Not designed for portfolio management – Fidelity Investments Review

This app is designed by designers for designers — not regular people who just want to manage their portfolio quickly. For example: You can’t actually see the name of a security in your portfolio. It’s cut off in portfolio position table. If you tap on it, a pop up appears that STILL keeps the name cut off — despite the limitless screen real estate. To make matters worst, if you try to tap on half of the links for more information, it sends you to a web view of a broken link. The design principles of this app appear to be oriented toward (a) showing us a skyline and (b) showing us a “feed” that has lots of random/useless information even after customizing it, apparently as a platform for Fidelity to sell us us things like portfolio benchmarks and whatnot. This comes at at the cost of functionality, such as actually being able to see securities you hold in your own portfolio. Four years ago, Fidelity’s outdated app looked bad but functioned well. Today, it is slow, bloated, and functions poorly. But hey, skyline background.
Review by Vulgar demos on Fidelity Investments.