Sourced alerts for your watchlist and the economy
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Tickview: SEC Filings & Alerts is an information app for iPhone and iPad. It sends sourced alerts for your watchlist and the economy (new SEC filings, insider purchases, price crossings and changes in recession indicators), shows Recession Watch and the bond market, and answers plain-English questions with cards that link to their source, with prices in your own currency and company financials from SEC EDGAR. Every card shows when its data is from. All AI runs on your device. Tickview 2.1 opens on a Today tab and adds widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, holdings with gain/loss, up to 15 fiscal years of company history linked to the filings, and share cards.
Prices, history, company data and news come from Yahoo Finance and SEC EDGAR, Treasury yields come from the U.S. Treasury, employment and consumer-price data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the dates of scheduled releases come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis; no account or key is needed. FRED (economic data) and Finnhub (extra company data and earnings dates) are optional free keys you add yourself. These organisations are named only as sources. Every number links to its source. Coverage, freshness and delays vary by provider, so check the data date on a result. The privacy policy lists every service Tickview contacts.
No. Since Tickview 1.2.0 all AI runs on your device, and Blue Flame Games has no server that receives your questions, watchlist or notes. To fetch data, including in the background for your alerts, Tickview requests public data and sends only what the data needs, such as a ticker, a series or a currency code, to that data source. Nothing about you is uploaded. Earlier versions (1.1.x) had an optional bring-your-own-key AI setting that was off by default; it was removed in 1.2.0. The privacy policy explains this in detail.
Yes. The free app includes plain-English questions, prices in your currency, SEC financials and filings, Recession Watch, the bond market, commodities, currencies and a watchlist of up to five tickers with price alerts, plus the Watchlist and Recession Watch widgets, Siri and Shortcuts, share cards, and holdings with each position's value. Tickview Pro is an optional in-app upgrade that adds an unlimited watchlist, holdings totals with day change and gain/loss in your own currency, a widget with your choice of tickers, alerts for new SEC filings, insider purchases (SEC Form 4), earnings dates (with a free Finnhub key) and changes in recession indicators, recession history since 1960 with the full track records, an exposure map, comparisons, a daily brief, event prep, theses and a journal. New users get Pro features for 7 days with no payment details. After that Pro is a one-time lifetime purchase or a monthly subscription; subscriptions renew until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings.
Tickview checks your alerts in the background when iOS allows, so an alert can arrive late or, on some devices and settings, not at all. Price alerts trigger once when a price crosses your level. Alerts are information, not trading prompts, and one Alerts screen lists everything being watched.
Recession Watch shows the model probability of a US recession within 12 months, from the yield-curve model published by the New York Fed and calculated by Tickview from Treasury data, with how often that figure has been right, false alarms included. It also shows a count of active warning indicators, each with its formula, data date and track record. It is a model estimate, not a prediction, and it works with no API key.
AI summaries are compared with the source figures before they are shown. If a summary fails the check, Tickview shows a plain factual sentence instead.
From Tickview 2.1 the tabs are Today, Ask, Portfolio and Markets, and Settings is behind the gear button. News no longer has a tab of its own: headlines appear on Today and under Markets, and each one still opens the publisher's own article.
Long-press an empty area of the Home Screen, tap Edit and then Add Widget (the + button on earlier versions of iOS), and search for Tickview. There are three widgets. Watchlist shows the first five tickers on your watchlist, each with its price, change and time. Recession Watch shows the model probability with its data month, the count of active indicators and the 10-year Treasury yield. Your tickers, part of Tickview Pro, shows the tickers you choose and, if you switch them on, position values. To put a widget on the Lock Screen, long-press the Lock Screen, tap Customize and add it there. A widget that says “Open Tickview to load your watchlist” fills in once you have opened the app and accepted the notice shown on first launch. Widgets stay empty in Demo Mode.
A widget shows each figure as it was when Tickview last fetched it. It cannot fetch data itself: the app updates it when you open Tickview and when iOS lets the app refresh in the background, and iOS decides how often that happens. Each price carries its time, such as “as of 14:32”, or “closed” once the market has closed. A price Tickview has not re-checked for a while is dimmed, loses its green or red, and is labelled “stale”. Open Tickview to refresh it.
Value is your share count multiplied by the latest price. Day change is your share count multiplied by the price's change on the day. Gain/loss is the value minus your cost, measured in the currency the listing trades in; you can enter the cost per share or the total you paid. In your own currency it is that figure converted at the latest exchange rate, so it does not include currency movements since your purchase.
Tickview never fills in a number it does not have. A position is left out of gain/loss when it has no cost (it still counts towards value), or when its cost was saved before 2.1 and the currency is unclear: it reads “cost currency not confirmed” until you open the position and save it again. A position is left out of the totals when a price or an exchange rate is missing, and the missing figure shows as “—”. Each total says what it covers, for example “Cost set for 4 of 6 positions”.
Entering holdings and seeing each position's value is free; totals, day change and gain/loss are part of Tickview Pro. All of these figures are estimates, calculated from third-party prices and rates and from the numbers you typed. They are not an account statement and not tax figures.
A share card is an image of one result: the figures, what they are, the name of the source, the date of the data, the source's link, “via Tickview” and the line “For information only. Not investment advice.” It is made on your device and goes only where you send it. A card never includes your share counts, position values or notes, and it never carries AI-written text, headlines or a named person's transaction. Cards made from your brief's moves or from the schedule do name tickers from your watchlist.
Three shortcuts work without any setup, in Siri and in the Shortcuts app. “Ask Tickview” takes a question about a price, a company's numbers, an economic series or an exchange rate. “Open AAPL in Tickview” opens a ticker from your watchlist. “Recession Watch status in Tickview” gives the model probability, the indicator count and the 10-year Treasury yield, each with its date. An answer is the same sentence the card shows, followed by its source and the time of its data, and it shows the data as last fetched. Comparisons, lists and questions about your portfolio continue in the app. Siri gives no figures in Demo Mode or before you have accepted the notice shown on first launch. The phrases are in English for now.
Yes. Your watchlist tickers, theses and journal notes can be found from Spotlight search on your device, and a result opens the matching screen in Tickview. The search index stays on the device, an item disappears from it when you delete it in Tickview, and you can switch Tickview's results off in iOS Settings.
Open Settings inside Tickview and tap "Restore Purchases". Your Pro purchase or subscription is tied to your Apple Account and restores on any device signed in with it.
Prices cover stocks, ETFs, funds, cryptocurrencies and commodities on many exchanges, shown in your own currency. Company financials and filings come from SEC EDGAR, so they cover companies that file with the SEC. Recession Watch and the bond market cover the United States. If a ticker or series you rely on is missing, email us and we'll look into it.
Market data can lag or be revised at the source. Check the source and data date on the result card and open the original; if something still looks off, email us with the ticker and a screenshot.
No. Tickview is an information tool. It does not provide investment, financial, or tax advice, and nothing in the app is a recommendation about any security.