Stock alert apps: what each one actually sends you
"Stock alert app" covers at least five different products. This page sorts them by what actually arrives on your phone, and what each one costs.
Five different jobs, one phrase
Most of the confusion in this category comes from treating these as one product. They are not. Recognising which one you came for makes the rest of the page much shorter.
- Tell me when a price is hit. A threshold you set — a level, an RSI value, a volume spike. The message is a number crossing a line.
- Tell me what just happened, fast. A real-time news feed built for speed, where the value is arriving before the crowd.
- Tell me what to trade. A service that surfaces ideas or setups, generally with an analyst or a model choosing them.
- Tell me if my portfolio has drifted. Monitoring of allocation, concentration and overlap across the accounts you hold.
- Tell me what happened to the companies I own. Price moves, news, filings and earnings about your specific holdings, read together, on a schedule, with the source attached.
That last one is where Pip sits — and the "read together" is the part that makes it a different job rather than a bundle of the other four.
What each one sends
Every tool on the same axes. Prices checked 14 August 2026; all pricing drifts, so follow the link before you rely on a figure.
| Tool | What triggers a message | Coverage | Delivery | Sources attached | Price (14 Aug 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yahoo Finance | Market news and data; tier features vary | Broad market | App, web | Not stated on the plans page | Free tier available. Bronze $7.95/mo, Silver $19.95/mo, Gold $39.95/mo, billed yearly |
| Seeking Alpha | Published analysis and research articles | Broad market | Web, email, app | Articles are the product; analysis is author-written | Basic free. Premium renews at $299/yr; PRO at $2,400/yr |
| Benzinga Pro | Real-time newsfeed, watchlist alerts, signals, audio squawk | Whole market, filterable | In-platform, audio squawk, mobile | Not stated on the pricing page | Basic $30.58/mo, Streamlined $124.75/mo, Essential $166.42/mo, annual billing. 14-day trial |
| Stock Alarm | Price, RSI, volume, earnings, moving-average crosses | States 65,000+ assets | Push, email, phone call | Not stated on the pricing page | Pro $36.67/mo, billed $440/yr |
| LevelFields | Corporate events — the site lists leadership and product changes, lawsuits, government actions "& 22 others" | States 6,300 companies | Inbox; SMS on the higher tier | Not stated on the site | Level 1 $25/mo billed annually; Level 2 pricing not shown |
| Guardfolio | Portfolio thresholds — concentration, drift, overlap, volatility | Your connected accounts, read-only via Plaid/SnapTrade | Email, Telegram | Not stated on the site | Guardian Pro $149.99/yr; Guardian Elite $319.20/yr. 7-day trial |
| Pip | Price and volume moves, company news, SEC filings (8-K, Form 4, 10-Q/10-K), insider transactions and earnings — read against the companies you hold | The holdings you tell it about | Telegram | Yes — every claim carries its source | Free during early access |
On the "sources attached" column: it says not stated where a tool's public pages do not address it. That is a statement about what we could verify on 14 August 2026, not a claim about what the product does or does not do.
Two things worth knowing before you choose a price
Most headline prices are annual-billing equivalents. Benzinga Pro's and Stock Alarm's monthly figures above are what you pay when you commit to a year. Month-to-month is higher at both.
Free tiers are real but bounded. Yahoo Finance and Seeking Alpha both run genuine free tiers, and for a reader who wants a price threshold and nothing more, a free tier is often the whole answer.
What Pip delivers
Pip watches the companies you already own and sends one plain-English briefing each market morning.
It reads several kinds of evidence against each other, not one. Price and volume moves, company news, SEC filings — 8-K, Form 4, the 10-Q and 10-K — insider transactions and earnings. Each of the tools above does one of those well. The job Pip takes on is working out how they bear on the reason you own the stock, alone or in combination, which is a question none of them is shaped to answer.
Sources are ranked, not pooled. Not every input deserves equal weight, and Pip does not pretend otherwise. A company's own SEC filing is receipt-grade and sits at the top; market data sits below it; news sits below that. When something is thinly sourced, the briefing says so rather than dressing it up. That ranking is enforced in the code, not left to a model's discretion on the day.
Every claim carries its source. Pip describes what happened and attaches the thing that says so. It does not tell you what a filing means for the share price, because a Form 4 has no field for that — as our guide to Form 4 transaction codes sets out, an option exercise and a tax withholding are not market decisions, and a tool that reports them as sales is telling you something untrue. Our insider filing pages are built from the same pipeline, so you can read the raw material before you sign up for anything.
It arrives once, in Telegram, and takes about two minutes. Not a feed to monitor. One briefing, on the companies that are actually yours, and the thinking stays with you.
