StockCar 101: your portfolio, as a podcast
If you just found StockCar and you are wondering what it actually does, here is the two-minute version. StockCar takes the stocks, crypto, indices, and forex pairs you care about and turns them into a personal, AI-cohosted podcast, one that pulls live prices and the news moving them and hands you a ready-to-play episode in about 8 seconds. No spreadsheet, no doomscrolling, no account.
This is an explainer of how the app works, verified against the live StockCar app and site. Features and tiers described here reflect the current product.
StockCar is a podcast that is about your money. You add your tickers, it pulls the live prices and the news behind them, and one of seven AI cohosts narrates a short daily episode built just for your holdings. It is free, needs no account, and the episode is ready in seconds, so catching up on your portfolio finally sounds like listening to a show instead of reading a screen.
The 5 things StockCar does
This is the whole idea. You add the things you actually own or watch - AAPL, NVDA, BTC, an index, a forex pair - and StockCar builds a personalized show around exactly those. It supports 200,000+ tickers across stocks, crypto, indices, and forex, so your portfolio is the playlist.
You don't assemble anything. StockCar pulls the current price for each ticker - before, during, and after the bell, plus 24/7 crypto - and fetches the news that is actually moving them. The daily briefing is built from live data, not a static template, so the episode reflects what happened today.
Under the hood it writes GPT-powered scripts and reads them with natural voice narration. That means you get a proper episode you can listen to on a commute or a walk, not a screen full of numbers you have to decode. It is your portfolio, told as a story.
StockCar has seven AI cohosts, and each one hears the market differently: Alpha the anchor, Andi the translator, Arlo the analyst, Lana the operator, Neo the skeptic, Soos the quant, and Zoe the closer. Pick the voice that fits how you want to hear it.
You can start listening in under a minute with no account and no subscription. The free tier gives you 10 daily tracks, one portfolio, and one cohost; paid tiers open up more tracks, unlimited portfolios, and all seven cohosts. And it runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
From tickers to episode, in four steps
Add → playWant to see it on a real name? Every ticker has its own page - browse the ticker directory or meet the seven cohosts.
Why a podcast instead of a dashboard?
Because you already have dashboards, and they mostly leave you with more tabs and less understanding. A wall of tickers tells you what moved; it rarely tells you why, and it definitely does not fit into the ten minutes you actually have. Audio does. You can listen to your portfolio while the coffee brews, on the drive in, or on a walk, and come away knowing the story behind the numbers instead of just the numbers.
That is the whole bet behind StockCar: the format most people use to keep up with sports, news, and true crime is the same format that finally makes keeping up with your own money feel effortless. You are not studying a screen, you are listening to a show that happens to be about your holdings.
Who is StockCar for?
Anyone who owns a few tickers and wants to stay on top of them without turning it into a second job. If you are new to investing, the cohosts translate the jargon and give you the plain-English version. If you are experienced, you can add your whole portfolio and get a fast, opinionated read every morning, with a skeptic and a quant in the mix to keep it honest. Either way, the friction is close to zero: no account, a free tier, and an episode in seconds.
The takeaway is simple: StockCar is not another chart to stare at. It is the fastest way to actually understand what your portfolio did today, told to you like a show, in the time it takes to pour a coffee.
Hear your holdings as a daily podcast.
Add a ticker or your whole portfolio and StockCar builds you a plain-English episode on what is moving and why, ready in about 8 seconds. Free, no account needed.
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