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Investor's Business Daily, Inc · Finance · Free · v6.12

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Review-rating drop
1.36

2015-Q3 4.75 → last 90 days 3.39, text reviews

Peak quarter
4.75

2015-Q3, text reviews

Last 90 days
3.39

text reviews

Store rating
4.71

all 8645 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
1.32

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$165k

#61 top-grossing, Finance

store 4.71 · reviews 4.75 → 3.39 · gap 1.32 store 4.71 reviews 3.39

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2013-Q1: 4.71★ from 7 reviews (small sample) 4.71 2013-Q1 2013-Q2: 4.00★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2013-Q3: 4.58★ from 24 reviews 2013-Q4: 4.47★ from 15 reviews 2014-Q1: 4.60★ from 15 reviews 2014-Q2: 4.20★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2014-Q3: 5.00★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2014-Q4: 4.40★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2015-Q1: 4.80★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2015-Q2: 4.50★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2015-Q3: 4.75★ from 8 reviews 4.75 2015-Q3 2015-Q4: 4.75★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2016-Q1: 2.75★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2016-Q2: 3.00★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2017-Q2: 2.80★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2017-Q4: 3.00★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2018-Q1: 4.00★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2018-Q2: 1.50★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2018-Q3: 5.00★ from 4 reviews (small sample) 2019-Q1: 4.33★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2019-Q2: 3.78★ from 9 reviews 2019-Q3: 4.60★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2019-Q4: 3.79★ from 14 reviews 2020-Q1: 3.50★ from 2 reviews (small sample) 2020-Q2: 3.13★ from 8 reviews 2020-Q3: 3.30★ from 23 reviews 2020-Q4: 3.72★ from 18 reviews 2021-Q1: 3.50★ from 8 reviews 2021-Q2: 4.36★ from 14 reviews 2021-Q3: 4.54★ from 39 reviews 2021-Q4: 4.23★ from 13 reviews 2022-Q1: 5.00★ from 7 reviews (small sample) 2022-Q2: 4.00★ from 7 reviews (small sample) 2022-Q3: 4.50★ from 10 reviews 2022-Q4: 3.53★ from 19 reviews 2023-Q1: 3.81★ from 16 reviews 2023-Q2: 4.60★ from 10 reviews 2023-Q3: 3.78★ from 9 reviews 2023-Q4: 5.00★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2024-Q1: 3.65★ from 20 reviews 2024-Q2: 4.00★ from 13 reviews 2024-Q3: 4.67★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2024-Q4: 4.50★ from 6 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q1: 3.67★ from 3 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q2: 4.20★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q3: 5.00★ from 5 reviews (small sample) 2025-Q4: 1.33★ from 3 reviews (small sample) 2026-Q1: 2.34★ from 41 reviews 2026-Q2: 2.53★ from 17 reviews 2026-Q3: 3.37★ from 19 reviews 3.37 2026-Q3
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
Show as table
QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2013-Q14.71 7
2013-Q24.00 2
2013-Q34.58 24
2013-Q44.47 15
2014-Q14.60 15
2014-Q24.20 5
2014-Q35.00 2
2014-Q44.40 5
2015-Q14.80 5
2015-Q24.50 4
2015-Q34.75 8
2015-Q44.75 4
2016-Q12.75 4
2016-Q23.00 2
2017-Q22.80 5
2017-Q43.00 2
2018-Q14.00 4
2018-Q21.50 2
2018-Q35.00 4
2019-Q14.33 6
2019-Q23.78 9
2019-Q34.60 5
2019-Q43.79 14
2020-Q13.50 2
2020-Q23.13 8
2020-Q33.30 23
2020-Q43.72 18
2021-Q13.50 8
2021-Q24.36 14
2021-Q34.54 39
2021-Q44.23 13
2022-Q15.00 7
2022-Q24.00 7
2022-Q34.50 10
2022-Q43.53 19
2023-Q13.81 16
2023-Q24.60 10
2023-Q33.78 9
2023-Q45.00 6
2024-Q13.65 20
2024-Q24.00 13
2024-Q34.67 6
2024-Q44.50 6
2025-Q13.67 3
2025-Q24.20 5
2025-Q35.00 5
2025-Q41.33 3
2026-Q12.34 41
2026-Q22.53 17
2026-Q33.37 19

Recent 1–2 star reviews

Load issues

★ · v6.9.1 · Sep 2, 2026

Load issues persist even after restarts

Bugs

★ · v6.9 · Aug 28, 2026

Bugs galore. All the time.

Needs to catch up with web version

★ · v6.8 · Aug 14, 2026

It’s laggy, using different dataset therefore no consistency between app and web version

Lists

★★ · v6.7 · Aug 10, 2026

List never loads. I usually delete the App and reinstall to get it to work.

Blank on market pulse page for several days

★★ · v6.7 · Aug 6, 2026

Too many bugs remaining

Not loading data and lists

★ · v6.6.1 · Jun 10, 2026

When it works it’s great and useful but continues to have problems loading data, especially my lists. Have to often delete app and reinstall just to get to load. Very frustrating for the price.

