RANKED #1

GoldLens

Best overall gold price app for Canadians

★★★★★ 5.0 on the Canadian App Store (2 ratings)  ·  1,000+ Google Play installs

GoldLens is the app I hand to people who ask me "what should I put on my phone" and do not want a lecture. It does the four things a Canadian metals owner needs, it does them in Canadian dollars, and it does not ask for a credit card at any point. Live spot on gold, silver, platinum and palladium refreshed every few minutes. Interactive charts across multiple timeframes, going back five years. Custom alerts delivered by both push and email, with a Do Not Disturb override so a 3am breakout still gets through. And a portfolio view where you log the coins, bars and rounds you actually own and watch the position value move.

The feature I did not expect to like is the macro panel. Copper, oil, the US dollar index, the S&P 500, the 10 year yield, the VIX and the Fed funds rate all sit on one screen next to the metal. After two decades of explaining to readers that gold does not move in a vacuum, it is refreshing to have an app that just shows you the vacuum's contents.

There is also a daily prediction game, Predict & Play, with a leaderboard and badges. I rolled my eyes at it. Then I found myself checking in every morning for eleven days straight, which is more consistent than I have been about anything else on my phone. Whatever it takes to build the habit of looking at the market before you buy, rather than after.

The honest caveat: this is a young app. Two App Store ratings is not a track record, and Google Play has not yet displayed a star rating because there are too few reviews. I am ranking it first on what it does, not on how many people have found it. If you want the safety of a large crowd, Kitco at number two is the answer. If you want the best free experience with CAD built in, this is it.

#2

Kitco Gold Live!

The Canadian institution, and still the deepest free data set

★★★★★ 4.7 iOS Canada (1,356 ratings)  ·  4.0 Google Play (5.2K reviews, 1M+ downloads)

Kitco has been headquartered in Montreal since 1977, and for a lot of Canadians of my vintage kitco.com was the gold price. The app, officially "Gold Live! Gold Price, Silver", is the most information-dense free option on this list by a wide margin: gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium, plus base metals like copper, nickel and uranium, plus crypto, plus the major indices. CAD sits first in its currency list, which tells you who they think is using it.

Two things keep it worth having even if you never open the news tab. First, home screen and lock screen widgets plus Apple Watch complications, which nothing else on this list confirms. Second, the Kitco Gold Index, which strips out the US dollar's contribution so you can see whether gold actually moved or the greenback did. For a Canadian holding metal, that distinction is the whole ballgame.

The Android build is the problem. It rates a full 0.7 stars below the iPhone version and carries ads. I have written a longer Kitco review covering the dealer side of the business, which is a separate question from the app.

#3

Investing.com

Best if gold is one line in a bigger portfolio

★★★★★ 4.7 iOS Canada (9.7K ratings)  ·  4.6 Google Play (1.09M reviews, 50M+ downloads)

If you hold gold alongside equities, bonds and a couple of ETFs, this is the app that puts them in one watchlist. Gold, silver, copper and platinum are all covered as commodities, alerts can trigger on price, percentage move or volume, and the economic calendar is legitimately good. When gold spikes at 8:30am ET, Investing.com is usually where I go to find out which data release caused it.

It is not a metals app, though, and that shows. Gold is one instrument among hundreds of thousands. There is no per-gram pricing, no karat breakdown, no dealer premium context. The free tier carries ads and the InvestingPro upsell is persistent, running from $21.99 a month to $659.99 a year for the top tier on the Canadian App Store.

#4

Yahoo Finance

Best free option if you own gold ETFs or miners on the TSX

★★★★★ 4.7 iOS Canada (136,865 ratings)  ·  4.5 Google Play (242K reviews, 10M+ downloads)

Yahoo Finance quotes TSX listings natively, which means Canadian gold ETFs and Canadian-listed miners sit in the same watchlist as COMEX gold futures. If your gold exposure is paper rather than metal, this is the free app that handles it best. My own use case is narrow but constant: one watchlist with gold futures, the CAD/USD pair and three Canadian miners, checked once a day.

