Aaron Pearson

I was looking for a replacement to the default stock application for the iPhone. What I really wanted was a way to keep track of profit or loss I made if I bought a stock at X price on X day. For those of you who have never heard of Google Finance, you need to get on it here. Searching through the App store yielding two promising results: GFinance and Mootwin Financials.

GFinance cost $5.99 and I wasn’t that impressed with the user feedback it received.

Mootwin Financials was FREE, but it needed my google account login info to sync with the portfolios that I create at http://www.google.com/finance.

Being cautious (or paranoid) I created a new gmail account just for the purposes of using it with this app. When you first open the app it prompts you that you will be redirected to the google.com website. It opens up a Safari window and you enter in your credentials on google.com .



I only added the “C” stock symbol to my portfolio on the Google Finance website, so that is all that syncs up.



This is the screen after you have clicked on a symbol from the above picture.


I was the first to post any feedback on the application in the app store, so it’s pretty new. It does exactly what I wanted it to do, but there is NO WAY I would enter in my main Google Account login info.

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