Stocks Widget (open source)

PremNirmal

About this app

Stocks Widget is a home screen widget that displays stock price quotes from your portfolio

Features:
★ Completely resizable, it will fit the number columns base on the width you set.
★ Scrollable, so you don't have to worry about adding more widgets
★ Stocks are sorted by change in percent (descending), or you can rearrange them yourself
★ You can set custom refresh intervals and start/end times
★ You can import and export your portfolio from a textfile
★ Add multiple portfolios to multiple widgets
★ View recent news for your tracked symbols
★ View graphs for your tracked symbols
★ Open sourced here https://github.com/premnirmal/StockTicker

Ratings and reviews

Great simple ticker app. Clean, easy to use. However, it would be better for me if I could save multiple portfolio groups without them being tied to widgets. (I have one set of symbols I'd like to view in a widget, one set I don't want a widget for. Unless I'm missing something, I can't save that second set without having it as a homescreen widget.) I would also like to be able to manually sort symbols without them rearranging.

It's very basic. The basic widget that comes with Apple products are better than this. News every 15 minutes minimum(some day not at all), no trading options, no 1 week or 5 year currency chart, but it does have a "max" currency chart which can show you upwards of 7 years or more (depending on the company). This app isn't meant for serious investors. But has some pretty good ideas.

The last couple of updates have made this a huge data hog. I only have the widget and I'm seeing several gigabytes of data used over the past month, which is absolutely ridiculous! This is despite background data being disabled for the app. So to add insult to injury, the app doesn't even respect your data settings. Might be time to find another widget stock app.