Comparison

Simply Wall St vs The Analyst App

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

Head to head
About

Simply Wall St

This app provides a comprehensive platform for long-term investors, combining portfolio tracking, institutional-grade research, and market updates. It helps users build and follow investment strategies based on fundamentals, offering insights to make informed decisions and identify potential investment opportunities.

Highlights
  • Portfolio Command Center
  • Institutional-grade research
  • Daily market updates
  • Narratives investing strategy
  • Portfolio import and tracking
  • Performance and valuation analysis
  • Stock discovery tools
Features
Currently charting
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Simply Wall St is the only end-to-end platform built for the long-term investor. We've created a Portfolio Command Center where 7 million investors come to see the full picture. By combining portfolio tracking and analysis, institutional-grade research, and daily market updates - we give you the power to look past the volatility and stay the course. At the heart of our platform is Narratives - an investing strategy used by the world's most successful investors. Narratives allow you to build, track, and follow a clear thesis for every stock you own - empowering investors to make decisions based on fundamentals rather than hype. The result? You don't just own the stocks - you own the story. HOW DOES IT WORK? Simply Wall St brings everything together - your portfolio, your research, and the market - into one clear, organized view. IMPORT YOUR PORTFOLIO, QUICKLY AND SECURELY It's time to retire the manual spreadsheets and fragmented data. Get a true view of your portfolio in one place - because you can't master what you can't see. FINALLY SEE THE FULL PICTURE Clearly analyze your true performance, dividend health, and intrinsic valuation. We help you spot the hidden risks before they become headlines. FIND YOUR NEXT HIDDEN GEM Stop the countless hours of research. We give you the discovery tools you can use to customize and surface the data points that matter across 120,000 global stocks. ACT WITH REAL CONVICTION Stop reacting and start deciding. Validate every move with trusted insights and daily market updates - so when you make a move, you do it with confidence. Explore our premium features or stick with our 'free forever' plan. While the Simply Wall St app is primarily available in English, we are excited to announce that our company reports are now available in Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Dutch, Turkish and Swedish. We are continuously working on translating more sections and plan to make the entire app accessible in multiple languages in the future. Stay tuned for more updates!

About

The Analyst App

Access investment research and real-time notifications on new recommendations and impactful research. Save content to read offline, customize your homepage, and enjoy full access to all notes and video content.

Highlights
  • Real-time notifications
  • Offline reading
  • Customizable homepage
  • Full research library access
  • Video content playback
  • Bookmark saved content
Features
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Our bespoke app was built with the mindset of buy-side fund managers, allowing you to follow all our research coverage from wherever you like to read. With real-time notifications every time we publish a note or video, you can instantly access the latest or save it to read later offline. Receive alerts to new recommendations and impactful research when you are off the desk. Stay alert – Set up notifications so you never miss an initiation or a note on a company you’re interested in. Choose your own homepage content to highlight your areas of interest. Don’t miss big potential alpha opportunities! Read what you want, when you want it – If you get a notification but don’t have time to read our work instantly, you can bookmark the note which will download it to your device; allowing you to catch up later even if you’re offline. Don’t waste flight time! Full access – Anything you can access on our website, you can get in the app including our full library of notes, voting tools and all our video content. Navigate quickly to your bookmarked companies and jump right back in. Enjoy being part of the network! Fit for purpose – Our App is built with our content in mind, videos will autoplay when you click but you can keep scrolling to read the note at the bottom of your screen. Consume our content the way you want to. Sit back and browse The Analyst TV for high-impact ideas!

Screenshots

Simply Wall St4 screens
The Analyst App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Simply Wall St at 84% against The Analyst App's 0%. Simply Wall St also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). The Analyst App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Simply Wall St sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $259.99 per year. The Analyst App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simply Wall St holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simply Wall St has 2.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Simply Wall St's written reviews are positive against 0% of The Analyst App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simply Wall St ships an update weekly, The Analyst App every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Simply Wall St versus The Analyst App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimply Wall StThe Analyst App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews83.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.4K — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#115 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB65 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSimply Wall StThe Analyst

Customer experience

Simply Wall St

All ratings2,429 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews679 reviews
Positive83.8%
Neutral6.3%
Negative9.9%

The Analyst App

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Simply Wall St

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to delete or add stocks to portfolio
  • Inconsistent data across devices
  • Frequent crashes or freezes
  • Login and authentication problems
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for more stock exchanges and markets
  • Improve portfolio management and tracking features
  • Provide more customization options
  • Integrate with popular trading platforms
  • Offer a more affordable subscription model

The Analyst App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Simply Wall St

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited Yearly$259.991 Year
None

The Analyst App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simply Wall St free?
Simply Wall St is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Analyst App free?
The Analyst App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simply Wall St or The Analyst App?
Simply Wall St is rated higher. Simply Wall St averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while The Analyst App averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Simply Wall St or The Analyst App have ads?
Both Simply Wall St and The Analyst App show ads.
Which is updated more often, Simply Wall St or The Analyst App?
Simply Wall St ships an update weekly, and The Analyst App every 3 months. Most recently, Simply Wall St was updated on October 26, 2026 and The Analyst App on October 24, 2026.

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