Best Spread Betting Apps In The UK

Updated on 24 Sep 2026: we recomputed every score on the site as the sum of the six criterion marks, each out of 10, divided by 60 and multiplied by 100, rounded half up, with no criterion weighted, and the ranking follows the scores, with brokers on the same score sharing a place. The apps are now ordered by each broker’s Trading Platform mark out of 10, with apps on the same mark sharing a place, where the order had come from a hands-on comparison with no stated rule. The page no longer names one best app. The beginners answer now names Spreadex, the site’s beginners pick. We corrected OANDA’s and IG’s cards: OANDA states no minimum stake, and IG’s minimum deposit is £250. The 28 Aug 2026 entry below was rewritten so it stays true. The sentence under "Which Apps Are Best For Beginners?" was rewritten, because our beginners comparison became a section of our platforms comparison. It says the section holds the beginners rule and six numbered steps to a first bet. In the opening section, the sentence on where the execution speed medians come from now says "FCA-regulated spread betting brokers between 18 and 27 August 2026". No figure changed. Our answer under "Which Apps Are Best For Beginners?" now names CMC Markets, where it named Spreadex. Our pick comes from the brokers our Beginner filter keeps, those with a confirmed demo account and a £20 or lower deposit, and Spreadex states no demo account on its own UK site. A sentence was added that links our guide to what spread betting is and how it works.

Updated on 23 Sep 2026: Every claim was checked against each broker’s own UK pages, and a large amount of text was cut, including repeated detail, install commentary and passages we could not source. New hands-on findings were added, including the fewest taps from login to a placed order, price alert results, guaranteed stop availability and app version differences across the 14 apps. The wording on demo terms, market counts and CMC’s MetaTrader 4 coverage was tightened and corrected.

Updated on 22 Sep 2026: Broker platform and app lists were re-read at each broker’s own UK pages, so app names such as OANDA web and mobile, the CMC app and FxPro Edge now appear. References to the old average and figure wording now name the brokers’ average, and Pepperstone’s app count, the brokers asking no minimum deposit (now seven of fourteen) and an inactivity fee note were updated.

Updated on 21 Sep 2026: added one sentence to How To Choose A Spread Betting App giving the low end of the tap and alert results from the August 2026 app test. No score, rank or figure elsewhere on this page changed.

Corrected on 19 Sep 2026: the day trading answer now gives the number of pairs on which Pepperstone sits below the brokers’ average. No figure changed.

Updated 18 Sep 2026. Spread figures now come from our own read of each broker’s UK site, with the kind of each figure recorded. Averages cover only average, typical and fixed figures, and each shows the number of brokers behind it. No score or rank changed.

Rebuilt on 6 Sep 2026. The census list and the Top Apps Compared table were merged into one table. It lists the eight apps in the order of our hands-on comparison, then the six tested but not placed alphabetically under a divider. The two Top App Picks cards became jump buttons above the table, and the video now sits below it. No figure changed.

Updated 5 Sep 2026. Three brands with no UK spread betting account left the harvest, so the nine-pair figure the app cards compare against moved from 1.74 to 1.7 points. OANDA’s card now reads over the brokers’ average where it read level with it, and the word is now computed from the two figures rather than typed. No broker’s own spread figure, tap count or score changed.

This page was rebuilt on 30 Aug 2026 using our August 2026 app test dataset. The comparison table’s tap counts, alert results, GSLO outcomes, and logged issues draw from the 28 installs of our August 2026 app test. Execution medians come from the separate 210-order dataset. Overall broker scores are not produced by these tests. Corrected on 28 Aug 2026: IG’s minimum deposit, which had read £250, was set to £0, City Index’s, which had read £100, was set to £0, and FXCM’s score, which had read 70, was set to 74. Since then, IG’s own UK page has been re-read on 22 Sep 2026 and states £250, and FXCM’s score has been computed from its six marks since 24 Sep 2026.