Stocks+ app

Update on 5/5/23: I’ve updated my stats to 5 stars. The developer reached out and the latest update has hopefully fixed my issue. I love the simplicity of being able to track my stocks, including my # of shares and cost basis. Super easy and I haven’t found another that does so with such simplicity. Looks like a few usability issues were also addressed - such as adding my holdings. Much easier now. I used to love this app. I liked that you can add your stock basis as well as number of shares and see daily and total gains. However, the app has been randomly deleting my stocks. It progressively has gotten worse. I guess it’s time to find a new one - but I’ll use the simplicity of this one. I gave two stars because if it didn’t randomly delete stocks, it does exactly what I want it to do :(

Update 2: Now it’s completely stopped updating and doesn’t work. Completely worthless and a total waste of money. Complete garbage now. Such a shame as it was a great little app. Update: as predicted, this app is now a garbage fire. Full of junk and trash you don’t need and devoid of anything usable. This used to a fast little and useful app. They were sold in the autumn/fall of 2021 and the new owners didn’t waste time ruining what was a winner. They introduced a new “design” with elements that are far too large so there’s very little information density. This reshuffling of the chairs was also used as an excuse to push people into signing up for their subscription service, which is entirely too expensive and provides little value. The app is much too slow now because of incessant advertisement and pushy alerts to subscribe. Existing and any new functionality was put behind a subscription wall. To make it worse, the app simply refuses to update pricing information for the stocks and there’s no way to get it to do that other than terminating it and relaunching. Meanwhile if you previously paid the one-time fee to remove all ads forever, you’re in this uncanny value where the new owners cannot completely ignore you, but it’s clear they want you gone so they can focus on their new, presumably lucrative subscription service. Given the woeful Privacy Policy and how many “partners” they send customer data to, one would think the subscription would be cheaper but that’s not the case. Overall, this is another case of new ownership completely destroying a great app. Stay away from this as the only place it has to go is down, and it will take you with it.

This app has one good feature that the apple stocks app doesn’t have - you can add your cost basis and number of shares. However, they make it so clunky and difficult to actually add that info that I’m actually debating with myself whether it’s easier to just pull out a calculator and figure it myself. If you have a static portfolio that you will never change, it’s probably worth spending the 30+ tedious minutes it will take you to get the info into the app, but if you’re trading regularly, forget about it. While it does link to my Fidelity account and pull my holdings automatically, it doesn’t pull all of the info, so I have to enter everything manually anyway. There are so many confusing screens and options that it looks cluttered, and the icons and options are not very clear, which means I end up wasting lots of time clicking into screens that I’m not looking for. The Apple stocks app is so easy to use, why can’t someone just copy that and add a couple of features and call it a day?