Comparison

QST Mobile vs Firetip X

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

Head to head
About

QST Mobile

Access real-time streaming quotes, advanced order entry, and comprehensive charting tools for futures and equity exchanges. Developed with professional traders in mind, it offers a highly customizable interface for efficient trading and portfolio management.

Highlights
  • Real-time streaming quotes
  • Advanced order entry
  • World-class charting and analytics
  • Customizable quotes monitor
  • Real-time news with search
  • Price alarms and notifications
  • Strategy builder
Features
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QST Mobile offers real-time streaming quotes, advanced order entry capabilities, news, world-class charting and analytics. Employing an intuitive and easy-to-use design it was developed with feedback from professional traders. QST Mobile delivers reliability, accuracy, usability and high performance. Futures exchange coverage includes CME Group (CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), EUREX, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and the Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX). Equity exchange coverage includes NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX. Quotes Monitor offers a highly customizable quote montage that provides detailed quote information organized into multiple pages with user-defined titles. Advanced Symbol Search capabilities assist you in finding the correct symbol to compose any kind of contract in your Quotes Monitor. A Contract Details view will offer you complete info on any contract available in your Quotes Monitor. Charts stream in real-time using HTML5 technology to offer a new level of user interactivity via a wide selection of tools, settings, programmable indicators and order entry. Price Ladder offers a real-time market depth view that highlights your relevant portfolio data in an interactive fashion. Options Chain can display all the options for any futures contract with the ability to trade individual options directly from the module. Price Alarms can be set on any quote with various conditions and alerting modes. Real-time News from Dow Jones and LaSalle Street comes with advanced search capabilities, related linkage and a context-based coloring scheme. Block Trades module provides you real time trading information, perfect way to monitor contracts, quantities and prices traded by others. If you want to solicit a Request For Quote (RFQ), that is also available from various modules of the application. You can also view existing RFQs in the market. Strategy Builder will allow you to place User Defined Strategies (UDS) to the exchange, expanding your trading options. While in application is in the background, all your important information will be available real time via the notification center. Save your Settings at your office or at home and seamlessly continue working on the road, whether you are using QST Desktop, QST Lite or QST Mobile. This application offers you the perfect balance between trading with one tap and, at the same time, offers in-depth customizations for your trading actions. Visualizing your portfolio has never been easier with Orders & Positions. Applying filters and using simple gestures can show or hide details on any item in your portfolio. Account Information provides details about margins, trade equity and balance of your trading account. Quick account switching offers you a flawless transition between the accounts that comprise your portfolio. Real-time notifications provide instant feedback during your trading session. Should you need to review your trading history, changes to your orders and positions, the Order Activity Log is the perfect tool for that.

About

Firetip X

This app allows users to trade and monitor futures and options accounts. Access trading strategies, formulas, quotes, charts, and account information. Execute strategies server-side for efficient trading.

Highlights
  • Trade futures, options, and complex strategies
  • Create and use custom trading formulas
  • View and manipulate indicators on charts
  • Apply indicators to Trading Matrix and Advanced Trader
  • Synchronize workspace between mobile and desktop
  • Execute strategies with one-click trading
Features
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Trade and monitor your futures & options account with Firetip X. Access your trading strategies, formulas, quotes, charts, and account information. Firetip X is a powerful trading platform and the iOS version has all of the functionality of the desktop. Trade, write formulas, chart data, and execute your strategies server-side (right at the exchange data centers). Features: * Trade futures, options, and complex strategies. Create, modify, and manage your orders and formula based strategies quickly and easily. * Create and use your custom formulas. Also access the large number of built-in trading strategies and formulas * View and manipulate indicators how you want them on charts. You can even apply indicators to the Trading Matrix (quote board) or the Advanced Trader (depth of market trading ladder) * Modify your workspace on the mobile app and access it later on the desktop (or vice versa) * Create your own custom strategies. Use these strategies as part of a trading system or enable to be used as part of one-click trading.

Screenshots

QST Mobile4 screens
Firetip X1 screens

Verdict

The call

QST Mobile and Firetip X are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

QST Mobile ships an update monthly, Firetip X every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
QST Mobile versus Firetip X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQST MobileFiretip X
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperComputer Voice Systems, Inc.Certigo, Inc.

Customer experience

QST Mobile

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Firetip X

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

QST Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Firetip X

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QST Mobile free?
QST Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Firetip X free?
Firetip X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QST Mobile or Firetip X have ads?
Neither QST Mobile nor Firetip X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QST Mobile or Firetip X?
QST Mobile ships an update monthly, and Firetip X every 2 months. Most recently, QST Mobile was updated on September 22, 2026 and Firetip X on September 12, 2026.

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