Comparison

Candle Trader vs Chartle

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

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About

Candle Trader

Learn trading concepts with comprehensive lessons on candlestick and chart patterns, technical indicators, and price action. Includes quizzes, calculators, and audio playback for offline learning. Designed for beginners to understand market dynamics.

Highlights
  • 35 candlestick patterns with reliability rates
  • 24 chart patterns with trendline analysis
  • 11 technical indicators explained
  • Price action and Smart Money Concepts
  • 108 audio-enabled lessons
  • 8 trading calculators
  • Quizzes and glossary
Features
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Learn to read the market: 35 candlestick patterns, 24 chart patterns, 11 technical indicators, price action and Smart Money Concepts, in 108 lessons you can read or listen to. 35 CANDLESTICK PATTERNS Hammer, Doji, Bullish and Bearish Engulfing, Morning Star, Evening Star, Three White Soldiers, Three Black Crows, Harami, Tweezer, Marubozu, Shooting Star, Hanging Man and more. Each one drawn on its own chart, with the identification rules, the psychology behind it and its reliability rate from Bulkowski's encyclopedia. 24 CHART PATTERNS Reversals (Head and Shoulders, Double and Triple Top and Bottom, Wedges), continuations (Flags, Pennants, Triangles, Channels, Cup and Handle) and gaps, each on a real price chart with the trendlines marked. 11 TECHNICAL INDICATORS RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Moving Averages, Stochastic, ATR, OBV, ADX, Ichimoku Cloud, Fibonacci Retracement and TRIX, each with its own lesson. PRICE ACTION, SMC AND PSYCHOLOGY Market structure, BOS and CHoCH, supply and demand zones, order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity, premium and discount. Plus the psychology side: FOMO, revenge trading, the trading plan and the journal. LISTEN TO EVERY LESSON All 108 lessons in natural voices, in 6 languages. Listen plays a whole module in a row, in the background and on the lock screen. 8 TRADING CALCULATORS Position Sizing, Risk/Reward, Pip Value, Profit/Loss, Average Price (DCA), Compound Interest, Fibonacci Retracement and Black-Scholes. QUIZ, GLOSSARY AND PROGRESS 90 quiz questions with an explanation after every answer, a glossary of 50 trading terms, and your streak and progress in each module. FOR BEGINNERS 17 Basics lessons start from zero: chart reading, timeframes, trends, support and resistance, volume, order types and risk management. NO ACCOUNT No sign-up and no login. Lessons, quizzes and calculators work offline. Free with ads; an optional annual subscription removes the ads and unlocks Listen with no ad to watch. English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Italian. For educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Trading involves risk. SUBSCRIPTION Optional annual subscription with a 7-day free trial. Subscription automatically renews for the same period at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://candletrader.tortato.com/Home/Privacy

About

Chartle

Learn to interpret stock price charts through interactive quizzes. Practice identifying and predicting outcomes of various candlestick patterns using real historical market data. Build a daily habit of chart analysis to improve your trading understanding.

Highlights
  • Interactive chart pattern quizzes
  • Real historical market data
  • Pattern outcome prediction
  • Daily challenges and streaks
  • Progress tracking with mastery ring
  • Lessons on pattern formation and failure
Features
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Chartle teaches you to read price charts, five minutes at a time. A real historical chart appears, cut off at the moment a pattern completed. You call what happens next, or you name the shape you are looking at. Then the outcome candles animate in, the pattern is named, and one line explains why price behaved the way it did. Five questions make a session. About five minutes. HOW IT WORKS Predict first, then find out. You commit to an answer before the chart reveals itself. Reading about a pattern and recognising one under pressure are not the same skill, and only the second one is worth having. Real market charts. 245 historical windows across 49 patterns, cut from real price history rather than drawn as textbook illustrations. Real charts are messy. Reading a messy one is the actual job. Measured, not asserted. Every pattern in Chartle carries behaviour measured across 3.2 million labelled occurrences in real market data. Where a pattern is weaker than the others, the app says so instead of hiding it. Three kinds of question. Predict the direction, name the pattern from four options, or confirm whether a chart is what it claims to be. Naming is only asked about patterns you have already met. WHAT IS INSIDE 40+ patterns, in four families. Candlestick — hammer, hanging man, shooting star, engulfing, harami, kicker, marubozu, belt hold, dark cloud cover, piercing line, morning and evening star, dragonfly and gravestone doji, tweezers, three white soldiers, three black crows. Reversal — head and shoulders, inverse head and shoulders, double top, double bottom, triple top, triple bottom. Continuation — bull flag, bear flag, ascending triangle, descending triangle, symmetrical triangle, rising and falling three methods, Tasuki gaps. Breakout — trendline breakout, trendline breakdown, support bounce, resistance rejection. Every pattern has a lesson: how it forms, what to check before you trust it, and when it fails. Lessons are written in your language, not machine translated. A DAILY HABIT One daily challenge the same five charts for everyone, every day. A streak that counts the days you turned up. Levels that reward showing up rather than being right. A mastery ring that measures how much of the catalogue you have covered, so it only ever moves forward. WHAT CHARTLE IS NOT No signals. No tips. No buy or sell calls. No entry, stop or target levels Chartle filters those out of its own charts on purpose. It is not a broker, a portfolio tracker or a trading terminal, and it never tells anyone what to buy. It teaches you to recognize what you are looking at. What you do with that is yours. FREE AND PLUS Today's challenge is free, every day, and you do not need a card to start. Chartle Plus adds unlimited practice sessions and lets you drill any single pattern on demand. Terms of use: https://chartleapp.com/terms Privacy policy: https://chartleapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Candle Trader4 screens
Chartle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chartle at none against Candle Trader's shown. Chartle also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (194 vs 1). Candle Trader's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Candle Trader sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year and Chartle sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Candle Trader against 4.9 for Chartle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chartle has 194 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Candle Trader ships an update every 2 weeks, Chartle every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Candle Trader versus Chartle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCandle TraderChartle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.9 (194 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1194 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB64 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperCleiton TortatoBuffalo Studio

Customer experience

Candle Trader

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

Chartle

All ratings149 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Candle Trader

Subscriptions1
  • CandleTrader Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Year
2 purchases

Chartle

Subscriptions2
  • Chartle Pro3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Chartle Pro$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Candle Trader free?
Candle Trader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chartle free?
Chartle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Candle Trader or Chartle?
Candle Trader is rated higher. Candle Trader averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Chartle averages 4.9 from 194 ratings.
Do Candle Trader or Chartle have ads?
Candle Trader shows ads; Chartle does not.
Which is updated more often, Candle Trader or Chartle?
Candle Trader ships an update every 2 weeks, and Chartle every 3 days. Most recently, Candle Trader was updated on November 9, 2026 and Chartle on November 10, 2026.

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