The 7 best congress stock tracker apps in 2026

August 10, 2026·Updated August 27, 2026·15 min read

Seven apps you can actually install, ranked for one job: following what members of Congress disclose. Capitol Gains is the best dedicated congress app at $6.99 a month, StockInsider is the free one that works on both iOS and Android, and Capitol Trades Tracker is the only free congress-only app on Android. Every figure was re-checked on August 27, 2026.

The short answer

On iPhone, Capitol Gains is the purpose-built app: member profiles, committee context, and push when a member you bookmarked files, at $6.99 a month. On Android, the dedicated options thin out fast, and the free picks are StockInsider or the independent Capitol Trades Tracker. If you want to ask historical questions of the data rather than read the newest rows, Quiver Quantitative is the deepest, though as of August 27, 2026 it still will not show you its price without an account.

One thing to know before you start comparing: the best-known names in this category are not apps. Capitol Trades and TraderCongress are websites, and NANC and GOP are exchange-traded funds. They are covered further down in their own section rather than mixed into the ranking, because installing them is not an option.

How we ranked them

Every listicle ranking for this term puts its own product first without saying it owns it. So the criteria come before the list rather than being implied by it.

• It has to be an app. Everything in the ranked list has an App Store or Play listing we opened ourselves on the date shown, and the table records the title the store displayed rather than the name the vendor uses in its marketing. Four well-known tools failed this test and are kept in a separate section below, clearly labelled, because Google shows them on this query and you deserve to be told which of the results you cannot install.
• One job, not a general ranking. Within the apps, the order is how well each serves a single task: following what members of Congress disclose. An app can be excellent and rank low here because it is built for a different job.
• How much of the job is free. The filings are public records. An app that puts the disclosures themselves behind a paywall is charging for access to something the government publishes, and is marked down for it. Charging for depth, alerts or analysis is a different matter.
• Whether the data reaches you. This is the whole reason to want an app rather than a website. A page you have to remember to open loses to a notification that arrives, because the failure mode of every tracker is that you stop checking it. Per-filing push beats a digest; a digest beats nothing.
• Per-politician depth. Most people arrive wanting to follow a named person, not a feed. Apps with member pages, trading histories and committee context rank above apps that only show a chronological list.
• Whether the price is checkable. Every figure on this page carries the date we read it and a link to the page we read it from. Where a vendor does not publish a price, or blocked us, the table says so instead of borrowing a number from someone else's list.
• What we did not weigh. Returns. No entry is ranked on the performance of the trades it shows, because that is a claim about investing and this is a page about software. Nothing here is investment advice.

The seven apps compared

Figures re-checked August 27, 2026, against a previous full check on August 10, 2026. Cells reading “not verified” are not gaps in the research, they are the research. Each entry below states exactly what happened when we tried, including the HTTP status where a vendor blocked us.

The seven, in detail

1. 1. Dedicated congress-trade app

   Capitol Gains

   An iOS app built for one dataset: congressional disclosures, parsed from the House and Senate filings and scored for significance.

   App Store: Capitol Gains: Stock Tracker

   Best at

   Being the congress tracker that lives on your phone. Member profiles with committee assignments, a sector heatmap, and push when a bookmarked member trades. It is a purpose-built app rather than a dataset with an app attached, and as of 27 August 2026 the free tier no longer delays the feed.

   Bad at

   Everything that is not congress: no watchlist of your own holdings, no prices, no market view. It is iOS only, so on Android it is not an option at all. Push notifications sit behind Pro.

   Price

   Pro $6.99/mo or $49.99/yr

   Verified August 27, 2026

   Read from capitolgainsapp.com on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 200): “Pro — Full access to everything — $6.99 /month or $49.99/year (save 40%)”, against a Free tier listing “Live trade feed — no delay, updated as filings land”, “Browse all 173 tracked members”, “Basic analytics (overview, parties)” and “Up to 3 bookmarks”. Push notifications appear in the Pro column and locked in the free one. The App Store listing at id6760779864 resolved (301 to the canonical slug, then 200) as “Capitol Gains: Stock Tracker”, developer Sreejith Rajeevan, iOS 17.0+, with in-app purchases Pro (Monthly) $6.99 and Pro (Annual) $49.99. This is a change from our 10 August 2026 check, which recorded a 48-hour delay and 3 member profiles a day on the free tier. No Play listing exists: com.capitolgains.app returns HTTP 404 and a Play search finds no match.

