cmdtyView vs CME Direct
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cmdtyView
This app provides comprehensive tools for commodity trading and analysis. It offers advanced charting, real-time news, economic calendars, and integrated trading features to simplify workflows and inform decision-making.
- Advanced charting tools
- Benchmark cash prices
- Commodity news and analytics
- Economic calendar
- Futures execution
- Physical grain trading
- Instant messaging
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Your workflows demand powerful tools and we deliver exactly that in one place. Our advanced charting, benchmark cash prices, commodity news, analytics, Excel tools, and an economic calendar ensure you’re always informed and prepared to make the right decisions. With futures execution, cmdtyMatch physical grain trading, instant messaging, and grain accounting all in one place - your workflows have never been simpler. Throw in our global futures coverage and broad physical pricing and cmdtyView becomes a game changer.
CME Direct
Access real-time futures and OTC market data, including bids and offers. Manage orders, view trader status, and analyze positions with integrated charting and calculators. Streamline trade processing with direct mid- and back-office system integration.
- Real-time market bids and offers
- Order management and modification
- Trader status and position reports
- Integrated futures charting
- Options calculators
- Straight-through processing
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Download the CME Direct app for access to all CME futures and OTC markets. Major features of CME Direct include: • Access real-time bids, offers across all CME markets • Create Alerts to get notified based on various parameters. • View and modify your working orders and fills anytime you need • Real-time trader status reports of open orders, completed trades • Real-time markets block feed • Real-time options ladder feed • Real-time positions • Trades executed across CME Direct Mobile feed directly into mid- and back-office systems for a complete and straight-through processing end-to-end solution • Integrated futures charting and options calculators If you would like a demo or to request information regarding CME Direct. Email: markettechsales@cmegroup.com https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/cme-direct/mobile-app.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: cmdtyView at 50% against CME Direct's 0%. cmdtyView also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). CME Direct's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 24 months). On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
cmdtyView holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cmdtyView has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of cmdtyView's written reviews are positive against 0% of CME Direct's.
cmdtyView ships an update every 24 months, CME Direct every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | cmdtyView | CME Direct |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (10 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barchart | CME Group, Inc. |
Customer experience
cmdtyView
CME Direct
In-app purchases
cmdtyView
No in-app purchases
CME Direct
No in-app purchases
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