# What to use instead of StockMarketEye

StockMarketEye closed on 26 September 2023 after three weeks' notice. What now covers its desktop tracker, phone companion, watchlists, alerts and reports.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/alternatives/stockmarketeye*

## The subject

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Product | StockMarketEye |
| Status | retired |
| Stopped serving | 2023-09-26 |
| Website | https://www.stockmarketeye.com |
| Category | Stock Portfolio Trackers |

A paid desktop portfolio tracker for Windows, Mac and Linux, with a free phone companion app, watchlists, stock alerts and performance reports, at 74.99 dollars a year.

## Replacements

*Ordered by how much of the original’s job each one covers, closest first. Paid placement does not affect this order.*

1. [Wealthfolio](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/wealthfolio.md) — The same arrangement, a desktop app keeping the portfolio on your own machine with phone apps beside it. The app is free; device sync is 29 dollars a year.
2. [Portfolio Performance](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/portfolio-performance.md) — A free desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with the whole portfolio in one file you keep, so no vendor's closure can lock you out of it.
3. [Sharesight](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sharesight.md) — For the reports half, hosted rather than installed. Dividends, currencies and returns across brokers, with an importer that reads a CSV in any layout.
4. [Ghostfolio](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ghostfolio.md) — For a tracker you run yourself on a server rather than a desktop, open source, or 48 dollars a year if you would rather it were hosted.
5. [Stock Analysis](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/stockanalysis.md) — For the watchlists and alerts StockMarketEye kept beside the portfolio. Pro, at 79 dollars a year, carries 100 alerts; the three open-source picks have none.

## The product

StockMarketEye was a portfolio tracker you installed. Its download page, captured by the Internet
Archive in July 2023, offered builds for Windows 7 and later, macOS 10.10 and later on Intel and
Apple Silicon, and 64-bit Linux, licensed for up to eight devices, with a free companion app for
iOS and Android that synced with the desktop install and did not work without it. After a 14-day
trial it cost 74.99 dollars a year.

Its home page listed what that bought: unlimited portfolios, watchlists across stocks, ETFs,
mutual funds and currencies, brokerage-account import, dividend and cost-basis tracking,
multi-currency support, charts, stock alerts on the desktop and the phone, and performance reports
exported to PDF or CSV. It sold itself as the thing that replaces the spreadsheet, and for a
long-term investor who wanted a program rather than a website, it was one of a small number of
choices.

**What happened.** The dates come from StockMarketEye's own site.

- **5 September 2023.** A release note headed "StockMarketEye Update – September 2023" said the
  owners, who had bought the software some time before, had run into stabilisation costs, a
  troubled move from Yahoo's price data to Twelve Data and rising expenses, and that
  "StockMarketEye will cease its operations on September 26, 2023". It added that from 27
  September "accessing or exporting your data will NOT be possible".
- **26 September 2023.** The last day of service. By 29 September 2023 the domain carried a
  goodbye page, "StockMarketEye has ceased operations on September 26, 2023.", and by 25 October
  its home page redirected there.

Three weeks of notice, no named successor, and no word in the notice about refunds for the rest of
a paid year. The year the original developer started it and the date of the sale are reported
elsewhere; the notice gives neither.

## What to use instead

StockMarketEye did four jobs in one program: tracking a portfolio, running on your own computer,
putting it on your phone, and watching prices you did not own. Nothing in this catalogue does all
four, so split them.

**A desktop app that keeps the data with you.** [Wealthfolio](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/wealthfolio) is the nearest
shape: a desktop app, iOS and Android builds and a self-hosted option, with the portfolio in a
SQLite file on your machine. The app is free; Connect, at 29 dollars a year, syncs it across
devices, and higher Connect plans add broker connections through SnapTrade. [Portfolio
Performance](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/portfolio-performance) is the older and plainer one: free, Windows, macOS and
Linux, one file on your disk, and a read-only phone app. Its strength is reading broker PDF
statements, and its importer list leans heavily towards German-speaking banks, so a US investor
will write more CSV than they import.

