Hey man. Wanted to PM you, but it may interest others too. IIRC, you mentioned you're using Blockfolio (smartphone app). Do you recommend it (the Android version)? Is it stable and does it have reliable alerts? I don't want to add my actual portfolio (for security reasons), but just to easily check candlestick charts and have price alerts on the go. I currently use a Bitcoin widget, but it just shows the current price and no alerts... Also, does Blockfolio show ads, and if yes, is there an ad-free (paid) version? I hate buggy and/or ad-based apps. The OCD in me... Thx!
Blockfolio... It's OK at the current stage. I liked it better in the first major version, it was minimal but stable. With every update the bugs got more, but also the features (which i mostly don't use anyway). At least the team is working quite hard to react to bugs and push updates. Grpahics got smoother, but i don'T get much from that.
Now for the alerts: They are well thought out, but you better make sure to check your power saving mode and always stay online with the app allowed to run in the background. It's pretty reliable then. Only one caveat, when for example you define an alert (say 3% price change in an hour), the timespan has to pass to raise an alert. So if BTC goes up/down 3% within 30 minutes, the app will alert you up to 30 minutes later. You could get alerted of a dip, check the price and see that it already bounced and it's over. I don't use alerts that much, so maybe i just haven't laid out alerts schemes that work good enough for me.
Ads: Well, there are ads, but all crypto related at least. There is a tiny bar, that is sometimes scrolling, to display the ads on the main screen, you'll get used to it and it doesn't interfere with operation much.
I don't use any trading functions, i am only tracking prices and view charts.
You should try it out, i'd say. Didn't find anything like that, apart from cryptowatch's mobile version of their web page, which i use when blockfolio leaves me hanging because of bugs.
EDIT: Oh, forgot about the pro version (paid) which should be ad free, afair. Who the fuck would even publish a paid app with ads anyway, i just asked myself...
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I used Blockfolio and it was ok.
But then switched to DELTA. I like the numbering format better, as Blockfolio uses abreviations for some numbers and i like seeing the whole digits.
Thanks to OutOfMemory for the mini-review of Blockfolio, and to _javi_ for pointing me to
Delta. I've just tried both apps, and, although both look nice and appear to do what I want, Delta wins hands down for its beautiful and fast user interface, ease of use, and clean, to-the-point information. So, I'm sticking with Delta for now, and see how it goes. The only bummer with Delta is that you need to pay $50/year if you want to have the Pro version (no ads), but the free version seems clean enough (I haven't seen any ads yet).
Thanks again to _javi_, for the pointer to Delta, which I wasn't aware of.
Euro-chart (Kraken) is stuck at 50,000 € due to a 250 BTC wall that is quickly eaten away...
21 BTC left now...
Aaaand... EATEN ALIVE! 50,008 € now!