Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Finance is generally praised for its comprehensive financial tracking and ease of use, but recent updates have introduced numerous bugs, UI/UX issues, and performance problems, leading to a decline in user satisfaction.
Yahoo Finance is a popular app for tracking investments and market data, with many users appreciating its free access and detailed information. However, recent updates have caused widespread frustration due to broken features, UI changes, and performance issues, leading to a significant number of negative reviews.
What users like
What users complain about
- Recent UI/UX changes are poorly received, especially on iPad, making it harder to view informationR4R5R18R28
- Numerous bugs affect core features like charts, widgets, alerts, and portfolio calculationsR2R3R10R13
- App performance has degraded, with reports of slowness, crashes, and phone overheatingR7R59R74R138
- Inaccurate or delayed data, particularly for portfolio values and specific stock informationR31R35R43R83
- Excessive and intrusive ads, including a forced 'Daily Brief' that cannot be disabledR27R61R62R106
- Issues with community features, including aggressive comment filtering and spamR17R41R55R77
- Lack of essential features like sorting watchlists alphabetically or managing short positions in portfoliosR37R295
Latest update · v26.13.0
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
This release includes several bug fixes and performance improvements. As always, feel free to use the “Send feedback” link in the Account tab to share feedback. Thanks for using Yahoo Finance!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This app is for users who want a free, comprehensive tool to track multiple stock portfolios and access financial news and data R12R25R39R47. It is suitable for those who value after-hours data and simple charts R45. However, users who prioritize a stable, bug-free experience, accurate real-time data, or a clean, ad-free interface should skip it for now R7R31R61R138.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. Many positive reviews are very brief and general, while negative reviews provide specific details about bugs and UI issues. The developer's notes mention bug fixes, but recent reviews indicate these issues persist or new ones have emerged.
Frequently asked
Are there issues with Yahoo Finance alerts?
Does Yahoo Finance have problems with portfolio tracking?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R12] Best of all financial advice: Best financial tracking and best portfolio review and 💯accuracy
- [R25] Need to keep track?: Never have to spend extra time wondering where the market is. Put all your positions in one spot, Yahoo Finance is the best.
- [R39] Nice: I like tracking my investments in this app for free without having to actually having to link my accounts
- [R47] Love this Market App: One of the best and easiest to navigate through . Adding multiple tickets and portfolios makes it easy.
- [R30] The best accurate professional all data needed to take a decision: The best Financial ap. The greatest financial site
- [R60] Financial news: Gives me all the data I need to make intelligent decisions
- [R66] Yahoo Finance: This is a decent site for the most part. I like to look at the futures here. There are articles about what is happening in the markets as far as what they know. I also have a few names on here I follow so it is a quick way to check those. I am not sure how in depth it is. But then I do not follow stocks as some do. And there is certainly nothing wrong with Yahoo. People do slam Yaho
- [R73] The Best: Learn so much from this app and refer to it multiple times throughout each day. Simple to use while being quite comprehensive in scope with the add ins. Am most appreciative!
- [R19] Easy to use: I think this app is very user-friendly
- [R49] Exceptional: Love all the features and can easily use
- [R72] 82 year old retiree: Easy access & easy to navigate
- [R45] Read everyday: Love the app , gives after hours and simple charts , better than think or swim imao
- [R4] H/L & 52 wk view nowscrewed up: Please fix the recent change to the iPad version. The high/low and 52 wk views cannot be seen without sliding the side menu over. Why is the stock symbol column so wide? Wasn’t this wide before and everything could be seen without sliding the side menu over. Please reduce the width!
- [R5] Poor recent UI/UX changes.: In a recent iPad update (late June/July 2026 they changed the daily price change to a dollar amount (I.e. +$3.56) which is pretty much useless. Change it back to being a percentage (I.e. +1.23%) or at least make it user selectable. They also ruined the “basic” view for linked portfolios. Instead of seeing all positions now, you only see like 9. You have to switch
- [R18] Portfolio 2.0 is the worst: in ipad app they put the stock list inside a small frame so now if you have more than 14 stocks in the list you have to scroll inside the little frame to see all your stocks, whereas before you could just scroll the whole page
- [R28] Getting worse after every new update: Now on iPad, it doesn’t show all the tickers on the right side anymore. You have to scroll half page and then the ticker section starts to scroll. It’s a complete garbage designed by some 3rd world morons who eat curry everyday but never use the app at all.
- [R2] Almost Perfect: On iPhone, Widget for a ticker symbol is not working. It won’t allow changing the ticker symbol. As of 7/7/3026 still not working.
- [R3] Advanced chart in mobile app: Completely broken. Why time in x axis , always current day candle not rendering 😒
- [R10] Help updating stocks activity: It won’t update the stocks I sold. My overall balance is not right
- [R13] Problems with recent update: All of a sudden some of the stocks in my portfolios are not showing under basic view. The app seems to truncate some of my portfolios whether they have 4 or 40 stocks, but only under basic view. This recent update has a big bug for iPad. Doesn’t happen on android and seems random. Maybe stop updating so much, but this needs to get fixed.
- [R7] App is messed up now: Every time I tap on a stock chart, it opens the advanced view which I don’t want and this view also takes likes 5 seconds to load before I can exit. Why is it so slow? I’ll look for another stock tracker and use my brokerage in the meantime.
