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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Censorship. This site is loaded with extreme right wing types who are free to comment without being censored. Liberal points of view are highly censored. The home of racists, Christian Nationalists and other unsavory groups.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Racist and discriminatory company. Racist and discriminatory company that mistreats people of color. Wouldn’t recommend supporting their products. Mobile app is a shell of its site. Lotta spammy content.

3. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   No more portfolio tracking. The great portfolio tracking feature will no longer update without a subscription. It was the one thing that kept me coming back to SA. Was a subscriber for years until many of the articles became nothing but clickbait with little to no substantial value. Leo Nelisson was excellent but I couldn’t justify a $300/yr subscription for only one contributor that was of any value to me. Maybe things will change for the better in the future.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Terrible update. Very little works now. Will not stay on the Portfolios tab, which is my preferred starting page. The customization page does not work and requires closing the app to exit.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Exceptional. The commentary from the various writers on this platform are truly amazing, exceptional and inspiring !! I have been a subscriber for several years now and woefully grateful to this EXCEPTIONAL PLATFORM !! Those not subscribing are truly missing out ! Cudo’s to Seeking Alpha !!!!

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Freedom Of Speech not Tolerated/Many Bugs. Tons of pro-Trump writers and articles but if you say one tiny thing negative (site is run by Israelis) you’ll get banned. If you say anything about either one that’s not praising them you will get censored. Many have been banned. Their censorship is draconian. There are better sites nowadays for free this one has jumped the shark.. And the bugs! Constantly makes my phone get extremely hot and slows down making it unusable. It was unusable a year or so ago but it’s still just awful and $300 a year? No thanks Tom Hanks.

7. ★★★★★аналитика и графики

   This is the worst app I have ever used.. Don’t waste your money on this piece of junk. Instead use Claude to plan to specific investment strategies based on investment behaviors. Seeking Alpha is a consistent money graber and in my opinion a complete scam. They pay YouTuber to promote their garbage products and do false return claims by manipulating and changing the portfolio investment. Anytime a stock perform poorly from their alpha picks, they will quickly remove it to showcase they have beat the S&P500, but it’s a lie as they already get rise of the all their losers and only showing their winners. Stay away and invest your money into broad market instead. Don’t get scammed. Also their customer service is a joke. They will never respond to your emails and never help if you need any. Worst service in the market. What a lie and a big disgrace!

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Be very careful with the subscription. I had an unfortunate experience with the subscription renewal. I forgot to cancel before the renewal date and was charged automatically. I understand this is part of the terms, but what disappointed me is that the company refused to offer any refund, even though I contacted them shortly after the charge and did not use the service during the renewed period. I tried reaching out to support and even requested a case review, but the response was still a firm no-refund. Just a heads-up for others: make sure to cancel well in advance if you don’t plan to continue, because once you’re charged, it’s very difficult to get your money back. Be cautious with the auto-renewal policy.

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Rip. $300 for an annual subscription is a major ripoff.

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    How to share a stock?. The ui is too complicated and complicated. Where is the button to share a stock?

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Notifications are Garbage. For YEARS you have failed to fix your notification badges in iOS. You appear to just not GAF.

12. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Sometimes barely readable. Site is so slow it’s sometimes unusable in addition the any comment they personally don’t like

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Unusable. There are much better research and screener apps out there. This one absolutely does not work on IOS 18. It consumes 100% of the CPU and if you’re lucky the Trending Analysis section will load after a couple of minutes. Not so much for all of the other tabs. Those are simply a gray screen while the app turns your phone into a hand warmer. The website on an iPhone using Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Safari is not much better (if you can get past all of the login errors). Eventually something might load but not before your phone overheats.

14. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    sluggish buggy app. with terrible ergonomic

15. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Super Laggy!. I’m not sure why but whenever I’m updating my port and I have to type anything in there is a lag of about 10 seconds every time I press a letter or number. I have to sit for 45 seconds to type out a triple digit number…

16. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Super buggy. Can’t link accounts for days and it’s not getting fixed. Tech support has not helped at all.

