CME Group vs Sparta Commodities Live
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CME Group
This app provides access to a diverse derivatives marketplace, offering tools for market insight and strategic planning. Track futures and options, practice with a trading simulator, and receive alerts on market movements and block trades.
- Product watchlists
- Simulated trading environment
- Trading challenges
- Push notifications for trades and price moves
- Delayed market data
- Economic research and analysis
- Block trade viewing
- Interactive charts
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Enhance Your Trading Edge with CME Group Mobile Stay ahead in the fast-paced world of derivatives with the CME Group Mobile app. Whether you're a seasoned trader or just starting, our app connects you to the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace, 24/7. Now featuring product watchlists and a powerful trading simulator, CME Group Mobile is your essential tool for market insight and strategic planning. With CME Group Mobile, you can effortlessly track the futures and options products you care about, right from your mobile device. Hone your strategies and explore market scenarios using our simulated trading environment, designed to help you understand market dynamics without real-world risk. Key Features: • Create and Follow Product Watchlists: Customize and monitor the futures and options products most relevant to your trading interests. • Simulated Trading Environment: Practice and refine your trading strategies with our intuitive trading simulator functionality, perfect for learning market movements and testing hypotheses. • Trading Challenges: Compete against others in a simulated trading environment • Alerts: Receive push notifications for Block Trades and significant moves in price • Market Data: Stay up-to-date with delayed quote data, daily volume, and open interest for a comprehensive market overview. • Economic Research: Get expert insights and analysis of market events, major economic themes and trends driving opportunities. • Block Trades: View real-time block trades and filter by type to focus on the information that matters most to you. • QuikStrike Analytics: Gain deeper market insights with our suite of powerful QuikStrike analytics tools. • Cross-Device Sync: Your personalized watchlists and settings sync seamlessly across your desktop and iOS devices with CME Group Login. • Interactive Charts: Tap on charts to analyze trends and patterns.
Sparta Commodities Live
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Sparta brings digital solutions to solve oil trader's everyday issues. Our proprietary processing tools provide live trading insights to our clients so they can make faster and more informed decisions before their competition and capture market opportunities. We also provide powerful analytical tools with price points currently unavailable to the market. Our purpose is to assist traders in sourcing and building their data intelligence and analytical capabilities. With a combined 37 years of experience in commodity trading, the founders have teamed with technology experts to focus on productivity, automatization, speed and mobility. Follow us to unlock your full trade potential
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CME Group at none against Sparta Commodities Live's shown. CME Group also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CME Group ships an update fortnightly, Sparta Commodities Live every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CME Group | Sparta Commodities Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CME Group, Inc. | Sparta Commodities SA |
Bugs and requests
CME Group
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch
- Quotes and watchlists disappearing
- Forced portrait mode on iPad
- Errors when signing up
Requested features
4 requests- Add multi-language support
- Improve widget functionality
- Enhance charting capabilities
- Introduce customization options
Sparta Commodities Live
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CME Group
No in-app purchases
Sparta Commodities Live
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is CME Group free?
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