   Check it yourself

2. 2. Free smart-money app

   StockInsider

   A phone app that puts institutional 13F filings, congressional disclosures and SEC Form 4 insider trades into one feed, on both iOS and Android.

   App Store: StockInsider: Stock TrackerGoogle Play: Stock Insider: Track Trades

   Best at

   Three filing types at once, on both platforms, with nothing to pay at the door. If the question is “what is smart money doing” rather than congress specifically, this is the cheapest way to watch politicians, funds and corporate insiders on one screen.

   Bad at

   What it costs once you are inside. The website still publishes no pricing page, and the App Store listing shows six different Pro in-app purchases ranging from $12.99 a month to $199.99 a year, which is not a price so much as a price range. The listing also carries an ads label.

   Price

   Free download with in-app purchases. App Store lists StockInsider Pro at $12.99, $14.99, $16.99 and $24.99 a month and $99.99 and $199.99 a year; no subscription price published on the vendor site

   Verified August 27, 2026

   The App Store listing at id6737145743 resolved on 27 August 2026 (301 to the canonical slug, then 200) as “StockInsider: Stock Tracker”, subtitle “Congress & Stock Market Trades”, marked “Free · In-App Purchases”, last updated 26 August 2026. The six in-app purchases are listed verbatim as StockInsider Pro 1 Month $12.99, $14.99 and $16.99, StockInsider Pro Monthly $24.99, StockInsider Pro 1 Year $99.99 and StockInsider Pro Yearly $199.99. The Play listing (com.stockcircle.app, developer plpl, 500+ downloads, updated 22 May 2026) shows “$16.99 - $99.99 per item” plus “Contains ads”. stockinsiderapp.com still has no pricing page, and its FAQ answer covers the download being free rather than the absence of a paid tier. **Correction, 27 August 2026:** this entry previously said that because the Android package name and the App Store URL slug both read stockcircle, this was “the Stockcircle app under a different name”. That was wrong, and re-checking it for our 13F comparison is what caught it. The Apple seller is TechParrot Innovations LLC and the Play developer “plpl” also publishes anime and film streaming apps; the app's own domain stockcircle.app redirects to stockinsiderapp.com; and stockcircle.com, operated by BIT Enterprises UG in Germany, links to no store listing on any of the ten pages we checked. The package name is a fossil of this app's original title, not evidence of ownership. The two products are unrelated.

   Check it yourself

3. 3. Alternative-data platform with an app

   Quiver Quantitative

   An alternative-data platform whose congressional trading dataset sits alongside lobbying, government contracts, insider filings, and a congressional backtester.

   App Store: Quiver QuantitativeGoogle Play: Quiver Quantitative

   Best at

   Depth. Politician search, a portfolio leaderboard and a backtester built on the congressional dataset. Nothing else here lets you ask historical questions of the data instead of reading the newest rows.

   Bad at

   Telling you what the app costs. The pricing page still shows no price to a logged-out visitor, which is a strange thing for the most-cited paid tracker in the category to do, and it has been strange for at least seventeen days.

   Price

   Platform price not verifiable, the pricing page redirects to signup. The separate Quiver API is priced openly at $30/mo, or $25/mo billed annually

   Not verified August 27, 2026

   On 27 August 2026, quiverquant.com/pricing/ still server-redirected to /register/?next=pricing and the resulting page contained no dollar figure of any kind. The only pricing-adjacent text was a banner reading “JULY 4TH SALE” and “50% off your first year of Quiver Premium”, a stale July promotion still live in late August, which is a discount with no base price attached. This is the same behaviour we recorded on 10 August. The Quiver API is a separate product and is priced openly: api.quiverquant.com/pricing returned HTTP 200 listing Hobbyist at $30.00/month billed monthly or $25.00/month billed annually, and Trader at $75.00/month or $62.50/month billed annually. Note how easily those two get conflated: a $25 figure attached to “Premium” is the API's annual rate wearing the platform's name, and it is already loose in several published comparisons. The apps themselves are easy to confirm even though the price is not: the App Store listing at id1568546369 (Quiver Quantitative, Inc.) and the Play listing com.cheesecake.quiverquantapp, listed as “Quiver Quantitative” by a developer of the same name, both resolved on 27 August 2026.

