Stocktwits
Stocktwits is a free social networking app for investors, praised for its real-time stock information and community insights, but it faces significant criticism for poor moderation, frequent account bans, and technical issues.
Stocktwits offers a social platform for discussing stocks and crypto, providing real-time feeds and community sentiment. While many users appreciate its value for market insights and idea sharing, a substantial number of recent reviews highlight issues with moderation, unsolicited bans, and various technical glitches.
What users like
What users complain about
- Users report frequent and unexplained account bans or restrictions.R2R12R13R14
- The platform suffers from poor moderation, leading to spam, bots, scams, and toxic content.R3R5R7R23
- Sentiment meters are often inaccurate or easily manipulated.R11R212R264
- Users experience various technical bugs, including freezing, crashing, and refresh issues.R52R19R21R272
- The app displays numerous unsolicited ads and pop-ups.R19R26R38R66
- Some useful features have been removed or are poorly designed.R82R122R516
Latest update · v7.34.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Bug fixes and performance improvements
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Stocktwits is for investors who want real-time market sentiment and discussion, are comfortable filtering through a lot of noise, and are looking for a free social platform to share and discover stock ideas R1R4R18. It is not for users who expect strict moderation, a clean ad-free experience, or reliable technical performance without bugs R2R3R7R12.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew significantly negative, with a 0.432 recent-negative ratio, which contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating of 4.8. This suggests a recent decline in user satisfaction, possibly due to increased moderation issues, technical problems, or a change in community dynamics. The developer's notes mention only 'Bug fixes and performance improvements,' which directly contradicts the numerous recent reports of ongoing bugs and performance issues R19R21R52R272.
Frequently asked
Is Stocktwits free to use?
Does Stocktwits have good customer support?
Are there many bots and scammers on Stocktwits?
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.
- [R4] Great Customer Support: There are several apps i use for quality assurance for my research before buying/selling my stocks and Stocktwits app allows me to stay up to date with live feed from a community of users discussing the specific ticker symbol of interest in any moment of time when the company stock is active. The customer support has very fast response time
- [R58] Excellent: Found to be the greatest chat app for folks who seek real time financial information concerning Stocks, Finance, and Crypto.
- [R86] Best app for stocks: This app is great for understanding stocks a little better. You get real information on stock and also live message boards on stock insights! Great platform!!!!
- [R95] HeadingHigher: It’s a great app for me as I need the insights including current news post from StockTwits traders. Being able to follow what more experienced traders are saying is a great feature too.
- [R17] Good for sentiment: Good source of information on stock sentiment
- [R32] Great app: This app is easy to use and very accurate for finding trending stocks. It’s best utilized with other platforms, but this is a great sanity check before trading. App is amazing for day trading, not sure how helpful it is for swing trading and long term investing though.
- [R73] Great Info Source: Great source to find trending stocks
- [R101] Fantastic tool: Merges social media with trading to get a good idea of market sentiment. Works great for swing trading
- [R1] Hate the Community: But I love the opportunity to express unique and challenging ideas. I also benefit from the due diligence of others from time to time usually in the form of posts regarding press releases or scientific papers in biotech. A good example would be Zevra’s paper on MIPLYFFA research in the infant NPC population.
- [R18] One week user review: Colorful, full of banter from your co-investors. More freedom than reddit. This is a great app and I am using only the free version.
- [R103] The Twitter of the financial community: Just like Twitter, but for investments only. You get some of the downside of Twitter, which is a lot of noise from Chesters and jerks, but there is no denying the value and the camaraderie.
- [R30] Absolutely GREAT APP!!!: My experience has been pleasant and they were quick to respond to my emails!
- [R2] Trash: Trash app that bans you for rules that are based on feelings. Pay $30 for “edge” and get banned by someone that doesn’t like what u have to say and then have to wait until a week day to be able to post again. Platform has become a joke.
- [R12] Cool app as long as you don’t comment on anything: You may as well, not even comment on anybody’s post or even make a post because you will be restricted it never fails. It doesn’t matter how nice you are or how uplifting and positive you are about anything. They should just name this app the restriction app because that’s all they do to. Everybody is restrict over nothing.
- [R13] No support: They’re autonomously suspending accounts with no response from support or any way to actually hear from a human being
- [R14] Got banned for nothing: The excuse they used was I used the word “g-hole” but the truth is they banned me bc there’s so many false users that constantly flagged my posts (and bragged they would get both me and others banned) from other countries. Paid posters mixed with a few real ones who drink the koolaid. Anti-Trump remarks not tolerated by the hedge funds that back Trump and this site. First A
- [R3] Wow…this is garbage: Absolute garbage! I have attempted to build my platform utilizing basic strategies and this company just doesn’t understand messaging or marketing. This app is a joke compared to other social media platforms. Also, contains illicit activity and spam bots. Thank you AIRe.PublicPlatform
- [R5] .: You can say whatever you want! Market manipulation all over
- [R7] Bots, larpers and furus. Oh my!: Everyone on here is either a bot, someone pretending they make money or some guy trying to sell you a subscription. Absolute trash. Outside of that it’s a decent app.
