Precious Metal Prices vs AuSSISTANT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Precious Metal Prices
Access real-time prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Track historical pricing trends and utilize a pennyweight calculator for selling gold. Stay informed with the latest precious metals news and articles.
- Real-time metal prices
- Historical price tracking
- Pennyweight calculator
- Conversion chart
- Precious metals news
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Welcome to the brand new Manhattan Gold & Silver App. Here you can find real time prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and rhodium. Check out historical precious metal prices for your precious metals to see pricing trends while also taking advantage of our pennyweight calculator and conversion chart if you're interested in selling gold. Get the latest precious metals news through articles from our team to stay up to date on record high prices, how to sell scrap metal, and more.
AuSSISTANT
This tool simplifies using gold as currency, focusing on the Goldback. It offers offline transaction calculations, exchange rates, historical charting, and a merchant directory. It also includes a Goldback currency symbol font and a serial number verifier for specific gold notes.
- Offline Goldback Transaction Calculator
- Transaction Records
- Daily Exchange Rates
- Home Screen Widget
- Historical Price Charting
- Goldback Currency Symbol Font
- Merchant Directory
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AuSSISTANT is a tool that makes it easier to understand and use gold as money in our day-to-day lives, with a particular focus on the Goldback as the medium of exchange. AuSSISTANT offers: * An enhanced Goldback Transaction Calculator that can be used offline. * Transaction records, to help track the coming and going of your gold. * Daily Exchange Rates, as published by Goldback, Inc. and the United Precious Metals Association. * A Home Screen Widget for displaying current daily exchange rates. * Charting of historical price data relevant to trading in fractional gold. * An installable font that provides the Goldback Currency Symbol for use in any app that supports user-installed fonts. * A directory of merchants that accept Goldbacks as payment for goods and services, using data from the Goldback, Inc. and Alpine Gold Exchange's pages. (Requires network access.) * A Serial Number Verifier For MetalMark Gold Notes All features with the exception of daily exchange rate updates, merchant directory map, the MetalMark verifier, and an instructional video, can be used without network access. While AuSSISTANT helps people use the Goldback currency system, AuSSISTANT is independently developed and is not a product of Goldback, Inc., Alpine Gold Exchange, United Precious Metals Association, or any associated entity. AuSSISTANT is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The calculations performed by this app, the pricing data, and the merchant directory data presented are not audited or guaranteed. Pricing and merchant directory data displayed is derived from publicly published data on Goldback, Inc., Alpine Gold Exchange, and UPMA websites. Errors in the receipt and processing of this information could happen. You should verify any information presented by this app, and do not rely on it for trading or investment decisions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Precious Metal Prices at 4.7 against AuSSISTANT's 4.0. Precious Metal Prices also leads on ratings volume (660 vs 13) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). AuSSISTANT's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 52%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Precious Metal Prices holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Precious Metal Prices has 660 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Precious Metal Prices's written reviews are positive against 67% of AuSSISTANT's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Precious Metal Prices ships an update every 5 months, AuSSISTANT every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Precious Metal Prices | AuSSISTANT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (660 ratings) — better | 4.0 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 660 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manhattan Gold & Silver, Inc. | Wesley Gilpin |
Customer experience
Precious Metal Prices
AuSSISTANT
Bugs and requests
Precious Metal Prices
Reported bugs
11 issues- App is confusing, difficult to find features
- Alerts feature not visible
- Prices not updating for days
- Real-time prices are consistently off
- Cannot delete app after failed update
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- Notifications (email/banner) do not work
- App does not update or send notifications
- Converter functionality is limited
- Missing a manual refresh button
- Shows 'N/A' for all prices
- App stopped working, showing 'N/A' for pricing
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to zoom on historical charts
- Add copper and aluminum to metal list
- Show commodity up/down percentage
- Add a refresh button
- Converter to support more than kilo-to-kilo
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- Add more metals like copper, aluminum, etc.
AuSSISTANT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Precious Metal Prices
No in-app purchases
AuSSISTANT
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Is AuSSISTANT free?
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