   Check it yourself

4. 4. Small independent Android app

   Capitol Trades Tracker

   A single-purpose Android app for congressional disclosures, from an independent developer, with no paid tier disclosed on its listing.

   Google Play: Capitol Trades Tracker

   Best at

   Being the free congress app that exists on Android. Capitol Gains is iOS only and the ETFs are not software, so on an Android phone the shortlist for a dedicated congress tracker is short, and this is on it at no cost.

   Bad at

   Everything you cannot check from outside. At 1,000+ downloads it is the smallest thing on this page, the listing states no notification behaviour, and there is no website or pricing page to read. Treat the blank cells below as genuinely blank rather than as a clean bill of health.

   Price

   No price published; the Play listing discloses no in-app purchases

   Verified August 27, 2026

   The Play listing for com.maikotrindade.insiderwatcher returned HTTP 200 on 27 August 2026, titled “Capitol Trades Tracker”, developer Jumbo Mob, 1,000+ downloads, updated 26 July 2026. It renders no “In-app purchases” and no “Contains ads” label, which is Play's own disclosure mechanism, so the absence of both is itself the evidence that there is nothing to pay. What is verified here is the listing, not the app's behaviour: we did not install it, the listing states nothing about notifications, and there is no vendor site to read. There is no iOS version. The developer's blog claims both stores, but an iTunes search for the app name, for “Maiko Trindade” and for “Jumbo Mob” returns no App Store listing. Note also that this app is unaffiliated with capitoltrades.com, which is a separate product from 2iQ Research and has no app at all.

   Check it yourself

5. 5. Options-flow platform with an app

   Unusual Whales

   An options-flow and market-data platform for active traders, with politician trade data included on its retail dashboard plans.

   App Store: Unusual Whales

   Best at

   Breadth for an active trader. Real-time options flow, dark pool prints, gamma exposure, screeners, an API and a mobile app. Congress is one dataset inside a platform that does far more.

   Bad at

   Being bought for congress data. The cheapest dashboard plan is $50 a month for a dataset two other apps here give away, and politician trades arrive as a download rather than as the centre of the product.

   Price

   Retail Basic $50/mo, Retail Pro $75/mo, Retail Max $120/mo, billed monthly. Annual and API tiers not verifiable, see note

   Verified August 27, 2026

   Read from unusualwhales.com/pricing on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 200): Retail Basic $50/mo, Retail Pro $75/mo marked “Most Popular”, and Retail Max $120/mo, each labelled “Billed monthly”, with a toggle reading “Annual saves up to $360 a year”. Those four figures are the only dollar amounts the page delivers. The API Access and Everything tiers, and every annual per-month price, are rendered client-side and print no number in the returned HTML, so we have not quoted them. Its FAQ says free accounts get 15-minute delayed data. “Politician Trade Information Download” is listed on all three retail tiers, described as monthly on Pro and Max; no cadence is stated for Basic. On the app itself: the App Store listing at id1514447510 (Unusual Whales Inc) resolved, but we could not find a Play listing. A Play search for the name and for “unusualwhales” returned nothing matching, four plausible package names all returned HTTP 404, and neither the homepage nor the pricing page links to Play. Android may exist and be hard to find; we are recording what we could and could not open rather than assuming.

   Check it yourself

6. 6. Options-flow terminal with an app

   InsiderFinance

   A trading analytics dashboard built around real-time options order flow and dark pool prints, with congress and insider trade pages alongside.

   App Store: InsiderFinanceGoogle Play: InsiderFinance

   Best at

   Order-flow analytics. The congress pages are real, including a dedicated congress trades view and a Nancy Pelosi page, but what people pay for is the flow dashboard and gamma exposure tooling.

