Pocket Option po.trade and potradeweb App

The Second Official App

There is a second app under this brand family: the Pocket Broker listing, package com.potradeweb. Its name traces to po.trade, an operator-run address that presents the same service as pocketoption.com.

Most people arrive at this page slightly confused, and the confusion is reasonable. You searched for one app, the store showed you something with a different name, and now you are working out whether you found the right thing or something that should not be there at all. Two listings plainly exist under this brand family, and once you can tell them apart the question stops being unsettling.

po.trade and potradeweb

The operator runs its service under two addresses. One is pocketoption.com. The other is po.trade. They are not competitors and one is not a copy of the other; the second address presents the same platform under a second front. That second front is where the name potradeweb comes from, because the Android listing tied to it carries the package identifier com.potradeweb and is listed under the name Pocket Broker rather than Pocket Option.

So the pairing looks like this, and it is worth reading slowly:

• Pocket Option — the listing whose package identifier is com.pocketoption.broker.
• Pocket Broker — the listing whose package identifier is com.potradeweb, the one associated with the po.trade front.

Both fronts carry the same restricted-countries notice, published in the operator's own words: this website does not provide service to residents of the EEA countries, USA, Israel, UK, Philippines, Japan and Brazil. That notice is not something the second front softens or omits. If you were hoping that the po.trade side of the house operates under different terms, it does not, and nothing on this site will point you at a way around it.

What a second front actually is

Plenty of platforms across this sector operate more than one public address, and the reasons are commercial and operational rather than anything you can read off a store page. This site does not have visibility into the operator's reasoning, so it will not invent one for you. What you can observe is the shape: two addresses, two Android listings, the same advertised service, the same published notice about who is not served.

What matters practically is that a second front is also a gift to people building imitations. It gives a fake listing a ready-made excuse — a different name, a slightly different icon and a plausible story about being the other official app. That is why the rest of this page keeps returning to the package identifier rather than to names, logos or descriptions, all of which are trivially copied. A deeper walk through the imitation patterns lives on our page about fake and cloned listings.

Where the package name appears on a listing

The package identifier is a technical string, not marketing copy, and that is exactly why it is useful. It is unique across the store, which means no second listing can claim com.potradeweb while the original holds it. You will find it in two places on Android:

1. In the address bar, when you open the listing in a desktop or mobile browser rather than inside the store app. The listing address ends with the package identifier, and you can read it character by character.
2. In the listing's own details section, where the store surfaces the app identifier alongside the developer information, depending on the store interface version you are looking at.

Read it as a whole string, not as a shape. A near-miss with a doubled letter, a swapped word order or an extra segment is the entire trick. The identifiers you are matching against are com.pocketoption.broker and com.potradeweb, and nothing else under this brand family has been verified.

The two addresses, the two package identifiers and the restricted-countries notice quoted above were all read off the operator's own public pages and the store listings on 31 July 2026. Store pages change, so treat the identifiers as the durable part and everything else as something to re-read at the moment you install.

Two listings exist under this brand family — com.pocketoption.broker and com.potradeweb — and the package identifier, not the app name or icon, is the part you can actually verify.

Downloading potradeweb

Reach the potradeweb listing the same way you should reach any of them: start on the operator's own site, follow the link it publishes, then confirm the package identifier on the listing before you tap install.

The download question has a boring answer and the boring answer is the correct one. You do not search for the app and pick the most confident-looking result. You start from an address you typed yourself, follow the link the operator publishes there, and then check that the listing you landed on carries the identifier you expected. That sequence costs about thirty seconds and removes almost every way this goes wrong.

Start from the operator's own page, every time

The reason this ordering matters is that a search result, an advertisement, a message from a stranger or a link in an app review can all point anywhere, while an address you typed into the bar yourself cannot. The operator's addresses are pocketoption.com and po.trade — write them out, read them back, and only then follow what they publish. Both are plain text on this page deliberately; this site does not send you outward with a click, because a click is the one part of the chain you cannot audit afterwards.

