Comparison

Poltergeist vs TradeRun

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Simulated stock trading
  • Story mode with fictional companies
  • Classic mode with historical data
  • Interactive lessons on investing
  • Portfolio performance review
  • Offline play
Features
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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.

About

TradeRun

Learn about the stock market through an engaging runner game. Build your financial knowledge and wealth with fast-paced gameplay.

Highlights
  • Stock market learning
  • Runner gameplay
  • Financial education
  • Fortune building
Features
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Learn the market, build your fortune! TradeRun combines financial education with fast-paced runner gameplay.

Screenshots

Poltergeist4 screens
TradeRun4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TradeRun is free to download; Poltergeist costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Poltergeist versus TradeRun: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoltergeistTradeRun
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB141 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErlend Lovoll StromKanchan Nannavare

Customer experience

Poltergeist

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TradeRun

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Poltergeist

No in-app purchases

None

TradeRun

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Poltergeist free?
Poltergeist costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TradeRun free?
TradeRun is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Poltergeist or TradeRun?
Poltergeist and TradeRun are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Poltergeist or TradeRun have ads?
Neither Poltergeist nor TradeRun shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Poltergeist or TradeRun?
Poltergeist ships an update every 2 weeks, and TradeRun every 3 weeks. Most recently, Poltergeist was updated on November 3, 2026 and TradeRun on October 30, 2026.

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