Pearler User Reviews

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New investor

Terrible couldn’t login to the app the support doesn’t even know why I couldn’t invest. All in all a bad experience and now can’t even make a new account. Need to make it easier for new investors

Very pleased

Been very happy with platform so far and customer service was great to set up me up so quickly.

The best

Easily the best and easiest investing app for Aussie investors. I love the exposure to the US market too if you want that, and long term focus

Buggy and crashes

Brand new customer, keen on using all of pearler’s fantastic wealth management and investing tools. But Jesus this app is buggy, unresponsive and crashes at the slightest workload. I have a 15 plus so it’s not my fault.

So many glitches

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Not worth it

I tried moving my portfolio to Pearler. The team is engaged and tried to help but is not able to provide reasonable supports. I was asked to upload the same document wet signed in three different versions and encountered multiple bugs. Ultimate had to another broker.

To hard to take out money

It takes seconds to have your money transferred into the app but I had to take money out for an emergency its been more than a week and i still havent got the money. wouldn’t recommend

Whoever codes this app needs to be fired

Good investment service I guess? Shame about the app. Login issues constantly. EDIT: now that headstart has shutdown it says I need to join pearler plus to automate the kids investments hahaha what a scam

“Assets Missing”

Forced addition of “Assets Missing” section to home page in update is 👎

Inconvenience marketing.

The regular prompts on the homepage weren’t enough?

These are optional pearler products. I’m not missing them, I don’t want them.

This pains me

Pearler - I love you, I really do. So this pains me to say - but the app is rubbish.

I get you have probably vibe coded or. Or perhaps you haven’t and you should. I don’t know. Either way it’s rubbish.

I constantly have to 2FA. Like inside my secure iPhone I have to 2FA every single time to get into the app. Wtf?

I tried to see if I can disable all security settings (because basically it’s so annoying I’d rather it be unsecured than this) but all the menu tab items don’t work.

I’m running latest iPhone and latest OS so I’m afraid it’s definitely you, not me.

Even when you get in it feels like an app built slightly before apps existed. Actually I don’t know, maybe it’s great, but I restarted it 4 times tonight and still the nav bar doesn’t work.

Like I say, pains me to say, as I love you guys overall and I invest regularly via you, but that’s via web rather than this….whatever this is.
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Glitch Haven

This app is so glitchy it makes using the platform a real pain. Data doesn’t show, accounts don’t link properly, buttons to edit don’t work as intended, Face ID login stops working, keypad to enter mfa codes disappear when you return to the app. Overall a real pita to use

Annoying

Doesn’t let me sign up

Haven’t even got started yet

I was so excited to try this app after researching all the brokering options available, but I’ve had it several days and haven’t even been able to start! The initial login and subsequent set ups have not been user friendly.. buttons not working, error codes, trying to transfer holdings but requested documents not uploading because the files are too big or the type is incorrect! Alas, I will persevere and hope to actually use it for its main purpose soon.
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Response from developer

Hi, sorry for any inconveniences this might have caused. Could you reach out to in app support or contact us on help@pearler.com so we can identify and fix the problems your having.

Basiq Consent

Cannot easily withdraw consent for basiq despite link in email indicating I would be able to

Buggy

Core functionality works but just has an overall buggy feel. Verification process is a pain.

horrible signing in process

i have been trying for the better part of an hour and a half to sign up. as a beginner this is discouraging me from wanting to use the app as my first investment account. when it comes to customer service it is all automated with little help for actual problems as there aren’t specific answers.

Whoever codes this app needs to be fired

Good investment service I guess? Shame about the app. Login issues constantly.

Rising fees for an already expensive platform

I’ve stuck with Pearler even though it’s not the cheapest, because it’s simple to use and it’s the platform that got me started investing.

However, the recent increase in FX fees for US investing is really disappointing and I am consider moving to another platform. Most brokers you name it IBKR, CMC invest, stake, superhero will be cheaper than pearler
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Always log on issues

The app works and works then stops. There’s always problems logging on my iPad. You try to utilise your phone number to log in and it wont work. Very frustrating to say the least.

poor functionality and buggy

really poor stats, can’t see daily change for each stock, scheduling asx purchases for a later date doesn’t work.