Marketwatch App Reviews

The best app!

Liberal slant to investment advice never works.

Why

It was so hard to navigate the contents of website. Always frozen!

This app is littered with advertisements. Intrusive and distracting. The content is fine, but there are multiple other options that offer equally good content in a cleaner and ad-free experience.

In general do like and use the mobile app but does seem to have less content than website.

Content in this app is high quality, well curated and from multiple sources. User Experience is not well executed: trying to scroll ends up opening an article, on iPhone X you can’t hit the back button and must swipe from the left to return and there are several such annoying usability problems

This app is mainly used to deliver news that affects the markets. I think it does a great job at doing just that. If you are looking for an app to follow individual stock prices however, then this app may not be for you. But as a news app it does a great job.

Maybe it’s a user error, but it keeps logging me out and then I have to re-enter all the stocks on my watch list. Were it not for that it would be a 5

Love the app!

Good grief! Everything with a silver lining is not necessarily a cloud. Try to be more balanced (read positive) in your reporting about the Trump presidency.

This site is dedicated to finances and financials. Most of the articles are themed that way and I do pick up valuable insights. So often however, the information is so laced with slanted political hatred, that it becomes difficult to filter. A macro-view was that a year-ago, nearly every article believed the market to be overpriced and that the US market would be harmed by the President. I still find I have to filter the site's info way too often.

This app doesn’t restrict you in anyway It lets you access any article you want to read. Marketwatch is great!

Same company but MW is free, rare to get good news these days.

Political views are evident which doesn’t represent an unbiased source. Watchlists with positions do not provide an overall total. Interface to add items to watchlist is clunky. All that being said, it is a good place to go for technical data on an investment. Though truthfully it isn’t much better than other sources like yahoo finance or google.

12/23/2018 - issues with buttons on iPhone XS Max. Messages to support go unanswered. Lowering my rating. I will never understand why people have an app and then ignore the issues. 12/7/2018 - scrolling issues still exist. No response from support team. The app has scrolling issues. Navigate down to the individual stock chart from the watchlist and then go back up one level. Scrolling the watch list no longer works or is very slow. I sent in a detailed email with the steps needed to reproduce this issue on 10/22/2018.

✅5 Star Review! Very informative!

You interject politics too much. Why? It weakens your credibility.

I dabble in the stock market so I just needed a simple app for financial news. My only issue with the app is sometimes the page expands fully on the iPhone X and you can’t click in the upper left or right.

The app will not let me register. The customer service link and feedback link do not work Is this even a real app?

Good app for all the basics in one spot. Since I got the new iPhone, the app continually glitches forcing me to reset it. The watchlist section will randomly freeze and be unmovable til app is reset. The menu tab in the top left corner will sometimes get stuck in the notch area requiring me to turn my phone sideways to switch the view in order for the menu button to be usable. Would give 5 stars if they weren’t an issue and didn’t happen so often.

I don’t even know where to begin.... let’s start off with the homepage. GARBAGE! Stays on one article and can’t scroll to another. Then let’s take it to the quick buttons (that are hidden halfway in the top and bottom of the screen). Enough said there. Now... the content. What are you all even thinking? Who are you trying to appeal to? I feel like I’m reading 5th grade material when I open this app. I used to utilize MarketWatch on the daily. Now I’ve moved on to resources that are useful. By the way, I’m a millennial. I’ve heard it be told that your new ways are trying to reach to millennials. I don’t get it. You must have forgotten about the millennials with college degrees and experience with investing. So sad to see that it’s come to this.

MARKETWATCH is a great service for anyone interested in world markets. The real time nature of these stories is of great value.

This site is so biased against Trump, I cannot trust anything it presents! The tax calculator is an excellent example. It does not list medical deductions, state and local taxes, nor many of the Miscellaneous Deductions still allowed. Get a life MarketWatch, and present real information - not fake!!

I have been using this for over 2 years. It keeps up the the market data. Good job

App is good but no iPhone X support yet.

Been using it for quick check on the market. Like the format.

Very workable and intuitive. All the right information in the right places.

I was thinking that relevant hot news would be delivered more frequently.

Best way to stay on top of the market. I love the notifications. Get the news without going to the app itself.

I use the stock tracker feature too.

