Barclays Live vs Arcana Analytics
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.
Arcana Analytics
This platform unifies analytics and research for investment professionals. It helps teams monitor performance, track returns, and manage research with collaborative tools. Gain insights into what drives portfolio performance and risk.
- Portfolio performance monitoring
- Risk analysis
- Unified analytics and research
- Searchable research notes
- Collaborative decision trails
- Track returns and P&L
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Arcana is a portfolio intelligence and research platform for investment professionals. It helps teams understand and monitor what’s driving performance and risk by unifying analytics and research workflows in a single platform. With Arcana, you can: Monitor performance Track returns, P&L, and factor exposures across portfolios, strategies, models, and time periods. Manage research Capture insights with searchable notes and documents, maintain a clear decision trail, and collaborate with colleagues.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Arcana Analytics at 5.0 against Barclays Live's 4.3. Arcana Analytics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Barclays Live's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Arcana Analytics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Barclays Live's written reviews are positive against 100% of Arcana Analytics's.
Barclays Live ships an update every 2 months, Arcana Analytics weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barclays Live | Arcana Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barclays Services Limited | Arcana Analytics, Inc. |
Customer experience
Barclays Live
Arcana Analytics
In-app purchases
Barclays Live
No in-app purchases
Arcana Analytics
No in-app purchases
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