Comparison

BitAlert vs Argus Crypto Tracker

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

Head to head
About

BitAlert

Receive instant notifications for significant cryptocurrency price changes. Set custom percentage-based alerts for Bitcoin and Ethereum to stay informed without constant monitoring. The app automatically adjusts alerts for subsequent price movements.

Highlights
  • Customizable price movement alerts
  • Real-time updates for Bitcoin and Ethereum
  • Percentage-based alert triggers
  • Automatic alert re-adjustment
  • Supports 1-100% price change notifications
Features
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With BitAlert, you can stop viewing price changes in cryptos non-stop throughout the day, and let us notify you when a significant price move occurs. For instance, if the price of Bitcoin is trading at $50,000, you can set a custom price movement alert at 20%. This means that you'll receive a notification from us when Bitcoin moves to either $40,000 or $60,000. We'll also re-adjust your notification basis, so you'll continue to get notified for further 20% price movements. You can choose whatever percentage price movements you'd like, from 1 to 100%. You can also trust BitAlert to provide real-time updates on price movements for Bitcoin and Ethereum. Privacy Policy: https://cuff.live/policy Terms & Conditions: https://cuff.live/terms

About

Argus Crypto Tracker

This app tracks your cryptocurrency holdings privately on your device. It offers multiple ways to add assets, calculates cost basis, and provides live prices and alerts without collecting your financial data.

Highlights
  • On-device data storage
  • Multiple asset import options
  • Real cost basis calculation (FIFO, LIFO, HIFO)
  • Staked position tracking
  • Live prices and charts
  • Price alerts
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Argus is a crypto portfolio tracker for people who want to see exactly what they hold — without handing their financial data to anyone. Everything lives on your device. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no ads. SEE YOUR NET WORTH, HONESTLY A clean net-worth chart built from real price history and your own transactions — never faked. Cash and crypto broken out at a glance, with gains and losses shown only where they belong. ADD WHAT YOU HOLD — THREE WAYS, EASIEST FIRST • Add a holding — just type how much of a coin you own. • Import from a wallet — paste a public address and Argus pulls your balances across 12 chains: Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, Scroll, zkSync Era, Gnosis, Celo, Unichain, Mode and Plasma (read-only; it never asks for a seed phrase or key). Coins are matched by their contract rather than their ticker, so a look-alike token can't pass itself off as the real one. • Import a CSV — bring your history across as date, type, asset, quantity, price. REAL COST-BASIS MATH Log buys and sells with fees, and Argus tracks your true cost basis and realized gains — switch between FIFO, LIFO, and HIFO to see how it changes. STAKED POSITIONS, COUNTED Argus reads StakeWise V3 vault deposits, so ETH sitting in a vault is part of your net worth instead of missing from it — and it stays listed apart from wallet ETH rather than merged into one number. LOANS, COUNTED BOTH WAYS Borrowing against your crypto? Import loans from Aave, Spark, Compound, Fluid and Morpho, and Argus counts the collateral you still own minus what you owe, with each loan's health factor. Imported loans stay current on their own, and Argus lets you know when it finds a new one. Any other loan — an exchange, a bank — can be added by hand: what you borrowed, and what it's borrowed against. PRICES, CHARTS AND NEWS Live prices and logos for the top 1,000 coins, a price chart on every holding over one week, one month or three months, plus per-coin news headlines. PRICE ALERTS Set a target on any coin and get a notification when it's hit. Argus checks in the background — iOS schedules those checks, so the alert arrives shortly after the move rather than the instant it happens. Alerts are delivered locally, so no server ever sees them. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your holdings never leave your phone. Argus fetches only public market data, public headlines, and — if you choose — public wallet balances and loan positions. There are no accounts and nothing to sign in to. Argus is a tracker, not an exchange: it holds no funds, places no trades, and never touches your keys.

Screenshots

BitAlert4 screens
Argus Crypto Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Argus Crypto Tracker at 5.0 against BitAlert's 3.8. Argus Crypto Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months). BitAlert's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. BitAlert sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Argus Crypto Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Argus Crypto Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BitAlert has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BitAlert ships an update every 12 months, Argus Crypto Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
BitAlert versus Argus Crypto Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitAlertArgus Crypto Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (19 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRenaissance Apps LLCPaul Barba

Customer experience

BitAlert

All ratings19 ratings
Positive68.4%
Neutral5.3%
Negative26.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Argus Crypto Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BitAlert

Subscriptions1
  • BitAlert Premium Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
None

Argus Crypto Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BitAlert free?
BitAlert is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Argus Crypto Tracker free?
Argus Crypto Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BitAlert or Argus Crypto Tracker?
Argus Crypto Tracker is rated higher. BitAlert averages 3.8 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Argus Crypto Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BitAlert or Argus Crypto Tracker have ads?
Neither BitAlert nor Argus Crypto Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BitAlert or Argus Crypto Tracker?
BitAlert ships an update every 12 months, and Argus Crypto Tracker weekly. Most recently, BitAlert was updated on October 15, 2026 and Argus Crypto Tracker on October 16, 2026.

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