**Reports without installing anything.** [Sharesight](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/sharesight) is hosted, not desktop,
but it covers the reporting side properly: multi-currency holdings, dividends and money-weighted
returns across brokers, with a few direct broker connections, email parsing for trade
confirmations, and a file importer that reads a CSV, a PDF or a screenshot in whatever layout you
have. The free plan stops at 10 holdings.

**Self-hosted.** If what you liked was owning the install rather than having a desktop window,
[Ghostfolio](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/ghostfolio) runs on your own server or Docker host and is open source, with a
hosted plan at 48 dollars a year. It has no broker connections at any tier; trades go in by hand,
by CSV or JSON, or through its import endpoint.

**Watchlists and alerts.** This is the piece the trackers drop. Wealthfolio's own card lists no
price alerts and no screening, and Portfolio Performance has no alerts either. [Stock
Analysis](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/stockanalysis) Pro, at 79 dollars a year, carries watchlists and 100 alerts beside
its financials and screener. It is a research site first, though a free account adds watchlists and
a portfolio that brokerage accounts can sync into.

## What you give up

**One program for the whole job.** StockMarketEye put the portfolio, the watchlists, the charts and
the alerts behind one licence. The local-first trackers above stop at tracking what you own, so
keeping an eye on what you do not own becomes a second account somewhere else.

**A phone that talks to the desktop for a single price.** The companion app came with the 74.99
dollar licence. Wealthfolio charges 29 dollars a year for sync between devices, and Portfolio
Performance's phone app is read-only, with its dashboards behind a subscription of 3 euros a month.

**A vendor answering the mail.** The two desktop picks are open-source projects, each built around
one lead developer. They cannot close the way StockMarketEye did, because the file and the
last release stay on your disk, but nobody is under contract to fix a price feed when it breaks.
Portfolio Performance's own manual warns that the free price feeds' terms have become more
restrictive over time.

## Migration notes

**Rebuild from your broker, not from StockMarketEye.** If you exported a CSV before 27 September
2023, it was StockMarketEye's report, not a transaction ledger every other tracker can read. The
safer source is the broker: download the full trade history and import that, then use the old
export to check the totals.

**Check cost basis once, deliberately.** Each tracker computes it its own way. Wealthfolio uses
FIFO only, Portfolio Performance offers FIFO or moving average, and Sharesight's tax reports follow the
rules of Australia, New Zealand and Canada. A realised gain that differs from StockMarketEye's figure is usually a method
difference, not an import error.

**Prices come from somebody's feed, again.** StockMarketEye's notice named Yahoo's "ever-changing
API policies" among its troubles. Wealthfolio uses Yahoo by default and Portfolio Performance lists
it among its feeds; both let you choose another provider, Portfolio Performance per security, which
is worth setting up before a feed fails rather than after.

## FAQ

### When exactly did StockMarketEye shut down?

On 26 September 2023. A release note on its own site, dated 5 September 2023 and signed by Chris, said StockMarketEye would cease operations on that date and that from 27 September accessing or exporting data would not be possible. By 29 September 2023 a goodbye page on the domain said it had ceased operations on 26 September 2023.

### Why did StockMarketEye close?

By the owners' own account, the software had needed more stabilisation work than they expected after they bought it, a move from Yahoo's price data to Twelve Data caused more problems than it solved, and operating costs kept rising. They named no successor and no buyer.

### Can I still get my StockMarketEye data out?

Not from StockMarketEye. The notice said exporting would stop working on 27 September 2023. Whatever you exported before that, a CSV or PDF report, is what you have, and every tracker on this page will ask for your trades again in its own format.

### Is there a desktop tracker like StockMarketEye that will not disappear?

Nothing is guaranteed, but the two desktop picks here are built so that a closure costs you less. Portfolio Performance and Wealthfolio are both open source and keep the portfolio in a file on your own disk, so if the project stops, the file and the last release still open.