Bloomberg Professional vs PANARAY Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Breaking news updates
- Market data access
- Instant Bloomberg messaging
- Security data and research
- Portfolio tracking
- Customizable alerts
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Bloomberg Professional ships an update every 2 weeks, PANARAY Mobile every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Bloomberg Professional | PANARAY Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (460 ratings) — better | 3.7 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 460 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bloomberg Finance LP | William O'Neil & Co. Inc. |
Customer experience
Bloomberg Professional
PANARAY Mobile
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
Bloomberg Professional
No in-app purchases
PANARAY Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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