Perkly Card Index
The Perkly Card Index: August 2026
A series of articles on the credit cards UAE residents chose in August 2026, based on more than 500 card searches on Perkly: by category, by salary, and the month's trends.
Published · Covers August 2026
Based on Perkly data for August 2026: more than 500 card searches, and the card pages, Apply clicks and applications that followed, on perkly.ae between 1 and 31 August 2026. Card fees, rates and offers on this page update live from Perkly’s card database.
- Card searches
- 500+
- Searches for cashback
- 62%
- Cards compared
- 241
- Banks and issuers
- 30
The Perkly Card Index is a monthly series about which credit cards people choose on Perkly: the cards they apply for, click Apply on and read about. It is built from behaviour, not from bank advertising, and no bank can pay to appear in it.
August's headline is simple: cashback won. 6 in 10 searches were for a cashback card, and the two most chosen cards of the month, Emirates NBD's noon One and Mawarid Finance's Platinum, are both free cashback cards that reward food and groceries. On the travel side, Emirates Skywards cards drew far more interest than Etihad Guest cards.
The series runs in two parts: the category lists first, then salary guides that pick the best card in each category for a given monthly income. Every article links straight to each card's details and application.
The August 2026 series
16 articles, each on August 2026 data.
- 1Best cashback credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 2Best travel credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 3Best Emirates Skywards credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 4Best Etihad Guest credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 5The 10 most popular credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 6Best rewards credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 7Best no annual fee credit cards in the UAE: August 202619 September 202619 September 2026
- 8Best Islamic credit cards in the UAE: August 202620 September 202620 September 2026
- 9How the UAE chose credit cards in August 202621 September 202621 September 2026
- 10The best credit cards for an AED 5,000 salary in the UAE, August 202622 September 202622 September 2026
- 11The best credit cards for an AED 10,000 salary in the UAE, August 202623 September 202623 September 2026
- 12The best credit cards for an AED 15,000 salary in the UAE, August 202624 September 202624 September 2026
- 13The best credit cards for an AED 20,000 salary in the UAE, August 202625 September 202625 September 2026
- 14The best credit cards for an AED 25,000 salary in the UAE, August 202626 September 202626 September 2026
- 15The best credit cards for an AED 30,000 salary in the UAE, August 202627 September 202627 September 2026
- 16The best credit cards for an AED 50,000+ salary in the UAE, August 202628 September 202628 September 2026
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