- [R23] Tons of fraud: Really bad app that allows fraud and misinformation to run rampant!!
- [R11] Mostly good: App is great for finding information about the stocks, but the sentiment meter built off of a social media presentation is flawed. Sentiment meters are affected by individuals spamming “bearish” or “bullish” sentiments when they should probably be limited to one per day. Generally public ignores the spammer sentiments, but there has been a few times that I’ve seen the spammer sentimen
- [R212] Fun app but sentiment meter is hilariously bad: I’ve watched this day after day but today was worth writing a review over. A stock I’ve been in for 3 years ran 60% today. 10x the average volume. Thousands of posts, 99% bullish, and the sentiment meter reads ‘extremely bearish’. The idea is great, give users a snapshot of sentiment on a stock on any given day. But how on earth can you mess it up
- [R264] Great but could be better: Great app and idea, my only issues with the app: -pre market and after hours share prices are very delayed -sentiment readings don’t seem to make sense It would be good if we could track watchers over time, the same way you can track message volume on the charts
- [R52] iPad Bugs: For iPad, there is a huge bug on sizing. Makes it impossible to use. Please fix it!
- [R19] Scam: This app will constantly open new browser windows for unsolicited ads. Also you will be constantly banned with 0 explanation or support. Also this will DRAIN your battery like no other. Literally 1% per minute.
- [R21] App keeps muting audio, not usable: App keeps muting audio, not usable Introducing topics
- [R272] Needs optimisation: I’m a regular user of Stocktwits and I have experienced one problems over the past weeks. Every time I choose to load one stock to either see the chart or messages it does not load (forever loading sign appears), I literally have to go to yahoo finance to resolve the problem. Please optimise your servers
- [R26] Avoid like the plague: Absolute trash. The actual CEP of this app (or his bot) trolled me when I was on there. Mostly bots, tons of ads mean people it’s garbage. Save your time and money go somewhere else.
- [R38] Spam ads: First 6 months no issue now whenever I log in I get greeted with several ads and when I click on tickers I’m met with more ads (anything I do) I’m met with at least 2 ads
- [R66] Pop up ads: Annoying full page ads popping up, terrible
- [R82] Removed features: The most useful feature of this app was being able to see futures prices vs closing prices on stocks during off hours. Why would they remove that? I really don’t have any reason to use this app instead of the apple stocks app now.
- [R122] Missing custom percentage gain and loss from the graph: Can you guys add the 2 graph comparison so I can compare the top point vs low point to see gain % vs losses % just like yahoo finance?
- [R516] Not happy with the current update: Why would you put many of the features that we use everyday under the search icon 🤔... this makes absolutely no sense from any point of view except awful programming. Put the trending section and the calendar the way it was so we can swipe easily and access it. If you want to have a discover section properly, put it as a swipe button at the top not under the s
- [R40] Iphone: Ruined my CPU
- [R33] Turd App: If I could find a delete account button, I would use it. Too much spam and StockTwits clearly promotes certain tickers and opposes other tickers, which really turned me off.
- [R8] Dont waste your time: Great app if you like being surrounded by a bunch of people who have no idea what their talking about. Bunch of gamblers making bad guesses.
- [R563] Love it!: Love love this app. The time is very accurate, easy to use and for that I love it. But the chart needs candle stick.
- [R25] The Best: The Single Best App on the Markets Bar None! For Both Professionals and Novices. I Don’t Pay for Apps other than SPOT. Especially from Equity so called “Hot Shots” and Information that I get on a professional basis anyways. Because I’m prudent and Cheap, but I’d pay for StockTwits. Luckily They Don’t Charge. It’s FREE!
- [R92] Great app: Love the app, even the free version is great. You gotta be good about blocking the trolls and spammers but Stocktwits makes that really easy. My wife and I both use the app, and we both have a lot of fun tracking trade ideas and sharing ideas, learning from others, etc.
- [R42] Keeps restricting me for no reason: Unexplained restrictions indefinitely and tech support is absent.
- [R28] Garbage: Stocktwits doesn’t nothing about the constant liars trying to trick new retail investors. It’s just full of spam bots and scammers.
- [R421] Too many bots: Fine for looking at general information but be wary of bots.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store