ActPad vs Ox Securities
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActPad
Trade Forex, CFDs, Futures, and ETFs on your iPad with this platform. Access your existing trading account, monitor positions, view live charts, and manage orders in real time. Stay updated with a live news stream and manage your trading history.
- Live streaming dealing rates
- Trade Forex, CFDs, Futures, ETFs
- Real-time interactive charts
- Easy order management
- Detailed account information
- Live news stream
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ActPad is the iPad version of the popular ActTrader platform by ActForex, Inc. ActPad allows you to trade the same instruments you can on the desktop version, including Forex, CFDs, Futures, and ETFs. Simply log in with your ActTrader username and password to access your trading account, orders, and open positions. Place trades, monitor your account, and even view live charts. Your account data and trading activity are synced in real time. Trades you make on the iPad are reflected on the desktop application, and vice-versa. With ActPad, you never have to be tied down to your computer again! Features: -Live streaming dealing rates -Live trading from your ActTrader account -Trade Forex, CFDs, Futures, ETFs -Real-time interactive charts -Easy order management -Detailed account information -Open position information -Trading history -Live, up to the minute News stream -Instrument subscription
Ox Securities
This app provides advanced charting and market analysis tools for traders. It allows for a highly customizable trading platform with various widgets and order management features.
- Advanced charting
- Market analysis tools
- Order batches
- Grids
- Market depth
- Customizable layout
- Trading widgets
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The Ox Securities app offers outstanding charting, market analysis, and power-user trading tools including order batches, grids, and market depth. Fully customisable to any layout, Ox Securities Trade contains over 40 different trading widgets which you can combine in any order to create your own personalised trading platform - as simple or as complex as you want.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ActPad at 2.6 against Ox Securities's 1.5. ActPad also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 7%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Ox Securities's advantage is ratings volume (65 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
ActPad holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ox Securities has 65 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of ActPad's written reviews are positive against 7% of Ox Securities's.
ActPad ships an update every 3 months, Ox Securities every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActPad | Ox Securities |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) — better | 1.5 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews — better | 7.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ACT TRADER TECHNOLOGIES LTD | Ox Securities Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
ActPad
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In-app purchases
ActPad
No in-app purchases
Ox Securities
No in-app purchases
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