Stocks vs Virtual Trading Simulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Virtual Trading Simulator
Practice trading various financial assets like stocks, crypto, and forex using virtual money. Learn investment strategies, leverage, and order types in a risk-free environment. Compete with friends in trading games and gain experience before using real capital.
- Trade Bitcoin, Stocks, Forex, Crypto, Gold
- Real-time price and charts
- Organize trading games with friends
- Learn leverage and order types
- Risk-free virtual money trading
- Intuitive and powerful interface
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Learn how to trade with virtual money. Trade Bitcoin, Stocks, Forex, Crypto, Gold and thousands of assets without risk. REAL TIME Virtual Trading offers you free access to price and charts of thousands of financial instruments. TRADING GAME Organize trading games against your friends, coworkers, or classmates to see who is the best trader. With private ranking. LEARN HOW TO INVEST Learn to trade with Leverage, understand how and when to place a Stop-Loss or Take-Profit order. Make use of conditional orders. BENEFITS Virtual Trading is extremely intuitive and easy to use while very powerful and functional. Use the platform to learn how to invest before using real money with complex platforms. EXPERIENCE Virtual Trading is the most popular market simulator in America and Europe. 11 years of history, in continuous renewal, working for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stocks at 4.5 against Virtual Trading Simulator's 1.0. Stocks also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 33%) and ratings volume (871K vs 2). Virtual Trading Simulator's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Stocks holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stocks has 871K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Stocks's written reviews are positive against 33% of Virtual Trading Simulator's.
Stocks ships an update every 4 months, Virtual Trading Simulator every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stocks | Virtual Trading Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (871K ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 871K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | La Bolsa Virtual SL |
Customer experience
Stocks
Virtual Trading Simulator
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
Virtual Trading Simulator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stocks
No in-app purchases
Virtual Trading Simulator
No in-app purchases
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