Comparison

Bloomberg Professional vs PANARAY Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Bloomberg Professional

Access key Bloomberg Terminal functions on your mobile device. Stay updated with breaking news, market data, and communicate with colleagues and clients. Requires a Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg Anywhere subscription.

Highlights
  • Breaking news updates
  • Market data access
  • Instant Bloomberg messaging
  • Security data and research
  • Portfolio tracking
  • Customizable alerts
Features
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This app is only accessible by Bloomberg Terminal clients with a Bloomberg Anywhere subscription. Markets don’t stop when you leave your desk. Stay ready with 24/7 access to breaking news, markets, clients and colleagues wherever you go. ASKB by Bloomberg AI: A new conversational AI interface that transforms how financial professionals discover, analyze and act on market intelligence. News and Research: Read breaking and overnight news or dig deeper with AI-powered document search. IB (Instant Bloomberg): Exchange ideas, research, pricing, indications of interest and more with a global network of financial professionals. All with the same compliant communication capture as on the Terminal. Market Data: Quickly assess markets across asset classes. Access analyst recommendations, estimates, ownership data and summaries of developed and emerging markets. Worksheets: Access worksheets away from the Terminal, monitor watchlists in real time and view related news, events, research and charts. Please note: your B-Unit app is required for the initial login only.

About

PANARAY Mobile

This platform offers institutional investors a visual workspace for equity research, translating complex data into graphics. It provides advanced charting tools, sector analysis, and list management to help identify investment opportunities.

Highlights
  • Visual equity research workspace
  • Datagraph™ for technical and fundamental data
  • Sortable and filterable equity lists
  • Sector and group rotation analysis
  • Animated performance trend visualization
  • Real-time NASDAQ Basic prices
  • Pattern recognition for technical activity
Features
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PANARAY® Mobile is a global equity research platform designed exclusively for institutional investors. It's highly visual workspace translates dense blocks of data into graphics to help money managers spot opportunities with efficiency. The Symbol view uses our Datagraph™ format, which combines the most essential technical and fundamental equity data in one view. This format takes on an array of advanced capabilities in PANARAY that are not available on any other kind of stock chart. The Lists view offers an organizational hub that allows money managers to sort and filter lists of equities based on handpicked criteria. In the Groups view money managers can anticipate and monitor changes in sectors globally, with a Rotation Graph that confirms existing trends and illuminates emerging ones, worldwide or by select geography. With PANARAY Mobile, institutional investors can: • Access industry-leading stock charts with a wide range of fundamental and technical data points you can customize • View deep fundamentals in a sliding tab that includes a company’s current and historical financial statements, such as income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and ratios report • See sectors, industry groups, or equities plotted on an animated Rotation Graph that presents a six-week visualization of performance trends across various geographic regions and countries • See three sets of forward estimates as part of the earnings line, with an animated “rewind” of past earnings performance to speed analysis • Evaluate margin expansion using the revenue line to creates an overlay of revenue-per-share and earnings-per-share data • Strengthen buy and sell decisions using pattern recognition, which visually highlights classic chart patterns that signal key technical activity in a stock • Review the extent of buying and selling within a company on the insider transactions line and see its effect on price and volume • Manage lists (create, duplicate, rename, mark as a favorite, share) and edit list contents • Find new investment ideas from an array of PANARAY Lists, some of which are global theme lists curated by O’Neil Equity Research • Use NASDAQ Basic real-time prices for U.S. equities • Tap and hold on the Datagraph to reveal the Track Price tool, which displays price, volume, and pattern recognition details • Email, print via AirPrint™, or save charts as an image PANARAY Mobile is available to institutional investors only by contacting a representative at William O’Neil + Co. at 800.545.8940. Visit our website at williamoneil.com. Some features not available on the iPhone app. William O’Neil + Co. is a Registered Investment Advisor providing independent research and consulting services to institutional clients, including banks, investment advisors, hedge funds, insurance companies, corporations, and mutual funds.

Screenshots

Bloomberg Professional4 screens
PANARAY Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

Bloomberg Professional and PANARAY Mobile both sit at 3.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of PANARAY Mobile's written reviews are positive against 33% of Bloomberg Professional's. PANARAY Mobile also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (4 vs 2). Bloomberg Professional's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (460 vs 9). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for Bloomberg Professional against 3.7 for PANARAY Mobile. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bloomberg Professional has 460 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Bloomberg Professional's written reviews are positive against 100% of PANARAY Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bloomberg Professional ships an update every 2 weeks, PANARAY Mobile every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bloomberg Professional versus PANARAY Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloomberg ProfessionalPANARAY Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (460 ratings) — better3.7 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings460 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.111.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size159 MB82 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBloomberg Finance LPWilliam O'Neil & Co. Inc.

Customer experience

Bloomberg Professional

All ratings459 ratings
Positive65.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative26.4%
Written reviews213 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral11.3%
Negative55.4%

PANARAY Mobile

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Bloomberg Professional

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Search function not working
  • Worksheet views and column widths issues
  • Portfolios not loading properly
  • Incompatibility with older iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add IB chat functionality
  • Improve portfolio management features
  • Allow offline content access
  • Provide more customization options
  • Integrate with iPhone calendar for events

PANARAY Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bloomberg Professional

No in-app purchases

None

PANARAY Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bloomberg Professional free?
Bloomberg Professional is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PANARAY Mobile free?
PANARAY Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bloomberg Professional or PANARAY Mobile?
Bloomberg Professional is rated higher. Bloomberg Professional averages 3.7 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while PANARAY Mobile averages 3.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Bloomberg Professional or PANARAY Mobile have ads?
Neither Bloomberg Professional nor PANARAY Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bloomberg Professional or PANARAY Mobile?
Bloomberg Professional ships an update every 2 weeks, and PANARAY Mobile every 4 months. Most recently, Bloomberg Professional was updated on October 23, 2026 and PANARAY Mobile on October 23, 2026.

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