
• Parent company detection — that niche brand you buy? Sable checks who owns it. A charge at a seemingly innocent brand gets flagged if the parent company is on the list.
• Per-brand spending totals — see exactly how much you've spent at each boycotted company over any time period
• Monthly ethical spending report — a clear breakdown of boycotted vs. non-boycotted spending so you can track your progress

No manual lookups. No browser extensions that break every other week. Just connect your bank and get honest data about where your money actually goes.

This isn't about perfection — it's about awareness

Let's be clear about something: you're not going to get to 0% boycotted spending overnight. Some of these companies are everywhere — they own brands across food, personal care, entertainment, and technology. Complete avoidance may not be practical depending on where you live and what's available to you.

The point isn't to feel guilty. It's to see what's happening so you can make informed choices where it's practical.

Maybe you switch one grocery brand. Maybe you realize one streaming service is 40% of your "boycotted" total and decide to cancel it. Maybe you just want to know the number so you can reduce it gradually. All of that is valid. Progress over perfection.

Sable gives you the data — clear, honest, non-judgmental. What you do with it is entirely up to you.

What the report looks like

Your BDS ethical spending report shows:

1. Total boycotted spending — the dollar amount (in USD or CAD) you spent at companies on the BDS list this month
2. As a percentage — boycotted spending as a share of your total spending
3. Top boycotted merchants — ranked by how much you spent, with parent company shown
4. Trend over time — are you spending more or less at boycotted companies compared to last month?

It's designed to inform, not shame. No red X's, no guilt meters. Just clear numbers.

Part of Islamic mode — or use it standalone

The BDS tracker is one component of Sable's Islamic mode, which also includes a Zakat calculator and daily Islamic reminders. But you don't have to be Muslim to care about ethical spending — enable just the BDS tracker in your settings if that's what you need.

The database covers approximately 4,700 companies and is updated regularly. If a merchant isn't being matched correctly, you can flag it in the app and the team will review it for inclusion in the next database update.

Sable works with both US and Canadian banks through Plaid, supports USD and CAD, and the free plan includes everything you need to start tracking — 2 bank accounts, full BDS reporting, and all budgeting features. No trial, no credit card required.

How this is different from other boycott tools

There are other ways to try to track boycotted spending. Here's how they compare:

• Browser extensions — only work when you're shopping online, break frequently with website updates, can't see in-store purchases or bank transactions, and miss subscriptions entirely
• Manual spreadsheets — technically possible, realistically abandoned within a week. Are you really going to Google every merchant name before logging it?
• Social media lists — informative but not actionable on a per-transaction basis. Knowing a company is boycotted doesn't tell you how much you've spent there.
• Dedicated boycott apps — typically barcode scanners that only work for in-store product purchases, not services, subscriptions, or digital spending
• Sable — scans your actual bank feed automatically, includes parent companies, generates monthly reports, tracks your progress over time. Works for everything: groceries, subscriptions, online orders, services.

The difference is automation + real transaction data. You don't have to remember. You don't have to look things up. You don't have to scan barcodes. It just runs in the background and shows you the truth about where your money goes.

Get your first ethical spending report

Connect your bank (takes about 60 seconds), enable the BDS tracker, and you'll have a report within minutes based on your existing transaction history.

Start tracking your ethical spending →

Related reading:

• Halal budgeting app — full Islamic mode overview
• Muslim finance app
• Free Zakat calculator