What it will not do is bullion. Gold futures quote in USD per ounce, so you are converting by hand, and there is no per-gram view, no karat pricing and no premium context. If your holdings are ETF-shaped rather than coin-shaped, our guide on how to invest in gold ETFs in Canada covers the tickers worth watching.

#5

TradingView

Best charts, full stop, if you can handle the learning curve

★★★★★ 4.8 iOS Canada (56K ratings)  ·  4.7 Google Play (934K reviews, 50M+ downloads)

Nothing else here charts gold the way TradingView does. Ten-plus chart types including Renko and Kagi, a full drawing toolkit, custom Pine Script indicators, and Bar Replay so you can step through the 2011 top or the 2020 breakout candle by candle. I have used it to settle more than one argument about whether a support level was real.

It is also the most over-specified app on this list for someone who just wants to know if gold is up. The free tier has ads, the plans run to $1,199.99 a year, and the store lists it 16+. Treat it as a research tool you open occasionally, not the app you glance at in line for coffee.

#6

Wealthsimple

The only Canadian app where you can buy real gold inside a registered account

★★★★★ 4.6 iOS Canada (129,452 ratings)  ·  4.1 Google Play (80.9K reviews, 1M+ downloads)

This one is on the list for a reason that has nothing to do with price tracking. Wealthsimple now sells physically backed gold directly in the app, priced in Canadian dollars, in limited-edition 1 oz and 1/10 oz Royal Canadian Mint coins, with metal held at the Royal Canadian Mint and Brinks. Storage is free, the minimum is $1 because it is fractional, and it trades 24/7. Gold is available across their self-directed accounts, registered ones included, which is the part that matters if you have been reading this site for the RRSP angle.

Read the fees before you get excited. The standard trading fee is 1% on the buy and 1% on the sell, so 2% round trip, and physical redemption costs 2.25% on a 1 oz coin or 11% on a 1/10 oz. Redemption is only available from non-registered accounts. Against a low-MER Canadian gold ETF, that 2% round trip takes roughly three years of holding before it comes out ahead. If you are weighing metal against paper inside a registered plan, our piece on why add gold to your RRSP walks through the eligibility rules.

#7

Gold Price Live

The deepest history archive, in 26 currencies

★★★★★ 2.7 iOS Canada (11 ratings)  ·  3.7 Google Play (5.46K reviews, 1M+ downloads)

From the team behind goldprice.org, live since 2002. Its one genuinely unique feature is the archive: charts stretching back 46 years, plus gold to silver ratio charts and performance views across 20 year windows. When I need to show someone what gold did through the 1980 spike and the two decades of nothing that followed, this is what I open. CAD is in the currency list along with 25 others, and it handles ounces, grams and kilos.

Everything else about it feels like 2013. No price alerts. No widget. No portfolio. Ads throughout, and the iOS rating of 2.7 tells you how that lands with users. Keep it as a reference tool, not a daily driver.

#8

Au Bullion

A Canadian dealer app that also does spot alerts

★★★★★ 4.9 iOS Canada (8 ratings)  ·  3.5 Google Play (8 reviews)

Au Bullion is the rare combination of live spot charts across all four precious metals, user-set price alerts, market news and a full buy flow with order history and a wishlist. In other words, you can see the number and act on it without leaving the app. That is genuinely uncommon among Canadian dealers.

The catch is that eight ratings on each store is not a sample, it is an anecdote. A 4.9 built on eight reviews and a 3.5 built on eight reviews are the same information: not enough. Worth trying, worth verifying the price against a second source before you commit money. And if you are buying from any dealer you have not used before, read how to avoid gold fraud first.

#9

Silver Gold Bull

Calgary based, strong dealer, average app

★★★★★ 4.9 iOS Canada (10 ratings)  ·  4.4 Google Play (73 reviews, 10K+ downloads)

Silver Gold Bull runs out of Calgary with a distribution centre there and another in Las Vegas, and it is one of the more established names for Canadians buying bullion for registered accounts. The app shows live spot, lets you buy, sell and trade, and surfaces the weekly flash sales.

