Google Finance dropped its beta tag on June 24 this year and now has a brand new Android app. Google announced it in a blog post, and mentioned a planned iOS version to be launched later this year. The app is approximately 7MB, and won't make a dent in your phone's storage. Install it in Google Play Store now.
Google Finance offers insights that signal wealth
Google employee Nick Fox also announced the Finance app launch with a 32-second teaser video on X. According to him, whenever he posts about Google Finance, he gets two recurring questions. The first is “when are portfolios coming?”, and “can users get an app?”.
He then shared that Google has added portfolios, including the ability to import holdings from other finance tools with a screenshot. In a follow-up post, he added that users can now also ask Google Finance to keep them updated and schedule custom briefings on the market.
The app itself contains a Trending section showing stock tickers plus suggested prompts to fetch you market insights. You can type a question into a search bar at the bottom or tap a prompt to get started. Navigation happens through four tabs at the bottom of the app, including Markets, Lists, History, and Ask.
Today, we’re also launching a new Google Finance app for Android, bringing the core of our new experience directly into your pocket. For people who find themselves checking in on the market multiple times per day, the new app is a dedicated place to easily access your watchlist, as well as real-time data, a live financial news feed, the AI research tool and AI-powered “key moments” that explain why a stock moved.
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The Lists tab is where the new portfolio feature lives, letting you organize and track specific groups of stocks or assets, with a plus button to add new ones. The Ask tab is the conversational interface where you can pose specific financial questions and get AI-generated answers grounded in real data.
Hopefully, Google Finance is here to stay for good
References to the previous Google Finance versions online were bound to come up. One user asked Fox to confirm Google won't shut the app down again, calling it “a pain in the ass to input all the data again and again.”
Another user references that “the old Google Finance had a graphical visualizer” and is asking Google to bring that feature back or something similar before he'll switch over.
Their concerns are valid considering the app's bumpy history. Google Finance launched in 2006 as a web-based stock tracking and financial news site. In 2017, Google stripped it down, removing the discussion boards and live ticker tape to simplify the design, which frustrated a lot of long-time users at the time.
They've also had a long pattern of folding finance-related data into other products, like Google Search's finance widgets and the Google Sheets GOOGLEFINANCE function, rather than maintaining one dedicated, fully-featured app.