Liberal anti American

Seems like an app with a lot of good information but Im having issues with scrolling and with the back button that others have mentioned. App is almost unusable until those bugs are fixed.

A simple way for me to check the markets in a few seconds.

I love the app and the content. My only problem with it is after awhile, you get no notifications from the app. My other finance apps will still send me notifications. The only reason I didn’t rate this five stars is the notification issue. Please fix this where I’m able to get notifications constantly and everyday without having to uninstall and reinstall the app just to get them back.

Not formatted for iPhone X. Had to kill the app to exit a dialog.

I use the app everyday to get quick stock and market updates. The data is easy to understand and even though I have a background in finance, I find it critical value others opinions. Especially when making sizable investments. RM

Love the App, but it could use an auto-refresh, so you don't have to keep pulling the page down to refresh.

I really like it mainly because it is free. But it gives you critical information in the stock market and investments. I would recommend this app for anyone that keeps up with their stocks and future investments.

It just decides to close every once in awhile.

Your app doesn’t fit right on my iphone X. The top is cut off. Fix it.

I am following the Dow but really appreciate the accompanying articles that dive deeper into the current market by bringing up the factors that may impact the Market in the next quarter and beyond. I find the app very easy to use and navigate through.

Get my up to the minute updates. Unbiased news 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I’d love to see after hour activity and premarket activity.

Should be easier to watch specific stocks !

As you scroll through the app it will randomly open articles. It is very difficult to use because of this.

Should be able to create multiple watchlists with custom names.

Just wish they would reply to tweets, actually have open discussion with followers

Could you please fix it?

I like it, one star review because of the annoying box that asks me to review every time I open the app.

Maybe you folks can hire some conservative writers? For a business site one would think we could get some unbiased views of the world rather than your stale leftist tripe.

Love it......

Kind of slow and graphics not fancy. I was upset after having typed in my list of stocks in a certain order that the app reordered them and there is no way to get my original order back.

It was great

Awesome

I know what kind of stock do I want. So thank you for the news.

Float Press release news

A great site for stock information and financials. I go to it for breaking financial news and I follow stock performance as well.Excellent site

Surprised that Dow Jones would put out such an inferior product. Impossible to change order of Watchlist. (Yeah, I know it’s supposed to be possible, you try it.) and takes forever to open. Etc. please a wee bit of consideration for your users.

Like coffee in the morning😊

When I am on the front page of MW, I use to go to DOW in top of page and it would take me to the current listing of the Dow 30 . No I get advanced charting with no companies listed ? What’s up ??!!!!

The app is great but there is some overlap. The app is not adjusted to the IPhone X screen even though I have the latest version of the app. Also the app doesn’t have as much information as the website when viewing a company or index. Such as “Top 10 Holdings” for VTI etf is missing in the app but it’s there on the website.

This app works terrible on my iPhone Max, want to leave a 0 star

These guys have sensationalist content / Propaganda. These guys are definitely part of the establishment wall-street hegemony. A terrible source especially when it comes to progressive investing.

Really glitchy on iPhone XS Max.

Love the app, always good reviews of the markets as well as editorials. Love the variety of content also.

Good source to be informed of what's going on in the marketplace and where is the right place and moment to invest.

Terrible UI need updating doesn’t work well in iOS 12 with iPhone XS...

For example: “This week’s worst stocks” called up a table that was larger than your phone screen. Fine. As soon as you passed the boundary between Story and Table, the whole app becomes a complete disaster. Apple and its Developers have failed to create a cohesive matrix of navigation commands that won’t trip over its shoelaces. If I cannot finish a single news story without being ejected from the article that I’m reading due to environmental overlap, then perhaps we should stick to desktop publishing until we all know what we’re doing.

Even though you have small a and large A, it is almost impossible to adjust the prince. I have not succeeded yet.I like your market watch content but it’s so small I can’t read it without a large magnifying glass and that’s ridiculous I can get news in lots of places like I said I like your content. please make the print larger!

Enjoy the content - It’s great. App is not great.

In comparison to other financial news outlets, I find that MarketWatch has been able to deliver financial news that doesn’t beat around the bush. I’m a bit tired of reading news that goes on and on before getting to the subject. Great job and thank you.

