Best stock alert apps

Platform by platform

The best stock alert appdepends on the alert.

1. 01

   Senntric

   Alerts with context

   Best for: Active traders who want to know why an alert fired, not only that it did.

   Senntric’s Smart Alerts cover price levels, news on the names you follow, earnings and economic releases (actual against estimate as it lands), and the Situation Awareness Engine, which writes what changed in one line across price, news, options and flows. Alerts arrive inside the workspace with sound and can be read aloud by the audio squawk, next to the chart, the headline and GEX levels. One plan, $99/month.

   Strengths

   • Every alert comes with the reason and the reaction
   • News, earnings and economic alerts built in
   • One price, no alert limits by tier

   Trade-offs

   • No SMS, phone-call or mobile push alerts
   • No free plan

   Sources: Senntric pricing

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2. 02

   WWebull

   Best free

   Best for: Traders who want free alerts on their phone, including extended hours.

   Webull supports price, volume, news, price-movement (sharp intraday moves and 52-week highs and lows), technical-signal and indicator alerts, plus option-contract alerts on bid/ask, volume and open interest. Alerts reach you by push, email, text message or phone call, and price, volume, news and movement alerts can cover extended and overnight hours. Custom indicator alerts expire after at most a month.

   Strengths

   • Widest delivery choice, including phone call
   • Option-contract alerts
   • Extended and overnight hours

   Trade-offs

   • Needs a Webull account
   • Custom indicator alerts expire

   Sources: Webull alerts help

3. 03

   Tthinkorswim

   Free with Schwab

   Best for: Schwab customers who want indicator and custom-script alerts.

   thinkorswim lets you set alerts on bid, ask or last price, on studies (indicators), on chart drawings and on custom thinkScript conditions. Once you confirm your email address or phone number in Notifications settings, alerts arrive by email or text, by push through the thinkorswim mobile app, or as an in-platform sound and popup.

   Strengths

   • Custom thinkScript conditions
   • Text and email delivery
   • Drawing alerts

   Trade-offs

   • Needs a Schwab account
   • Desktop platform has a learning curve

   Sources: thinkorswim alerts manual

4. 04

   TradingView

   Chart alerts

   Best for: Chartists who want alerts on indicators, drawings and strategies.

   TradingView’s free Basic plan includes 3 price alerts. Essential ($14.95 a month) gives 20 price and 20 technical alerts, Plus ($34.95) 100 of each, Premium ($69.95) 400 of each plus 2 watchlist alerts, and Ultimate ($239.95) 1,000 of each plus 15 watchlist alerts. Technical alerts can fire on indicators, drawings and strategies, and alerts can go to a webhook as well as native push.

   Strengths

   • Alerts on almost anything on the chart
   • Webhooks for automation
   • Free plan to start

   Trade-offs

   • Only 3 alerts free
   • No news context with the alert

   Sources: TradingView pricing

5. 05

   SAStock Alarm

   Dedicated alert app

   Best for: Investors who want a simple phone-first price and indicator alert app.

   Stock Alarm covers price limits, % and price change, SMA, EMA, MACD and RSI, golden and death crosses, IPOs, earnings and macro releases such as CPI, across 65,000+ assets including crypto. Alerts arrive by push with custom sounds, email or phone call. The free tier has 3 alerts; membership is $20 a month or $168 a year, with a 7-day trial.

   Strengths

   • Built only for alerts
   • Phone-call alerts
   • Stocks and crypto

   Trade-offs

   • No charting or news workspace
   • Free tier limited to 3 alerts

   Sources: Stock Alarm

6. 06

   Trade Ideas

   Scanner alerts

   Best for: Momentum day traders who want streaming alerts from a scanner.

   Trade Ideas streams real-time alerts from 500+ alert types and filters, with chart price alerts, sound alerts and an AI scan builder on TI Standard ($127 a month, $89 billed yearly). TI Premium ($254, $178 billed yearly) adds Holly AI buy and sell signals with entry and stop, OddsMaker backtesting and auto-trading. A free account gives a 15-minute delayed web dashboard.

   Strengths

   • Deepest scanner-driven alerts
   • AI signals and backtesting on Premium

   Trade-offs

   • Most expensive here
   • Alerts tell you what, not why

   Sources: Trade Ideas pricing

7. 07

   Benzinga Pro

   News alerts

   Best for: US stock traders who want alerts on breaking equity news.

   Benzinga Pro alerts on newsfeed items, watchlist names and signals, with desktop, email and sound delivery and per-category sounds. Watchlist alerts start on Basic ($37 a month); signals and the real-time scanner come with Essential ($197). The 14-day trial converts to Essential.

   Strengths

   • Fast US-equity news alerts
   • Low-cost entry plan

   Trade-offs

   • Signals need the $197 plan
   • No price reaction context in the alert

   Sources: Benzinga Pro pricing

8. 08

   FEFinviz Elite

   Screener alerts

   Best for: Swing traders who want alerts when stocks match a screen or file with the SEC.

   Finviz Elite ($39.50 a month or $299.50 a year, with a free trial) sends unlimited email alerts and push notifications for news, analyst ratings, insider trading, SEC filings, price moves and screener or portfolio matches. Free Finviz accounts get no alerts.

   Strengths

   • Unlimited alerts
   • Insider and SEC filing alerts
   • Screener matches

   Trade-offs

   • No alerts on the free plan
   • Built for daily screening more than intraday

   Sources: Finviz Elite