Building Freetrade

Introducing Freetrade for iPad

How we developed the app with a brand new UI.

Stream partitioned data from Firestore using Async Iterators in Node.js

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

How we use feature flagging in client apps

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

Using lint rules to prevent bugs

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

Data Infrastructure at Freetrade

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

Nine books every product designer should read

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

120 US real-estate investment trusts are here

Including some big name S&P 500 companies

The road to 500 serverless functions

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

Changing an industry with the help of a 250,000 person product team

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

A stock-ing filler: massive market cap ADRs, biotechs, and ETFs

Including SAP, Credit Suisse, Ryanair, Trivago

Earn 3% interest on cash in Freetrade Plus

Brand new for Plus members

Lessons learnt with Cloud Firestore

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

Remote onboarding to a new job

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

Referring friends and earning free shares just got even easier

A big improvement to Free Share is here.

Investment fees calculator

See how Freetrade compares to other brokers.

Building Reactive Applications at Freetrade

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

600 brand new stocks, including David Beckham's Esports team

Gold miners, Twinkies, McDonald's and more.

Increasing the US order value limit

A new limit of £25,000 for US stocks.

Brand new ETFs on Plus

Including fixed income, investment-grade and government bonds.

How your product vision could put a human on Mars

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

Stock fundamentals are now on your app

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

Introducing the time-weighted rate of return

Compare your performance against a global benchmark

It’s raining stocks: 500 new investment opportunities on your app now

The Freetrade Christmas List 2020

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

Optimising cold-starts with Google Cloud Functions

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

Over 450 brand new stocks

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

Celebrating Black History Month at Freetrade

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.

100 new ETFs from iShares, Vanguard, VanEck, and more!

Our biggest addition of ETFs yet.

User Story Mapping - How we keep a focus on value

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.

400 brand new stocks, including 200 exclusively for Plus

More of what you want.

Event sourcing on Freetrade

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

New stocks coming to your free plan and Plus subscription

Introducing your expanded stock universe.

Money-weighted rate of return

More ways to measure your portfolio performance

Our first Open Banking integration is rolling out

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

How to land a role in Product Management

Freetrade Senior Product Manager Glenn Drawbridge shares his story.

Announcing the Tesla free share winner

Introducing Freetrade Plus

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

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, fast food, biotech innovators, and another SPAC

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

Meet our new Head of People, Amy Gilman

Amy joins Freetrade as our first Head of People.

Brand new stocks: fashion brands, gold miners, and SPACs

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

Your new order experience is here

The first of many additions to order types.

Brand new stocks: fresh IPOs, Latin American stocks, and investment trusts

75 new stocks including Ericsson, Yelp, Gfinity, Youdao

28 brand new ETFs and 70 new stocks

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

Brand new: ETFs, Korean telcos, Japanese app and Chinese airlines

100 brand new stocks and ETFs are here

Cloud computing, ETFs, UK stocks and brands from AB Inbev to Dominos

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

Brand new stocks: Banks, planes, trains and automobiles

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

90 brand new stocks have landed

You can now own a piece of Ed Sheeran

Buy weed (stocks) on Freetrade

Cannabis companies have arrived

Perry Blacher, serial entrepreneur turned VC, is joining Freetrade’s board

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

Meet the team: Renata Labude, Senior Growth Manager

Find out more about how Free Share works

Introducing more stocks on Freetrade

250 new US stocks have landed

Fractional shares: the rollout has started

You can now invest in a slice of US companies

Meet the team: Caitlin Rich, Principal Product Designer

Meet the person responsible for making Freetrade look cool