Lightspeed Mobile vs ChoiceTrade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightspeed Mobile
Monitor financial markets and trade stocks, options, and ETFs seamlessly. Access real-time data, charting, and alerts to manage your portfolio effectively. Requires a Lightspeed account.
- Real-time Level I market data
- Real-time charting
- Dynamic time and sales data
- Real-time alerts
- Portfolio management
- Options display
- Updated watchlists
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Lightspeed Mobile is the perfect complement to your Lightspeed Web account. Monitor the markets, trade stocks, options, and ETFs with ease. *** NOT compatible with Lightspeed Trader. A Lightspeed account is required to access the mobile app. *** · High performance, real-time Level I market data · Real time charting; configurable charts with OHLC, line, area, and bar charts · Dynamic time and sales data · Real time alerts; price, orders, and trades · Portfolio management; real time position, P&L and Account Values · Options display with strike prices · Updated watchlists Disclaimer: Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC’s SIPC coverage is available only for securities, and for cash held in connection with the purchase or sale of securities, in equities and equities options accounts. Equities, equities options, and commodity futures products and services are offered by Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC (Member FINRA, NFA and SIPC).
ChoiceTrade
This platform provides active, self-directed traders with advanced tools and a choice of trading applications to support their strategies. It aims to offer state-of-the-art technology for informed decision-making, ensuring benefits and convenience outweigh trading costs.
- Advanced trading tools
- Choice of trading applications
- State-of-the-art technology
- Support for trading strategies
- Informed decision-making tools
- Benefits and convenience
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ChoiceTrade is an advanced-technology securities brokerage firm that has been in business since 2000. We cater to active, self-directed traders and are committed to making available the most state-of-the-art tools - tools that give our customers their best opportunities for realizing success in their trading strategies. The mobile application trading platform that we offer is geared toward a specific trading style. We have selected our trading applications with one goal in mind - to meet the needs of our customers and to offer them a choice. Whether that's offering a basic mobile trading application for its simplicity, ease of use and low cost, or providing a system that enhances our customer's trading experience complete with the necessary tools for making informed decisions. Regardless of the choices made, our customers are always assured that the benefits, convenience and service far exceed the commissions they'll pay at any level of trading sophistication.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ChoiceTrade at 100% against Lightspeed Mobile's 6%. ChoiceTrade also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Lightspeed Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ChoiceTrade holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightspeed Mobile has 81 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Lightspeed Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of ChoiceTrade's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightspeed Mobile | ChoiceTrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Professional Trading Solutions | ChoiceTrade |
Customer experience
Lightspeed Mobile
ChoiceTrade
In-app purchases
Lightspeed Mobile
No in-app purchases
ChoiceTrade
No in-app purchases
Questions
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