CommSec Pocket
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Prices are current as of 10 Sept 2026.
CommSec Pocket has no in-app products on record in Australia.
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| Reviews | 332 | 48K | 45K | 15K | 5.6K | 3.3K | 1.1K | 1K | 601 | 351 | 158 |
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| Monthly price | — | — | — | — | A$9.99 | — | — | A$7.59 | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | — | — | A$98.99 | — | — | A$49.99 | — | — | — |
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CommSec Pocket reviews
3.8 out of 5, based on 332 reviews.
What people like
- Super easy for total beginners.
- Very low two dollar fees.
- Great way to start investing.
- Auto-investing makes saving simple.
What they complain about
- App crashes when opening investment lists.
- Hidden monthly fees eat your money.
- No dark mode available yet.
- You can't control the buy price.
Cobber1937
Scottcook
Crazy fee
Crazy fee when buying stocks, crazy fee when selling them 🥸
Great for DCA.
I already use commsec but pocket allows a great way to DCA for $2 at a time. Good for beginners. Please add a pie graph that shows percentage of each holding, on the home screen would be great.
App crash really frustrating.
Steps to reproduce 1. Click on Explore more investments Buttton at the bottom of the main screen 2. Explore investments screen appears 3. Go back to main screen 4. click left top ham burger menu 5. Side bar menu opens 6. Click on Explore investments 7. App crashes every time.
Ok but…
Great for starting out in investing but…no control over the price you pay or sell. You may request a buy but you don’t set a buy price. You pay market value. So between you hitting buy and when it actually goes through the price skyrockets, you pay the high price. Also, DO NOT TRADE AFTER HOURS, that just compounds the above problem. Also, no ability to change buy/sell order even if the transaction hasn’t happened.
Nice and easy to use.. just needs a bit more to make it the best
Easy to invest in, just hoping they would update the app with similar features like Raiz, where they show you how much you can make if you keep investing with the compound interest (would help to encourage more frequent investing). That would be a nice feature to have on the app. Also show much much dividends you make overtime. Cheers
Blinding
How in 2025 do apps not have dark mode? Even the commbank app has dark mode but not this app
Great
Better if i can do a device registration too. Its bit irritating to eneter user id password everytime
Not updated for iPhone 12 screen resolution
It’s been 9 months since iPhone 12 is released and this app still hasn’t been updated for the new screen resolution
Basics good, needs some work
I know this is a basic, stripped back version of a brokerage designed for the lowest common denominator. On that score, it’s great: buy and sell is easy and simple. Go one step further and things get a bit murky. The funds on offer include some that are geared towards dividends/income. The app doesn’t apply new shares from the funds’ Dividend Reinvestment Plans at the (official) issue price, meaning the average purchase price displayed is out of whack. This is obviously a result of the fact that there is no “pass-through” of information from the app to the share registry about your (pretty basic) preferences. Take a pretty common scenario: you want to re-invest all your dividends AND go completely “paper-free”. Simple premise, right? You’ll receive 4-7 physical letters to your address before everything works as you want it to. Enjoy the particularly ironic (physical) letter stating “Thank you for updating your preferences, we will now send all correspondence electronically”. Good on the basics, execution of the work-flow needs some work.
Love it
Simple and easy to use! Great information and helpful tips on investing ETF! Nice small variety of ETF to choose from with good description.
Bad instructions
Open pocket account in the comm app and can’t login to the pocket app
Just my opinion
Great app works well no issues there, please fix Face ID for Apple I have to enter password in all the time STAKE and Spaceship use Face ID for fast log in. Other than that great platform for entry level investors. Maybe future give us breakdown of when dividends get paid so we know when to expect or option to reinvest or take dividends to bank account maybe an idea. If any changes made I’d go back to 5 stars any day for you. Love the app so far.
Why bother
So you sign up thinking your going to learn by doing small investing making your up. Then your hit with this cheese everyday account the smart access account. Needs a minimum of 2k every month. Otherwise you have to pay $4.00 upkeep fee. So Smart access fee $4.00 per month if your can’t get 2k in the account every month. Every time you invest the fees $2.00 So basically losing money. Why bother with them.
Good app, terrible third party involvement
App is great and very easy to use and invest with, however linkmarket service and computer share holding companies that you must use are TERRIBLE, I have previous bad experience with link so I’m not surprised. This time I simply could not even log onto their websites to register my holdings or change preferences. It was simply beyond either company to get me logged onto their website or apps. I tried with different phones and laptops, spent hours deleting browser cache, swapping browsers, constantly emailing new links to change password, installing more verification software, spending hours on the phone in a cue, it was a nightmare. I have given up and sold all of my holdings, it was just to much hassle and was eating up all my free time. Don’t do it to yourself. Invest your money some other way.
