Comparison

Kraken Pro vs Cost 2

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

Head to head
About

Kraken Pro

Trade over 1,900 cryptocurrencies, US stocks, and ETFs from a single account. Features advanced charting, real-time market data, and a variety of order types to help manage risk and track performance.

Highlights
  • Trade 1,900+ crypto markets
  • Invest in US stocks and ETFs
  • Advanced charting tools
  • Real-time market data
  • Advanced order types
  • Performance tracking
Features
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Everything you trade. One account. Kraken Pro brings 1,900+ crypto markets and thousands of US stocks and ETFs together in one mobile-first app built for active traders. — CRYPTO, US STOCKS AND ETFS — Trade 1,900+ crypto markets with deep liquidity Invest in US stocks and ETFs Trade crypto and stocks side by side in one account — ANALYZE MARKET OPPORTUNITIES — Advanced charting with multiple chart types, timeframes and technical indicators Real-time prices, order book, depth chart and recent trades A trading experience built for depth, designed for mobile — MANAGE RISK WITH ADVANCED ORDERS — Advanced order types including limit, stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop, iceberg, OCO and TWAP Set start and expiry times for when your orders are placed or cancelled — TRACK YOUR PERFORMANCE — Complete history of your orders, trades, deposits and withdrawals View your balances for each asset in your preferred currency Deposit and withdraw on the go Not investment advice. Securities and brokerage services offered by Kraken Securities LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Digital asset services to US and US territory customers (excluding NY and ME) are provided by Payward Interactive Inc., (NMLS ID:1843762) a FINCEN registered money services business,not a member of FINRA/ SIPC and not FDIC insured. All trading involves risk, including loss of your investments. View full disclosures at: kraken.com/legal/equities and kraken.com/legal/disclosures

About

Cost 2

Features
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Cost keeps a spending log without asking you to type one in. Share a receipt — screenshot, photo of the paper one, order confirmation, plain text — and an on-device agent reads off the merchant, total, currency, date and category. Confident drafts file themselves; the rest wait in the Inbox with the agent's reasoning shown, a tap from saved. It runs on Apple Intelligence, on your device: nothing uploaded, no account, no bank connection. Fix a draft and the fix becomes a rule. Rename a merchant once and the next receipt from it arrives renamed. Add standing instructions in plain English — "the corner shop is Groceries" — and they hold on every receipt after. Everything Cost has learned is listed in Settings, editable and deletable. Categories stay yours: matched to one you already have, or proposed for you to accept. Never invented, never forced onto a purchase that doesn't fit. Tags cover what a category can't — a trip, a project, "Work". A flight, four dinners and a rail pass are three categories but one trip, and the trip carries its own total. Search reads meaning. "caffeine last month" finds the coffees without sharing a word with them; "how much did my Japan trip cost" answers with the tag's total. Trends for any week, month or year: the total against the period before, the category mix, top merchants, the tags that were running. A calendar zooming year to month to week. Totals per currency — Cost won't add two together and call it an answer. Also: type or dictate a sentence ("Coffee at Pret, £3.20, yesterday"), ask Siri to log spending or search it, attach where you were, keep the receipt with the record. Cost is a Mac app too, synced over iCloud. A receipt the phone couldn't settle arrives on the Mac ready to review — and if you run a model locally (Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp), Cost hands the reading to that instead. Bigger model, same machine, still nothing uploaded. Apple Intelligence isn't on every device. Where it's missing, Cost reads what it can and parks a draft for review — an unavailable model costs you a tap, never a receipt.

Screenshots

Kraken Pro4 screens
Cost 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Cost 2 at none against Kraken Pro's shown. Cost 2 also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Kraken Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kraken Pro ships an update weekly, Cost 2 every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kraken Pro versus Cost 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKraken ProCost 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings26K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size302 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKraken阿卜杜塔伊尔江 库热西

Bugs and requests

Kraken Pro

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Account verification delays
  • Funds disappearing or getting stuck during transfers

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ACH/EFT deposit and withdrawal options
  • Improve mobile app performance and stability
  • Introduce advanced charting and analytics tools
  • Provide 24/7 live customer support

Cost 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kraken Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Cost 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kraken Pro free?
Kraken Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cost 2 free?
Cost 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kraken Pro or Cost 2 have ads?
Kraken Pro shows ads; Cost 2 does not.
Which is updated more often, Kraken Pro or Cost 2?
Kraken Pro ships an update weekly, and Cost 2 every 8 days. Most recently, Kraken Pro was updated on November 11, 2026 and Cost 2 on November 4, 2026.

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