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Investor's Business Daily
Investor’s Business Daily, Inc. · 16,020 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 33 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"subscription"
7 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Missing Lists. My Lists have been missing for 2 weeks. Cust Service says they’re working on it but no restoration in sight. This is a core part of my subscription and it needs to be fixed." - 9b8
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"ipad"
6 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lots of bugs. IPAD. The old version had lots of issues. The new version is worse. My lists fail to display until I restart the app multiple times. Incorrect prices are shown at times, especially at startup. Prices stop updating and I have to use anot…" - GR7265
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"news"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Limited financial news. Not much daily or current reporting" - mjr2222
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"read"
5 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful, Awful, Awful. Great content, dreadful user experience. IBD, paid subscription, still forces ads down your through on virtually every page, including auto pre-roll on their market updates or any page with a video And the user experience on Market Surge…" - MRCM68
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"lists"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lots of bugs. IPAD. The old version had lots of issues. The new version is worse. My lists fail to display until I restart the app multiple times. Incorrect prices are shown at times, especially at startup. Prices stop updating and I have to use anot…" - GR7265
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"subscriber"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Subscriber. Ibd updated their App and deleted my 4 lists. Very frustrating. Had to re enter ones I could recall. Rest are lost." - Sally Money
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"market"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Opinion. Too often pop up ads. 9:48 no info on market on main page" - Steadman!
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"iphone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "On iPhone 17 Pro Max this app get stuck at loading page. On iPhone 17 Pro Max this app get stuck at loading page. It first shows the add to subscribe for yearly subscription once you close it, app get stuck at loading page. I have seen this issue on iPhone 13 Pro Max too. Even after killing and l…" - Omkarsvyas
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"difficult"
4 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Difficult to use CV. I use this app on an iPad, but on my iPhone it is careful" - Dapremont
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Lots of bugs
IPAD. The old version had lots of issues. The new version is worse. My lists fail to display until I restart the app multiple times. Incorrect prices are shown at times, especially at startup. Prices stop updating and I have to use another application to confirm prices. Too expensive for issues like this.
Missing Lists
My Lists have been missing for 2 weeks. Cust Service says they’re working on it but no restoration in sight. This is a core part of my subscription and it needs to be fixed.
Limited financial news
Not much daily or current reporting
Don’t Buy Anything in App
The price listed is NOT what you end up paying. They just charged me double on my first month when it was shown as a free trial for month #1
Instead they charged $63 off the supposed $38.95 per month deal. 0 stars if I could
Instead they charged $63 off the supposed $38.95 per month deal. 0 stars if I could
Need iPad version
Seriously?? You have all the MarketSurge, Barron etc iPad version. Not this? Common guys!
Awful, Awful, Awful
Great content, dreadful user experience.
IBD, paid subscription, still forces ads down your through on virtually every page, including auto pre-roll on their market updates or any page with a video
And the user experience on Market Surge, a $150 per month “experience” is appalling.
Again, great, incisive, informative content, presented through an experience that is nearly completely intolerable
IBD, paid subscription, still forces ads down your through on virtually every page, including auto pre-roll on their market updates or any page with a video
And the user experience on Market Surge, a $150 per month “experience” is appalling.
Again, great, incisive, informative content, presented through an experience that is nearly completely intolerable
Terrible advertisement
IBD shows undesirable advertisements of the sexual content and makes it impossible to get rid off it.
Login issues
The app does not work properly. I have a monthly subscription, but it tells me I need to subscribe so I hit the subscribe button and it tells me you already have a subscription. I try to open the app and it just sits there trying to load for up to an hour without opening up. I have contacted them. They told me my subscription is current and up-to-date. Yet when I go to try to open the app on my phone, it will not open. It tells me I need a subscription. I can’t seem to get this resolved.
Frustrating interface
Good information but it is very hard to find things.
Lousy App
Throws pop ups at you constantly although you are a subscriber. Often the link to put in your sign in credentials is missing. Very annoying!