   Bad at

   Value for this job. At $75 a month billed monthly it is the most expensive way here to read a disclosure feed, and the free tier covers options flow rather than the congress data.

   Price

   $75/mo monthly, $195 billed quarterly ($65/mo), $660 billed yearly ($55/mo)

   Verified August 27, 2026

   Read from insiderfinance.io/pricing on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 200), unchanged from our 10 August check: Monthly $75 “Billed Monthly”; Quarterly $65, shown as “$220 $195 Billed Quarterly” with “Save $120/Year”; Annual $55, shown as “$900 $660 Billed Yearly” with “Save $240/Year” and marked “MOST POPULAR”. The page describes the free option as “our free options flow”, and its footer links to Congress Trades and Nancy Pelosi Stock Trades pages. Both store listings resolved the same day: id6444453657 (InsiderFinance Intelligence LLC) on the App Store, and com.insiderfinance.dashboard on Play, listed simply as “InsiderFinance”.

   Check it yourself

7. 7. Daily market-monitoring app

   Our app

   Stockplus

   Our app: a watchlist, a morning AI briefing and price alerts, with congressional and insider filings as feeds inside it rather than as the product.

   App Store: StockPlus: AI Market TrackerGoogle Play: StockPlus: AI Market Tracker

   Best at

   Congress as one signal among several. The feed is free on both plans, and if a disclosure touches a ticker on your watchlist you can be told without opening anything, which none of the free options above will do.

   Bad at

   Congress depth, and we would rather say so here than have you find out after installing. There is a per-member screen, with that member's disclosed trades, their distinct ticker count, their last trade date and their median filing lag, and you can follow them. What is still missing: Senate filings, congress data on the stock detail screen, dollar amounts, and any backtesting or return figure. If those are why you are reading this, several apps above serve you better, and Capitol Gains is the one we would point you at.

   Price

   Free; Pro $3.99/mo

   Verified August 27, 2026

   This is our own product, so treat the row as a description rather than an independent check. Two details are easy to oversell and so worth stating precisely: the congress alert is a daily digest limited to tickers already on your watchlist, not a real-time push on every filing, and our direct reading of the filings covers the House Clerk only, so Senate rows and older House rows still reach us through a third-party aggregator. It is placed last of the seven apps because the ranking weighs congress depth, and a per-member screen covering one chamber is the shallowest version of it on this list.

   See what Stockplus does

What changed since the last check

Three of these moved between August 10, 2026 and August 27, 2026, which is the argument for dating a price rather than printing one.

• Capitol Gains dropped the free-tier delay. In August it advertised a 48-hour delay and three member profiles a day. Today the free plan reads “live trade feed, no delay, updated as filings land” with all 173 tracked members browsable. The three-bookmark limit and the Pro price are unchanged.
• StockInsider now has a readable price, on Apple’s page rather than its own. The website still publishes nothing. The App Store listing shows six separate Pro subscriptions between $12.99 a month and $199.99 a year, which is worth seeing before you install something described as free.
• Autopilot went dark. Its FAQ was readable in August. Today the whole domain returns HTTP 429 behind a security checkpoint, the same wall Capitol Trades sits behind.

The ones that rank for this query and are not apps

Search for a congress tracker app and Google will hand you all four of these. None of them has an App Store or Play listing. That does not make them bad, and one of them is the first place we would send a beginner. It does mean nothing arrives on your phone unless you go and look.

1. 8. Free browsable database

   Not an app

   Capitol Trades

   A free web database of congressional stock disclosures from 2iQ Research, browsable by politician, issuer, or trade with no account.

   No App Store or Play listing exists. It is a website you open in a browser.

   Best at

   Being free and unconditional. No signup wall, no trial, no tier that hides the trades. It is the default place to send someone who has never opened a Periodic Transaction Report.

   Bad at

   Reaching you. It is a website you have to remember to open, with no push and no app on either store. It also blocks automated access hard, which is why we could not verify a single figure below.

