Investing.com alternatives
Investing.com users seek alternatives due to intrusive ads, high subscription costs for perceived low value, and persistent technical issues. Alternatives like Robinhood and Fidelity cater to different investor needs, from beginner-friendly trading to comprehensive brokerage services, while Acorns focuses on micro-investing and CNBC on financial news.
Why users look for alternatives to Investing.com
- Users frequently complain about invasive and excessive ads, even in the paid version, disrupting the user experience.R7R12R36R44
- Many find the paid 'Investing Pro' subscription not worth the money, citing useless stock picks, lack of updated lists, and high prices.R1R4R9R28
- The app suffers from various technical bugs, including freezing during ads, issues with watchlist functionality, search problems, and display errors in landscape mode.R5R12R16R18
- Customer service is often criticized for being slow, unresponsive, and difficult to reach, especially for resolving billing or account issues.R3R37R40R42
- Users are frustrated by aggressive marketing for subscriptions and an inability to disable incessant marketing emails.R34R46
The alternatives
Robinhood is known for being user-friendly and easy to understand for investments R55R57. Many users find it a good starting point for investing R52.
Better for: Robinhood is better for beginners looking for an easy-to-use platform to start investing, especially in individual stocks R57. However, some long-term users have expressed distrust and issues with trade execution, suggesting it might not be for serious investors or traders R58.
Head-to-head: Investing.com vs RobinhoodFidelity offers a comprehensive platform with many options, making it easy to manage investments and create watchlists R66. Users praise its online services, excellent products, and overall platform R72.
Better for: Fidelity is better for investors seeking a more robust and 'grown-up' brokerage experience with a wide range of products and reliable online services R72R73. However, some recent updates have led to UI issues and slow responsiveness for mobile users R71.
Head-to-head: Investing.com vs Fidelity InvestmentsAcorns is a great investment tool for all ages, making saving and investing simple with automatic deposits and round-ups R85R87. It's praised for helping build good financial habits and being budget-friendly R87.
Better for: Acorns is better for beginners and those who want to save and invest passively through micro-investing and automated round-ups R85R87. However, some users report issues with subscription charges continuing after cancellation and difficulties accessing funds R84R88.
Head-to-head: Investing.com vs AcornsThe Stocks app provides readily available information with just a tap or two, and links to real-time news R98. Users appreciate its ability to check company money rates .
Better for: The Stocks app is better for users who want a simple, integrated way to track stock prices and access news, especially if they are already within the Apple ecosystem R98. However, it has limitations such as too much paid news, lack of sorting features, and accessibility issues with dark mode R95R98R99R101.
Head-to-head: Investing.com vs StocksCNBC is valued for its investment information and programming, especially with a Prime membership R111. Users appreciate the knowledge it provides and wish for features like stock market widgets R111.
Better for: CNBC is better for users primarily interested in financial news, market updates, and live streaming of financial programming R111. However, users frequently encounter issues with videos freezing, livestreams not loading, and excessive ads even with subscriptions R110R112R114.
Head-to-head: Investing.com vs CNBCYou should stick with Investing.com if you find its data fast and accurate, and it provides all the information you need for monitoring various markets in one place . It can be a top tool for self-investing, and some users find the 'InvestingPro' features like the Ideas Track valuable for professional-level trading .
Evidence note: The 'Stocks' app has fewer detailed reviews compared to others, making it harder to provide a comprehensive pitch.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R7] Investing.com Invasive ads: Keep the junk invasive off the site. I’m not here to see kid games and move the x So immature, - switching to another app with same content would be easy.
- [R12] Investing.com Ad blocks Entry: Love the app, but to get in they make you look at an ad, which is fine whatever, but it glitches have the time and I can never use the app. It’s been many months now.
- [R36] Investing.com Too many adverts: 🙈🙈
- [R44] Investing.com Too many ads: Use to be a good app but they decided to put ads in their push messages now. Looking for something else now
- [R1] Investing.com Pro plant does not even see the stock pick updated list: Not worth the money
- [R4] Investing.com What Sale???: How is $214.99 a 60% off July sale? Come on guys. Almost $20 a month for an app that doesn't even sync portfolios is a rip. You'd probably double your subscribers if you dropped the price to $99 annually. Or offer a lifetime membership.
- [R9] Investing.com Not worth it: I have paid version of Investing Pro. Other than getting blasted with several news, the subscription is not worth the money. Monthly stock pick is useless so far. There are other apps that I use is worth every penny unlike this app. I wouldn’t recommend the subscription.
- [R28] Investing.com Basura: Para mí es una mierda de plataforma, es demasiada costosa, manipula precios, los análisis son atrasados, no la recomiendo para nada
- [R5] Investing.com Version 6.75.1 breaks My Holdings tab: As above, the tab no longer works in landscape mode. Please fix. Fixed in 6.76.0. Very fast fix. Thank you.
- [R16] Investing.com Fix: Broken when overseas, used to work great. Bug now
- [R18] Investing.com Let down by user interface issues: A few areas of concern: - some false notifications on big price movements - user interface elements misbehaving after a while - holdings entries obscured in iPad landscape mode
- [R3] Investing.com Great App, Awful Customer Service: The title says it all. Customer service is solely via email and the response time in my case was several days.
