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TradingView vs Stocks

TradingView 4.8★ · Free + IAP 85
Winner TradingView
Stocks 4.5★ · Free to download 60

TradingView is the superior choice for serious traders due to its advanced charting and customization, while Stocks is a basic option for casual market tracking, though it's hampered by paywalled news.

Full reviews: TradingView · Stocks

TradingView excels with powerful, customizable charting tools for in-depth analysis, despite recent mobile app glitches and customer support issues. Stocks offers basic market tracking but frustrates users with frequent paywalls for news content and occasional data inaccuracies.

Head to head

Features & Tools edge: TradingViewR2R15R20R32
TradingView TradingView is praised for its extensive and customizable charting tools, allowing users to create their own indicators and access advanced features like overnight charting R2R20R32. However, some users report missing features on the mobile app, such as an earnings calendar or the ability to write Pine Script R15.
Stocks Stocks provides basic market information and news links . Users desire more customization options, sorting features for watchlists, and the ability to find specific stocks .
Ease of Use tieR10R12R13R30
TradingView TradingView is considered powerful but can be confusing and hard to navigate, especially on mobile R10R12R13R30. Some users find the interface less intuitive after recent redesigns .
Stocks Stocks is generally described as easy to use for basic tracking . However, recent updates have made it awkward for some, and the lack of sorting features for watchlists is a pain point .
Reliability & Performance tieR6R7R19R27
TradingView TradingView users report frequent glitches, crashes, freezing, and loading issues on the mobile app R6R7R19R27. Some experience issues with indicators not working, trend lines not updating, or getting logged out .
Stocks Stocks users occasionally report inaccurate data, such as incorrect Nasdaq performance, or the app stopping updates . Some also note accessibility flaws, like ignoring system light mode settings .
Price & Value edge: TradingViewR4R16R31R38
TradingView TradingView is perceived as overpriced, with users complaining about high premiums, double charging, and ads even on premium plans R16R31. There are also issues with refunds and subscription management R4R38.
Stocks Stocks is free to download but heavily criticized for its reliance on paywalled news articles, requiring subscriptions to read most content R63R67R72R76. This makes the app feel unprofessional and greedy to many users R67.
Customer Support edge: StocksR1R4R9R22
TradingView TradingView receives significant criticism for its lack of customer support, with users reporting no way to report issues, useless AI chat, and difficulty getting refunds or help with billing problems R1R4R9R22.
Stocks Customer support for Stocks is not mentioned in the reviews, suggesting it's either not a major issue or not a feature users typically interact with.
Pick TradingView if

you are a serious trader or investor who needs advanced charting tools, custom indicators, and in-depth market analysis, and are willing to tolerate mobile app glitches and potential customer service frustrations R2R20R32.

Pick Stocks if

you need a very basic, free app to quickly check stock prices and don't mind navigating around numerous paywalled news articles, or if you are already an Apple News subscriber .

Evidence note: Reviews for Stocks focus heavily on the paywall issue, indicating it's a primary user frustration. TradingView's reviews are more varied, covering both its powerful features and numerous technical issues and support complaints.

Frequently asked

Does TradingView have good customer support?
No, TradingView receives significant criticism for its lack of customer support, with users reporting no way to report issues, useless AI chat, and difficulty getting refunds or help with billing problems R1R4R9R22.
Can I read news articles for free in the Stocks app?
The Stocks app is heavily criticized because most news articles require a subscription to Apple News or other sources, making much of the news content inaccessible without payment R63R67R72R76.
Is TradingView's mobile app as good as its desktop version?
While TradingView is highly regarded on desktop, its mobile app often falls short, with users reporting it's confusing, glitchy, slow to load charts, and sometimes crashes, with some features missing compared to the website R6R7R12R15.

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.