1. Type the operator's address into your browser yourself rather than tapping a link that arrived from somewhere else.
2. Find the download or app section published on that page and follow the store link from there.
3. On the listing that opens, read the package identifier and confirm it is com.potradeweb if the po.trade front is the one you want, or com.pocketoption.broker if it is not.
4. Read the developer name shown on the listing, then check whether that same developer name carries the other listing too. This site will not tell you what the name says, because it could not be verified — but the consistency between the two listings is something you can check yourself in under a minute.
5. Install from the store, and let the store handle updates.

The developer name on its own proves nothing, since anyone can register a plausible-sounding publisher. The signal is the combination: you arrived from the operator's own page, the identifier matches, and the publisher's other listings are consistent. Three weak signals that agree beat one strong-looking one.

Android and iOS: what is actually confirmed

On Android, the two listings and their package identifiers are the concrete part. Play installs are signed by the store and updated automatically, which is most of why the store route is the one worth using even when a direct file is available. Our Android walkthrough covers the install mechanics end to end.

On iOS the picture is thinner and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. The operator advertises iOS access, but a live App Store listing for this brand family could not be confirmed against Apple's own index on the verification date above. That is not a claim that no listing exists; it is a statement about what could and could not be checked. So the honest instruction is the same as the general one: follow whatever link the operator publishes on its own site from your iPhone or iPad, and see what opens. If nothing opens for your store account, the browser version is the working route on Apple hardware and needs no install at all.

Why availability differs from place to place

Store listings are regional by design. What appears in your store is decided by the store account's country and by which markets the developer has chosen to publish in — not by anything this site can confirm on your behalf, and not by anything you should try to reroute. If the listing you want does not appear for you, that is the situation as it stands. This site does not carry workarounds for it, and there are good reasons for that beyond editorial policy: the friction rarely stays at the download stage. It reappears later, at identity verification and at the point of a payout, which is when your money is already involved.

• The listing appears and installs. Confirm the identifier, then continue.
• The listing does not appear in your store. Use the browser version, which requires no install and no permissions.
• A listing appears that looks right but the identifier does not match. Back out. That is the single clearest signal you will ever get.

One line that belongs on every page of this site, including this one: the products behind these apps are fixed-time and digital options, which are high-risk short-horizon speculation, and most retail accounts in this category lose money. Choosing the correct app is a hygiene question, not a safety guarantee about what happens after you sign in.

Operator page first, store link second, package identifier third — and if the identifier does not match, close the listing rather than talking yourself into it.

How It Differs From the Broker App

The two listings advertise the same feature set and are tied to two fronts of the same service. The meaningful difference is which front an app belongs to, which is what decides whether your existing sign-in fits it.

If you were expecting a long list of functional differences, you will be a little disappointed, and that is really good news. The differences that matter here are about identity and origin, not about features, and identity is much easier to check than a feature matrix.

Which front the app belongs to

This is the whole substance of the split. The Pocket Option listing sits with the pocketoption.com front. The Pocket Broker listing, com.potradeweb, sits with the po.trade front. Each app is a way into the front it belongs to.

What this site will not tell you is that one set of credentials signs into both. That has not been verified, and it is exactly the kind of convenient assumption that turns into an evening of frustrated retyping. The careful phrasing, and the one you should carry away, is that the two fronts present the same service, and the account you can sign into is the one created on the front you registered on. If you want the full side-by-side, our comparison of the two official apps lays out the same ground in table form.

Feature overlap

Both listings advertise the same core set: over a hundred instruments, on-device charting with technical indicators, and a refillable practice balance. In other words, the marketing surface is essentially identical, which is one more reason not to try to identify an app by reading its description.

• Instruments — both listings advertise 100+.
• Charting, on-device charts with technical indicators on both.
• Practice mode: a refillable demo balance is advertised on both. Practice and live are two modes of one account on platforms of this type, and the balances do not mix.
• Restricted-countries notice, identical wording on both fronts.

