Comparison

Stocks vs Mktbox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stocks

Follow daily stock and market performance with customizable watchlists. Get real-time quotes, interactive charts, and breaking business news. Seamlessly sync across all your Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Customizable watchlists
  • Real-time quotes and price changes
  • Interactive stock charts
  • Business news integration
  • Cross-device syncing (iCloud)
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri integration
Features
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Stocks makes it easy to follow the daily performance of your stocks and the market. Track groups of stocks, indexes, mutual funds, ETFs, and currencies through watchlists. Dive into tickers to get the latest quotes and track movements through interactive charts. Stay on top of the latest business news from top publications around the world. With iCloud you can track your stocks across your Mac, your iPad, your Apple Watch, your Apple Vision Pro, or on your iPhone. Features Watchlists • Group stocks, indexes, mutual funds, ETFs, currencies into one or more watchlists. • Track performance of tickers in each watchlist at a glance through color-coded spark-lines, price quotes, as well as price change, percentage change, and market capitalization. • Organize tickers within watchlists manually, by name, by price change, by percentage change, or by market capitalization. Ticker Details • Explore specific tickers in your watchlist through interactive price charts for day, week, month, and multi-month periods. Compare prices at different times. • For any ticker view key details including after-hours price, trading volume, EPS, and more. • Add the date for a company’s upcoming earnings report to your calendar. Business News • Read and watch stories specific to the companies you follow from top-rated business publications powered by Apple News*. • Apple News+ subscribers can see Apple News+ stories right in Stocks. More ways to view Stocks • Use the Stocks app on your iPhone, your iPad, your Apple Watch, your Mac, and your Apple Vision Pro. • Add Stocks widgets to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to see price quotes at a glance. • Ask Siri questions such as “How is the Nikkei doing?” or “What is Apple’s stock price?” *Top Stories and Apple News stories are available in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia; news stories in other countries are provided by Yahoo.

About

Mktbox

This app provides a comprehensive platform for tracking investments, managing portfolios, and staying updated on the stock market. It allows users to link brokerage accounts or manually input trades, practice investing with simulated portfolios, and access powerful stock tracking tools and market insights.

Highlights
  • Link brokerage accounts
  • Manual trade input
  • Simulated portfolios for practice
  • Real-time stock prices
  • Interactive stock charts
  • AI-generated news summaries
  • Dividend history tracking
Features
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Mktbox was created by a duo of hedge fund PMs who wanted a better way to manage and analyze their own investments on mobile. We built the tools we wished existed and are now excited to share them more broadly. *** Portfolio Tracking *** Mktbox is designed to be the home for all of your investment accounts. You can link accounts through Plaid, enter positions manually, or create simulated portfolios. Portfolios can be viewed individually or combined, giving you a complete picture of your investments in one place. For each position, you can analyze performance across any time horizon such as daily, weekly, monthly, or since purchase. We support multiple tax lots and provide detailed tracking at the transaction level, so you can understand how partial buys and sells have impacted your returns. We have also built our own performance system, allowing you to compare your portfolio in real time and historically against major indices like the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones. Attribution is built in. If your portfolio is up 10%, you will be able to see exactly which positions contributed to that result and how it all adds up. Dividend tracking is also included, with visibility into income across time as well as upcoming announced and estimated payouts. *** AI-Powered Portfolio Insights *** We have integrated AI directly into the portfolio experience. Our system combines multiple models with real-time market data and our own internal logic to provide fast, contextual answers to your questions. Instead of manually digging through data, you can simply ask and get a response tailored to your portfolio. *** Stock and Market Tracking *** Even if you do not link a portfolio, Mktbox is designed to be a powerful stock tracking app. We have built a flexible home dashboard where you can maintain a primary list alongside additional watchlists. Across all of them, you can view real-time pricing, including pre-market and after-hours data. Within any list, you can analyze performance across all securities over any time period. This perspective is rare, but incredibly useful for understanding trends and relative performance. Each stock page includes real-time charts, key financial metrics, and deeper context. Rather than just showing a number, we help you understand what it means. For example, whether a P/E ratio is high or low relative to peers. We also provide financial history through proprietary charts, allowing you to quickly analyze trends in revenue, margins, and other key metrics. A mobile-friendly view of the income statement is included, along with year-over-year changes across major line items. AI is also embedded here, already aware of the stock you are viewing and ready to answer questions with up-to-date context. *** News *** We believe the current mobile experience for financial news is broken. Most sources are cluttered with ads, popups, and low-quality content. We built Mktbox to fix that. Our system uses AI agents to read and process articles from thousands of sources. This allows us to filter out irrelevant or poorly tagged content and generate concise summaries. The result is a clean, curated feed centered around the stocks you care about. You can also focus on individual stocks or specific publishers. We have also built a custom reader that strips away everything except the content itself. No ads, no popups, just a clean reading experience. ----------------------- Apple's standard terms of use for In-App Purchase subscriptions apply. You can view them at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Additional, you can view Mktbox terms and privacy policy at: https://www.mktbox.com/terms https://www.mktbox.com/privacy

