Seeking Alpha: News & Analysis

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User Reviews for Seeking Alpha: News & Analysis

Great user-generated content; poor mobile app

I use SeekingAlpha to read the bull/bear case on stocks I’m considering investing. The free content is pretty good (I’m not a paying subscriber-more on that below), and the average commenter on this platform is well above-average for internet (event financial sites) comments sections.This app structures all the content around a “Portfolio” you construct when getting started. Not the best idea, but do-able.Problems: Comments- Comments do not show up on most articles when I tap through to either read the whole article or tapping directly on the comments-count bubble. Big miss.Charts- Y-axis on daily/multi-day/year line charts show seemingly random numbers, rendering the charts fairly useless. Also, there’s no YTD chart option.Embedded images in articles open inadvertently- when scrolling through articles, if you happen to touch an image, it will open into full screen view. Lots of times, I do not intend to click the image but it opens on an errant tap.App crashes if you post a comment- In those instances where comments DO load in articles and you contribute a comment, the app crashes once you hit post.The above major glitches are a key driver for why I haven’t signed up for the pay SA service. If I can’t trust you to get comments and charts right in your mobile app, why would I trust that my experience on the paid content platform would be good?

Billy.Ruck, Oct 28, 2018

Simply not worth it

I’ve used this app for about 4 years. It’s been okay for tracking your portfolio and keeping up to date on news regarding your holdings. Recently app performance has suffered, crashes during commenting, comments not loading, doubling and tripling of notifications and articles. It can be very frustrating to use the app at times.The comments section used to be filled with well informed users who would point out inaccuracies in an article, or bring up otherwise ignored points. I’m sure those helpful users are still there, but of late they have been almost completely drowned out by commenters who only seem to spew right wing talking points and propaganda, this often leads to someone responding that is spewing left wing talking points and propaganda. Wading through the political crap in the comments section became unbearable for me when I can get the same resources in other apps and without the baggage.

Cal Barnes, Dec 03, 2019

Change in Policy

Up until 2021, the app worked great. We were able to view a limited number of articles monthly. That was suitable for me who would check out no more than 5 or less articles a week. Starting this year they reduce the monthly free article limit to an undisclosed number which seems like zero. Now you are confronted with a sales pitch to buy a monthly or annual subscription. The cost seems like something that can easily be paid for when you’re a day trader but for someone who is just managing there personal non-day trader account, it is a substantial cost that can’t be justified. Unfortunately, I think this will be the feeling of most and most will learn to do away with Seeking Alpha and this app. Just a word to the wise. It is a shame that some of the authors will lose their followers.The limit is not identified in the link the developer has provided. Is it something to be ashamed of? I can stay within the limits but they need to be posted and not a trap.

CTRAD, Feb 05, 2021

Free Version Turned into Garbage

And this was by design. Primarily because of the massive percentage of “CLICKBAITY” links to stories that are not accessible without signing up for yet ANOTHER SUBSCRIPTION. This is the same reason I quit clicking on anything to do with The Motley Fool. I would much rather see advertisements. Paid version might be worth it but too expensive given much of the content is written by skillful shills attempting to advocate for their position even when it is wrong-lots of competition out there and SA being “agnostic” representing a multitude of viewpoints, isnt in this regard always helpful enough to justify the price when you can find similarly misleading and helpful voices on social media.

EuclidsClone, Oct 27, 2020

Information

I have dropped in on Seeking Alpha on a few occasions, and I am grateful that it is so very, very easy to follow, and I would tell anyone who follows the stock market, take a look you might be pleasantly surprised, I was. So you may not agree with how they handle the stocks, or the information that they achieve, but all I can say, give them a chance. I thought that I had let this come to seeking, but I am terrible sorry for my mistake, and this is not a mistake I will make again. I have had such a great year with the help that this app has given me since I start my stocks. My son, and I have become much closer since we have started this new adventures in our lives. He isn’t doing as much as my husband, and I but still a great feeling. I hope that wherever this takes us, I only want our friendship to continue to grow, and maybe make a little money while we do this. Thanks for such an easy way of following the stocks. Everything should be this easy.