- [R59] It makes my phone run hot: I’ve been a long time user of this app but all of a sudden, this app causes my new iPhone to run extremely hot and the phone freezes up. It’s become a nightmare using it.
- [R74] Phone gets very hot: Within seconds after opening the app the phone starts to get very hot and battery drains very quickly
- [R138] Getting slower: I’ve been using Yahoo finance for over 20 years. It keeps getting slower as they stuff in more ads. Charts take much longer to load now. It often locks up, waiting for the curser to come back. It’s really frustrating.
- [R31] Glitches and more glitches: This is the most misleading app for price action. So many glitches specially after hours, right after close and in pre markets . Delete
- [R35] Prices very inaccurate: portfolio is off by significant trends and dollars for some of my stocks compared to Schwab and dependable and unreliable. Don’t use it to trigger any trade.
- [R43] Wildly Inaccurate: When I pull in multiple portfolios, it aggregates the information wildly inaccurate. I reported this issue several times and it continues to be a problem. For example, my current YTD performance shows over a 22 million dollar loss and 89% decline. In 5 days, it shows I lost over 145 million dollars for a 97% decline. Absolutely pointless.
- [R83] Too many errors and restrictions: This site COULD be great, but there are two very annoying problems: 1. Info is wrong on some tickets and remains wrong for months. Basic things like the yield of GPIX and GPIQ (among others) are totally off - not even close. 2. On the message board, YAHOO restricts a lot of what can be said - things that wouldn’t / shouldn’t violate any rule
- [R27] Used to be good: I normally review details about the stocks here. More recently, I have noticed a lot of crypto bro and/or biased perspective segments playing where normally they would have news or CEOs interviews. Additionally, the ads have increased as well so almost every other news story is an advertisement. Luckily, it says the word ad next to it.
- [R61] Should be named Yahoo Ads +Lots of bugs. They keep ruining this app: 0. They just stuck an annoying ad right in the way of the main financial data screen. 1. Often while reading an article the page/screen goes completely blank/white. 2. I'm not able to post comments on news articles any longer. There is a Sign In to post button and I sign in but it just asks me to sign in again. Repeat… 3.
- [R62] It keeps getting worse: Between “your daily brief” and the ads, you can’t even see stock prices anymore without scrolling.
- [R106] Daily Brief is annoying: The daily brief that pops up when you open the app is incredibly annoying. There is no way to disable it. Really irritating.
- [R17] Aggressive comment filter: App’s auto moderation relentless removes completely normal comments
- [R41] Comment section: Not happy with the editing of comments ! Very restrictive on criticizing management !
- [R55] Everything Removed: Every comment I post is removed. I can post “Hi!” and Yahoo says it violates their community guidelines. They’ll probably remove this review, ridiculous.
- [R77] Message Boards: Been using this app for 25 years between phone and browser. The newer message boards are ok but when you block someone it doesn’t stick and more importantly the SPAM has increased. Even when you report SOAM of other sites and links, the AI can’t figure it out.
- [R37] Sorting list: This is ridiculous why can’t I sort my watchlist alphabetically I can do it on the computer desktop but not in the Yahoo phone app and it’s not syncing with my computer
- [R295] Yahoo Finance just got worse: In my portfolio I used to be able to insert short positions. This is no longer possible with the new site. Also the calculation of returns is totally whacky showing big gains on stocks where I lost and vice versa.
- [R15] AI slop: Only an LLM would reverse the order of financial statements on a mobile app from newest to oldest as it has always been for mobile readability to oldest to newest which follows desktop convention where there’s plenty of screen real estate but makes no sense on an iOS app forcing additional taps on every single ticker open
- [R1] You killed 99 free alerts: After years, personal alert triggers on stocks just disappeared without a warning. Bad form!
- [R6] App Problems: Problems to see finance participation part when i try to pereonalize columms
- [R32] Yahoo finance is down lately: App is unreliable
- [R23] Censorship: Bias and censorship 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
- [R24] Why no thumbs down: This is not included in the community posts!!!
- [R20] Price alert: There’s something wrong with the price alert. Microsoft has reached the target price but there was no alert. In the other hand, I wish after-hour price is also available for price alert. It could be added as a separate column so that the last price column won’t be disturbed. Alternatively there could be an option for users to choose whether after-hour price is displayed and used for
- [R80] Version 26.9.2 Lost all of my alerts 😡: This update, released 5-14-26, lost all of my Stock Alerts, and now I can’t add new ones.
- [R116] Notification message is partially hidden: For the upgrade/downgrade messages, the target price is usually displayed at the end of the. It was perfectly displayed before. But with the app update a few months back, the target price is hidden and is replaced with “…”
- [R235] Yahoo support is a joke: Horrible for calculating returns. Doesn’t record proceeds from sales of stocks so you have to add them which screws up your ROI. Desktop and app versions were showing inaccurate balances that didn’t even add up. Support was a joke saying they couldn’t see any problem. The app was Literally showing different balances in different windows for the same portfolios. They want t
- [R211] Ads: There are far too many ads interspersed in the text of articles. On a small screen, I have to scroll repeatedly which makes it difficult to read the article. I know the articles are designed to catch eyeballs, but because of all the ads I stop trying to read the article text amongst all the ads so I ended up not seeing the ads and spend less time on the Yahoo! site. You're shooting yourself i
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store