Best Gold Price Tracking Apps for iPhone (2026)
Disclosure: This article is published by Hearn Apps, LLC, the developer of Gold Tracker. We've done our best to describe competing apps accurately based on their App Store listings. Features change — if something is wrong, let us know.
Search for a gold price app on the App Store and most results are dealer storefronts. They're built to sell you coins and bars, not to help you manage what you already own. This ranking covers the five most notable options and what each one is actually useful for — with an honest look at where each falls short.
1. Gold Tracker — Best Overall
Free · iPhone & iPad · No account required
Gold Tracker is a free iPhone and iPad app for tracking live gold and silver spot prices, managing a physical precious metals portfolio, and calculating melt values. It covers gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in over 150 currencies across 8 weight units. It has been independently built since 2015 and is not affiliated with any dealer, financial institution, or investment firm — so the entire feature set is focused on managing what you own, not selling you more.
- Live spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium in over 150 currencies, with prices in troy ounces, grams, kilograms, and pennyweights.
- The Vault tracks every purchase as a separate lot — price paid, weight, date, and currency. It calculates average cost basis, tracks unrealized gain or loss per position in real time, and records realized profit when you sell. FIFO and LIFO accounting are both supported, and FX gain or loss is tracked separately if you bought in a different currency.
- Melt value calculators for gold (8K through 24K), silver (.400 through .999 plus custom purity), platinum, and palladium. Enter weight in any of eight units and get a live answer. The tool pawn shops and gold buyers reach for at the counter.
- Apple Watch and widgets — watch face complications, home screen widgets, and lock screen widgets. Check a price without opening the app.
- Local-first, no account required. Portfolio data stays on your device. iCloud sync is optional and encrypted. Gold Tracker doesn't store your vault data on its servers.
Gold Tracker doesn't have a marketplace, price alerts, or broader market tracking (stocks, crypto). If you want to shop for coins from your phone or get push notifications when gold hits a price target, you'll want a second app for that.
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2. APMEX — Best for Active Buyers
Free · iPhone · Account required · App Store
APMEX is one of the largest online precious metals dealers in the United States. Their app is primarily a mobile storefront — browse inventory, place orders, and manage your APMEX account from your phone. The core experience is buying, not tracking.
The portfolio tracker is more capable than most dealer apps: you can log holdings bought anywhere (not just from APMEX), enter your original purchase price, and see gain or loss against live spot prices. An account is required for this, and your data lives on APMEX's servers. It doesn't have lot-level FIFO/LIFO accounting, multi-currency tracking, or the weight unit flexibility of Gold Tracker's Vault — but for active APMEX buyers who want a basic holdings view alongside their shopping, it covers the essentials.
Spot price alerts are supported. Melt value calculators, Apple Watch, and lock screen widgets are not. For detailed cost basis tracking, multi-currency support, and melt value calculations, you'll need Gold Tracker alongside it.
See the full Gold Tracker vs. APMEX comparison.
3. Kitco Gold Live! — Best for Market Data
Free (ad-supported) · iPhone · No account required for prices and charts · App Store
Kitco is one of the most-cited precious metals news and data sources, and Gold Live! is their iPhone app. It's a market data app, not a dealer and not a portfolio manager — the focus is live prices, news, and charts across a wide range of assets.
Spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and a range of base metals and commodities are all covered, alongside forex pairs, crypto, and major stock indices. Kitco's news articles and market commentary are integrated throughout. For someone who follows precious metals as part of a broader macro picture, that breadth is genuinely useful. The app also has Apple Watch complications and a solid set of home screen and lock screen widgets — both more capable than what most competing apps offer.
The free version is ad-supported — users describe the banner ads as intrusive, and the app reportedly shows ads on exit as well. A paid subscription (around $3.99/month) removes them. Beyond the ads, Gold Live! doesn't have a portfolio tracker in any meaningful sense: there's a watchlist where you can follow specific metals and assets, but nothing that tracks cost basis, gain or loss, or lot-level purchase history. There are no melt value calculators.
Gold Live! ranks third here not because it's a worse app overall, but because it solves a different problem. If you want to know what your stack is worth or calculate the melt value of a piece of jewelry, it's the wrong tool. If you want a live pulse on the metals market with news and charts, it's well built.
See the full Gold Tracker vs. Gold Live! comparison.
4. JM Bullion — Best Dealer App for Browsing
Free · iPhone · Account required · iOS 16+ · App Store
JM Bullion is one of the larger US online bullion dealers, and their app is a shopping tool — browse products, check spot prices, place orders, and get alerts when a price target is hit or a product comes back in stock. The app underwent a full redesign in late 2025 and is actively maintained.
There's no portfolio tracker, no melt value calculators, no Apple Watch app, and no widgets. For people who buy primarily from JM Bullion and want a clean mobile shopping experience, it works well. For tracking what you own, it offers nothing.
Note: the app requires iOS 16 or later, which rules it out on older devices.
See the full Gold Tracker vs. JM Bullion comparison.
5. BullionVault — Best for Vaulted Gold Investors
Free · iPhone · Account required for trading · App Store
BullionVault is a different kind of platform. Instead of buying physical metals to take home, users buy allocated gold and silver stored in audited vaults in London, Zurich, New York, Toronto, and Singapore. The app is the mobile interface for that marketplace, with live prices and charts accessible without an account, and full trading and portfolio management available once you're logged in.
For account holders, the app shows current bullion balances, valuations, profit and loss, and recent order history. Trading commissions run from 0.5% down to 0.05% depending on volume. The focus is squarely on the BullionVault platform — there's no support for tracking physical metals you hold elsewhere, no melt value calculators, no Apple Watch app, and no widgets.
BullionVault belongs on this list because it's a legitimate way to own gold, just a fundamentally different one from buying coins and bars. If you're a physical stacker, this app has nothing to offer you day-to-day.
See the full Gold Tracker vs. BullionVault comparison.
Which app should you use?
That depends entirely on what you're trying to do. APMEX and JM Bullion are shopping apps for their respective marketplaces. Gold Live! is a market data and news feed. BullionVault is a trading platform for vaulted bullion.
If you own physical precious metals and want to track what they're worth, calculate melt values at the counter, and check prices from your watch face, Gold Tracker is the only app here built specifically for that. The lot-level vault tracking, melt value calculators, and Apple Watch support don't exist in any of the other apps in a form comparable to what Gold Tracker offers.
Information based on publicly available App Store listings as of April 2026. Features may change with app updates.