On iPhone 17 Pro Max this app get stuck at loading page
On iPhone 17 Pro Max this app get stuck at loading page. It first shows the add to subscribe for yearly subscription once you close it, app get stuck at loading page. I have seen this issue on iPhone 13 Pro Max too. Even after killing and launching this app multiple times this issue does not go.
Difficult to use CV
I use this app on an iPad, but on my iPhone it is careful
Trucker owner ordriver
I am your IBD for the past 25 years I started in 1999 and I don’t like it anymore because I read and look at it in the evening and it doesn’t have any lately news about anything .. always day late
STOP THE ADS
I’m paying you a monthly fee. Stop with all the ads flying in my face. I can’t even enjoy reading your articles because the ads are so bad all over the article. Do you really think you are winning customers over with such terrible ad noise all over the actual product you provide. Put them at the very end of an article and if I want to see them I will and if I don’t I won’t. People need to push back o. This garbage.
Won’t upload
The subscription ad would pop up first. After I closed the Ad, the info won’t upload or it kept saying Loading but wouldn’t upload.
But at times, it would randomly load with no problems.
But at times, it would randomly load with no problems.
Loads Forever
Frequently won’t load or takes several minutes to load.
IBD app
App is fine but I hate the investment commentary by the writers, especially Ed Carson. Too conservative and risk averse with the obsolete, Bill O’Neil’s philosophy. I just stick to facts, not opinions.
Website unusable
Website is a jumbled maze of pop up adds
Difficult to navigate
I get e mails with summary of IBD articles. When I click on “read more” it takes me to advertising. When I try to read on my paid subscription I only get the first paragraph and again the button for subscription takes me to advertising. Either there is a software glitch or there is nothing g more to this than advertising. I am considering dropping the subscription. It’s worthless to me as it stands.
Very cunningly designed app
You install the app, get the subscription. And when you click to open a news article from notification, it opens in the browser instead of app. And they run horrible, interrupting ads on the web site. Very difficult to read through the article with those ads. Initially I thought it’s a bug, but later I realized they can’t run ads in the app as they wish to, so cunningly make users to go to website. Why am I paying subscription and get the ads too?
Unable to open notifications in app
Unable to open notifications in app. Have to login in browsers
Ads are Annoying!!!
When you pay for a service, you don’t want to be constantly upsold. That’s all this is. $50/mo to read this article (that it put in my notifications), oh if you want this one over here it’s $70/mo, pretty soon you could be signed up for $2,000/mo of services that the founder of the site said you should be doing your own research to get anyway. I regret jumping into the free trial, so far this service has only come up with ideas on how to get suckers, like me to buy high.
Subscriber
Ibd updated their App and deleted my 4 lists. Very frustrating. Had to re enter ones I could recall. Rest are lost.
Opinion
Too often pop up ads.
9:48 no info on market on main page
9:48 no info on market on main page
Cannot enter full screen
I am subscribed. Can easily access IBD on my Mac. Always have trouble on my iPad.
If I delete the app and then reload it, I can view my lists.
I don’t have trouble with any other app.
I get message TO CALL. So frustrating
If I delete the app and then reload it, I can view my lists.
I don’t have trouble with any other app.
I get message TO CALL. So frustrating
Annoying Pop Ups for Subscribers
Paid subscriber to IBD digitals should not be harassed with pop ups for their other products. Some good things on the app but the user is overwhelmed with upselling content and linked videos that hair trigger open on scrolling. Needs some work.
iPhone late news
Your news like stock market to day is never up to date on the iPhone - how do you expect to keep customers?
Too many obnoxious pop ups
Decent info, but way too many ads.
How do you stop a video
Xx
You need a iPad friendly app
IBD’s iPhone app is fine but you need a iPad friendly app- it was better when you had the newspaper
No tablet version
I like to read the news on my ipad and this phone version looks pretty bad on it.
Impossible to open
I love the information and daily market analysis. But for some reason it’s incredibly difficult to open the app. I literally takes over 5 minutes to open. And it seems that it gets progressively more and more difficult. I wonder if that’s on purpose?
IOS App Flaky
The app on IOS constantly forgets that I am a subscriber and only shows 5 stocks in a IBD list rather than the entire list. If I logout and re-login then it will work for some time and then fail again.
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)