Georgia-Deet-Georgia-Deet..., Jan 04, 2020

Whoops, you broke the app!

“The data could not be read because it isn’t in the correct format” is the pop up error message I get when trying to post comments. Clearly, this is censorship since many other people are still able to post comments. Someone complained about this in the feedback forum three months ago but the post remains unanswered by SA support staff. When I tried replying to that comment, the app prompted me to sign up and sign in, even though I’m already signed in! When entering in my user email address, it prompted me to create a new account. Finally, whenever I try scrolling down my list of portfolio stocks, the app often inexplicably jumps up in the scrolling - something that never happened in previous versions. You would think such a long-standing and widely-used app, especially one used for financial advice, would have better quality control, better feedback forum response habits and be above censoring posts. These practices are shoddy at best and shameful at worst.

Joefunk76, Sep 04, 2018

Loved it while it lasted

I have only recently started investing and I do not have a lot of money to invest, but am trying to grow a portfolio that will help supplement retirement. Through a long series of unfortunate events, I am getting started late in life so every dollar I can put into my portfolio matters. I really enjoyed the articles and information I found on Seeking Alpha. However, with limited funds to invest, and the new article limit without premium, my joy is gone. This service provides great information for those who already have plenty of money to spend, but is now not as useful to me. The help I found here was awesome when I could read more than five articles a month, but I cannot afford to pay for information and then have no money to do anything with said information. I understand the reasons behind the changes, but my $30/month will be more useful to me in my portfolio. It was great while it lasted, though.

Late-In-Life, Jan 05, 2021

Jury out

August 2018. Down to (*). In response to my critical feedback at SA, they have removed my ability to comment on postings. No great loss, but censorship as a response to critical feedback merely validates my comments. As of today, the app remains buggy and all three indices are listed in dollars!! Does anyone even audit this app before they publish updates? Disappointing. May 2018. Back to (**). Another upgrade and another example of inadequate testing and deployment. Required I login with upgrade and then required I add a portfolio as it assumed I was a new user. Once added, I could access my portfolios and delete the new one. I don’t care for this version interface. It could be more compact and deliver more detail. Check out the Stocks Live app for an example of excellent interface design, and boy do they test before deployment.Previous rating (***). Better than previous rating (**), but I hesitate to score higher until a few update cycles. Lost my portfolio during one of the recent app updates.

Mortakye, Oct 17, 2018

I liked the app, but why all or nothing?

The app was good until they locked it up with a high subscription cost. They claim it’s to reward the article writers but this used to be a great place for a healthy discussion amongst the average investor and they shut that down with a paywall. Why would you shut a lot of people out that helped create the content? I’d rather be subjected to advertising than priced out. There aren’t even tiers of pricing! It’s all or nothing and that seems like a money grab. You can mention the free articles you get but it’s limited to five and that’s a ridiculous constellation prize for all the folks that also helped make this app successful. It’s as if they value the long article writers over the discussions. There isn’t anything in this app that’s really proprietary so lots of us will have to move on. Which Is too bad since it used to be my number 1 app to read. I really wish they’d reconsider the focus of the app and open up a free version that can continue on the spirit of the discussion. But at the very least have tier pricing. Something is better than nothing.Update: A canned developer response about the limited free articles doesn’t show you even read the review. You put this response on every review talking about the paywall. Why can’t you figure out a way to make money and have more of us too?

Skilletcpa, Jan 27, 2021

Doesn’t work on all my devices, and no customer support

I have an iPhone and several iPads. I bought the app using my phone, but the app would not work on my iPads (like it is supposed to). So I signed up again on one of my iPads, but then they charged me again, meaning I was being double charged. There is no way to contact them to get this corrected, so I went through my credit card company. The credit card company also could not contact Seeking Alpha, so they went through Apple. My credit card company then got my Apple charge reversed, but then Apple canceled the app, so now I don’t get it on my phone, only my iPads. I have never had this issue with any app. And there is no way to contact them. One star is too generous.This is an update on my previous review. Customer service contacted me after receiving my review and resolved the problem. I have used this app for a few months now and find it quite useful. It has become a regular part of my due diligence. I recommend it.

Whyiseverynicknametaken678, Aug 13, 2021

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