Screenshots

Stocks3 screens
Mktbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stocks at none against Mktbox's 14. Stocks also leads on ratings volume (871K vs 638) and device support (4 vs 2). Mktbox's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, rating and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mktbox sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Stocks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Stocks against 4.5 for Mktbox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stocks has 871K ratings behind it against 638, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Stocks's written reviews are positive against 71% of Mktbox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stocks ships an update every 4 months, Mktbox every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 29, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Stocks versus Mktbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStocksMktbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (871K ratings)4.5 (638 ratings)
Positive reviews63.3% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings871K — better638
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppleHijinx LLC

Customer experience

Stocks

All ratings871,300 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral5.4%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews3,480 reviews
Positive63.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative25.9%

Mktbox

All ratings638 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral6.5%
Negative22.1%

User reviews

Stocks

From 871K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Quick access to stock data
  • 👍 Easy to use and navigate
  • 🔍 Comprehensive stock information
  • 📰 Useful news integration
  • 💡 Customizable watchlists

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Scrolling issues and data lags
  • 💰 Paywall for news articles
  • 🔍 Limited customization options
  • 🕰️ Delayed after-hours and pre-market data
  • 🧠 Confusing UI changes after updates

Mktbox

From 638 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Amazing
  • 👍 Great app with unique functionality
  • 🚀 Impressive design and great widgets
  • 🤑 Best investment hub
  • 🔥 Hands down the BEST stock app out there!!

Room to improve

  • 🌎 Only US stock
  • 🤔 Where is the replicate hedge funds strategy?
  • 🐛 App does not work on my iPhone due to new Apple login issues
  • 🐛 App stopped updating portfolio values and became non-functional
  • 🔒 Can't Link Robinhood or Subscribe

Bugs and requests

Stocks

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Stocks disappearing from watchlists
  • Incorrect or outdated stock data displayed
  • App crashes and freezes on certain devices
  • News section not loading or disappearing
  • Scrolling issues causing jumps in the list

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add portfolio tracking and performance analysis
  • Improve news feed with more free content
  • Introduce real-time price updates and alerts
  • Allow reordering and organizing of watchlists
  • Provide more charting and technical analysis tools

Mktbox

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App does not work on my iPhone due to new Apple login issues
  • App stopped updating portfolio values and became non-functional
  • App lost all my stock entries
  • Not working
  • Login screen freezes
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  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

11 requests
  • Ability to view gains/losses in dollar amounts on the widget
  • Ability to add mutual funds and a cash position to a portfolio
  • Ability to group certain accounts together
  • Ability to see futures for stock indices
  • Ability to see pre and post market data (when available) for stocks
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  • Ability to look through ETFs / mutual funds
  • Ability to see specific analyst price targets for stocks
  • Ability to move the plus sign to add a new stock away from the middle of the screen
  • Ability to add a sell order for any of my holdings in my portfolio
  • Ability to change amount of currency digits
  • Ability to add fractions of stocks

In-app purchases

None

Stocks

No in-app purchases

14 purchases

Mktbox

Subscriptions14
  • Stock Genius Pro Monthly14 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Stock Genius Pro$7.991 Month
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  • Genius Pro Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Mktbox Pro Monthly7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Stock Genius Pro Quarterly14 Days trial$9.993 Months
  • Pro Quarterly14 Days trial$14.993 Months
  • Stock Genius Pro14 Days trial$19.993 Months
  • Stock Genius Pro Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Genius Pro Special Offer14 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Pro Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Stock Genius Pro$49.991 Year
  • Genius Pro Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Mktbox Pro Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Stocks free?
Stocks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mktbox free?
Mktbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stocks or Mktbox?
Stocks and Mktbox are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 871K and 638 ratings respectively.
Do Stocks or Mktbox have ads?
Stocks shows ads; Mktbox does not.
Which is updated more often, Stocks or Mktbox?
Stocks ships an update every 4 months, and Mktbox every 3 weeks. Most recently, Stocks was updated on September 29, 2026 and Mktbox on September 29, 2026.

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