Congressional trade disclosure tracker
StockPlus vs Capitol Trades
A free website that publishes US congressional stock trade disclosures, browsable by politician, by issuer and by filing.
Choose StockPlus if
Delivery. Capitol Trades is a website you have to remember to visit; it has no mobile app as of August 2026, so nothing reaches you. StockPlus turns the same public filings into a push notification when one touches a ticker on your watchlist, alongside prices, alerts and a morning briefing.
Choose Capitol Trades if
The data, and the price. Capitol Trades presents congressional disclosures more thoroughly than StockPlus does — per-politician and per-issuer pages, filterable filings — and it costs nothing to browse. If you want to research who traded what, go there and do not pay anyone.
Feature by feature
| Feature | StockPlus | Capitol Trades |
|---|---|---|
| Daily AI market briefing | Yes — one two-minute AI briefing every morning | No |
| Real-time watchlist | Yes | No watchlist — the site is browsed by politician or by issuer |
| Price alerts | Yes — price and percent-change alerts | No |
| Congressional trade feed | Yes | Yes — the entire product, and in more depth than StockPlus |
| Insider trade feed | Yes | No |
| Earnings calendar | Yes — with reminders | No |
| Single score per stock | Pulse Score, 0–100 per ticker | No |
| Mobile app | Yes — iOS and Android | No app as of August 2026 — a website only |
| Free tier | Yes | The whole site is free to browse |
| Paid price | Pro, $2.99/mo | No consumer subscription — free to browse, as of August 2026 |
The verdict
This one is easy to be honest about: if all you want is to read congressional disclosures, use Capitol Trades, it is free and it is better at that than we are. StockPlus is worth paying for only if you want the filings to find you — on a phone, next to the rest of your watchlist — rather than remembering to go and look.
Capitol Trades details last verified August 14, 2026 from their own site. Pricing and features change — check with them before deciding.
Questions people ask
Is Capitol Trades free?
Yes, the site is free to browse and there is no consumer subscription as of August 2026. The underlying congressional disclosures are public records, so nobody has to charge for access to them.
Does Capitol Trades have an app?
Not as of August 2026. An App Store search returns only third-party congress trackers from unrelated developers. That means no push notifications — you have to visit the site to see anything new.
Why use StockPlus if Capitol Trades is free?
Only for delivery and context. StockPlus pushes a digest when a filing touches a ticker you follow, and shows it beside prices, alerts, insider filings and a daily briefing. If you would rather browse the disclosures yourself, Capitol Trades is free and more thorough on that dataset.
Which is faster at showing a congressional trade?
Neither can beat the disclosure deadline. Under the STOCK Act a filing can describe a trade up to 45 days old, so whoever shows it to you is showing you the same late document. The difference is whether you find out because you checked, or because your phone told you.
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Free to start, no card required. One AI briefing each morning, a live watchlist, and alerts that actually matter.