Yahoo Finance vs MarketWatch
Choose Yahoo Finance for a more reliable and feature-rich experience.
Yahoo Finance generally offers a better user experience with more robust features and higher reliability than MarketWatch, despite recent criticisms. Users appreciate Yahoo's extensive tracking capabilities, while MarketWatch struggles with functionality and customer service issues.
Head to head
you want a more feature-rich app with better reliability and user experience.
you prefer a simple reading experience and are willing to navigate potential bugs.
Evidence note: While both apps have their strengths, Yahoo Finance's higher lifetime ratings and more consistent positive feedback indicate a stronger overall user satisfaction despite recent complaints.
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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.
- [R8] Yahoo Finance Best of all financial advice: Best financial tracking and best portfolio review and 💯accuracy
- [R26] Yahoo Finance 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.
- [R103] MarketWatch Limited features and finicky: So many other apps have lots of features. This one is very limited. Every time I try to log on, it is forgetting my password. It’s a joke.
- [R88] MarketWatch Slow news. Not worth a fee: I paid for this service to get news as soon as it happens. The markets have completely moved by the time these alerts come through. I didn’t cancel until the day the payment came through. I immediately cancelled within 5 minutes and they refused to refund me. Probably would have gotten a couple more stars if they refunded me for something I don’t want and have no use
- [R14] Yahoo Finance Easy to use: I think this app is very user-friendly
- [R41] Yahoo Finance Nice: I like tracking my investments in this app for free without having to actually having to link my accounts
- [R91] MarketWatch This app and web site will lock you out…: Despite being a subscriber, keep getting locked out and must sign back in…
- [R79] MarketWatch BUGGY!: It’s literally one of the most annoying and poorly written apps I’ve run across. If they fired everyone in their IT department, that would be a good start.
- [R55] Yahoo Finance 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.
- [R46] Yahoo Finance 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.
- [R76] MarketWatch Nothing but problems: I signed up and have nothing but problems. Used google to open my account. Paid for the market watch/barrons subscription. Tried opening article.. they won’t open. Tried to set my watch list won’t work. Tried to email customer service recieved an error message! I have screen shots… I want a refund!
- [R1] Yahoo Finance You killed 99 free alerts: After years, personal alert triggers on stocks just disappeared without a warning. Bad form!
- [R64] MarketWatch False Advertising: I subscribed to MarketWatch under the pretense that I would be charged $3.99/month for the first 12 months of my subscription and then subsequently charged $19.99/month following the 12 month period. I resubscribed and was charged $19.99 and there is no customer service or information provided. This behavior is predatory and false advertising.
- [R94] MarketWatch Cost: They now want to charge you to read just about any articles
- [R10] Yahoo Finance Not working on xfinity network: Since 1-2 months yahoo finance app is not working on xfinity network. Even yahoo finance website doesn’t work. Not able to get data and open webpage on xfinity network. Others apps works without any issue. It sounds like xfinity blocking yahoo finance.
- [R43] Yahoo Finance Yahoo finance is down lately: App is unreliable
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store