Where the apps actually might diverge is in build cadence, interface details and which store markets each is published in. None of which is stable enough to write down, and all of which you can see for yourself on the listing at the moment you look. This site publishes no version numbers, no sizes, no minimum OS requirements, no ratings and no download counts for either app, because none of those was verified and every one of them changes.

Promotional material is not something you can check before installing

The original outline for this page asked for a comparison of bonuses and promotions between the two apps, and that is a question this site cannot answer honestly. Promotional offers are a category of thing that varies by front, by market, by period and by account, and no amount, percentage, code or condition attached to them has been verified here. You will not find one on this page in any form.

What is worth saying about the category rather than the numbers: promotional terms are account-side and platform-side, not app-side. They are not a reason to prefer one download over the other, and an offer quoted in a store review, a screenshot, a message or an advertisement tells you very little about what your account would actually be given. If a promotion matters to your decision, read it inside the signed-in account on the front you use.

And a firmer line on the same theme: any app, bot, signal service or self-described account manager that offers an enhanced deal in exchange for your platform login is describing a credential theft, whatever it calls itself. There is no legitimate reason for any of them to hold your password, and no profit guarantee exists behind any of them. Fixed-time options carry a negative expected value for the trader by construction, because a winning trade pays back less than the full stake while a losing one costs all of it.

The apps advertise the same features; what actually separates them is which operator front they belong to, and that is what your existing account has to match.

Choosing Between the Apps

Install the app that matches the front you registered on. If you have no account yet, choose the front first and let that decide the app rather than picking an app and hoping the account follows.

Almost everyone asking which app to install is really asking one of two much simpler questions, and separating them makes the answer obvious.

If you already have an account

Then the choice is already made for you, and the deciding fact is which front you registered on. Cast your mind back to the address you were on when you created the account, or look for it in whatever the operator sent you at the time, the address in your own records is better evidence than your memory of a page you visited once.

• You registered on pocketoption.com: the Pocket Option listing, com.pocketoption.broker, is the app that matches.
• You registered on po.trade, the Pocket Broker listing, com.potradeweb, is the app that matches.
• You in fact cannot tell. The operator's own support is the only body that can confirm which front holds your account. Reach it from inside a signed-in session or from the operator's own site, never from a phone number, a chat handle or a link that arrived in a message or an app-store review. And whoever answers, they have no legitimate need for your password, a one-time code, a 2FA code or a recovery code, and no need to see your screen. A request for any of those settles the question about who you are talking to.

If you are starting from nothing

Then the app is downstream of two earlier decisions, and taking them in order saves you the work of undoing an install.

1. Read the restricted-countries notice first. It is published on both fronts and it names the EEA countries, USA, Israel, UK, Philippines, Japan and Brazil. Absence from that list is not permission either, registration, funding, verification and payout all remain the operator's decisions and can change without notice.
2. Decide whether you want an app at all. The browser version installs nothing, requests no permissions and shows you the address you are on in the one place you can always check. For a lot of people that is the sensible default, and it sidesteps this entire two-app question.
3. If you do want an app, choose the front, then take its listing. Whichever front you register on, take the matching listing from the link that front publishes, and confirm the identifier on arrival.

When neither app is the right route for you

Being direct about this is more useful than a decision tree. Skip the install entirely if any of the following describes you:

• You are resident in a country named in the operator's notice. The obstacle does not disappear at the download stage; it surfaces at verification and at payout.
• Your store does not show either listing. That is the answer, not a puzzle to solve, and this site carries no workarounds for it.
• You are on a shared, managed or work device where you would rather not grant app permissions at all.
• You only want to look around. The browser version does that with nothing installed and nothing to remove afterwards.
• You are being walked through the install by someone who contacted you. Stop there: that scenario has a much higher chance of ending in a credential handover than in a working app.