Poor app functionality. Overly sensitive to swipes which makes articles open inadvertently. Still not compatible the XS max

Best place to find accurate and up to date commentary on the stock market and everything related to it.

Always interesting, under the radar information.

Looks horrible on iPhone XS Max. Barely usable

Came to the site for business news, not why jimmy Fallon is disappointed with the President.

I enjoy being able to access market watch articles on mobile, but this app is overly sensitive to touch. Garbage.

The app is great for the Dina aspects but the display covers the entire iPhone X screen. For example the menu button is superimposed over the clock in the upper left corner making it not clickable. Also when you select a date range in the detailed charts the drop-down works but you can’t select any other time frame except one day. Overall I like the app but hoping this gets fixed in the next update.

I head to market watch to stay in touch with the markets. I like the information in the articles and I read them regularly.

App now works on iPhoneX. Thank you! My original review: Cannot use search and menu controls on the iPhone X because they are in the same position as the time and WiFi displays. Please fix because you can’t the most useful controls.

Small numbers make it unappealing. Need to know when data is in extended period of trading (out of market hours).

It’s tight just needs an ios upgraded

Love the information feed on all markets. Thorough and subjective.

This is way way below expectations. The amount of waste on the home page is unbelievable. Your content takes up half the width of the screen. Who desigend this for you and how many decades ago was it? I totally cant understand the high ratings.

Overall, most recent versions of MW are a bit more responsive to swiping; navigation better. Still has a ways to go - does not reorient (portrait to landscape), enlarge figures within articles, back-arrow often unresponsive.

The app mostly works well, and I say mostly because when I try to watch any in-app videos it crashes. I like the content, but the app needs a little help from the IT department.

This app was redesigned earlier in 2018 but I’ve been using it for a few years now, and the latest design is great, including the typography. It would be awesome if they allowed it to be read in landscape mode on mobile phones, otherwise clean and modern aesthetic presentation is good, and a nice compliment to the desktop version.

Not formatted properly for iPhone X- can not get to futures, and there are icon overlaps in the upper corners of each side- cmon, get it fixed!!!!

Great info to help me stack more chips!

Informative and timely information. And it’s free.

Trying to scroll through articles leads to opening unintended articles. A little to sensitive to touch.

Tried contacting dev directly to no avail. Content is great but “optimized for iPhone X” 4mo ago? Controls are on either side of notch and unusable. Please update ASAP.

Bias app. Run by liberal media. Unreliable !

A day of news isn’t complete until I check out MarketWatch.

Cannot utilize the back button in iPhone X. Whatever formatting fix was done, didn’t work.

The taps can have unnecessarily high sensitivity. And the swipe gestures and navigation could be rethought in their actions. Overall alright as an app. Good content.

I’ve used MarketWatch for 20 years. The tools are very easy to use. I’ve just loaded the app on my iPhone. Their news is timely, to the point, I can keep up to date quickly throughout the day.

The coverage and user interface is really good. Keep improving

Notifications are relevant and well timed, customization is excellent

Not much news I see like CNBC

Very very very helpful. Helps one see where and how investors and investing companies use you $$$. Thanks

Can’t access articles?

This is an app that I used to use regularly, but has fallen out of favor for me because the navigation drop down in both ears will not work on iPhone X— UPDATE... iPhone X layout seems to be working now

I can not access menu buttons, search options in the top two corners. It’s REALLLLLYYY FRUSTRATING

Need to fix the constant hanging problem.

Good information, but blatantly biased against Trump. Like most (fake) news, not willing to give credit when Trump does well for the economy.

I read many articles from market watch and find them very insightful and helpful in helping me navigate through times of uncertainty. Very helpful charts on almost everything out there.

Keeps me up to date on all aspects of the economy and market!

Simple menu

The info on marketwatch is as informative as ever the financial tab on companies is info that is hard to find elsewhere but not always up to date. I belong to stock club but I can’t print info as well as 1 2 years ago as console info on stock I recommend. Lack of info on why stock moved up / down lately

12/7/2018 - scrolling issues still exist. No response from support team. The app has scrolling issues. Navigate down to the individual stock chart from the watchlist and then go back up one level. Scrolling the watch list no longer works or is very slow. I sent in a detailed email with the steps needed to reproduce this issue on 10/22/2018.