   Price

   Not verified on 27 August 2026, see note

   Not verified August 27, 2026

   Still blocked on 27 August 2026, exactly as on 10 August. A plain client gets HTTP 403 with a body reading “Forbidden”; a request with a normal browser user agent gets HTTP 429 and a page titled “Vercel Security Checkpoint”. No home page, no politician page, no pricing. Every cell is therefore marked unverified rather than filled in from memory or from somebody else's list. Open it in a normal browser and judge it yourself. Note also that the Android app called “Capitol Trades Tracker” is from an unrelated independent developer and is not this product.

   Check it yourself

2. 9. Subscription web dashboard

   Not an app

   TraderCongress

   A paid congressional-trading dashboard with government contract data alongside it, sold as a monthly subscription and delivered entirely in the browser.

   No App Store or Play listing exists. It is a web dashboard with email alerts.

   Best at

   Publishing its price where you can read it. Both tiers, their limits and the annual rate are stated on the page in plain text, which puts it ahead of the most-cited paid tool in this category.

   Bad at

   The one thing this page is about. There is no iOS app and no Android app, so its alerts are in-app and email only, and a 60-day data delay on the free tier is longer than the disclosure deadline that caused the delay in the first place.

   Price

   Pro $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr

   Verified August 27, 2026

   Read from tradercongress.com on 27 August 2026 (HTTP 200). Its own FAQ data reads “We offer two plans: Free and Pro ($9.99/month or $99.99/year)”, and the plan record gives monthly_price 999 and annual_price 9999, matching. The free plan lists “Congress trades (60-day delay)”, “Gov contracts (60-day delay)” and “3 watchlist slots”, with alerts_max 1. Ignore the “going up to $49/mo soon” banner: $49 is an anchor price, not a charged one. There are no App Store or Play links anywhere in the page source, and no store listing exists, so we have listed it here rather than among the apps despite it being the highest-ranking website on this query.

   Check it yourself

3. 10. Exchange-traded funds

   Not an app

   NANC and GOP ETFs

   Two Subversive ETFs that hold baskets of the equities disclosed by Democratic (NANC) and Republican (GOP) members of Congress and their spouses.

   No App Store or Play listing exists. It is two funds you buy through a broker.

   Best at

   Requiring nothing of you. No app to open and no feed to read: exposure built from the same disclosures, rebalanced by someone else, inside a normal brokerage account.

   Bad at

   Being a tracker, which they are not. You cannot see who traded what or follow a member, and the funds carry the same disclosure lag plus their own rebalancing schedule. Listed because searches for congress trackers keep landing here.

   Price

   Expense ratio: NANC 0.72%, GOP 0.73%

   Verified August 27, 2026

   Read from the issuer's own fund pages on 27 August 2026, both HTTP 200. NANC, the Subversive Congressional Democrats Trading ETF: expense ratio 0.72%, net assets $285.72m, NAV $51.25, data as of 26 August 2026. GOP, the Subversive Congressional Republicans Trading ETF: expense ratio 0.73%, net assets $93.21m, NAV $44.39, same date. The two ratios are one basis point apart, so a list quoting a single shared figure for both has not read either page. Note the ticker as well: the issuer states “As of 03.21.2025, KRUZ changed its ticker to GOP”, and the funds now sit under the Subversive ETFs brand rather than the Unusual Whales one. Any list still saying KRUZ has not been re-checked since March 2025.

   Check it yourself

4. 11. Copy-trading apps

   Not an app

   Autopilot and dub

   Two apps that do not show you congressional trades so much as execute them: you allocate money to a portfolio and the app mirrors the disclosed trades in your brokerage account.

   No App Store or Play listing exists. It is apps, but ones that trade for you instead of telling you anything.

   Best at

   Turning a disclosure into a position without you doing anything. Both are regulated, with Autopilot Advisers and dub's family of companies SEC-registered, and both run congressional portfolios.

   Bad at

   Transparency about cost, and about what you are buying. Neither publishes a price we could read on either of our two attempts, and copying a 45-day-old trade at today's price is a materially different act from reading it. Nothing here is investment advice, and these two least of all.

