iPhone App
Updated Oct 8, 2026
The Whispertrades app for iPhone puts your account in your pocket: your balances and the day's numbers, your open positions and orders, what your bots are doing, your alerts, and the community. You can run research from it too: backtests and bot reports can be built and run from your phone.
It is a companion to the website, not a replacement for it. Get it on the App Store.
What it does not do
The app cannot open or close a position, place, change or cancel an order, turn a bot on or off, or flip the trading switch. That is a decision rather than an omission: placing trades is not part of the interface the app talks to, so even a phone someone else got hold of could not place a trade with it.
These stay on the website too: creating bots and changing their settings, connecting brokerage accounts, adding funds and billing, your password, two-factor authentication and email address, and setting up your community profile.
What you can change from the app: your backtests and bot reports, a bot's notes and tags, which errors you have seen, your notifications, your dashboard, your community posts, and your account itself, which you can create and close in the app.
Getting started
You need an iPhone running iOS 18.2 or later.
Install the app from the App Store.
Sign in with your Whispertrades email and password, or tap Create a free account. Creating an account asks for a name, an email address and a password, with the same rules as the website. Forgot your password? opens the website's reset page.
If your email address is not verified yet, the app waits at Verify your email. Tap the link in the email we sent (it opens the website and confirms your address), then come back and tap I have verified. Send the email again is there if the first one went astray.
If you use two-factor authentication, enter the code from your authenticator app. A recovery code works here too.
We email you each time the app signs in to your account, the same notice a new browser gets. A sign-in lasts a year.
The lock
The app asks for Face ID, or your iPhone passcode, when it opens and again when you come back to it after five minutes or more away. It is a screen lock, not a second sign-in: your account is already signed in. Sign out instead on the lock screen is always there, and it signs you out properly so you can sign back in with your password.
The lock needs your iPhone to have a passcode. If yours has none, set one in the iPhone's Settings, or the lock cannot open.
Finding your way around
Five tabs along the bottom:
Dashboard: your balances, the day's numbers, your portfolio chart and the cards you choose.
Bots: every bot, searchable and sortable. Each one opens to its positions, activity log, change history, performance and equity chart, with Backtest this bot, its tags and its notes. Reports is in this tab's top bar.
Positions: open and closed positions, filtered by status, bot, tag, broker, live or paper, and opened today, with a link to your Orders.
Research: your backtests, and GEX.
Community: the feed, your groups, the library of shared work and your messages. If your account does not have community access yet, the tab shows a padlock and explains how to get it.
Alerts and Settings are in the top right on every screen: the bell is the same inbox as the website's bell and shows a dot when something is unread, and the gear is Settings.
Making the dashboard yours
Tap the sliders icon in the top right of the Dashboard. You choose which tiles and cards appear and in what order, in one list. Drag a row by its handle to move it, and use its switch to show or hide it; with VoiceOver, each row offers Move up and Move down. The first tile you show is the headline, drawn full width, so put the number you open the app for at the top.
At Risk starts hidden: your open positions' total maximum loss, and its share of your account value. Positions whose loss has no defined limit, such as a naked short, are left out of the total, and the tile says how many.
Beside the tiles and the portfolio chart, cards bring the website's dashboard to the phone:
Today: the session's entries, exits, win rate and P/L beside the session before, and the bots that made and lost the most.
Accounts: each account's value, its option buying power and today's change. Shown when you have two or more live accounts.
Open positions: your newest open positions with their open and day P/L, and how many closed today. Tap one to open it.
Bots: the bots that need you first, with any errors, then today's P/L for each, and how many were paused this week.
Working orders: orders still being worked, with any the broker has not confirmed at the top. Tap one to open it.
Backtests: runs in progress and your newest results, with a shortcut to start a new one.
GEX: SPX's move today as a percentage, the move the options market still prices, the gamma regime, the put wall, flip and call wall, and where SPX sits among them. Tap it for the GEX screen.
Bot movers: the bots that moved the session most, with a bar showing how each move compares with the largest. Five show at first; Show all lists up to ten. Tap one to open it.
Market tape: how the symbols on your website tape moved, as percentages.
Capital at risk: your open positions' total maximum loss and its share of your account value, each account's share, and the positions whose loss has no defined limit, which the total leaves out. Tap one of those to open it.