The app kept asking me to write a review so I got fed up and I'm writing this review. I like the content but the app is a hyper nag. I spend most of my time dealing with the nag to review. So don't waste your time. Get another source of information.

It looks great, that’s for sure! However, there are problems with the search bar and menu icon going behind the WiFi icon and time bar on my phone. Also, it takes a while and a lot of hits on a back arrow for it to register

Always keeps me updated on daily activities

Love the content, but this STILL has not been optimized for the iPhone X. Why do I have to flip my phone just to hit the back button? Why does the newsfeed randomly not scroll? Still a ton of bugs, and they rarely release updates (3 months now?!?) Would love to see the functionality meet the content.

Most the time when I tap the top stories, it’s not available and the pop up says not available now, try later.

This app does what I need it to do but it isn't super great

The reason I got the app was to participate in our class’ virtual stock exchange game that will be lasting all year long, only to find out that it doesn’t support it? Using the game in browser is way too laggy on a phone, please optimize an in app version!

Definitely not objective journalism, very biased articles and obviously sponsored.

Thanks for keeping me updated in a timely manner with updates and prices. Best app for that hands down.👍🏻

I like thus app very much I used it every day I benefited in trading for profits every week Question how do I put my watch list in alphabetical order Many thanks

The app is ok I just wish you could view investing games in the app instead of having to go to safari

Overall ok. Main complaints are: stock prices in watchlist do not really update. Frequently, watch list will not load. App takes a long time to open. Crashes and have to sign out and sign back in. Hard to believe I am only person with this issue. Have deleted and reinstalled, updated, same thing.

Articles are generally well thought out. Unlike most mainstream articles, which are generally opinions and speculative, Market Watch bases their position on research. Thanks for the insight.

Seems like an anti-business all too PC operation.

I find useful articles in MarketWatch regarding investment trends and what’s going on in the stock, bond, real estate and commodity markets.

This IS Market Watch! Great product, great app ... what's not to love!?!

Don’t waste your time with these snow flakes

In the mobile version, if I make an error in entering a stock symbol, there isn’t any way to back space and correct the error, much less delete that entry, that’s my problem with this program.

Fundamentals and data presented easy to understand and navigate

WSJ is becoming another fake news, sky is falling (while market climbs) business news source. I use this only for data presentation which is good. Don’t read the so-called news stories.

The ability to bookmark articles for later is a feature that would be very useful in this app. There have been a number of times I wanted to come back to an article or read it later and could not book mark it.

I like where the current app stands as far as monitoring markets, stories, and ongoing events, as well as sending alerts with significant market changes. This makes the app a fantastic monitoring system. However, I have a few ideas that I think should be taken into consideration for the app that would bring MarketWatch completely under the control of your smartphone. I feel that the MarketWatch app is lacking a serious component that I’d like to see made available - access to your VSE (Virtual Stock Exchange) games in the app. I don’t like how I have to switch to Safari (or other internet browser) to make changes to my VSE game portfolios or get on my laptop to make such changes. Since the app already uses internet connections to get stories, why can’t it do the same for my VSE games and make me able to make changes to my virtual portfolios on my smartphone app? Plus, the sliders, buttons, and menus already make the experience mostly smartphone-friendly in my perspective. Also, I’d like to see that searching for certain stocks would be made a little more “user-friendly” where I could search for a specific name-brand product that I know a company sells, but not knowing what the company’s name or stock abbreviation is, and be able to see that the app knows what I’m trying to find. For example, I want to be able to search “Xbox” and have Microsoft (MSFT) come up or search “IPhone” and have Apple (APPL) come up, along with significantly related companies, like partners/competitors (ex. EA for “Xbox” or IBM for “Apple”) with all of their market data. Similarly, sometimes I’m looking for a company that isn’t publicly traded. Instead of showing a blank bar that says “no results” I want the bar to say something that makes me feel like it understands what I want to find but tell me it doesn’t exist on the open market, kind of like Netflix’s “search titles related to...” in their search box when you try to find a movie/show that isn’t in their database. This means that it isn’t just telling me it can’t find what’s in the search box, but it’s able to understand what I haven’t typed in completely and show that it doesn’t have results for what I’m trying to find. This feature is already part-way there where I can type in an existing company and it’s market info comes up, along with closely-titled stocks, but I’m looking for more flexibility and understanding in the search features. I would also appreciate it if MarketWatch offered tips and tutorials on how to utilize the information that the stock market gives. I understand the basic stuff - stock price, buying/selling, time charts, etc. but I’m struggling to understand the more complex information and charts. A quick overview/tutorial would be much appreciated, especially on what the charts for individual stocks and their components mean to me as a potential/invested virtual stockholder.

