Comparison

Trading Royale vs Poltergeist

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

Head to head
About

Trading Royale

Engage in competitive stock trading duels using real historical market data. Test your strategies against players globally in various game modes without any financial risk. Improve your trading skills and climb global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Head-to-head trading duels
  • Authentic market data
  • Multiple game modes (long/short)
  • Global leaderboards
  • Customizable avatars
  • No financial risk
Features
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Can you read a chart better than your rival? Trading Royale is a fast stock trading game. You get a real price chart from the last 25 years, with the name hidden. Go LONG if you think it rises, SHORT if it falls, or sit in CASH. After 24 candles, the higher return wins. Then the curtain drops: was it Apple in 2008? Tesla in 2020? 60-SECOND DUELS Race another player's recorded run on the same chart, or train against bots. No waiting for opponents. REAL MARKET DATA 48 stocks, 600 real chart windows. Crashes, rallies, short squeezes: all real, all hidden until the end. POWER CARDS Technical Goggles reveal the moving averages. Stop-Loss Shield caps your losses. Insider Tip whispers the next candle. All In doubles your leverage. Collect and level them up. CLIMB 6 ARENAS From Paper Hands to Whale. Earn trophies, open chests, finish monthly seasons with gem rewards. KNOW YOUR EDGE Detailed stats show how often your LONG and SHORT calls are right, your best trades and your play style. Learn leverage, risk and chart reading without risking a cent. Trading Royale uses virtual money only and is not investment advice.

About

Poltergeist

Learn stock market investing through simulated trading games. Explore fictional companies or historical data, and build your financial knowledge with interactive lessons. Review your performance and understand investment fundamentals.

Highlights
  • Simulated stock trading
  • Story mode with fictional companies
  • Classic mode with historical data
  • Interactive lessons on investing
  • Portfolio performance review
  • Offline play
Features
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Your portfolio in a changing world. Follow the news, connect events, and decide where to invest in Poltergeist, a stock market game with simulated money. STORY MODE: FOLLOW THE WORLD Manage a portfolio of fictional companies and funds in a simulated world. Follow the news cycle, watch events unfold, and trace their connections across industries and borders. Explore where companies produce and sell, then decide what to buy, what to sell, and when to hold. CLASSIC MODE: PAPER TRADE REAL HISTORY Read candlestick charts and trade through historical stock market data. Each turn reveals another trading day's closing prices. Take long or short positions, choose how much to invest, and see how your decisions play out over a 100-day game. The stock and historical period are revealed when you finish. ACADEMY: UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTALS Work through short lessons on shares, cash, portfolios, orders, risk, and benchmarks. Interactive examples let you change the inputs and see what happens. Check your understanding, revisit a lesson, and learn at your own pace. METRICS: REVIEW YOUR DECISIONS Compare your results with buying and holding the stock. Review completed games, hit rate, time invested, and drawdown to understand more than the final balance. Built for iPhone and iPad, with a dark terminal interface and layouts that make room for more detail on larger screens. Play offline, with no account required. All trading uses simulated money. Classic uses historical daily data, not live prices or intraday trading.

Screenshots

Trading Royale4 screens
Poltergeist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Trading Royale at Free against Poltergeist's $9.99. Trading Royale also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). Poltergeist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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

Trading Royale is free to download; Poltergeist costs $9.99 up front. Trading Royale sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poltergeist asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Trading Royale against 5.0 for Poltergeist. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trading Royale ships an update every 4 days, Poltergeist every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Trading Royale versus Poltergeist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrading RoyalePoltergeist
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHOR TEKNOLOJI DIS TICARET LIMITED SIRKETIErlend Lovoll Strom

Customer experience

Trading Royale

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Poltergeist

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Trading Royale

One-time1
  • No Ads$3.99
None

Poltergeist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Trading Royale free?
Trading Royale is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Poltergeist free?
Poltergeist costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Trading Royale or Poltergeist?
Trading Royale and Poltergeist are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Trading Royale or Poltergeist have ads?
Trading Royale shows ads; Poltergeist does not.
Which is updated more often, Trading Royale or Poltergeist?
Trading Royale ships an update every 4 days, and Poltergeist every 2 weeks. Most recently, Trading Royale was updated on November 3, 2026 and Poltergeist on November 3, 2026.

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