Daily Stocks: Market Scanner
By missingSTEP
Daily Stocks: Market Scanner is a technical analysis utility for U.S. stock market traders, providing automated post-market event detection on iOS.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Traders use the tool to filter thousands of stocks for technical setups without the cognitive load of complex, chart-heavy dashboards.
For Active traders who prioritize technical analysis and require rapid, filtered market data after the close of the U.S. stock market.
What does it look like?
Key features
Automated analysis of the U.S. stock market triggered after each market close to identify technical events.
Multi-factor technical event detection that combines indicators like RSI, MACD, and volume spikes to isolate specific trading situations.
Simplified list-based display of scan results designed to remove dashboard clutter and chart-heavy navigation.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility, though users report past monetization shifts that gated features behind subscriptions.
Velocity
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Daily Stocks: Market Scanner is currently in a maintenance phase, having shipped only one release in the last 181 days. Development activity is minimal, focusing exclusively on minor stability and chart-related refinements rather than new features. Given the lack of updates over the past six months, the app shows no signs of active development or a live-service operational model.
Who built it?
missingSTEP
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads mixed. Users appreciate real-time market scanning and technical charting tools provide a competitive edge for active mobile traders and integration of analyst articles and insider buying data helps users validate their directional trading positions.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Real-time market scanning and technical charting tools provide a competitive edge for active mobile traders
- Integration of analyst articles and insider buying data helps users validate their directional trading positions
- Clean design and intuitive interface allow traders to quickly identify market setups while on the move
- Aggressive monetization shifts force long-term users to pay for features previously included in earlier versions
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Daily Stocks: Market Scanner
How's the Finance market?
Daily Stocks holds a 4.6-star rating across 208 total ratings, maintaining a niche position as a specialized scanner rather than a portfolio tracker. The lack of updates in the last 6 months signals a maintenance-mode posture that leaves the app vulnerable to competitors with higher release velocities.
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Key takeaways for Daily Stocks: Market Scanner
Where is it heading?
The market for technical scanning tools is consolidating, and Daily Stocks' current maintenance-mode posture leaves it exposed to rivals with faster release cycles. Addressing the core stability and onboarding friction is necessary to prevent the erosion of the existing user base into the next quarter.
- The 6-month development silence suggests the product is in maintenance mode, which prevents the app from addressing top user requests for fundamental data.
- Frequent crashes and mandatory sign-in requirements create significant user friction, which compounds the risk of churn to more stable, modern trading alternatives.
The SWOT
- Automated post-market technical event detection isolates actionable setups in seconds.
- Minimalist list-based UI reduces cognitive load compared to chart-heavy dashboard rivals.
- Integration of fundamental valuation metrics would address the top-requested feature gap from existing users.
- Granular control over candle timeframes would align the tool with diverse technical methodologies.
Next best moves
Remove mandatory account registration because it is the top friction point for new users → increase top-of-funnel conversion
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of fundamental data is a feature, not a bug…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The product remains in a stagnant maintenance state, but the analytical framing of its core weaknesses has sharpened. The developer has pivoted to prioritize the removal of mandatory account registration as a high-impact growth lever.
Bottom line
Daily Stocks must address the technical instability and onboarding friction to defend its niche position against more active financial tools. Resolving these stability issues would unlock the retention of the current user base, which is currently threatened by a stagnant development cadence.
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