Where it falls down is engineering. Multiple Android reviewers describe it as a web view rather than a native app, with one flatly asking what the point is when it does not remember a login. There are also two separate Android builds, a Canadian one and a US one, which is confusing. The company is stronger than the app, and I go into that in our full Silver Gold Bull review.

#10

BullionVault

A live order board, with a Toronto vault

★★★★★ 4.8 iOS Canada (17 ratings)  ·  4.3 Google Play (2.3K reviews, 500K+ downloads)

BullionVault is the closest thing to a real exchange in the retail bullion world: a 24/7 order board where you set your own bid rather than accepting a dealer's ask. Commission runs from 0.5% down to 0.05% as your twelve month volume climbs, storage is 0.12% a year on gold with a $4 monthly minimum. Vaults sit in London, Zurich, New York, Singapore and Toronto, which is the part Canadians care about.

The Canadian catch: CAD is not a settlement currency. Charges are in US dollars, euros, pounds or yen, so you take an FX conversion going in and another coming out. CAD appears on their charts, not in your account. Price it accordingly.

#11

OneGold

Vaulted metal with dollar cost averaging built in

★★★★★ 4.6 iOS Canada (167 ratings)  ·  4.4 Google Play (~5.1K reviews, 100K+ downloads)

Backed by APMEX and Sprott, insured through Lloyd's of London, with vaults in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The standout feature is AutoInvest, which buys on a daily, weekly, monthly or quarterly schedule. For anyone who has ever tried and failed to time a bullion purchase, and I include myself in that group across at least three cycles, an automated schedule is a better plan than a good instinct.

Canadians can open accounts, but the app is iPhone only on iOS with no iPad version, CAD support is not stated anywhere in their materials, and the IRA angle they market heavily is irrelevant north of the border. App Store reviews also raise concerns about the redemption process and a 60 day hold on certain payment methods.

#12

APMEX

Best-rated app on the list, worst deal for a Canadian

★★★★★ 4.9 App Store (63,000 ratings)  ·  4.7 Google Play (25.2K reviews, 1M+ downloads)

I want to be fair here: 4.9 stars from 63,000 ratings is the strongest review record of anything on this page, and the app itself is excellent. Minute-by-minute spot charts, custom alerts, portfolio tracking, biometric login, back-in-stock notifications and a catalogue nobody in Canada matches.

Then you check out. Everything is priced in US dollars only. International shipping is a flat $39.95 USD, minimums are $250 USD by card or $1,500 USD by wire, and APMEX declares full value on every customs form with no exceptions, so duties and taxes land on you at the door. Use it as a price reference and a catalogue. Buy from a Canadian dealer. Our guide to buying gold in Canada covers who is actually worth ordering from here.

#13

Gold Price Tracker (Armchair Engineering)

Tiny, simple, and it has survived ten years

★★★★★ 4.6 iOS Canada (26 ratings)  ·  iOS only

Released in February 2016 and still holding a 4.6, this is a 7.4 MB app that does one thing: shows you the gold price in your chosen currency, in ounces or grams, with a graph over 3, 6, 12 or 24 months and the daily change in dollars or percent. There is a one-time $3.99 CAD unlock, no subscription.

It has no alerts, which for an investor is a real gap, and its last update was August 2025. But if you want something that loads instantly and never nags you, it earns its place. Note that CAD is not named explicitly in the listing, only "selectable display currency", so confirm it on your own device before relying on it.

#14

Gold Price Tracker Canada

Karat pricing and tola units, but essentially unrated

★★★★★ 5.0 App Store (1 rating)  ·  iOS only

This one carries a Canada-specific title on our App Store (it is listed as "Gold Price Tracker & Alerts" in the United States, same app). It is the only app here that prices 24K, 22K, 21K and 18K separately and offers tola alongside grams and ounces, which matters a great deal if your gold arrived as jewellery from South Asia or the Gulf rather than as a Maple Leaf from a dealer. CAD is explicitly supported, and there are alerts and offline caching.

The problems are real, though. One rating total, so there is no track record. Gold only, no silver or platinum. And the subscription is $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year in Canadian dollars for data that GoldLens and Kitco give away. Try the free tier, do not rush the subscription.