The Story

Apple TV has no built-in Stocks app. Neither does Fire TV or Google TV. For anyone who wants to glance at the market from the couch, the office, or the kitchen, the options have historically been a cable news channel or an expensive professional terminal.

MarketCast turns any TV into an ambient market wall: live stock and crypto prices, Bloomberg-style ticker walls, market news, and a daily AI-written morning brief, designed for the 10-foot viewing experience and driven entirely by a TV remote. It is not a trading app and gives no advice. It is the market, on in the background, the way sports fans leave a game on.

The app is built and maintained by one independent developer under ADAMAPPS LLC. It first launched on Amazon Fire TV in 2016, went dormant for several years, and was rebuilt from the ground up in 2026 across Apple TV, Fire TV, and Android/Google TV, with a native SwiftUI app on tvOS.

Fast Facts

• What it is: an ambient stock market app for televisions — live prices, stock walls, market news, and an AI morning brief.
• Platforms: Apple TV (tvOS 16+), Amazon Fire TV, Android TV / Google TV. Portfolios sync across all of them.
• Price: free to download and use; optional Premium at $4.99/month with a 7-day free trial (real-time pricing, unlimited stocks, premium stock walls, portfolio news).
• Signature feature: the Stock Walls — Market Desk, My Stocks, S&P 500, and Stock Board — full-screen ambient market displays.
• Developer: ADAMAPPS LLC, an independent one-person studio.
• History: launched 2016 on Fire TV; fully rebuilt in 2026.
• Download: Apple TV App Store · all platforms via our download page.

Coverage Angles

• The missing app: Apple ships Stocks on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch — but not Apple TV. MarketCast fills that gap.
• Ambient TV: alongside fireplace apps, aquariums, and art frames, a market wall is what an idle TV can be during trading hours.
• The rebuild: a 2016 app that broke, went quiet for years, and was rebuilt solo in 2026 — a second-chance indie story.
• Lean-back finance: no trading, no advice, no doomscrolling — watching the market as calm background information.

Assets & Review Access

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Screenshots & video: current-version Apple TV screenshots and a 30-second Stock Wall video loop are available on request — usually same-day.

Reviewers: TestFlight builds for Apple TV and complimentary Premium review access are available to working journalists. Note that App Store offer codes redeem on iPhone or Mac and the subscription follows your Apple Account to the Apple TV.

Boilerplate: MarketCast is an ambient stock market app for televisions. It turns Apple TV, Fire TV, and Google TV devices into live market walls with real-time prices, stock tickers, market news, and a daily AI morning brief. Built by an independent developer and first launched in 2016, MarketCast was fully rebuilt in 2026. It is free to download, with an optional Premium subscription. MarketCast is not a broker-dealer or investment adviser and provides information, not advice.

Media contact: Adam — partners@marketcast.co

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