Announcing our Series B

What's it like working behind the scenes on the Freetrade app? Here are the most common questions our mobile-first developers get, and the answers to boot.

Product Manager Louis Sutton on his first months at Freetrade.

Introducing Karl, our managing director for Sweden.

A new home for your pensions.

We pay tribute to CTO Ian Fuller who is departing Freetrade for pastures new.

Software engineer Seán Durban reflects on the high-impact development opportunities on offer in emerging companies.

What's it like to work at Freetrade?

Introducing five female Freetraders who work across five different teams.

Senior software engineer Rory Bain explains how Freetrade integrates Typescript.

What we're doing this week and why.

How we developed the app with a brand new UI.

Software Engineer Mathias Dewert talks about dealing with the issues that come with rapid growth.

Software Engineer Alexander Broadbent shares what we do in the shadows, and why it helps us to carefully develop features.

Principal Software Engineer, Alex Curran, shares more about our process to prevent bugs as we build our mobile apps.

Principal Data Engineer Benen Cahill shares our process for data here at Freetrade.

Principal Product Designer Caitlin Rich shares her top reads to help inspire good design and keep user experience front of mind.

Including some big name S&P 500 companies

Software Engineer Theo Gregory shares how we use serverless to speed up deployment.

Senior Product Manager, Jani Kiilunen, shares how we work with the Freetrade community to build the product

Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago

Brand new for Plus members, up to a max deposit of £4k.

Freetrade Head of Engineering, Invest, Tim Drew, shares how we scale our platform using Cloud Firestore

Freetrade Software Engineering Manager Rokey Ge shares his virtual onboarding experience.

A big improvement to Free Share is here.

See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.

Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.

Senior Software Engineer Jimmy Thompson takes you through the three layers of the Freetrade app

A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.

Freetrade VP Product Duncan Leslie on vision, strategy and measuring success.

Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.

Market cap, dividend yield, and P/E ratio are here.

Compare your performance against a global benchmark

Freetrade engineer Simon Poole talks about overcoming some serverless infrastructure challenges.

Everything we plan to add to your app before the holidays.

From Papa John's to Zambian cattle farmers, we've added a wide array of new stocks to the Freetrade universe

Freetrade Talent Sourcer, Isabelle Atunrase, shares why we should all celebrate Black History Month, and some of the ways we’re getting involved here at Freetrade.

Freetrade Senior Product Managers Anant Sangar and Glenn Drawbridge have been busy working on limit orders and SIPPs. Here, they chat through how use User Story Mapping.

Our biggest addition of ETFs yet.

More of what you want.

Introducing your expanded stock universe.

Freetrade Senior Software Engineer Luke Smith talks about the nuts and bolts of our brokerage platform

More ways to measure your portfolio performance

It’s now even easier to add money to your Freetrade account

Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.

Find out what's inside, and request your invite.

Over 100 new stocks, including Kodak, La-Z-Boy, Tiffany & Co, and Crocs.

Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.

100 stocks inc. Avis, Tripadvisor, Goodyear, AMC Entertainment, Denny’s

The first of many additions to order types.

75 new stocks including Ericsson, Yelp, Gfinity, Youdao

Country-specific ETFs, and stocks from Wendy’s to Columbia

100 brand new stocks and ETFs are here

This week's 100 new stocks and ETFs might be the best batch yet.

Ferrari, Honda, Canadian Railway, United Airlines, Canadian banks, ETFs, and more

You can now own a piece of Ed Sheeran

Cannabis companies have arrived

As the lockdown eases, investments are changing

250 new US stocks have landed

Find out more about how Free Share works

The former entrepreneur will be Freetrade’s non-executive director

Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool

You can now invest in a slice of US companies

Today, we’re announcing our next crowdfunding round 🚀

What Freetraders bought at the start of this year

We explain why orders get rejected during volatile market activity and why wild swings in pricing make it harder for market makers to do their job.

Only owning our platform end-to-end would enable us to not charge commissions AND become a sustainable business.

Sneak peek in the investment portfolio of some of our Freetrade users

You’ve got the app. Here’s how you start investing.

An update on the good things coming to your account

Here is everything your need to know about how Freetrade pays for dividends.

Performance profiling is a tricky subject at the best of times, so I figured an example workflow and process might be useful to those who want to improve the performance of their own apps.

The new system will bring instant deposits, fractional shares, thousands of new stocks, and more

Keeping an eye on stocks just got easier

Check your performance at a glance

Meet our Customer Operations (COps) team

We know that you love receiving dividends, but that it can be hard keeping track of them after you receive the notification.

We’re excited to share that we’ve concluded $15m in fundraising in 2019.

The Freetrade Christmas List 2019

Insights, is our brand new app feature.

We’ve launched the first version of our ISA transfer service.

Exciting news! You may have seen a few Freetrade customers celebrating on Twitter recently - we launched Free Share, our new incentivised referral system.

We’ve closed the round with £4m pledged, overfunding to 400%, with over 5000 investors participating in the round.

A major step on fractional shares.

As promised, we’re coming back to Crowdcube

We raised £1m in 77 seconds!

We’re crowdfunding again!

Freetrade Android is coming to our first early testers today, and to everyone by mid-April. 💥

Ian Fuller explains how we shipped faster by rethinking our whole stack

With more and more customers on the app, we thought it’d be a good time to give more clarity on how our orders/trades get placed and filled.

Meet Gemma, our Head of Customer Ops!

Rejected orders, rare but irritating parts of using a brokerage platform. Read on to see some of the underlying causes causing this, and how Freetrade is working to reduce them.

Meet Jani, our new Product Manager

When we started Freetrade, we set out to build the best investing app on the planet. Something that makes our users grin with glee at every swipe and tap.

After two weeks of Super Early Testing, we ignited the full launch of the app on Tuesday, covered in TechCrunch and Forbes.

Here are some of the tools we rely on at Freetrade

A bit about how we at Freetrade stack up against the regulator’s own best practices and how we differ from everyone else on the market. 🙏