Comparison

tastylive vs OptionStrat

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

Head to head
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!

About

OptionStrat

Visualize and analyze options trades with a profit calculator and strategy builder. Discover institutional trades with real-time unusual options flow. Optimize strategies for maximum returns or profit chance.

Highlights
  • Options profit calculator
  • Strategy visualizer
  • Strategy optimizer
  • Unusual options flow tracker
  • Complex strategy detection
  • In-app tutorials
Features
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OPTIONS PROFIT CALCULATOR: Find and edit option strategies in real-time with our options profit calculator to gain a visual understanding of your trades. OptionStrat's strategy visualizer is used to find the potential profit and loss at various prices, as well as show how your trade is affected by implied volatility, time decay, and other factors. The strategy visualizer makes it easy to scroll through various strikes and expirations to build an options strategy. Nearly any strategy can be created, including strategies with underlying stocks like covered calls, or multiple expirations such as double diagonals. Over 50 strategy templates are available to choose from, each with a handy setup chart and description. STRATEGY OPTIMIZER: Automatically calculate the best strategies given a target price and expiration date. The options optimizer will search through thousands of potential trades to find which strategies maximize returns or chance of profit (or somewhere in between). UNUSUAL OPTIONS FLOW: OptionStrat Flow scans the market to uncover large and unusual trades as they happen, giving you insight into trades by institutions and other smart money. Not only do we show large call or put purchases, but we detect if the transaction showed urgency or aggression from the buyer or seller to show you both sides of the market. We are the first to provide unusual options activity for complex strategy types. OptionStrat Flow detects spreads, condors, and other advanced strategies and categorizes them as bearish, bullish, neutral, or directional. Use the in-app tutorials to learn more about each tool in the OptionStrat toolkit! DISCLAIMER: Options involve a high degree of risk and are not suitable for all investors. OptionStrat is not a registered investment advisor. The calculations, information, and opinions in this app are for educational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Calculations are estimates and do not account for all market conditions and events. TERMS OF USE: https://optionstrat.com/terms

Screenshots

tastylive4 screens
OptionStrat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OptionStrat at 4.8 against tastylive's 3.9. OptionStrat also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 61%) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 85). tastylive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. OptionStrat sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. tastylive asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OptionStrat holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OptionStrat has 1.9K ratings behind it against 85, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of tastylive's written reviews are positive against 80% of OptionStrat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tastylive ships an update monthly, OptionStrat every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
tastylive versus OptionStrat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertastyliveOptionStrat
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (85 ratings)4.8 (1.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.2% of reviews79.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings851.9K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#50 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB25 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developertastylive, inc.OptionStrat LLC

Customer experience

tastylive

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

OptionStrat

All ratings1,926 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive79.8%
Neutral11.2%
Negative9.0%

User reviews

tastylive

From 85 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Amazing platform
  • 👍 Most entertaining financial news
  • 👍 Great network
  • 👍 Best financial network
  • 👍 Great options education videos

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App is off track
  • 🐛 2.0 is terrible
  • 🐛 Version 2.0 full of bugs
  • 🐛 Major step backward
  • 🐛 Missing key features

OptionStrat

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Visual Masterpiece
  • 🚀 Easily Navigable
  • 🚀 Comprehensive Options Lifecycle
  • 👍 Intuitive and User-Friendly
  • 👍 Great for Beginners and Experts

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription-Based Pricing
  • 🐛 Buggy and Unresponsive
  • 🐛 Login and Account Issues
  • 🐛 Restricted Functionality on Certain Devices
  • 🐛 Calculation Errors

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

OptionStrat

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Freezing and Crashing Issues
  • Incorrect Data Calculations
  • Disappearing UI Elements
  • Incompatibility with Certain Device Configurations

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow Modifying Saved Trades
  • Provide Real-Time Options Quotes
  • Implement International Stock Support
  • Increase Maximum Number of Open Windows
  • Add Time Stamps to Active Ticker List
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  • Implement Spanish Translation

In-app purchases

None

tastylive

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

OptionStrat

Subscriptions12
  • Live Option Tools7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Tools Monthly7 Days trial$29.991 Month
  • Live Option Tools7 Days trial$39.991 Month
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  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$59.991 Month
  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$89.991 Month
  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$99.991 Month
  • Live Option Tools7 Days trial$199.991 Year
  • Live Option Tools$299.991 Year
  • Live Options Tools7 Days trial$419.991 Year
  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$599.991 Year
  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$899.991 Year
  • Live Options Flow7 Days trial$999.991 Year

Questions

Is tastylive free?
tastylive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OptionStrat free?
OptionStrat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, tastylive or OptionStrat?
OptionStrat is rated higher. tastylive averages 3.9 out of 5 from 85 ratings, while OptionStrat averages 4.8 from 1.9K ratings.
Do tastylive or OptionStrat have ads?
Neither tastylive nor OptionStrat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tastylive or OptionStrat?
tastylive ships an update monthly, and OptionStrat every 10 days. Most recently, tastylive was updated on October 22, 2026 and OptionStrat on October 29, 2026.

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