You can do almost nothing in the app, you cant even get to the homepage! This is very frustrating because we are required to do this for class and now I have to navigate the almost as confusing website.

No problem with the articles but the main reason I got the app is because I wanted a way to track my portfolio and MW does good when it comes to before and post market. However I'd say about 70% of the time the app will give me a red banner at the bottom saying my watch list is unavailable. Really disappointing. Don't waste your time with the app. Stick the the website.

I can’t read any articles. They always not availAble at this time try again later.

Excellent and real useful for investors

This is a very good stock market app that allows you to look at any charts with any technical indicators you want. It also gives you alerts about news and information that pertains to the market. Very good app that I highly recommend.

I love it. They give me updates regularly and that’s really useful in my opinion. 😍

I enjoy this site. Very good research and information!

I have many news apps on my phone but this brings up what I want, market wise, with fewer clicks.

The design of the app is just ok. I have not faced any big bugs.But the reading experience can be made better by implementing a better font changer & dark mode.

I use this app for investment news and market awareness. The articles and ‘news’ frequently read like left wing inspired political indoctrination, and it is very irritating! Completely unrelated bashing of Trump and conservatives is motivating to me remove this app entirely!

Straight news no BS

I am using this app as a student for the virtual stock market game, so apologies if my review does not meet the standard of what others may use for this app. Firstly even for using it for the stock market game, selecting it simply brings me to the internet version of the site, ironically the better option! With my main drive for even installing the app in the first place down the drain I will say simply navigating trough the app and using it as a regular was very..... very ok. It seemed to be unoptimized for iPhoneX and up which caused a few UI issues, but I looked away from those and relied strictly on content. This app just overall seems overtaken completely by the web client version and beyond, more or less just a show that you have the app. For recreational usage and “a regular experience” however... it manages to barley get the job done. Some strange user interface glitches and hassles at times, but delivers exactly what it shows; nothing more nothing less. An app that I would probably recommend to a curious individual or someone who needs it as a quicker alternative to the web version, but should not be overlooked from its difficulties. Long term usage should opt one to go web client rather than the app.

It's hard to scroll through this app because it is so sensitive. When I put a finger down even lightly to scroll, it opens an article. Perversely, it's less easy to close these articles. Regarding content, I want the latest information on the list of stocks I follow. That is all.

It gives a horizon tool investment planning. This outlook is especially helpful to anyone living off of their IRA and Social Security. You really don’t have opportunities to make up for major losses. A couple of examples: money market funds that pay 2+% interest, instead of 0.2%; the risk profile in high yield corporate debt funds. With only a tiny slice of listed companies (200 out of 3600 made money in much of 2017/19) a lot of companies are reliant on rolling over debt in a market wing increasing interest rates.

Fix the back button for iphone x. This app is useless without it.

Not too easy to find and access articles on phone

MarketWatch has all the useful and up to date information about the market, and also give important technical buy signals!! And gives a general feeling what the professional trader/investor sentiments are.

A quick and easy app to use

Many of the articles on this site are extremely biased and left leaning in their tones. Doesn’t make any sense for a platform that should not have a political point of view. Stick to what your purpose should be which is reporting on the market.

Articles that give opinions tainted by the personal political leanings of the writer with reasonable support or explanation, often mislead and misinform, which can cost an investor money. CBS MW is polluted with this. This kind of reporting either demonstrates the youth and inexperience of those operating and writing for this app, or just plain stupidity. Make sure you pair the news and info you receive from CBS MW with that from Fox Business or WSJ, or just don’t use it. Dan from D.C.

Can’t scroll up or down after reading an article. I thought it could be my phone 7 plus so I switched to the Xr , same results.. bugggggy

I find MarketWatch to be very informative and they are on top of the latest financial happenings. Love the bulletins that pop up when notable news happens.

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