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Introducing Euphoria for iPhone
Euphoria is now on the App Store: 12 courses, 300 lessons, paper trading on real prices, and an AI tutor. Here is exactly what is in version one and what is not.
By the Euphoria team · 2026-09-15 · 6 min read
Key points
- Euphoria for iPhone launched on 12 September 2026, is free to download, and requires iOS 16.4 or newer.
- It carries 12 courses and 300 lessons across three difficulty tiers, from first principles up to derivatives pricing and value at risk.
- The Trade tab is paper trading against live prices with practice money, so there is no brokerage account and nothing to deposit.
- Atlas, the in-app tutor, explains concepts and reworks failed explanations, and is barred from recommending any security.
Euphoria is on the App Store
Euphoria is now an iPhone app. It went live on 12 September 2026, it is free to download, and you can find it as Euphoria: Learn to Invest on the App Store. It needs iOS 16.4 or newer.
This post is the honest version of a launch announcement. It covers what is actually in the app today, what it costs, what we deliberately left out of the first release, and where it differs from the website you are reading this on.
- 12 courses across three difficulty tiers, from first principles to derivatives
- 300 lessons each one short enough to finish in a sitting
- Free to download, with an optional subscription
Why an app, and not just the website
The website has always been able to teach. What it could not do was show up.
Financial education has a peculiar failure mode: almost everyone agrees it matters, and almost nobody does it twice. The gap is not comprehension, it is returning. A browser tab is something you have to decide to open, and a decision you have to make every day is a decision you will eventually stop making.
A phone app gets to sit on a home screen. It can hold a streak, put a lesson count in a widget you see without unlocking anything, and ask for four minutes rather than an evening. None of that is clever, and all of it is the difference between a person who learns how a Roth IRA works and a person who intended to.
The hard part of learning about money was never the concepts. It was coming back on day nine.
The five tabs
The app is organized around five places, and the shape of the product is basically the shape of that list.
Home is the daily surface. It carries the streak, the day's quests, and whatever the app thinks you should do next, assembled from what you have actually finished rather than from a fixed schedule.
Learn is the curriculum: twelve courses, each twenty five lessons, arranged in a path you walk rather than a catalogue you browse. Lessons are interactive rather than read-only, which mostly means you are asked to do the thing instead of watching it happen.
Trade is paper trading. Real prices, practice money, a portfolio you actually have to manage.
Games holds four short games that drill a single skill each: Budget Balancer, Money 2048, Term Match, and Trend Master. They exist because repetition is how vocabulary and quick arithmetic stick, and because a quiz is a worse version of a game.
Digest is this publication, inside the app. Every guide you can read on the web is readable on the phone, which was a deliberate decision rather than an afterthought: the articles and the lessons teach the same material at different depths, and separating them by platform never made sense.
The curriculum, in numbers
The twelve courses are split into three tiers, and the lesson counts are not evenly distributed, because the advanced material needs more room.
| Period | Lessons |
|---|---|
| Foundations | 75 |
| Intermediate | 100 |
| Advanced | 125 |
Three courses in the foundation tier, four in the intermediate, five in the advanced, at 25 lessons each.
The foundation tier covers Investing Fundamentals, Personal Finance, and Global Economics. The intermediate tier adds Corporate Finance, Business Strategy, Financial Analytics, and Behavioral Finance. The advanced tier runs to Applied Accounting, Quantitative Analysis, Risk Management, Alternative Investments, and Wealth Management.
That last tier is genuinely advanced. Quantitative Analysis gets to Monte Carlo simulation and derivatives pricing. Risk Management covers value at risk and hedging. We kept it in a consumer app aimed partly at thirteen year olds because the ceiling being high is the point: a student who finishes the foundations at fourteen should have somewhere to go at seventeen.
Practice money, real prices
The Trade tab is a simulator, and it is worth being precise about what that means, because "paper trading" gets used loosely.
You start with practice cash. You buy and sell against live market prices. Your portfolio value is computed from the cash and positions you actually hold, not stored as a number somewhere and displayed back to you, which matters more than it sounds: an earlier version of this screen showed a hand-picked portfolio total that no user action could change, and it taught nothing because nothing the learner did moved it.
There is no brokerage account, no deposit, no withdrawal, and no way to lose real money. The App Store listing says this in its first line and we mean it literally.
What Atlas does and does not do
Atlas is the tutor in the app. It appears inside lessons when you are stuck and as a chat you can open directly, and it can see what lesson you are on, which is what makes its answers useful rather than generic.
Atlas explains concepts, reworks an explanation that did not land, and answers the question behind a wrong answer. Atlas does not tell you what to buy, does not give you a view on any security, and does not have an opinion about your money. That boundary is enforced in the product rather than left to the model's judgment, because a tutor that drifts into recommendations is no longer a tutor.
What it costs
Downloading the app is free, and a real amount of the product is free with it.
There is an optional subscription, Euphoria Pro, offered monthly or annually with a three day free trial. The trial is a proper Apple introductory offer, which means it is managed by the App Store rather than counted by the app, it shows the correct price for your country, and you cancel it in your Apple subscriptions like anything else. We mention the mechanism because the first version of that screen counted the trial locally, which was both invisible to Apple and trivially defeated by reinstalling, and it was rightly rejected.
Prices are shown in the App Store in your own currency, so we are not printing a number here that would be wrong for half the people reading.
What the app does not do
Three honest gaps in version one.
- It is iPhone only. There is no Android build yet. This is the most common question we get and the answer is simply not yet.
- It does not track you. That is a feature rather than a gap, but it is worth stating plainly: the privacy manifest declares no tracking and lists no tracking domains, so there is no advertising identifier, no cross-app profile, and nothing to opt out of.
- Classroom features are thinner than on the web. Teachers running Euphoria with a class still get more from the browser today. Assignment and roster tooling is the next thing we are moving over.
Where to start
If you have never invested and the whole subject feels like it has a locked door on it, start with Investing Fundamentals in the Learn tab and give it four minutes a day. The point of the streak is not the streak. It is that the ninth day is the one where the vocabulary stops being vocabulary and becomes something you can think with.
You can download Euphoria on the App Store, and everything in this Digest stays free to read on the web whether you install anything or not.