Monthly returns: each month since your history start as a grid (tap a month to read it), then each year against your benchmark (SPX unless you chose another) with its P/L.
Execution quality: for each recent session with fills, the median spread capture and slippage against the mid, and the worst fill, which opens its order; above them, each session's slippage as a bar. Shown where execution analytics is available to your account, as on the website.
Community: the latest community activity for you, with a dot on what you have not seen, and what you have shared with its saves and likes. Shown while your community access is open.
Since start: your bots' return and P/L since your history start, against your benchmark, with the drawdown from the peak, the deepest drawdown, the trades closed and the win rate.
Bots now: where each enabled bot stands right now, such as blocked, waiting or able to enter, or when it next enters. Tap one to open it.
Drawdown: how far your bots' return stands below its peak now and the deepest it has been since your history start, with the curve's shape. Open chart shows the whole curve; turn your phone sideways for a wider view.
Until you have settled in, the Dashboard also shows the website's Get started checklist: verify your email, run your first backtest, create your first bot, connect a broker or a paper account, and turn on trading. Start runs the backtest step right in the app; the other steps happen on whispertrades.com, and How to get started opens the guide.
Changes save as you go, and they are kept with your account rather than the phone, so a new iPhone picks them up. Reset to default puts back the standard arrangement: Net Liquidation Value, SPX Beta Weight and Option Buying Power, the portfolio chart, Profit MTD and Profit YTD, then the Accounts, Open positions, Bot movers, Market tape, GEX, Monthly returns and Community cards. It is also what you see until you change anything. If you arranged your dashboard before a card existed, your arrangement is kept and the new card waits under Hidden.
Hiding a card also stops the app loading it, so a dashboard trimmed to what you actually read is a slightly faster one.
One account at a time
If you have more than one live account, or paper trading beside a live account, a picker sits at the top of the Dashboard, under the market line. It starts on All live accounts. Pick one account, or Paper, and the Dashboard follows: the tiles, the headline, the portfolio chart, the Today card, Recent activity and the account cards. The GEX, Market tape, Backtests and Community cards are the same whichever you pick. Inactive accounts are listed last, since they can still hold open positions. Tapping a row of the Accounts card shows that account too.
Whichever you pick, the numbers are the website's own:
The headline names the session it describes and whether its figure is still moving: Live, At close, Settling, Before fees or Final. Before the market opens, that is the previous session, as on the website.
Under one account, week, month and year to date count the bots on that account now.
On the Today card, Realized is the session's change on the trades it closed.
Paper's balances are cash only, and Paper has no history to chart and no beta weight.
Opening positions from a card while one account is shown opens Positions filtered to that account. The app remembers your choice while it stays open, and starts on All live accounts again the next time, as the website does.
Recent activity
Tap the clock in the top bar of the Dashboard to see what your bots have been doing, newest first. The clock carries a badge when there is activity you have not looked at, and an exclamation mark while an error is waiting for you.
Pick a level at the top: Errors, Warnings, Info or Verbose, each showing that level and everything more serious. Show older at the foot reaches back about a month.
Tap a row to open its bot. The ... on a row offers Mark seen for an error and Delete, which also removes it from the bot's log on the website. Mark errors seen at the top marks every error the list is showing.
Hiding your balances on the phone
Settings > Privacy > Hide dollar amounts.
A phone gets read over shoulders in a way a desk does not, so this switch belongs to that iPhone only. Turning it on shows *** in place of balances and P/L in the app and changes nothing on whispertrades.com. Percentages stay visible: they say how you are doing without saying how much you have.
If you have already turned on privacy mode for your whole account on the website, the phone is hidden either way and the switch says so.
Signing out from Settings clears it, along with everything else that phone remembers.
Charts
The portfolio chart is a card on the Dashboard, and you can move it in Customize like any other. It draws your bots against SPX on the Day, Week and Month ranges and against your benchmark (SPX unless you chose another) on All, plus the difference between them, and on the intraday ranges it can also show SPX beta weight and SPX expected move.
Tap the expand arrows in the card's top right to give the chart the whole screen, and the same button, now pointing inward, to put it back. The range chips stay with it either way.
Tap a legend entry to show or hide that line, which is how the last two get turned on. Touch and drag across the chart for a readout at that moment.