New Update renders app useless

★ · v6.6.1 · Jun 4, 2026

Stock ideas never loads unless I delete and reinstall the app. I’ve had to do this numerous times and the issue returns each time after a few uses. The “screens” tab has the same issue. There are so many other bugs also and this is just on the iPhone app version. And don’t get me going about the iPad version, wow that has completely been ruined. For $149.95 a month you would have to be a fool to accept these issues.

Customer service terrible

★ · v6.6.1 · Jun 1, 2026

Had probably the worse customer service experience I’ve had anywhere. Purchased and was charged for the app through my phone and it didn’t work at all, reached out to them and after being on hold for awhile finally someone answered and said that I should have bought it from the site not the phone, and that’s why it didn’t work. I was like why would you bother selling it through the app then and they basically said it was my fault for not buying through the site. The product is good for screening stocks, which is important but everything else about it is terrible.

Nothing loads

★★ · v6.6.1 · May 29, 2026

Main page and my list never loads. App has went down hill lately

Leaves you wanting more.

★★ · v6.6.1 · May 29, 2026

The app does not have chart patterns or stages. Given this is what I primarily use MarketSurge for to outperform the market, I find this app very ineffective.

Disaster update

★ · v6.5 · Apr 29, 2026

iPad is awful to use Market surge on. The have destroyed the app. It’s been two months. Constantly crashes and you need to reload watchlist with indices no longer working from lists.

New update terrible

★ · v6.1 · Apr 23, 2026

Used to be great, then they ‘updated it’ now it’s horrendous. Still no dark mode. Glitches all the time. News function is essentially worthless. Half the things don’t work when you’re in the app. I am not renewing, for $150/mo this should be way better.

New app has many legacy options lacking.

★ · v6.1 · Apr 20, 2026

example, weekly, daily or monthly charts do not show RS Rating. Please bring it back on chart. Old way of going thorough table was very good with all applicable data points neatly organized in boxes with last 8 quarter earnings and sales underneath boxes above it was perfectly arranged data box in the older version. Please bring it back. Industries used to have RS rating on their charts in legacy version. Please bring it back. Industry used to have weekly volume % change on weekly chart underneath the weekly price and price change %. Now it is only weekly volume number without percentage weekly volume. Please bring it back. New app does not allow to swipe through stocks or industries if list has more than 100 tickers on it. Please bring back swipe feature to Left and right to go through charts. List sorting option now lacks sort by “flag” or “date added” feature. So we can’t sort the list by flag in the app. It is possible on desktop version. Please add sort by “flag” and “date added” options back on mobile app. “Date added” sort option is not on desktop version either. Please add it at both mobile and desktop version Please bring back above things from legacy version. those things make market surge unique and above all other charting services and software. It’s truly an edge to have those features. So please bring them back. We will truly appreciate it!

New charts are a nightmare

★ · v6.1 · Apr 16, 2026

So they have forced a new charting system on us and it’s fraught with issues! I spent hours putting together my buy list to take advantage of the follow through day and my list was deleted. This horrible decision by them to change their charts has cost me tens of thousands of dollars. I’m disgusted with MarketSurge!

No charts for weeks

★ · v6.0.5 · Apr 2, 2026

Disappointing that the charts have been down

They sell your data.

★ · v6.0.5 · Mar 29, 2026

My inbox has not recovered since I signed up for this service. They sold my email and I get bombarded with spam every day. Dozens of emails. And I have no way to stop them.

Ruined

★ · v6.0.5 · Mar 14, 2026

New version does not allow annotations. You should Not have released it. The old version was fine.

Don’t use

★ · v6.0.5 · Mar 13, 2026

Dow jones needs to sync the app with MarketSurge. Avoid market search to they fix thinking problem with the app and market search and they translate to the new market search and fix the list problem synchronization with the app.

NO! What did you do? You broke it!

★ · v6.0.4 · Mar 10, 2026

Just forced to do an update and now nothing works. My lists are gone, favorites are gone. Even sort order doesn’t work any more. Various system generated lists used to show up in the order of new additions to the list. Now that doesn’t work either. Please fix it!

Individual investor

★ · v6.0.3 · Mar 4, 2026

Until the upgrade is completed it’s a disappointment. I’ma longtime user and count on it to make decisions every day.

New version really bad

★ · v6.0.3 · Mar 3, 2026

We just got new version, key functions like quarterly data missing. What a bad upgrade.

Upgrade made this app not function.

★ · v6.0.3 · Mar 2, 2026

MarketSurge mobile app automatically updated making it useless. Nothing functions as it should

Who broke it?

★ · v6.0.3 · Mar 2, 2026

So called upgrade a couple of weeks ago screwed things up. I would have given a five star rating prior to 2/15/26

Since recent update use ability has fallen

★★ · v6.0.3 · Mar 2, 2026

Since recent update can’t sort lists, by industry group for example, making you review or scroll through charts you would normally screen.

New app is weak

★ · v6.0.1 · Feb 26, 2026

Market Surge new app omits important quarterly data .. why????

The opportunity

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