MarketScan app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 4224 ratings )
Utilities Finance
Developer: Michael Foster
3.99 USD
Current version: 2.7, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Apr 2010
App size: 1.15 Mb

With version 2.0, MarketScan is now a Universal App and runs on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch!


Online Reviews

SmartMoney.com:
http://www.smartmoney.com/spending/technology/5-Personal-Finance-Apps-for-the-iPad/

MacSupport Blog:
http://blog.macsupport.com/gadgets/top-5-ipad-finance-apps

TradePennyStocks.org:
http://www.tradepennystocks.org/marketscan-ipad.html

Financial Rebel
http://www.financialrebel.com/software-service-reviews/marketscan/

PadGadget
http://www.padgadget.com/2010/04/15/tracking-your-finances-on-your-ipad/

FindMySoft
http://marketscan.ios.findmysoft.com/

The Tax Lady Blog
http://ronideutch.blogspot.com/2010/06/using-ipad-to-manage-your-finances.html


Quickly and easily scan through the online financial market data that you are interested in using MarketScan on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

MarketScan gives you access to all the online financial market information that you need via a fast, easy to use interface. View online financial market news, online portfolios, detailed information (quotes, commentary, charts, etc.) on individual securities, and more. You have complete control over the information that is presented and can fully configure the application for your personal requirements.

In Sites mode, you can quickly scan through the financial information web sites that you care about. A variety of financial information web sites are preloaded to get you started. The list of sites can be easily edited to contain all the sites you want to reference.

The real power of MarketScan is in Securities mode. In Securities mode, the list of security ticker symbols that you are interested in following and the available security information sites are displayed. A number of security ticker symbols are preloaded to get you started, and this list can be easily edited to contain the security ticker symbols you want to follow. For each security, a variety of sources of information on the security are available and are displayed along the bottom of the screen. Security information sites, are sites that provide detailed information for a specific security. Detailed information could include stock quotes from different sources, charts, commentary, etc. A variety of security information sites are preloaded to get you started, and are fully editable. In Securities mode you can scan through the securities you are interested in, viewing information from a variety of sources quickly and easily by touch.

Using MarketScan you will be able to quickly navigate through the online financial information and securities data that you care about via a fast, simple and easy to use touch interface.

Pros and cons of MarketScan app for iPhone and iPad

MarketScan app good for

Start my investing day with this app, to overview latest news and info about my stocks.
Excellent charts with a wide array of diagnostic tools.One of the best apps.
great app. I have been searching for an app like this. Easy to customize. Very flexible. Highly recommend this app if you are a serious about researching stocks.
A perfect clearinghouse of financial news & info, simple to tailor to ones own portfolio. Very smooth. Ive quickly come to depend on MarketScan. My only complaint is: why did it take this long for somebody to come up with such an easy way to keep an eye on the markets?
I bought this app when it came out and was instantly impressed with it. For me, the ability to add my own financial sites is a major plus. There are so many great sites out there that I use often. The interface is very clean and its a snap to go from site to site for any stock you want to follow. It comes with some of the top sites setup (Google, Yahoo, etc) and some big stocks, like Google and Apple, as examples. The price is great too. Other apps are charging $5-$6. This app is a reason why I bought the iPad and why I love it.
Clean, simple, beautiful interface design. The fast and simple way to quickly check on the latest news and price action for all the securities you own or follow. This was already a great app, but recently had partially broken under the most recent iOS update. I emailed the very responsive developer about this and he quickly put out this new version — which now works flawlessly. Great developer! Great app! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Some bad moments

I have stopped using this app. When I first purchased this app, I recommended including a search function. The way now requires the user to go through too many steps to look for the info for one stock. The symbol has to go on a list and then be deleted, otherwise the list gets too long. I do not remember the app having any noticeable update or improvements since I purchased it which is a long time back which is quite unusual because I see many good authors improve their apps all the time. Is there not always room for improvement?
Skip this app. Overpriced (@ $3.99) for displaying financial web pages. The same could be accomplished with Safari and bookmarks. The app perform two tasks. 1) Displays a variety of financial web sites. 2) Stores a list of your favorite stock symbols. Click on the stock symbol to view Yahoo/Google finance web site for that stock. I should have been suspicious. The app size is very small 201k.
It doesnt give anything that bookmarked sites in Safari would give...I wish It had a refund button...is there an app for that?
This is just Yahoo Finance. There should be no charge for this.
Terrible app for iPhone. You pick the source sites - you setup the issues you wish to track - all the app appears to do is pass the issues ticker symbol or name into the sources - - YOU stil get to wade through all the nonesense and advertising to find the information you are interested in . . . . you could do the same thing by setting up a few "favorites" in your browser. . . . Gonna give it 24 hours and Ill wait and see if there is anything more of value tomorrow when the trading foors open but, as of right now, Im inclined to delete this from my phone and consider the $3.99 a write off.
I bought this app because of the 3rd screen shot. The PC view of a stock symbol on yahoo finance. But you cant get it on this app. Only the mobile view available via yahoo on my Iphone 5S. I am sorry I bought it, they should give a refund