Zacks Mobile App

I am a Zack’s client and subscribe to most of its services. They are usually accurate, informative and well written. Zack’s is a Five Star Company The App? A very different story. In fairness, I live where internet service is not always good, but similar apps, such as Yahoo Finance, simply Wall Street. Tip Ranks and several brokerage apps and charting apps all manage to deliver with the same internet. The problems are, in no particular order, 1, Slow. If you change sections of the program, you spend several minutes watching the clock icon. If you try to get information on a stock, that can take so long as to make the app unusable. 2.Unstable. I subscribe to all their services, but I frequently get a notice that I must subscribe in order to see a section. If I log into Zack’s website, I never have these problems. It is reliable and faster than my internet service. Thus, the problems are with this app. As an additional observation, Zack’s has a screening program that blows everything else I’ve tried completely out of the water. It is a paid service, and has a learning curve, but worth every second and dollar spent. Having access to it with perhaps another, more functional app would be an industry leading attraction. IN SUMMARY: If you are a Zack’s subscriber, forget this app and use the website.

I use the app everyday as a retail investor. I like their ranking system even though sometimes it doesn’t make complete sense to me. There are a few things I don’t like about the app. There is no back button. If I am reading an article and I click on a stock, I can’t hit a back button to go to the place I was when I clicked on the stock link. So I have to go back to the dashboard or research tab and click a few times to get back to the article. The search tab on my iPhone is too close to the edge so I usually have to tap it several times before it acknowledges my tap. It’s a little annoying, it would be better if it was down a line like under a logo or something like that. There have been a few Mondays when the new articles and my portfolio updates have been late. No big deal but I have a routine and I usually am working when the market opens so I like to have their take on it prior to opening. But with all that, I am a subscriber and I have based a lot of my stock picks on their research cross referenced with my brokerage account research. I have a few winners in this down market. I recommend it for its ease of use and variety of info.

Clean, highly functional app, no bug issues so far. A back arrow(<) would be convenient on the stock research pages. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but once you click on a symbol, you’re committed to the stock symbol page. You can of course navigate back to where you were using the main tabs. That’s not hard, and perhaps it’s not a real issue, but it’s what most people are probably used to. Certainly not a deal breaker. I’m new to Zack’s, but I’m trialing Zack’s Ultimate. The stock recommendations seem deliberate, and well researched. I look forward to utilizing the picks, along with my own technical analysis to realize some nice gains.