The shortlist covers the 6 most visible direct iOS dividend-tracker competitors (plus Sharesight as an adjacent portfolio/tax tracker in the complaint data), drawn from discovery runs that merged 18 searches into 1,928 unique results and 1,132 structured records, researched 2026-10-14 with material through 2026. Complaint evidence spans 22 app–theme rows across four independent hosts; counts are source mentions, not unique users or installs.
Cell value = source mentions for that theme. Hover or tap a cell for the concrete complaint behind it. Sharesight is adjacent, not dividend-first.
Source mentions per app across 980 discovery results — visibility, not market share. Labels show App Store rating · rating count where extracted.
| App | Theme | Mentions | Example complaint | Latest seen | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharesight | Broker integration | 27 | Software not importing trades correctly so the Sharesight balance does not match the brokerage account balance; support repeatedly promised fixes by set dates that turned out to be lies, and after 3 weeks the user still | 2026-08-10 | productreview.com.au |
| Sharesight | Pricing | 27 | Sharesight removed the CGT report from the free plan a few months before end of financial year, making it paid-only, with the change taking effect the same day the email was sent and no trial, which the user calls deviou | 2026-05-28 | productreview.com.au |
| Sharesight | Customer support | 13 | Trades linked with CMC did not work, got no response for 3 days before tax time, and after an update both trading accounts are out by trades, dates and figures | 2026-05-12 | productreview.com.au |
| Sharesight | Missing feature | 12 | The app does not provide FIFO reporting, so the user has to manually calculate taxable gains | 2025-11-28 | trustmebro.reviews |
| Dividend Tracker: Stock Market by DivTracker LLC | Inaccurate dividend amounts | 11 | The dividend information appeared incorrect and outdated for every stock entered, making the user question the reliability of derived dividend growth rate and valuation information (later found to be due to a tax setting | 2026-08-13 | apps.apple.com |
| Dividend Tracker: Stock Market by DivTracker LLC | Missing feature | 10 | The app fails to provide a means to easily search and filter transactions. | 2026-08-13 | apps.apple.com |
| Dividend Tracker: Stock Market by DivTracker LLC | Data accuracy | 9 | The numbers the app retrieves are routinely inaccurate | 2025-05-06 | reddit.com |
| Dividend Tracker: Stock Market by DivTracker LLC | Pricing | 8 | The app wanted to charge the user for tracking more than 5 stocks, prompting them to stop using it | 2026-08-13 | reddit.com |
| Stock Events | Pricing | 18 | The user is not sure they like the app enough to spend $45/yr, which seems like a lot for an app | 2026-08-10 | reddit.com |
| Stock Events | Misleading chart / returns accuracy | 14 | The chart feature is inaccurate with invested/returns: it goes up every time there is a deposit, making it look like gains; the user wants a “returns” chart option showing portfolio growth based on gains from investments | 2026-08-10 | apps.apple.com |
| Stock Events | Data accuracy | 12 | Ticker data is constantly behind the market with expired or incomplete data sets, the app randomly indicates no internet connection so the portfolio can't update, it has gone down several times, and the paid analytics fu | 2026-08-10 | apps.apple.com |
| Stock Events | Inaccurate dividend predictions | 12 | Dividend predictions adjust up or down by 20% or more in a single week; the data sources are so inaccurate they are only directional, with errors corrected months after new dividend rates or extraordinary dividends are i | 2026-08-10 | apps.apple.com |
| Snowball Analytics | Broker integration | 7 | Snowball seems to have issues working with LPL brokers | 2026-06-12 | reddit.com |
| Snowball Analytics | Missing feature | 6 | The app fails to detect the correct ticker for newer IPOs, especially recycled tickers, and support only repeated instructions for swapping a holding that the user had already tried without fixing the wrong holding shown | 2026-08-10 | apps.apple.com |
| Snowball Analytics | Broker sync failure | 6 | Auto syncs have apparently been failing recently, forcing the user to manually click the update button | 2026-06-12 | reddit.com |
| Snowball Analytics | Notification settings bug | 4 | Certain notifications reset to off every time the user re-enables them, and the user asks support to help resolve the issue. | 2026-06-12 | apps.apple.com |
| The Dividend Tracker by The Dividend Tracker LLC | Broker integration | 4 | The user wishes the app added brokerage linking | 2026-08-14 | reddit.com |
| The Dividend Tracker by The Dividend Tracker LLC | Paywall / limited free tier | 3 | The calculator and full stock info are behind a pay wall even though many other sites offer them free; the app showed only a grey screen for the last month, and after that was fixed the user still cannot update holdings. | 2026-08-14 | apps.apple.com |
| The Dividend Tracker by The Dividend Tracker LLC | Broker sync failure | 3 | The user was always having trouble with the app and had to repeatedly re-link their brokerage account. | 2026-08-14 | apps.apple.com |
| The Dividend Tracker by The Dividend Tracker LLC | Missing feature | 3 | The app seems good so far, but the user can't find a fairly new CAD ETF that they hold, so they can't enter it into the app. | 2024-11-03 | reddit.com |
| Dividend Tracker | slow data updates | 1 | Sometimes slow to add new ETF/stocks and the dividends | 2025-10-02 | reddit.com |
| Dividend Tracker | Paywall / limited free tier | 1 | You have to pay to add more than 5 different ticker symbols | 2024-03-01 | reddit.com |
Shortlist of 6 direct iOS dividend-tracker apps plus adjacent Sharesight; 22 complaint-theme rows across 4 independent hosts (no single URL backs more than 3 rows). Researched 2026-10-14; discovery merged 8 searches into 980 unique results (593 app records), complaint scan merged 10 searches into 948 results (539 complaint records). Numbers are source mentions, not users, installs or market share; 12 raw themes grouped into 5 for the heatmap; example complaints trimmed to 220 characters in the table. Ratings are directional — storefront and extraction dates vary.