Atom Finance User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience60.0% of reviews
Neutral20.0% of reviews
Negative experience20.0% of reviews

~ Based on 50 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Atom Finance Safe?

Atom Finance: Invest Smarter appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Atom Finance is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 730 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

70.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 730 App Store ratings for Atom Finance.

Is Atom Finance Legit?

Atom Finance: Invest Smarter is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Atom Finance is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Don’t download. Feels shady.

Once you sign up, the app promptly tells you to pay to even see anything. Here’s a free advice for the devs give the users a preview. People aren’t going to blindly subscribe to a service without seeing what it offers.
Try giving a limited time access to the app and limited feature set after signup. And if you are worried people will create new accounts to keep creating new accounts, put the credentials in keychain, it persists between app installs and you can safely tie it to a device.
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Nice concept

This app is a great concept, but doesn’t work. Atom will not connect to M1 via Plaid. I tried months ago and didn’t work. I reached out to customer care and they said they are working on the issue but didn’t know when would be fixed. Just checked and it’s still not resolved. On plaid it shows the connection is linked but nothing is in Atom. I’ll be going back to Personal Capital as their platform doesn’t have issues connecting to M1 via Plaid. Wasted $6.99 on a month subscription 😡
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Good app & support, unstable broker connections

Updated review (after checking spam folder 😜):
I like the app: good info, nice UI/UX. The portfolio performance calculation across accounts is off. The broker connections through Plaid are terrible. I had to reconnect my accounts to several brokers multiple times already. Other platforms I use connect through Quicken Connect and had no issues during the same period. Support is responsive.
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Self important, redundant and unnecessary

This is not an institution investing tool no matter what the marketing wank claims. It’s a boutique yahoo finance for retail baggies, with half the features.

Tell me one useful thing this paid app can do that you cant be done even better by another free app.

it’s obviously that this cute little primitive app for retail baggies is anything but necessary. That said what actual value is being provided here exactly? Maybe the daily write ups, so basically your subscribing to the blog of an amateur market watcher wanna be economist. That’s not worth six cents per month much less dollars.
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Requires subscription, tells you after you give all your details

Wanted to just checkout this app. It requires a subscription and only tells you AFTER you give them all your details. Also, doesn’t tie into apple sign in for the email so you can’t use “hide my email” directly.

These are dark patterns meant to deceive you after they have your information to sell. I DO NOT RECOMMEND USING THIS app. If they are going to do this before you agree to the service, what are they doing with the rest of your data??
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Needs Improvements

Am retired Wall Street portfolio manager of almost 55 years. Like a number of app features but have issues with (1) adding manual portfolio and (2) only being able to view app in portrait mode and not in landscape mode. Found it impossible to add manual portfolio. Was unwilling to use “Plaid” service to link to actual brokerage accounts. Spent great deal of time trying to add manual portfolio and got no real help from developer except for promises of improvements to come. Using app on smaller-sized i-phone is difficult and i-pad portrait only viewing not compatible with attached keyboard screen with which I cannot rotate screen to portrait mode.
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Really awesome app but the lag is frustrating

Downloaded the app a couple days ago and it has a ton of great content and features. The only reason I’m not rating it 5 stars is that even with a perfect internet connection, basic UI stuff like scrolling and navigating pages has a significant lag. I’m using a 12 Pro so my device certainly isn’t outdated. I will still use the app’s basic features once my free trial expires, but I would upgrade both my account and rating were the lag problems to be fixed.
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Terrible notification management system

I have been trying so hard to close all my notification for price movements on my portfolio. There’s an option for bulk edit and IT DOES NOT WORK. It will just reset all the notifications I closed and reactivate them again. Absolutely buggy app you need better software developers who can actually launch a useable feature. I get spammed by hundreds of notifications a day on content I do not want to see and your notification system needs major debugging and revamp.
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Great Service

I was skeptical at first, and I started the premium service yesterday with a promotion deal which provided three months premium for $0.99 then $9.99 for the next months. Today was my first day with premium and the service has already earned enough to pay for the first year. It notified me of breaking news: Apple had purchased a Roku remote button. This resulted in Roku skyrocketing and it allowed me to join the trade before it was over. I would recommend this to anyone who needs crucial information for the value and movements of stocks, as well as time sensitive news feeds.
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Incredible Value

Atom is a Bloomberg terminal competitor in the making. Push notifications about index events, single stock events, or macro news events all beat my WSJ push notifications. Portfolio integration works like a glove. Would like research integration and bond details like FactSet, but maybe in due time.

We need iPad version

Amazing service. I really like everything, specially the morning, mid-day, and evening briefings. I like to read using the bigger screen of an iPad, rather magnifying iPhone version into iPad screen. I really hope that you are working on an iPad version.

