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1InstaremNPR 60,435.79Most arrivesInstarem gives the most on today's numbers. It carries no fee, and the rate sits a small step below the real rate.
2WiseNPR 59,918.00NPR 517.79Wise gives you the real rate from Google. The £4.53 fee is what puts the arrival £2.55 behind Instarem.
3Western UnionNPR 59,686.07NPR 749.72Western Union charges a 50p fee. Most of the £3.70 gap to Instarem sits in the rate, about 1.7 percent below the real one.
4SkrillNPR 59,593.40NPR 842.39Skrill's "no fee" line is a lure. The rate sits about 2 percent below the real rate. That hides roughly £6 on £300, and puts Skrill £4.15 behind Instarem.
What to actually open
If you already have Instarem installedUse Instarem.On £300 this morning it delivered 60,435.79 rupees for a zero fee. That was the best of the four apps that returned a fresh price for Nepal today.
If you already have Wise installed and not InstaremWise is a fair pick.Wise gives you the real exchange rate, the one you see if you search "1 GBP to NPR" on Google. The fee is on the screen at £4.53. On Nepal that fee is what puts Wise in second place today, not the rate. About £2.55 behind Instarem on £300 is small money for a familiar app, and Wise's own delivery estimate on this route this morning was 30 minutes.
If you have neither of themInstall Instarem.On this send size it is the clear pick on today's numbers, and the app is straightforward to set up.
Do not open Skrill for a bank deposit send to Nepal.The "no fee" line on the front of the app is real; the loss is in the rate. Skrill's rate this morning sat about 2 percent below the real rate, which on £300 is roughly £6 you do not see anywhere on the screen. Western Union at the same send size is a small step better than Skrill and still £3.70 behind Instarem; the reason is the same one, a rate about 1.7 percent below the real rate. If Western Union is your usual counter for cash pickup in Nepal, that is a different question than the bank deposit price on the table above.
For the whole route in one place, see how to send money to Nepal.
Catches
A few caveats before you press send. The table above assumes a bank deposit into a Nepalese rupee account. Wise, Instarem, Western Union and Skrill all send that way by default. If your family wants the money on an eSewa or Khalti wallet, open the app and check the receiving screen: the price for a wallet send is not the same number as the bank deposit price, and not every app on the table above pushes to those wallets.
Timing matters on Nepal. Nepal is four hours forty-five minutes ahead of the UK while the UK is on summer time, so a Friday morning send from London arrives during working hours in Kathmandu and Pokhara. A bank deposit funded from a UK bank account before mid-morning usually settles the same working day in Nepal on Wise and Instarem. A late-Friday send from London may not settle until Sunday or Monday depending on the receiving bank's cutoff.
Several apps many senders to Nepal reach for did not return a fresh price for GBP to NPR on the Wise price comparison this morning. That group includes LemFi, Remitly, WorldRemit, Xoom, MoneyGram, Small World and TransferGo. They are missing from the table today, not judged. If one of them is your usual app, or if your family wants cash pickup at an IME or a Prabhu Money Transfer branch, or a top-up straight to an eSewa or Khalti wallet, open the app and check the number yourself before you send.
How we checked
The check ran on Friday 25 September 2026, morning UK time. Prices come from the Wise price comparison for a £300 bank transfer to Nepal: Wise at 05:04, Instarem at 04:39, Skrill at 04:30, Western Union at 04:21. An independent rate feed matched Wise's rate to within a rounding error. We hold the raw JSON on file.
Corrections
- 2026-09-25: An earlier version of this piece said Skrill's rate "hides about £4 of loss on 300 pounds" and that 2 percent below the real rate "on 300 pounds is roughly £4". Skrill's rate is 2 percent below the real rate, so on £300 the hidden loss is about £6. The £4.15 figure is only the gap to Instarem, which is itself about 0.66 percent below the real rate. The Skrill row and the recommendation paragraph now name £6.