FRED Economic Data App Reviews

Helpfull Tool :-)

This app is a godsend for those who care about, or need, this information.

Great app. A lot of helpful information organized nicely and easy to find. And you cant beat the price!

FRED isnt as slick as the Economy app but it is free. Both apps use the same data source, the St. Louis Federal Reserve Banks FRED economic data service. If love economic data but hate to pay for it then this app is right for you. If you are willing to shell out a. little money I recommend picking up the Economy app as well.

So glad to see that the St Louis Fed took their amazing research time series and indicators and made an app for it. Free, too!! Any businesspeople or economics junkies know how widely cited the StLouisFed indicators are. Now we get it all easy access on the iPad. Five stars must-have for anyone in finance or business.

All the data at your fingertips!! Clean, easy to use interface. I had no crashes or errors. Looks like this is a well-crafted app.

Great idea, but the app crashes everytime categorized info is opened.

Great! 5 stars even though app crashes occasionally. Probably means I need to upgrade my 3gs. Thanks St Louis Fed.

A free ap with tons of info. Good job Fed. It does rarely crash on my iPhone 4 but is usually stable.

Very useful for manipulating data on the go. Economist must have this app install on their iOS device.

Ton of data at finger tips. Must have for any business school student!

I cannot get over how robust yet elegantly simple this app is. Clean. Very easy to use. Tons of relevant data. To top it all off, my initial problem with the app was addressed promptly by a qualified member of their team. Great app! Definitely recommend!

The app takes forever to load, so, no, it didnt freeze. And then when you are in the "app" and looking at the information provided, it is given in a single column, simple text, full width column that looks like a raw and dirty feed. There is no visualization, no formatting worth mentioning, no style or design. It doesnt even warrant critiquing UI because there is essentially none. UX is poor, even though, I guess it could have been worse, even for such a simple and lame "app". Its essentially a list of documents sorted in four different ways. Apples standard for apps is quite different when it comes to government and military. There should be a "Crapps" category where they can all be listed and shoved into a corner in shame and embarrassment.

FRED is an awesome app for the iPhone, if you want to look through tons of data with perfect results this will do it. Economic data at your figertips, what more can you say its pretty amazing... Great job, I look forward to the next one from the FED.

This is great. Not a lot of flash but great info. Even my kids liked looking at the graphs. Opened up a lot of conversations, how and why. It let me show my kids I am not crazy

This is an outstanding app. With it installed on your iPad, there is no excuse for not having hard facts at your fingertips. WARNING: Republicans, conservatives and right wing screamers will find having accurate data at their finger tips very unsettling.

Very interesting, especially with the recessions indicated. It does leave the door open for weirdos to turn it into politics though.

Great ap for anyone majoring in economics! Has helped me further my knowledge at the undergrad level.

Needs alerts in setting for various areas like when new "reserve" articles are published

The app showed the splash screen for a few seconds, then it exited, and the the home screen was shown again. It did that three times. On the fourth time, it started correctly.