# Google Finance Portfolio Alternatives (2026): Two Ways to Replace It

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> Google Finance dropped its real portfolio tool back in 2017 and never brought it back. Your two honest options: a Google Sheets setup, or a proper portfolio tracker.
- Author: Paweł
- Published: 2026-08-06
- Category: Comparisons

Google Finance once had a genuinely useful portfolio tool. It disappeared in the 2017 redesign, what's there today is closer to a watchlist, and the fact that people are still searching for a replacement nearly a decade later tells you two things: the old tool was good, and Google isn't bringing it back.

There are really only two honest paths forward, and which one fits you depends on how much you enjoy building things.

## Path one: build it in Google Sheets

The natural move for a Google Finance user, and it's more capable than people expect. The `GOOGLEFINANCE()` function pulls live and historical prices straight into a sheet, so a basic tracker is an afternoon's work: tickers in one column, shares in the next, live value at the end. Free forever, endlessly customisable, and the data lives in your own account.

Where it cracks is everything *around* prices. Dividends don't record themselves. A position bought in dollars and held in euros needs FX handling you write yourself. And the moment you add or withdraw money, a plain "value now vs value then" number stops meaning anything: deposits look like gains, withdrawals look like losses, and computing a real time-weighted return in a spreadsheet is genuinely hard. We wrote a whole piece on exactly [when a spreadsheet stops being enough](/blog/spreadsheet-vs-portfolio-tracker).

If you're the build-it-yourself type, start here. You'll know within a few months whether the maintenance is a hobby or a tax.

## Path two: use a dedicated tracker

If you'd rather have the portfolio tool Google never rebuilt, this is what the category looks like now:

- **[PortfolioGlance](/investing-apps/portfolioglance)** — our own, so discount accordingly — is the closest to "Google Finance portfolio, finished": browser-based, free at the core, holdings added manually or by CSV import, with the return maths (TWR and MWR), dividends, multi-currency and benchmarking handled for you, plus an AI health check on the allocation. No account linking. Also no automatic sync — that's the trade.
- **[Portfolio Performance](/investing-apps/portfolio-performance)** is for the spreadsheet temperament that wants correctness without the formulas: free, open source, desktop-based, everything stored locally.
- **[Ghostfolio](/investing-apps/ghostfolio)** — open source, self-hostable, privacy-first. The right answer if "my data on my server" matters to you.
- **[getquin](/investing-apps/getquin)** — if what you actually miss is convenience, it links your accounts and syncs automatically, with a large community attached.

All four are compared cell by cell in our [investing apps directory](/investing-apps), including the rows where each of them beats us.

## Picking between the paths

Ask one question: do you want to *own the machine* or *use the machine*? Sheets people genuinely enjoy the tinkering, and for a single-currency, no-dividend, rarely-traded portfolio a sheet may be all you ever need. The moment you have several accounts, foreign dividends, or you catch yourself wondering whether you're actually beating an index fund — the machine is cheaper to rent than to build.

PortfolioGlance is free to start: add the holdings you've been keeping in Google Finance or a sheet, and get real returns, dividends and a benchmark comparison without maintaining any formulas. No account linking, no card.