Poltergeist vs TradeRun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poltergeist
Learn stock market investing through simulated trading games. Explore fictional companies or historical data, and build your financial knowledge with interactive lessons. Review your performance and understand investment fundamentals.
- Simulated stock trading
- Story mode with fictional companies
- Classic mode with historical data
- Interactive lessons on investing
- Portfolio performance review
- Offline play
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Your portfolio in a changing world. Follow the news, connect events, and decide where to invest in Poltergeist, a stock market game with simulated money. STORY MODE: FOLLOW THE WORLD Manage a portfolio of fictional companies and funds in a simulated world. Follow the news cycle, watch events unfold, and trace their connections across industries and borders. Explore where companies produce and sell, then decide what to buy, what to sell, and when to hold. CLASSIC MODE: PAPER TRADE REAL HISTORY Read candlestick charts and trade through historical stock market data. Each turn reveals another trading day's closing prices. Take long or short positions, choose how much to invest, and see how your decisions play out over a 100-day game. The stock and historical period are revealed when you finish. ACADEMY: UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTALS Work through short lessons on shares, cash, portfolios, orders, risk, and benchmarks. Interactive examples let you change the inputs and see what happens. Check your understanding, revisit a lesson, and learn at your own pace. METRICS: REVIEW YOUR DECISIONS Compare your results with buying and holding the stock. Review completed games, hit rate, time invested, and drawdown to understand more than the final balance. Built for iPhone and iPad, with a dark terminal interface and layouts that make room for more detail on larger screens. Play offline, with no account required. All trading uses simulated money. Classic uses historical daily data, not live prices or intraday trading.
TradeRun
Learn about the stock market through an engaging runner game. Build your financial knowledge and wealth with fast-paced gameplay.
- Stock market learning
- Runner gameplay
- Financial education
- Fortune building
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Learn the market, build your fortune! TradeRun combines financial education with fast-paced runner gameplay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TradeRun at Free against Poltergeist's $9.99. On rating, 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
TradeRun is free to download; Poltergeist costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Poltergeist against 5.0 for TradeRun. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Poltergeist ships an update every 2 weeks, TradeRun every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poltergeist | TradeRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Erlend Lovoll Strom | Kanchan Nannavare |
Customer experience
Poltergeist
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In-app purchases
Poltergeist
No in-app purchases
TradeRun
No in-app purchases
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