What Stocks.News does

Stocks.News (legal entity: IR Agency LLC, headquartered at 23 Downing Street, Newark, New Jersey) operates a mobile-first financial intelligence platform distributed exclusively via the Apple App Store and Google Play under app ID com.stocks.news. The product is a single iOS/Android application bundling six feature modules: a Real-Time Scanner that scans every NYSE and NASDAQ listing to surface the top 50 biggest movers; Instant Alerts delivering push notifications on price action, volume spikes, and breaking news; Insider Tracking monitoring SEC Form 4 filings from CEOs, executives, and congressional trade disclosures; a Practice Mode paper-trading simulator; Market News (curated daily headlines licensed from Benzinga); and a Multi-Asset Watchlist spanning stocks, crypto, forex, indices, and commodities.

Underlying platform architecture centers on real-time market-data ingestion, syndicated news signals (via a 2026 partnership with Benzinga), and continuous SEC EDGAR feed processing for insider tracking. Pricing is freemium with the app free to start and no premium tiers publicly disclosed; the product has reached 360,000+ cumulative downloads with a 4.7/5 App Store rating on 2,384 reviews and no disclosed funding rounds to date.

The go-to-market is product-led growth through mobile app store distribution and organic ASO, with self-serve onboarding in approximately 60 seconds. Primary customer segments are active day traders, multi-asset traders, and information-driven retail traders; customer logos and enterprise buyers are not disclosed, and revenue is not reported. The company is CCPA-compliant and operates as a private LLC founded in 2024 with 1-10 employees.

Name

Stocks.News

Legal name

IR Agency LLC

Website

https://app.stocks.news

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stocks.News is a mobile-first financial intelligence app for retail traders, delivering real-time NYSE/NASDAQ scan alerts, SEC insider tracking, and curated market news across stocks, crypto, forex, indices, and commodities, distributed via iOS and Android on a freemium model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial Market Intelligence & Alerts

NAICS

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (523), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Alternative Data & Data Science Analytics (FSACAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Data Journalism & News Intelligence Publishers (Indexes, Election/Market Data) (MPAJADAK)

Keywords

• Real-time market alerts
• Stock market news
• Insider trading tracking
• Multi-asset trading
• Paper trading simulator

Headquarters

HQ city

Newark

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Freemium App Model: Free-to-start mobile application with optional premium features. App available on iOS and Android with no upfront cost to download. Revenue likely derived from premium subscriptions or premium feature unlocks within the app.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Stocks.News operates a single mobile application (iOS/Android) delivering real-time financial market intelligence to individual retail traders. The app combines a real-time scanner of every NYSE and NASDAQ listing that surfaces the top 50 movers, push-notification alerts on price action, volume spikes, and breaking news, real-time SEC Form 4 insider and congressional trade disclosure tracking, curated market news, and a unified multi-asset watchlist covering stocks, crypto, forex, indices, and commodities. A paper-trading practice mode is included to let users test strategies on real market data without financial risk.

Product overview

Stocks.News is a single, unified mobile application (iOS/Android) providing real-time market intelligence for serious traders. The core app bundles six integrated feature modules: Real-Time Scanner (scans all NYSE & NASDAQ listings, surfaces top 50 movers), Instant Alerts (push notifications on price action, volume, and news triggers), Insider Tracking (real-time SEC Form 4 and congressional trade monitoring), Practice Mode (paper trading simulator), Market News (curated breaking news), and Multi-Asset Watchlist (stocks, crypto, forex, indices, commodities). Together these tools provide traders with an edge through early signal detection across equity and alternative asset markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stocks.News Mobile App

Quantifiable outcome

• 360,000+ app downloads demonstrated consumer adoption
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• BenzingacoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2026Benzinga actively licenses its news signals and financial news API to Stocks.News as part of the broader shift toward API-first data monetization in financial media. Stocks.News receives real-time news signals and algorithmic trading market data from Benzinga, which compresses news half-lives in crypto and stock markets by enabling faster signal delivery to end users.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Unusual Whales: Unusual Whales is a retail-focused trading platform specializing in options flow, dark pool data, and real-time insider/congressional trade tracking. Its SEC Form 4 monitoring and political-trade features directly overlap with Stocks.News' insider tracking module.
• The Fly: The Fly is a real-time trading news and alert service covering upgrades, downgrades, and notable market-moving events during the trading day. Its intraday news alert format is comparable to Stocks.News' instant push alerts on price action, volume, and breaking news.
• MarketBeat: MarketBeat delivers market news, analyst ratings, dividend alerts, and stock monitoring to retail investors through web and mobile apps. Its alert and watchlist functionality overlaps directly with Stocks.News' consumer-facing alert and multi-asset tracking offering.
• Stocktwits: Stocktwits is a social network and real-time feed for retail traders, organized by ticker and signal type. Its real-time trader chat and news flow compete with Stocks.News' curated news and insider activity stream for active day-trader mindshare.
• TradingView: TradingView is a charting, alerting, and social trading platform widely used by retail traders across multiple asset classes. Its price- and event-driven alerts and multi-asset watchlists compete closely with Stocks.News' multi-asset watchlist and push alerts.
• Seeking Alpha: Seeking Alpha is a retail-investor platform for market news, investing ideas, and real-time alerts on stocks and ETFs. Its real-time news and personalized alerting capabilities compete directly with Stocks.News' curated breaking news and push alert experience.
• Trade Ideas: Trade Ideas operates a real-time AI-driven stock scanner and alerting platform for active day traders. Its top-movers scanning and signal-style workflow closely mirror Stocks.News' real-time scanner and push alert experience, making it the most directly comparable peer.
• Benzinga: Benzinga provides breaking financial news, signals, and trading data to retail and professional investors through Benzinga Pro and licensed APIs. Stocks.News licenses Benzinga's signals while also competing in the same real-time market news and alerting category.

Broad incumbents

• Webull: Webull is a mobile-first brokerage with built-in market news, alerts, scanners, and paper trading. As a full-stack brokerage, it is a broader incumbent rather than a pure alert/news peer, but its alerting and news modules overlap with Stocks.News' offering.
• Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance is a broad consumer financial portal offering market data, news, watchlists, and customizable alerts across stocks and other assets. It competes with Stocks.News on mobile news and alerts but as a much larger, multi-purpose platform rather than a niche trader tool.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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