Closed markets take up no room on the axis: an overnight or a weekend is a single step, not an empty stretch, which is the same way the charts on the website read.
Research on your phone
Research > Backtests lists your backtests, with search and status filters; tap + to start a new one. A backtest someone shared with you opens read-only.
Building one: name it, pick the dates and the starting balance, then add positions. The first save creates a draft, which costs nothing.
Running it costs the same as on the website and comes out of your Whispertrades balance when the run starts. The app tells you the charge, or that your balance is too low, before you confirm. Funds are added on the website.
Once it has run you can run it again, stop it while it runs (the charge comes back to your balance), clone it, delete it, or Edit it, which erases its results and turns it back into a draft without charging anything until you run it again.
Backtest this bot, on a bot's screen, shows the estimated charge and your balance, and starts the run with one tap.
Spans, Run All, sharing, making a backtest public, comparing, exporting, notes and tags are on the website.
Reports, in the Bots tab, lists your bot reports and the ones shared with you. Creating a report and running it again are free. Editing a finished report clears its results and makes it private again, so the app asks you to confirm first.
The community on your phone
With community access, the Community tab carries the feed, your groups, the library of shared work, and your direct messages. You can post and reply in chat and discussions (text or a GIF), react, mention a member by typing @ and their handle, start a discussion, comment on shared work, follow members and threads, find and join public groups, delete your own posts, report a post, a conversation or a member, and block a member. Tap a picture to see it full screen, and pinch to zoom.
Some things are on the website only: attaching pictures or files, editing a post, creating or voting in a poll, and setting up or editing your community profile. Direct messages in the app are text only.
You can start a conversation from any member's profile: tap Message. It opens your conversation with them, or tells you when you cannot message that member yet. The rule is the website's: members you both follow, or who share a private group with you.
Notifications
Notifications are off until you turn them on, and it takes two steps. Doing only the first is the usual reason a phone stays quiet.
1. On the phone: open Settings in the app and tap Turn on notifications. iOS asks for permission; say yes.
2. Choose what should reach it. In the app, Settings > Manage notifications lists your alerts with a Push switch on each, and Push me on errors sets up your bot activity in one tap. On the website the same choices are under Settings > Notifications: the Push (mobile app) delivery method on a trade alert, and the Push column for bot activity. New trade alerts are created on the website.
Community alerts (direct messages, mentions, replies and the threads you follow) are on from the start, with one switch for all of them, Community alerts in the app's Settings. Notices about your account's security always arrive. Bot activity starts with push off.
If notifications stop arriving
You said no to the permission prompt. iOS only ever asks once. Go to iOS Settings > Whispertrades > Notifications and allow them there; the app's Settings screen offers you a shortcut.
Nothing is set to push. A phone with no alerts set to push receives only community alerts and security notices, which is the app working as configured.
The app says this iPhone is not registered yet. Tap Register this iPhone in the app's Settings.
You signed out. Signing out stops that phone receiving anything until you sign back in.
Turning them off
Stop notifications on this iPhone in the app's Settings, which leaves you signed in. Signing out stops them too.
Using it without a signal
Most screens keep the last numbers your phone saw, so the app opens to something rather than a spinner when you have no reception, and the screen says how old they are. Community threads and messages are never stored on the phone, so they need a connection.
Anything with a price attached is worth refreshing before you act on it.
Closing your account
Settings > Close your account closes the whole Whispertrades account, not just the phone's access. It asks for your password and for the word DELETE typed in capitals, and it will not proceed while any live bot is enabled or any live position is open, because closing the account removes the bots that manage them and does nothing at your broker. Everything that is deleted, and what is kept, is listed on the Close Account page.
Losing a phone
Sign out on the device if you still have it.
If you do not, go to Settings > Security > Signed-in phones on the website and sign that phone out, or use Sign out of the app everywhere. That immediately cuts off its access to your account and stops its notifications. Changing your password does not sign your phones out, so do this as well if you think someone else has your phone.
Getting help
Settings > Help and support opens your support conversations in a browser inside the app; the first time, you may need to sign in to the website there. It is the same ticket list as the website, so anything you start on one you can carry on from the other.
If you are writing about the app itself, tell us your iPhone model, your iOS version and the app version, which is shown at the bottom of the app's Settings.