- [R37] Investing.com App is good, Support is terrible.: Very difficult to get connected to a human that can solve problems.
- [R40] Investing.com Discounted Pro Membership a BLOODY MESS!!: I received a code from a YouTube blogger for a discounted pro membership and from the beginning this process to input information to receive the pro membership has been a mess. Of course they charge me but they don’t respond with any kind of intro emails or any information.
- [R42] Investing.com Poor customer service and app experience: I’m unable to comment when I’m in Singapore or Vietnam. When I’m in Thailand it works. I’ve reached out to the Customer Services, they didn’t care. Hence I will never pay for a subscription. If you cannot fix this problem when I’m traveling you cannot have my money
- [R34] Investing.com Aggressive marketeer: Can’t enjoy this due to avalanche of emails baits and self aggrandising
- [R46] Investing.com No option to disable their incessant marketing campaign to subscribe to a yearly subscription: Constant bombardment of marketing attempts. I just want info on my tickers not to subscribe to this app
- [R52] Robinhood Buy PAA: Buy PAA Robinhood is best app to start your investment in PAA
- [R55] Robinhood Not bad: User-friendly, very little issues.
- [R57] Robinhood Easy to Use: Easy to use and understand my investments quickly.
- [R58] Robinhood 10 years later do NOT trust Robinhood with your money.: UPDATE: I responded to Robinhoods request for information and they told me to kick rocks. Delete your accounts. Guys as a 10 year long Robinhood user I will never recommend them again after being burned TWICE. they are not for serious investors or traders. They exist to skim your trades. They will wait for you to have a large active trade t
- [R66] Fidelity Investments Best experience ever: I love fidelity app, easy to manage, have a lot of options, you can create your watching list easy . I love it
- [R71] Fidelity Investments Recent Update sucks: Recent update forced mobile users to view purchases and sales into / out of core cash settlement funds. It’s made the transactions feed functionally useless, where every movement of money between accounts quadruplicate transactions. It was never like this until the recent update. On the Web interface, you can hide these unnecessary transactions. Also, the recent UI changes
- [R72] Fidelity Investments Amazing: Great platform, excellent products, great app, excellent people too
- [R73] Fidelity Investments Stop trying to make your app look like Robinhood: I chose Fidelity because I want a grown up brokerage. The app updates keep making it worse. I don’t need to see company logos, I need the portfolio positions rows to spill over into two lines. I need a compact view of relevant information that displays on a small phone screen.
- [R84] Acorns They end up taking what you save: Beware of this app. I had money saved in my acorns account. If something changes with your subscription, they just end up taking the money that you saved in acorns. I contacted Customer Service and they basically said they could do nothing and this is normal procedure. I recommend you place your money and something that doesn’t require a subscription.
- [R85] Acorns Awesome: Great investment tool for all ages! If u want to teach or learn how investing works try it.
- [R87] Acorns Great investment app: Great investment app. Good for saving money, forgetting about it and letting it grow. A lot more budget friendly than other options too
- [R88] Acorns God Awful: If you cancel your subscription, they continue to charge you if you don’t use the app for long enough. I cancelled my subscription 3 months ago (confirmation emails saying it was cancelled and everything) and checked my bank statements for this past month and they charged me again!!! I regret giving these people my bank info, god only knows what they’re going to keep doing with it.
- [R95] Stocks Too much paid news: Would like to be able to filter out the pay walled news articles. Would like to have only free to read articles shown. Thank you
- [R98] Stocks The more you use it, the harder it gets: I appreciate many things about this app. It is easy to use, there is a lot of information readily available with just a tap or two, and the link to real time news is great. Here are some features I would like to see: 1. Add a sort feature, so you can sort listings alphabetically, by date added, by market cap, whatever. Doing this manually, the only curren
- [R99] Stocks Subscription useless: All these stories are originally published by other sources - which are available for no charge through many other sources. This just makes this app look silly and unnecessarily greedy. Leaves a bad impression in a long time Apple customers mind. This is one of the drop off points where you lose customers.
- [R101] Stocks Ads: The ads make it feel really unprofessional
- [R110] CNBC App won’t load lately: For the last few months I’m having issues where stories just won’t load. I have to reconnect to my wifi to make it work. Sort of annoying I’m assuming it’s tied to their spammy ads and my Unifi system blocking them. App used to work great, but since the spinoff has been bad.
- [R111] CNBC Please Add A stock market Widget For IPhone: This App Is wonderful the Benifits of knowledge is awesome I just wish it had some Widgets for I can see the updates faster thank you
- [R112] CNBC Live stream on iPad stopped working: I’m so frustrated I cannot stream cnbc on my iPad. I constantly remove and reinstall but doesn’t help. Worked fine before the split.
- [R114] CNBC Live streaming not working.: The app used to be great but when they changed the logo it went downhill. Will try deleting and reinstalling.
- [R25] Investing.com Broken app: Still when ads load up at start up will cause the app to freeze and I can’t click the x to get past the ad. So I normally have to close the app and then open and it’ll be good but now it’s not loading data which I assume the servers are down.
- [R31] Investing.com Se congela: La app cuando la publicidad se activa, se congela y no deja entrar a la app. Ya lo instale 2 veces y sigue el problema.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store