MarketSim

This app is simple and fun, and lets you do a risk-free run at the stock market with 10,000 fictitious dollar. However, the one critical feature that restricts this app from reaching it potential and me enjoying it as much as I could, is the lack of a return summary in the Account Page. For example, how much of a percentage and dollar return per stock you have earned since the initial purchase. The way the app is currently constructed is that you’d have to do the math for cumulative returns per stock. Henry, if you are seeing this, your app is almost where it needs to be, and I could see a lot of my work friends using it with this additional critical feature. From my limited review of what’s on the App Store, this is the best US-based stock simulation app available.

This application is really nice however has some glitches that make trading very annoying. Sometimes if you go to trade it shows that the company is at 0.00 and because of that your 10,000 you start with actually ends up going to a much lesser number based on shares literally as if the company dropped to 0.00. Although this may be annoying, it can be solved with multiple refreshes and when the reasonable amount of money comes up, then it can go back to normal. But what makes this issue a main issue is that sometimes when that happens, and by mistake you trade or sell a company then it glitches out and gives you a random number and you lose a large portion of your money. At that point I just have to re-download the app and start again which is frustrating especially when a lot of progress is made. This is the only prominent issue that makes it not that great of a simulator, but if this is fixed it would make this app very nice because the aesthetics of this app is very pleasing and also very sleek looking.

This app is totally cool, but I was wanting something more realistic (for me, at least). Since there is no competitive aspect of this game, you should be able to PICK YOUR STARTING CASH! For all those 14 year-olds who want to prove to their parents that they CAN INDEED make a profit from the stock market! This is a SIMULATOR, NOT a GAME! There should be a slider to choose your starting cash. It should be from 1$ to $10,000 (for the people who DO compete...). That is the only reason I’m holding that 1 star back from this review. Otherwise, this app is truly amazing but needs a few improvements.

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I really liked this app at first but I have two major complaints. First, there is no live update so you have to continually swipe down to update the price of the stocks. That isn’t so bad but if something changed and you didn’t update it, when you try to sell you could lose some. That gets really annoying. The second thing is, the app has started glitching badly for me. I would try to sell a stock and it would suddenly jump to $0.00 for the value of the stock and I would lose thousands even though the stock in reality was still at the current market price. I don’t know why it does this but it was really frustrating to try to make a sale that would have resulted in a profit but because the app suddenly said the stock was worth zero dollars I instead lost several thousand. This makes it almost worthless. If the app is fixed it would be excellent.

First I’d like to note that the app is wonderfully simple. Although it’s a bit late on the true prices, which kind of throws me off but allows a play if you can correlate the buy and sell based on the current price on an updated app, not sure how one would go about fixing that. I have also noticed the bug that other users reported, the update bug that would sometimes deplete your current balance. Upon a few swipes to update that usually is fixed. Maybe add limit buy&sell? From the initial $10k you’re given I’m at $669,406. :)