tastylive vs BlackBoxStocksMobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
BlackBoxStocksMobile
This app analyzes stock and options markets in real-time, scanning thousands of stocks and millions of contracts. It provides alerts, dark pool data, news, and educational resources, along with live trading rooms led by experienced traders.
- Real-time market scanning
- Options flow analysis
- Stock and options alerts
- Dark pool scanner
- News integration
- Educational program
- Live trade rooms
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The BlackBox App scans the NASDAQ, NYSE, CBOE, Dark Pools and all other options markets analyzing over 8,000 stocks and up to 1.3 million options contracts multiple times per second. Our Options Flow, Stock & Options Alerts, Dark Pool Scanner, News, and more are combined with an Education Program and LIVE Trade Rooms led by Top Traders.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BlackBoxStocksMobile at 4.3 against tastylive's 3.9. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
BlackBoxStocksMobile holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 87 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of tastylive's written reviews are positive against 68% of BlackBoxStocksMobile's.
tastylive ships an update monthly, BlackBoxStocksMobile fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | tastylive | BlackBoxStocksMobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (85 ratings) | 4.3 (87 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.2% of reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 85 | 87 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | tastylive, inc. | BlackBoxStocks |
Customer experience
tastylive
BlackBoxStocksMobile
Bugs and 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
BlackBoxStocksMobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
tastylive
No in-app purchases
BlackBoxStocksMobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
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