Barclays Live vs Acuris
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barclays Live
This exclusive application provides institutional clients with market insights, analytical tools, and FX pricing. It offers a personalized and interactive experience, synchronized with its desktop counterpart for seamless transitions. Access requires a Barclays Live username and password.
- Award-winning research
- Market monitors
- Analytical tools
- FX pricing from BARX
- Connect messaging feature
- Personalized and interactive experience
- Mobile and desktop synchronization
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Barclays Live offers its institutional clients an exclusive application featuring award-winning research, market monitors, analytical tools, FX pricing from BARX and a Connect messaging feature. The Barclays Live app delivers a new, personalized and interactive experience. The app is available for iPhones and iPads and is fully synchronized with Barclays Live for desktop, enabling you to move seamlessly from mobile to desktop. The Barclays Live app is only for institutional clients of the Corporate and Investment Banking division of Barclays Bank PLC and its affiliates (collectively and each individually ‘Barclays’). Clients will require a Barclays Live username and password.
Acuris
Receive personalized news alerts based on your interests, with content available offline for 30 days. Access company intelligence and news from various financial publications.
- Personalized news alerts
- Offline reading
- Company Search feature
- Access to Mergermarket, Debtwire, Dealreporter
- Content stored for 30 days
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The Acuris App delivers your personalised news alerts directly to your iPhone. All content is delivered based on your interests and preferences and is stored on your device for 30 days, providing off-line reading wherever you are. Looking for news and information about a company? You can use our Company Search feature to find all the latest and historic intelligence from our products. The App currently combines content from your subscriptions to Mergermarket, Debtwire, Dealreporter, Wealthmonitor, Activistmonitor and PaRR, with content from other products in the Acuris family coming soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Barclays Live at 67% against Acuris's 20%. Barclays Live also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.8). Acuris's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Barclays Live holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Barclays Live's written reviews are positive against 20% of Acuris's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barclays Live | Acuris |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) — better | 1.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barclays Services Limited | Mergermarket (Overseas) Limited |
Customer experience
Barclays Live
Acuris
In-app purchases
Barclays Live
No in-app purchases
Acuris
No in-app purchases