  1. [R2] TradingView 5/5 · US Happy Tradingview members.: Tradingview greatly tools. I like it. Let’s me creating myself indicators, colors, many things else. Thanks all.
  2. [R15] TradingView 3/5 · US No earnings calendar: No calendar on the app but the website does
  3. [R20] TradingView 5/5 · US Overnight feed is Amazing!!!!!!!!: Love The New overnight charting feature which works perfectly and both MacOS as well as iOS. Keep up the great work!
  4. [R32] TradingView 5/5 · US Master Maker: I am new to trading; I am not reckless, which is to say I was schooled once with an option trade, and I stepped back, and into the Trading View sphere. Now, thanks to Trading View, all I do is learn, learn, read, practice math and learn more. Trading View is comprehensive and can also be customized to your tastes, trades and what YOU care about. It’s all there- and the papers, artic
  5. [R10] TradingView 1/5 · US Can’t figure it out.: Dnt know how to use it. It’s not easy to use.
  6. [R12] TradingView 3/5 · US App is kind of hard to navigate: Although this app is amazing on a computer or MacBook, this app really seems to fall short on the cell phone. Maybe it is better on iPad, but it is not compatible with iPhone. Very confusing and unclear.
  7. [R13] TradingView 1/5 · US Confused: Very Confusing
  8. [R30] TradingView 3/5 · GB Complex, capable but not intuitive: New Users challenge to get used to the interface and features both for the App and the Website. There should be a dedicated helpline to get off the ground …
  9. [R6] TradingView 3/5 · US Tôi không thể mở biểu đồ: Phần biểu đồ luôn hiển thị màu trắng xoá kể cả tôi đã cố gắng gỡ app cài lại
  10. [R7] TradingView 2/5 · US Full screen chart mode: On my iPhone 13, the chart works normally, but when I tap the full-screen button, the screen turns completely black and no chart is displayed. This happens with all symbols.
  11. [R19] TradingView 1/5 · US High premium for broken crashing and freezing app: Loses will be reimbursed in courts while alternative is been build, TradingView blocked my build indicators because it caused and created risk to the MM but they don’t understand what I shall build to destroy all who intervene shall we see
  12. [R27] TradingView 3/5 · GB Recent update - lots of errors (red !): After the most recent update, many of the volume based drawings (frvp, avwap, etc..), and indicators, either don’t load, or load but soon stop working and show a red exclamation mark indicating they have failed. Had no issues prior to this update..
  13. [R4] TradingView 1/5 · US refund: try to get a refund that they charged me for two plans during the 4 th of july special
  14. [R16] TradingView 1/5 · US Overpriced: Overpriced
  15. [R31] TradingView 1/5 · US Don’t put adds on premium: If you pay for premium you will get TV add pop up on your chart. I will not be renewing and will go to MMT. This is a JOKE.
  16. [R38] TradingView 4/5 · US Almost perfect: Charting is what it is. TV is the boss. Everyone knows this…. But since I signed up on an android (which failed… thanks google 😂) I can’t update any billing information or change any plan settings without first buying another android and logging in and making changes. Which will never happen. All billing should be managed from browser and app. It’s not that difficult actually. Just
  17. [R1] TradingView 1/5 · US .: No customer support
  18. [R9] TradingView 3/5 · US Still believe in you guys: The most frustrating thing is that you aren't even able to report an issue. This AI chat is useless, it looks like it generates action buttons that are not clickable or not working when clickable. Very inconsistent. What I wanted to suggest: Please add an option to disable this new "AI generated earning summary"(when clicking on "e" icon at the bottom of the chart). It's
  19. [R22] TradingView 1/5 · US Starting to Become Sloppy - PATHETIC APP: Payments are becoming issues, Trading View randomly logger my account out - saying it was flagged for fraud. (umm you don’t even utilize money or credits so something is fishy here) & they just continuously apologize for problems that they should have resolved weeks (if not months) ago. People only like you because there is no other options that are as in
  20. [R63] Stocks 3/5 · US 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
  21. [R67] Stocks 2/5 · US 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.
  22. [R72] Stocks 3/5 · US Good, but…: …just too many paywall / Apple News stories.
  23. [R76] Stocks 1/5 · US Upsell: Almost every link to an article requires a subscription to read it.

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store