Comparison

Barchart Trader vs tastylive

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

Head to head
About

Barchart Trader

Trade commodities and futures in real-time with streaming quotes and instant trade confirmations. Access delayed data, news, and watchlists for free, or log in with your Barchart account for full trading capabilities.

Highlights
  • Real-time futures and forex trading
  • Streaming real-time quotes
  • Order placement through 40+ brokers
  • Instant trade confirmations
  • Customizable watchlists
  • Real-time charts and P/L calculator
Features
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Trade commodities and futures in real-time from your iPhone! Never miss another trade opportunity when you are on the go - with Barchart Trader you can place orders through over 40 different futures brokers and receive instant trade confirmations when an order is filled. With streaming real-time quotes from dozens of exchanges, Trader's clean and simple interface puts the trading data you need right at your fingertips. If you have a Barchart account, log in with your same username and password for access to realtime data and trading. If you don't already have a Barchart account, you can still use Trader -- just log in as a guest. Access to delayed quote feeds, news and watchlists are always 100% free. Real-Time Features: * Real-time quote data for futures, forex and equities (additional exchange fees may apply) * Electronic futures trading through CQG, supporting over 40 different futures brokers * Streaming real-time quotes for up-to-the-second price data * Create multiple watchlists to track the symbols you're interested in * Detailed quote pages with bid/ask, trading range, and technical indicators * Real-time charts * Position tracker with today's open positions and a running P/L calculator * Order execution history for fills, cancels and rejections * Symbol search Free Delayed Features: * Delayed quote data for futures, forex and equities * Create multiple watchlists to track the symbols you're interested in * Detailed quote pages with bid/ask, trading range, and technical indicators * Delayed charts * Symbol search

About

tastylive

Access a live financial network with thousands of hours of content for active traders. Evaluate markets using data-driven strategies and watch real traders in action. Learn new trading strategies and stay engaged with on-demand videos and a live trade feed.

Highlights
  • Live financial network
  • Probabilistic outcome analysis
  • Strategy-based market evaluation
  • Thousands of hours of content
  • On-demand videos
  • Live trade feed
  • Real-time trading demonstrations
Features
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tastylive: a live financial network for active retail traders. With the tastylive app you can stay at the forefront of what's happening in the financial markets and be entertained (not a common trend when it comes to financial media) no matter where your investing endeavors may take you. The tastylive network has produced thousands of hours of investable content. Using probabilistic outcomes and strategy-based mechanics to evaluate the stock, options, and futures markets instead of opinion-based theories is how we differentiate ourselves from other financial networks...in case you were wondering. Learning new options and futures trading strategies and staying connected and engaged in the markets has never been easier with the tastylive app. With the tastylive app, you can catch the live show every day, as well as watch ALL of our available videos on demand 24/7. Not only that, but you can access our trade feed; follow and watch real traders trade real products in real time! What's the catch? There isn't one. We're free to use, no subscription necessary. tastylive transformed the financial content game and is one of the fastest-growing financial networks of all time. In 2017, tastyworks, a tastylive affiliate company, launched to leverage that historic growth. A brokerage firm tailored for traders at every level, tastyworks equips traders with tools to succeed: offering low rates, intuitive software, custom metrics, visualization tools, and outstanding customer support. This might seem too good to be true, right? Well, join the millions who have already checked us out and see for yourself why they're getting hooked!

Screenshots

Barchart Trader3 screens
tastylive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: tastylive at 3.9 against Barchart Trader's 3.5. tastylive also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (85 vs 16). Barchart Trader's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

tastylive holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tastylive has 85 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Barchart Trader's written reviews are positive against 61% of tastylive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Barchart Trader ships an update every 3 months, tastylive monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Barchart Trader versus tastylive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarchart Tradertastylive
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (16 ratings)3.9 (85 ratings) — better
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews61.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1685 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB108 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBarcharttastylive, inc.

Customer experience

Barchart Trader

All ratings16 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative38.5%

tastylive

All ratings85 ratings
Positive70.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative22.4%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive61.2%
Neutral6.1%
Negative32.7%

Bugs and requests

Barchart Trader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

tastylive

Reported bugs

31 issues
  • App is off track violates common best practices for app development
  • Updated daily episodes are gone
  • Show feed used to update not long after episodes aired
  • Access to other learning resources is gone
  • Latest update does not allow user to watch prerecorded episodes
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  • Video history does not update
  • App will not work without a search functionality
  • Hundreds of videos, impossible to find anything
  • App won’t load videos
  • Keep getting an error when trying play videos
  • App crashes as soon as I try to open it
  • Crashinggggg
  • Crashes as soon as I open it. Won’t stay open
  • Video expansion icon doesn’t expand just close
  • Crashes with IOS 14.3
  • Launch application, main screen displays then closes
  • Login credentials work on desktop and web site but not for this app
  • No way of requesting help
  • Some video series have so many episodes that if you’re beginning and want to start at the first episode you need to scroll and load up FOREVER
  • If you scroll and accidentally hit another part of the screen you need to restart
  • No search functionality
  • Shows are listed in random order
  • App looks bad on a tablet
  • App is not great, provides limited if any benefit over just going to their website in a browser
  • App frequently crashes and is very slow
  • Too many steps needed to place multi-leg trades
  • Antiquated app
  • Some segments stopped working
  • No sound
  • All it does is crash
  • It quits while browsing between shows

Requested features

14 requests
  • Download audio episodes for offline listening
  • Higher speed playback options
  • Access to archived shows
  • Search functionality
  • Ability to download content for offline viewing
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  • Ability to have a watchlist
  • Ability to watch content and pick up where you left off
  • Ability to sort
  • Watch at faster speeds
  • Filter for newest/oldest by date
  • Option of resuming video or going to last viewed video
  • Add a share button to copy and share link
  • Audio-only stream
  • Support for Chromecast

In-app purchases

None

Barchart Trader

No in-app purchases

None

tastylive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Barchart Trader free?
Barchart Trader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is tastylive free?
tastylive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Barchart Trader or tastylive?
tastylive is rated higher. Barchart Trader averages 3.5 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while tastylive averages 3.9 from 85 ratings.
Do Barchart Trader or tastylive have ads?
Neither Barchart Trader nor tastylive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Barchart Trader or tastylive?
Barchart Trader ships an update every 3 months, and tastylive monthly. Most recently, Barchart Trader was updated on October 28, 2026 and tastylive on October 22, 2026.

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