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Censorship - AI Analysis. I will look forward to cancelling my subscription. I’ve been permanently censored and can no longer post any comments without a warning and censorship. I pointed out the fact than an author had numerous technical errors in their article and much of the information was AI generated. Since then Seeking Alpha has permanently banned my account from posting any comments or questions to the various authors. This makes a crowdsourcing financial website useless. I will be canceling my subscription. Even after 6 months, I’m still shadow banned from posting anything. A normal website would give a warning or provide a path to recovery. However, customer service is non existent and they do not respond.

18. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Price alerts no longer work. Price alerts no longer work after the latest update. It’s also not possible to contact SA support. If it isn’t fixed in a few days I’ll cancel my premium sub and file for fraud with my CC because the product isn’t working. What makes it worse is they don’t allow you to contact SA support, their FAQ section is garbage.

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Greedy company & sarcastic attitude from support. Seeking Alpha’s aggressive implementation of high cost subscriptions is indicative of a greedy company taking advantage of an established customer base which will drive them to seek alternative services. Our 2024-25 seeking Alpha Premium and Alpha Picks subscriptions have been a usability nightmare after updating the SA App that rendered it unusable for several months. 1-21-2026 Update: received the following response from SA. Still no action just a load of verbal diarrhea. “”We appreciate your feedback regarding the subscription costs and the challenges you've faced with the app. It's concerning to hear about your experience, especially with the usability issues following the update. Your insights are valuable, and we take them seriously as we work to enhance the experience for all users. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!"””

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Keeps making me relink brokerage. Keeps having me relink my brokerage account like no bro im not gonna keep giving you my information because you fail to have a reliable system

21. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Buggy. App is slow and buggy probably needs an update

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Too many ads. This app was great in the past. It has so many ads now it’s almost not usable unless you upgrade to premium.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Customer service won’t respond. Sent a cancellation request per their policy. Got an initial response, then they ghosted me. Even opened a new ticket and nothing. Looked them up in BBB and they have a rating of around 1 out of 5. Their tools aren’t nearly as good as competitors. Use Tipranks instead!

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    What doesn’t work. I enjoy SA and have subscribed to several authors and follow a few more. My problem, and SA has not helped me solve it, is that I frequently can not open a notification, and sometimes an email on my iPhone 14. This is incredibly frustrating. Sometimes in frustration I delete the app and re-install, but that wiped out the notifications. I continue to use them, but at least one author has moved to Discord and I follow him there.

25. ★★★★★login, signup and account access

    Disorganized. Unable to either sign in or create a new account. App says will send an email to me as a link. Never received. A mess and losing customers because of this.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    They advertise on their Home Screen app icon. Been a subscriber for year and the content is top notch. However, they have turned their icon, on my Home Screen, into an advertisement for a Black Friday Sale. This is unacceptable. There is no option to change the icon. I do not want my Home Screen to turn into opportunistic advertisements. This is not putting your paying customer first.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    How can one respect an App or service that changes its logo for Black Friday!. How can one respect an App or service that changes its logo or logo for Black Friday sale! Are you really that desperate for money? SMH.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    AI generated slop. They are charging money to have access to AI slop articles and content. Also the place is highly politicized. So much partisanship.

29. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Seeking Alpha Overrated and Overpriced. Around 10 years ago, Seeking Alpha was free. It was much a better source of information at that time because there weee so, so many contributors and sources to draw all kinds of information from. I spent a great deal of my free time communicating with numerous people, on all sorts of topics that affected my trading habits and knowledge on so, so many topics. I find Serking Alpha today to be just another money making App and not nearly as beneficial as it once was. Sorry Seeking Aloha, but there are much better places to get the knowledge I need and many are free to use and as good or better, than Seeking Alpha, once was.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Bottom of the barrel app. This is perhaps the worst financial app ever created