One of the best investing app
I have been using for nearly 2 years now and I love the low $2 fees and auto invest options.
Sneaky business model
Unlike the other simplified investing apps in this space, CommSec Pocket has a significant lag between the scheduled trade day for recurring investments and the day it actually takes the money from your account. So the trade goes through, then about 3-4 days later, they take your money. But they then hit you a $10 overdrawn fee if you don’t have enough money in your account on the random day they try collect it from your account.
Great app but not great execution prices
It is a great app with an enough selection of ETFs and low transaction fees but the execution prices are not very good usually even worse than the market price. Some features around that such as being able to specify a limit price or a maximum price would be helpful.
Buggy back arrow
An otherwise good app. Please fix the buggy back arrow, at the top left corner. Thanks
Support dark mode please
Good app but cannot have dark mode. Support it please.
Great app
Great intro app for new investors
New homepage glitch
There is now a new glitch - when you open the app the homepage shows only the overall balance but your individual stock balances are hidden. If you hit My Profile and go back to Home only then does the individual Finds display on screen.
Great.... BUT
Need more investment options please... where’s VGS at?
Relatively simple investing
Good entry to investing. Simple to use. Only frustration is that to stop receiving paper mail from every different fund, you have to sign up to about four different investing services just to opt out. Every one requires security questions, passwords, tax info etc etc etc. Total pain. Please automate this as part of the purchase process. Commbank have all the information required.
Such a nice micro investment app!!
I have been using CommSec Pocket for more than a year and really enjoy it! It will be even better if I can have more than 7 ETFs to choose (looking forward to gold ETFs )!
Error
When I press explore investments the app shuts down
Gimmie us more indexes to invest in
Hope they include the new ATEC index options
More information and ETF
Please add more ETF’s and more information such as dividend dates etc about these ETF’s so that we can research more. Also it will good to lower the fee $1 up to $500 purchase. Someone who is putting as low as $100 and paying $2 fee is too much to pay. 30/09/2021: Please add IVV etf.
Great for Beginners
Fantastic investing app for beginner investors with excellent opportunity to purchase ETFs with both international and local exposure. Very easy app to use with streamlined processing and beautifully integrated with NetBank. Well done CommSec.
Terrible
Out of all the investment platforms available to Australians, this would have to be by far the worst I’ve ever used. I literally got suspended for doing nothing wrong. No reason as to why. Just a bombardment of letters telling me I’m suspended from using my account. Utterly useless. P.S all my other investment portfolios are active and my accounts are …….. not suspended 🙄
fee is high
Totally ok, but fee is higher than others
Great app
CommSec pocket is a great app which allows for investing to be easy with relatively cheap brokerage fees. I would like to recommend adding more ETFs in the app. Like VAS, ESPO, ASIA, HACK, IOZ and IHD and others. Kind regards
Deceptively expensive
Expensive and lack of investment options
Great sign up experience!
From 0 to investment in 5 mins!
Read this before downloading
I’ve lost $20 so far in 24 hours, you’re better off putting your money in a high interest savings account like Goal Saver. Also when you buy ETFs on here you get spammed with junk mail in your letterbox I’ve received 6 letters in 2 days so far.
Brilliant initiative making investing simple
CommSec Pocket provides an easy, cheap way to start investing. The app is easy to use and makes the whole process simple. Aimed at getting people started which is often the hardest part. I would have preferred to be able to set a limit price but to simplify the process I can see why this was excluded. Note that you will receive a new HIN number once set up. As an existing commsec user I would have preferred to combine with my existing. Generally I think this app and idea is great. I’ll be recommending it to anyone who will listen
Disappointing
No help no understanding for someone starting out. Tell u one thing one week then take it back and shut down ur hole account all over a little mistake
CommSec Pocket FAQ
- Is CommSec Pocket free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 1 country it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does CommSec Pocket have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (AU) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to CommSec Pocket?
- Raiz | Earn, Save & Invest (4.7 from 48,354 reviews), CoinSpot - Buy & Sell Bitcoin (4.8 from 45,386 reviews) and Stake – Stocks | ETFs | SMSF (4.6 from 14,996 reviews).
CommSec Pocket download
Last updated 1 year ago.
CommSec Pocket sells in 1 country. It was released 7 years and 2 months ago, on 25 Jul 2019. It holds a 3.8 rating from 332 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does CommSec Pocket make?
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