IMF Finances vs Economic Research Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IMF Finances
Access ten years of IMF financial data, including credit outstanding, lending arrangements, and SDR interest rates. Visualize this information through interactive heat maps, charts, and tables, and compare data across different countries and time periods. Share your findings easily via email and social media.
- Ten years of IMF financial data
- Aggregate and country-level data
- Interactive heat maps, charts, and tables
- Data comparison across time and countries
- Data and graph sharing capabilities
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IMF Finances app provides ten years of IMF financial data in aggregate and country format. Key indicators such as credit outstanding, lending arrangements, past transactions, projected payments, and SDR interest rates are displayed in interactive heat maps, charts, and tables. In addition to comparing data across time periods and between countries or IMF aggregates, the app allows sharing of data and graphs with others via email and social media.
Economic Research Tracker
Access economic insights and analysis from New York Fed economists. Customize your feed by research topics or specific economists, and follow your favorite bloggers for in-depth perspectives on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and more.
- Economic insights and analysis
- Customizable content by research topics
- Filter by New York Fed economists
- Follow favorite bloggers
- Search for economists and bloggers
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The Economic Research Tracker brings you insights and analysis from the New York Fed written by economists working at the intersection of research and policy. You can customize content by various research topics, including Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Labor Economics and Household Finance, and by New York Fed economists. You can also search for and follow your favorite Liberty Street Economics bloggers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: IMF Finances at 100% against Economic Research Tracker's 67%. IMF Finances also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). Economic Research Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 1) 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.
IMF Finances holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Economic Research Tracker has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of IMF Finances's written reviews are positive against 67% of Economic Research Tracker's.
IMF Finances ships an update every 5 months, Economic Research Tracker every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IMF Finances | Economic Research Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | International Monetary Fund | Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Customer experience
IMF Finances
Economic Research Tracker
In-app purchases
IMF Finances
No in-app purchases
Economic Research Tracker
No in-app purchases
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