Lightstreamer Stock vs Stock Position
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightstreamer Stock
This application demonstrates real-time stock price updates using the Lightstreamer iOS client library. It displays live data with a simple interface and includes support for APNs push notifications. The source code is publicly available.
- Real-time stock price updates
- Lightstreamer iOS client library integration
- Simple user interface
- APNs push notification support
- Publicly available source code
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Lightstreamer Stock-List is an application that uses the Lightstreamer iOS client library to receive real-time data from Lightstreamer Server. The app subscribes to a set of stock prices, receives the updates in real time, and displays them with a very simple user interface. This version includes full support for APNs push notifications. Source code is available on GitHub, see: github.com/Lightstreamer Lightstreamer is a real-time messaging server optimized for the Internet. Blending WebSockets, HTTP, and push notifications, it streams data to/from mobile, tablet, browser-based, desktop, and IoT applications. Lightstreamer provides many advanced mechanisms to optimize user experience, including: bandwidth management, dynamic throttling with congestion control, compression, and conflation.
Stock Position
Analyze stock market data for your investment portfolio. Track asset prices, visualize historical performance, and calculate key financial metrics like beta and CAPM expected return. Manage multiple portfolios with detailed insights.
- Download and analyze market price data
- Track individual asset and portfolio values
- Graph historical price performance (up to 10 years)
- Compare portfolio to market factors
- Calculate beta and CAPM expected return
- Manage multiple portfolios
- Real-time gain/loss display
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Stock Position downloads and analyzes market price data of a portfolio of stock assets (NYSE or NASDAQ). It lists the current market price of the individual assets and the portfolio, graphs the price (over the past 10 years) of individual assets and the portfolio, compares the price (over time) to any listed market factor, correlates the rate of return to determine the beta value for the individual assets and the portfolio, and displays the standard deviation and CAPM expected return of the individual assets and the portfolio. * 8 portfolios of 40 assets each (or 1 portfolio of 5 assets if no subscription). * quick display of asset and portfolio current values and gain/loss (many values are real time) * use asset proxies (surrogates) to track intra-day asset values * weekly beta calculated from any start/end dates IMPORTANT NOTE: Although initially free, Stock Position requires an In App Purchase subscription (non-renewing) to use many features. A one month initial subscription for each device is included for free. Screenshots below: (All with similar portfolios) 1) CAPM graph showing portfolio diversification with a beta of .96, return slightly better than the market risk with an Alpha of 2.2%. 2) asset table - portfolio total is $ down $464 in the day. A proxy (SPY) is used to value the day's change in FPURX. 3) stocks graphed cumulatively from 2013 to 2021. Rate of return 14.9%. 4) Portfolio correlation to a market factor (SPY) showing a beta of .96 since 01/01/13, a return of 15.2% which is 2.2% (alpha) better than the market risk-related return. Beta sensitivity to Start Date is displayed by moving the slider. 5) Portfolio comparison to a market factor (SPY) showing close correlation with small residuals until recently (due to FDX and TSLA).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stock Position at 50% against Lightstreamer Stock's 0%. Stock Position also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.3). Lightstreamer Stock's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Stock Position sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Lightstreamer Stock asks for nothing beyond the download.
Stock Position holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Lightstreamer Stock's written reviews are positive against 50% of Stock Position's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and August 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightstreamer Stock | Stock Position |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (4 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lightstreamer Srl | Peter Kramer |
Customer experience
Lightstreamer Stock
Stock Position
In-app purchases
Lightstreamer Stock
No in-app purchases
Stock Position
- load/graph data for 1 month$0.99
- Load/graph data for 6 months$1.99
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