How these judgements were formed is worth stating plainly, because this page contains no testing claims. Everything here rests on three things: the operator's own published pages and notice, the two store listings and their package identifiers, and general Android and Apple platform behaviour that applies to any app. Where a fact could not be confirmed, iOS listing status, the publisher name, whether one login spans both fronts. This page says so instead of filling the gap.

Match the app to the front your account lives on; if you are starting fresh, decide the front first, and remember the browser version answers the question without an install.

Setup and Common Issues

First launch is ordinary: open the app, sign in with the credentials for its front, and grant nothing beyond what the task needs. Nearly every problem people report here traces back to one mismatch.

Setup itself takes a couple of minutes and holds no surprises. The interesting part is the failure that this two-app split produces more than any other, and knowing about it in advance turns a baffling evening into a ten-second fix.

First launch, step by step

1. Open the app you installed and check, at the top of the sign-in screen, that it is the one you meant, the name shown will be Pocket Option or Pocket Broker.
2. Sign in with the credentials belonging to the front that app serves. Type them; do not paste them from a message someone sent you.
3. Handle the permission prompts deliberately. Notifications and network access are ordinary. Camera and photo or file access exist for document upload during identity verification and are the only clearly expected sensitive requests, so it is fine to decline them until verification actually asks.
4. Stop the install and remove the app if it asks for SMS read or send access, device administrator rights, accessibility services or permission to draw over other apps. A trading app has no legitimate need for any of those, and being asked is reason enough to cancel.
5. Turn on two-factor authentication if the platform offers it, and keep your recovery codes somewhere only you can reach.
6. Spend your first session in the practice mode. The refillable demo balance costs nothing and lets you learn the interface without a live position open.

If you left the Android "install unknown apps" permission switched on for a browser or file manager at any point, switch it back off now. It is a per-source setting rather than a global one, and leaving it on quietly removes a protection that has nothing to do with this app.

The wrong-app mix-up, and how to recognise it

This is the one to memorise, because it is the direct consequence of the two-app split. You install one of the two apps: usually whichever one your store surfaced first, and type in the credentials of an account you created on the other front. The sign-in does not go through. Nothing on screen explains why, so you conclude the app is broken or that you have been locked out. Then you reset a password that was never wrong.

The tell is that the credentials themselves behave normally elsewhere. Work through it in this order:

• Check which app you are actually in. Pocket Option and Pocket Broker are different listings with different package identifiers, and the icons are similar enough to be mistaken at a glance on a crowded home screen.
• Try the same credentials in a browser, on the front you believe you registered on. If they work there, you have confirmed a mismatch rather than a broken account, and you can stop resetting passwords.
• Install the app for the front that worked and sign in there.
• If neither front accepts them, this stops being an app question. Our page on signing in after download covers the wider set of causes, and the operator's support is the route for anything account-side.

Do not reach for a different build of the app as a fix. A sign-in that fails because of a front mismatch fails identically on any version, and looking for an alternative copy of an app is precisely the moment people install something they should not have.

Updates and getting help

Keep both apps on store updates. That is the practical argument for the store route over any other: the store handles signing and delivers updates without you thinking about it, while an app installed from outside a store receives no automatic updates at all and quietly falls behind. If updates are not arriving, check the ordinary causes first. Free storage, a stale store cache, the device date and time, and the network you are on.

For anything the app cannot resolve, contact support from inside the signed-in app or from the operator's own site. Live chat, email or a ticket, and in-app help are the categories the operator advertises; this site makes no promise about hours, languages or response times, because none of that was verified. And the rule that outranks everything else in this section, whoever is on the other end: no password, no one-time code, no 2FA or recovery code, no remote access to your screen or device. Ever. Anyone asking has told you what they are.

If you want the wider map of routes and devices rather than just this one app, our download hub covers every platform this brand publishes for.

Almost every reported login failure on these apps is one app talking to the other front's account, check which app you are in before you touch your password.