Comparison

Trading Sessions vs bellwatch

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

Head to head
About

Trading Sessions

This app helps traders by displaying major market session times in their local time zone, accounting for daylight saving changes. It provides real-time updates, alerts, and a clear overview of the trading day, including busy hours and holiday schedules.

Highlights
  • Local time zone display for market sessions
  • Daylight saving time change alerts
  • Live session status and countdowns
  • Trading day timeline with busy hours
  • NYSE opening bell alerts
  • Forex week and NYSE holiday tracking
  • Home screen widgets
Features
Read full description

Stop converting time zones and focus on your trades. Trading Sessions shows when the Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions open and close, in your local time, and keeps it accurate when daylight saving changes. Every time comes from each city's official time zone rules, so you never have to work out whether London or New York has changed its clocks. When a change is coming, the app warns you a few days ahead and shows exactly how your session times will move. Key Features: • Live Sessions: See which markets are open right now, with a countdown to every open and close. • Today Timeline: Your whole trading day at a glance, with the London–New York overlap, the busiest hours of the forex day, highlighted. • NYSE Opening Bell: A dedicated countdown and optional alert for the 9:30 AM New York open, when volume often picks up, even in crypto. • Daylight Saving Heads-Up: A warning before London, New York or Sydney change their clocks, with your new session times. • Weekends and Holidays: Follows the forex week (Sunday 5 PM to Friday 5 PM New York time) and the official NYSE holiday calendar, including early closes. • Alerts: Get notified when the sessions you follow open, never on weekends. • Widgets: Live countdowns and session progress on your Home Screen. • Your Way: Choose your sessions, pick light or dark mode, and see times in your 12- or 24-hour format. • Made for iPhone and iPad. Download Trading Sessions and take control of your trading day.

About

bellwatch

Features
Read full description

bellwatch tracks the opening and closing bells of 54 major stock exchanges worldwide, in real time. Every exchange's trading calendar — regular sessions, public holidays, half days, delayed opens, lunch breaks — is computed entirely on your device, so schedules stay accurate without the app ever phoning home or shipping a data file that goes stale between updates. • Live status for 54 exchanges across every region — open, pre-market, after-hours, lunch break, holiday, or closed — with a countdown to the next bell • A 24-hour dial and ribbon view of the trading day • World Clock: an interactive globe, a 24-hour market-overlap heatmap, and a side-by-side comparison of your favourite markets on one shared time axis • Drag-to-reorder favourites, a monthly calendar of closures, and one-tap calendar export • Customisable push notifications per exchange — before/at the open, before/at the close, holidays, early closes, delayed opens • Full light/dark theming, localised into 34 languages No account required. Premium unlocks per-exchange alerts, unlimited favourites, a history of past closures, and removes ads. Terms of Use: https://firtina.co/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://firtina.co/privacy/

Screenshots

Trading Sessions4 screens
bellwatch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trading Sessions at none against bellwatch's 3. Trading Sessions also leads on ads (none vs shown). bellwatch's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and device support 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

Both are free to download. bellwatch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Trading Sessions asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Trading Sessions versus bellwatch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrading Sessionsbellwatch
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB34 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperPhyo Myanmar KyawKerem ORSDEMR

In-app purchases

None

Trading Sessions

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

bellwatch

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • bellwatch 1 Year$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • bellwatch Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Trading Sessions free?
Trading Sessions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is bellwatch free?
bellwatch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trading Sessions or bellwatch have ads?
bellwatch shows ads; Trading Sessions does not.

Other comparisons