Lacks Grayscale investment integration

I want to love this app but at this point I simply can’t. I love the design, it’s functionality, and the plethora of information it displays. It is by far has the most detailed analysis of any portfolio tracker out there. And trust me, I have tried them all.

But there is one MAJOR feature lacking. It doesn’t track any Grayscale investments. This a problem for me. The only way to get crypto exposure in a Roth IRA is through trusts such GTBC or ETHE. I get not tracking crypto but Grayscale trusts are sold on the stock market not the crypto exchanges. I don’t understand why Atom tracks the prices for these investments correctly but doesn’t add any gains to my total portfolio. It skews my ROI dramatically. It’s very disappointing.

That said, I keep the app downloaded and check every few weeks to see if they have fixed this glaring problem…
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Great app! Trouble showing my Robinhood crypto

All in all one of the best apps I’ve used to track my investments. Incredible look and feel, lots of customization, and can link several brokerage accounts.

I bought stock at 3 different prices, twice in one account and once in another. The app allows me to view my exposure and gain / loss across all my accounts as one number.

Another feature I love is the earnings and investor meetings calendar. This app is fully featured and all that I’d expect from a modern, personal portfolio management / tracking.

Currently, The app is having trouble with the cryptocurrency held in my Robinhood account. I have seen other posts about mismatched balances, this could be a reason. Anyways, minor blemish in an otherwise impressive and easy to use app.
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Invaluable information but does not tally portfolio correctly

I find the information available through atom pro to be invaluable and worth the price. I have been simply unable to find anything like it elsewhere.

The app looks great, though the menu icons on the bottom ribbon are not very intuitive as to what submenu they lead to. I had to learn what the meant as it’s not obvious from their look, and I still sometimes forget what each leads to.

The app runs reasonably well considering what, I imagine, is a very long list of data sets to sort through, but on an iPhone 11 it still hangs up and crashes on a nearly daily basis.

But, most importantly by far, the app does not accurately track your holdings in Robinhood accounts, neither in tallying your portfolio nor in updating what you own and adjusting notifications accordingly. I will eventually cancel my subscription if this issue isn’t addressed, as it is obvious that the service isn’t complete until this issue is addressed.

So, it is a valuable service and the app has a largely great design. But it still doesn’t work very smoothly and portfolios are not updated correctly. Once the issues are fixed, easy 5 stars. Until then, 3/5.
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Looks great, needs lots of work

Atom is amazing! The three stars is a reflection on the usability. Which feels glitchy. But overall this app is just incredible and certainly a step in the right direction. Now the bad.. Links don’t always work on desktop version which is browser based. Adding and removing lists isn’t as straight forward. There were symbols I wasn’t able to find. Add price/shares would be a nice option. I already tried the pro version with they’re very generous trial that not only includes one month FREE but then you get your first 3 months for .99. That’s FOUR months for $.99! The data they provide you is also incredibly detailed. The usability of the charts is GREAT!! But still a few updates away from ready for prime time as of 3/4/21
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Update ruined it

Format and appearance is excellent. The news articles are from all the typical financial news outlets and therefore completely worthless. Can’t get my IBKR account to connect. I do enjoy the daily briefs. This app is definitely better than yahoo finance. But overall like its predecessors it is not particularly helpful in my stock picking (mostly because the financial news industry is completely full of it) and I don’t find myself using it very often other than to read the daily briefs when I’m bored.

The new update and all the premium crap made it even more annoying and I deleted.
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Paywall

Was one of the first downloads of this app. Really enjoyed the functionality and even recommended to friends originally.

Was temporarily grandfathered in to new atom +app but recently have found myself behind a paywall. No new features - just seems that the features I used to enjoy for free now required a payed subscription to access (estimates tab). For me, not worth it to jump to a paid subscription but maybe it would be for a more active trader.
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Portfolio not connecting to Robinhood

The app connected nicely to my acorns account I have, but when I tried to link it with my Robinhood account it just says “we are experiencing connection issues with this bank”. I have tried for almost a week to connect but just keep getting the same message. So far as I can see though everything else works good, just I can’t connect my Robinhood account.
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Great app, all traders should have!

Updated review bc devs were quick to resolve the white screen of death I experienced after upgrading to premium. Four stars due to ongoing issues with my linked brokerage account. Otherwise I love love love this app. It puts all the info I could want about my positions in an easy to digest format. Love the alerts. I feel so much more on top of my holdings now. Well worth the ten bucks a month!
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Quality app with a few challenges.

The app has grown and developed quite a lot since beta. I do hope more of the web features make it to the app as has been the case. Performance has improved but still could use some more tweaking on the app. As some features seem to take a bit to load.

I was hoping the developer would allow early adopters / testers to opt into some kind or promotional in app price instead of the standard subscription now offered to everyone. A 30 day free trial isn’t really an incentive. I realize the developer has invested a lot into this app. And it shows. But I also think early adopters should probably get some kind of incentive to sign up for a subscription.
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