   Price

   No price published on either vendor site

   Not verified August 27, 2026

   Neither published a figure we could retrieve on 27 August 2026, and the reasons differ. joinautopilot.com is now blocked outright: /pricing, /faq and the homepage all return HTTP 429 behind a page titled “Vercel Security Checkpoint”, the same wall Capitol Trades sits behind. That is a change from 10 August, when the FAQ was readable and answered “How do your subscriptions work?” without naming an amount. dubapp.com is not blocked, it simply has no pricing page: /pricing and /plans both return HTTP 404, the sitemap lists no pricing URL at all, and the only dollar figures on the site are funding announcements and SIPC coverage. Secondary write-ups quote numbers for both; we have not repeated them, because a figure we could not see on the vendor's own page is exactly what ends up wrong on every list that copies it.

   Check it yourself

If you just want it free

Start below the tools. The disclosures are free public records published by both chambers, at disclosures-clerk.house.gov and efdsearch.senate.gov, with no account and no fee. They are unpleasant to use, one chamber at a time, by person rather than by ticker, House reports as individual PDFs, but they are the only place to settle a disagreement between two trackers, and every app here is downstream of them.

Above that, the free picks differ by platform. On both stores, StockInsider costs nothing to download and widens the question from Congress to 13F filings and corporate insiders at once. On Android only, Capitol Trades Tracker is free with no in-app purchases disclosed. On iPhone, Capitol Gains now gives away an undelayed feed and all 173 members. Stockplus keeps its congress and insider feeds on the free plan, which matters only if you want a watchlist and prices around them. And Capitol Trades, though not an app, remains the most generous free browsing experience in the category.

What none of them can fix is the age of the data. The STOCK Act’s reporting deadline gives a filer 30 days from being notified of a transaction and never more than 45 days from the trade itself, so a fully compliant filing can describe something six weeks old. Free or paid, no app is fresher than the deadline the filer was working to.

If you want alerts

This is the whole reason to want an app rather than a bookmark, so be precise about what each one sends.

• Per-filing push, on a named member: Capitol Gains. Bookmark members and it notifies you when they trade, when a large trade lands, or when its scoring flags one as notable. It is the closest thing here to a real-time alert on an individual politician, on Pro at $6.99 a month. Note that push sits in the Pro column, not the free one.
• Alerts on tracked filers, free to start: StockInsider advertises real-time alerts when a tracked investor, politician or insider files. We could not test delivery, and the six Pro subscriptions on its App Store listing are the reason to check what stays free before relying on it.
• Alerts inside a trading platform: Unusual Whales has a mature custom-alert system with push and a mobile app, but built around options flow. Politician data arrives as a download rather than as an alert stream, from $50 a month.
• A daily digest scoped to what you own: Stockplus, ours. Opt in and it pushes one digest when a new disclosure touches a ticker already on your watchlist, three tickers on the free plan and every one of them on Pro. It is deliberately not a real-time push on every filing, and it will never tell you that a particular member traded, because it has no per-politician view. If your question is “did anyone in Congress touch something I hold”, that fits. If it is “what did this senator do this week”, it does not.
• Nothing on your phone: Capitol Trades, TraderCongress and the two ETFs. TraderCongress does send alerts, but as in-app notifications and a daily email, because it has no app to push from. Autopilot and dub sit outside the question entirely: they act on the filing instead of telling you about it, which is a different decision with its own costs.

One thing worth knowing before you pay for alerts

An alert on a congressional filing is not an alert on a trade. The event announced is a disclosure; the trade behind it happened up to 45 days earlier. Notification speed decides whether you learn about a filing today or a fortnight from now, but no amount of it makes the underlying information current. Nothing here is investment advice.

Where to read next

• Congress stock trades, explained covers what a Periodic Transaction Report contains, what it leaves out, and why the amounts are brackets rather than numbers.
• How to track congress stock trades walks the three routes in full: the official portals, the tracker sites, and the apps.
• The best stock alert apps applies the same test to price alerts, where only two of the apps we checked support a percent-change trigger.
• Quiver Quantitative alternatives is the page to read if the depth is right but the terminal is not.
• Stockplus vs Unusual Whales has the full feature table, including where they beat us.