Google searches help us do a lot during the day, and if you have even the slightest interest in finance or tracking your investments, your Discover feed is probably full of news from the world of finance. Amidst all the noise, it can be difficult to keep track of how your investments are performing through multiple Google searches. Thankfully, there’s a new widget in the Google app on Android that makes market tracking a whole lot easier.
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As Google announced as part of its big June feature rollout, it has added a new Finance widget to the Google app. It can be used to easily track the prices of Indices, Cryptocurrencies and Stocks in the worldwide markets. The widget shows you a detailed daily graph for a stock with its current price, percentage increase/decrease during the day, and an arrow pointing up or down. Below the graph you can see more stocks from your watchlist, which you can manage via the shortcut at the bottom next to the manual refresh button. Tapping each investment followed on the widget opens a Google search results page for it, with more detailed information.
A quick glance at the widget settings reveals which stock, index or crypto you want displayed at the top of the widget with the large graph – a specific stock such as the one you have the most money invested in, or just one Can be configured with the largest profit or loss recorded on that day. Similarly, you can sort the remaining investments alphabetically, by symbol, or by day percentage change in ascending or descending order.
Settings page for the new Google Widgets
If you click the Watchlist button in the lower left corner of the widget or head over to it, Google uses a web-based interface to configure the stocks you follow. google.com/finance, Here, you can follow more indices, stocks where your funds are parked, and cryptos you are willing to gamble on. Google Assistant allows curating multiple watchlists, so you can stay more organized.
Google’s web interface for curating watchlists
The new widget is available in the latest beta update delivered through the Google Play Store, although judging by the recent announcement, it should be coming to the stable version soon. If you’re not a beta tester, you can sideload the Google app beta from APKMirror and get started right away.
