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1RemitlyEGP 20,455.27Most arrivesIt was the best on the table, with a £0.99 fee and a rate close to Google's.
2WiseEGP 20,096.92EGP 358.35Its rate was exactly the real one. The £8.51 fee is heavy on Egypt. It came about £5.20 behind Remitly.
3Western UnionEGP 19,969.51EGP 485.76It had a small visible fee and a wide rate. It came about £7.05 behind Remitly.
4OFXEGP 19,368.35EGP 1,086.92It had a high fee and a wide rate. It came about £15.76 behind Remitly.
Each amount in the table has the fee taken out of the £300. Wise's and OFX's prices are for a bank account. The Remitly and Western Union rows do not say how the money is paid out.
What to actually open
If you already have Remitly installedUse Remitly.On £300 this morning the comparison showed it delivering EGP 20,455.27, for a £0.99 fee. That was about £5.20 ahead of Wise on the same amount. It was the best regular price on the table.
If you already have Wise installed and not RemitlyWise is still a fair choice.Wise gives you the real exchange rate, the one you see if you search "1 GBP to EGP" on Google. The fee is on the screen at £8.51. That is heavier than Wise's fee on most other routes, and it is what puts Wise second on the table today rather than first. But £5.20 behind Remitly on £300 is small money for a familiar app.
If you have neitherInstall Remitly.On this send size it is the clear pick.
Do not open OFX for a send this small.Between the £7 fee and a rate 4.12 percent below the real rate, OFX was £15.76 behind Remitly.
Catches
Remitly's fee. The comparison does not say how the sender paid for Remitly's row, or which speed the £0.99 is for. On 5 November 2026 Remitly's page listed £0.99 for Economy and £1.99 for Express to Egypt. With £1.99 taken out of the £300 on the same rate, about EGP 20,387 arrives, still about £4.21 ahead of Wise.
Western Union's rate. The comparison does not say how the sender paid for this row either. On 5 November 2026 Western Union's rate was 1.11 percent better on one way of paying online than on a card, so its row may be the lower price.
The Remitly first-transfer offer. If you have never used Remitly before, check the app for a first-transfer offer. On 4 September, Remitly's UK page advertised a promotional rate of about 70.18 EGP to 1 GBP, with the fee waived, capped at the first £500. A £300 send falls inside that cap, so the whole amount converts at the promo rate. That would deliver about 21,054 EGP, with no fee. That is roughly £8.68 ahead of the £0.99 row in the table. On 5 November 2026, Remitly's terms said the fee waiver does not cover a credit card. The offer works once, and only if the app shows it to you.
The Egyptian pound moves. The rate you are quoted today may not be the rate you are quoted next week.
Delivery time. Wise's own estimate on this send was Monday 7 September. The Central Bank of Egypt's rules (
Book 11, chapter 1) say the system banks use to settle payments runs Sunday to Thursday, except official holidays.
Others absent this week. Xoom's last fresh price on this route was a week ago (28 August), so it was not put on the headline table today. Instarem did not return a fresh price for GBP to EGP this morning. LemFi, Taptap Send, Sendwave, WorldRemit, Skrill and MoneyGram were not returned by the Wise price comparison for Egypt today.
How we checked
We checked on Friday 4 September 2026, morning UK time. Prices come from Wise's price comparison for £300 sent to Egypt. Wise's own row is from 05:05, Remitly's 04:40, Western Union's 04:20 and OFX's 04:19. An independent rate feed matched Wise's number within a third of one percent of the real rate. The raw data is on file.
Next Friday: another country, another number.
Corrections
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page did not say that each amount in the table, and the sum at £1.99, has the fee taken out of the £300, that on 5 November 2026 Remitly's terms said its fee waiver does not cover a credit card, or that Western Union's 1.11 percent was for paying online. It now does. No figure changed.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page gave Remitly's £0.99 fee without saying what it depends on. The page now says the comparison names no speed or way of paying, that Remitly's page listed £0.99 for Economy and £1.99 for Express on 5 November 2026, and what arrives at £1.99.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page told you to skip Western Union on a small send, and said Wise was second on Egypt. The comparison names no way of paying and Western Union's rate moves with it, so the skip advice is gone and "second" now means second on the table.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said every price was for a £300 bank transfer. Only Wise's and OFX's prices are for a bank account, and the page now says so.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said UK banks were not returned by the comparison. Our request asked for money transfer apps only, so no bank could come back, and those words are gone.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said delivery time depends on the receiving bank, and that banks in Egypt are closed Friday and Saturday. We have no source for these, so the lines are gone. The page now gives Wise's estimate and the Central Bank of Egypt's settlement days.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said OFX was £15.77 behind Remitly. The gap is £15.76.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said most of Wise's £5.20 gap was lost to its £8.51 fee. Wise's fee was £7.52 more than Remitly's, which is more than the whole gap, so those words are gone.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said a bank deposit to Egypt usually arrives the same working day on Remitly and Wise, that a Friday send may arrive Sunday, and that these routes are fast. We have no source for this, and Wise's own estimate on this send was Monday 7 September, so the lines are gone.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said the Egyptian pound had moved a lot in the last two years, that this is why the wider-rate apps looked worse than usual on Egypt, and that Wise and Remitly reprice more often. We have no source for these, so the lines are gone.
- 2026-11-05: An earlier version of this page said OFX is built for much larger sends, where its rate beats the flat fee, and that the Remitly app is straightforward to set up. We have no source for these, so the lines are gone. It also told you to skip Xoom, on a price that was a week old, so that name is gone.