Crypto Trader vs Stock Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crypto Trader
Practice cryptocurrency trading with a risk-free simulator. Invest virtual currency in major cryptocurrencies, track your portfolio's growth, and prepare for real-world investments with live market data.
- Risk-free trading simulator
- Virtual currency for investment
- Invest in major cryptocurrencies
- Track investment portfolio
- Live market data
- Prepare for real investments
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Crypto Trader is a Cryptocurrency trading simulator that allows you to try investing risk free. New users get free starting Virtual Currency to invest Invest in many major cryptocurrencies, track your investments and grow your portfolio. Be ready for real investments. All data is live and matches the market, you can see how your real investments would perform.
Stock Trainer
Practice stock trading with anonymous historical data. This app simulates real market conditions, allowing users to hone their investment strategies without financial risk. Learn and improve your trading skills through realistic, randomized historical stock scenarios.
- Practice stock trading
- Anonymous historical stocks
- Randomized historical data
- Improve trading skills
- Risk-free simulation
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Improve your stock trading skills by praciticing on anonymous historical stocks! Stock Trainer loads anonymous stocks at random times in history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stock Trainer at 80% against Crypto Trader's 38%. Stock Trainer also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). Crypto Trader's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Crypto Trader sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Stock Trainer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stock Trainer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 168 and 79 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Crypto Trader's written reviews are positive against 80% of Stock Trainer's.
Crypto Trader ships an update every 7 months, Stock Trainer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crypto Trader | Stock Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (168 ratings) | 4.5 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.8% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 168 — better | 79 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 131 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ronan Stark | 庆辉 宋 |
Customer experience
Crypto Trader
Stock Trainer
Bugs and requests
Crypto Trader
Reported bugs
16 issues- Failed to get data error
- App isn't usable after first few trades
- Doesn't work 50% of the time
- Shib Inu is broken
- No graphs of any cryptocurrencies
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- Unknown error during sign up
- Doesn't show profit/loss on each coin
- Doesn't show current price
- Server is not working
- App shows loading and then 'crypto currency server issue'
- Server issue upon download
- Crashes every time I try to buy or sell
- Crashes more lately
- Crashes whenever I try to sell
- Portfolio does not load all the way and shows $0 sometimes
- Prices are not real-time
Requested features
15 requests- Add short selling
- Add leverage
- Add more features
- Update the app
- Add graphs to show raises and drops
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- Display owned amount (percentage and USD)
- Display purchase price
- Indicate purchase price on bar graph
- Emphasis on bar graphs with checkpoints
- Easy to understand and access stats
- Add more currencies for trading (not just USD)
- Have a stock graph showing price changes
- Make balance fluctuate with market every second
- Add a guide for features
- Allow adding preferred coins
Stock Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crypto Trader
- Mini Pack$0.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Medium Pack$3.99
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- Investor Pack$5.99
Stock Trainer
- Life member$14.99
Questions
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