Crypto volume alerts · iPhone · iOS 18+
Volume moves first.
Price follows.
Pharos watches exchange order flow and tells you the moment unusual volume hits a coin — Bitcoin or a small altcoin — not an hour later, when the candle is already on every chart.
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Why price alerts arrive late
A candle is a receipt, not a warning
By the time a move is visible on a chart, it has already been paid for by someone who saw the flow. Everything built for retail points at the receipt.
You watch all day and still arrive late
A candle closes after the buying is done. Watching harder does not make it earlier — it just costs you the day.
Someone sells you a call, not the data
“95% accuracy”, a paid channel, an entry and a target. You never see the flow the call is supposedly built on.
A wallet transfer is not a trade
Coins moving between wallets tells you almost nothing about intent. Money hitting an order book does.
How crypto volume alerts work
Three steps, then get on with your day
Pharos reads the order flow
Trades on the exchange, sized in BTC so a move on a cheap coin and a move on an expensive one are comparable. Buying and selling are counted separately.
You write one rule
“Buys above 5 BTC on my favorites, with sound.” Before you save it, Pharos estimates how often it will fire — so you aim for a few alerts a day, not a few an hour.
The push arrives, you decide
It lands the moment the threshold is crossed, with the app closed. Tap it and you are on that coin, looking at the candles and the volume behind the alert.
Inside the crypto alert app
Four tabs, each named for what is in it
Pulse, Market, Radar, Profile. Numbers are set as instruments — tabular figures, digits that tick without jumping — and fresh signals carry the beam, so recency reads without reading a timestamp.
↔ drag the row
Every coin with a signal count and a volume ratio in the row. Favorites first, search when you know the name.
Candles, the volume underneath them, buy/sell delta, and every signal that fired on this coin today.
Rules as cards. Each one reads as a sentence, carries its expected frequency, and switches off with one tap.
A sheet, not a settings screen. Move the threshold and the frequency estimate moves with it, before anything is saved.
The push carries the coin, the side, the size and a mini chart. The widget keeps BTC and the latest signals in view.
Radar
One sentence instead of thirty switches
The old app asked you to combine buys and sells, three quote groups, sound, favorites and three exchanges out of one flat list of toggles. Nobody can hold that in their head. A rule is one sentence.
Compared with other crypto alert apps
Four ways to find out something moved
| Watching charts | Signal groups | On-chain whale trackers | Pharos | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you actually see | A candle that already closed | Somebody's entry and target | Coins moving between wallets | Exchange order flow, sized in BTC |
| When you see it | After the move is paid for | When they choose to post | Often long before or after any trade | The moment the volume lands |
| Who makes the call | You, late | They do | You, guessing intent | You, early |
| What it costs you | The whole day at a screen | A subscription and a chat you can't mute | Noise you can't act on | One rule, a few pushes a day |
| Access to your funds | — | Sometimes asks for it | — | None. No API keys, no trading |
Honestly
A signal says money moved.
It does not say the price will follow.
Pharos gives you the data and the timing. The decision stays yours. We are not going to publish a win rate, because a tool that reports what happened on an order book does not have one.
Pricing
One subscription. Everything in it.
No feature tiers, no per-coin limits, no upsell inside the app. Pick how long you want to pay for.
Weekly
The only plan with a free trial.
- 3 days free, then billed weekly
- Everything included
- Cancel any time
Annual
$6.67 a month — 33% below monthly.
- Billed once a year, cancel any time
- Unlimited rules and favorites
- Push, widgets, Lock Screen
- Switch to monthly whenever
Monthly
The straightforward one.
- Billed monthly, cancel any time
- Everything included
- Upgrade to annual instantly
The free trial is three days and comes with the weekly plan; monthly and annual start billing straight away, and the trial can be used once per Apple Account. Prices shown in US dollars — the App Store charges in your local currency at Apple's rate, including tax. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you cancel from Settings on your iPhone.
Crypto alert FAQ
Before you ask
Which exchange does Pharos read?
Binance spot at launch, across every quote asset it publishes — Bitcoin, Ethereum and every altcoin listed against them. More venues are planned; when one is added it appears in the app without an update, because the exchange list comes from the server.
Do I have to connect my exchange account?
No, and there is no way to. Pharos reads public market data only. It never asks for API keys, cannot see your balance, and cannot place an order. Nothing you do in Pharos touches your funds.
Is this financial advice?
No. Pharos reports what happened on an order book — which coin, which side, how large, when. It does not predict prices, does not recommend trades, and is not a broker, an exchange, or an investment adviser.
Will notifications arrive when the app is closed?
Yes. Rules run on the server and push straight to your iPhone. Tapping a notification opens that coin, not the front page.
Is there a free trial?
Three days, on the weekly plan. The monthly and annual plans start billing straight away — they are priced for people who already know they want it. The trial can be used once per Apple Account.
How do I sign in?
With a code sent to your email. There is no password to invent, forget, or reuse.
How do I avoid being buried in alerts?
Every rule shows an expected frequency before you save it, so you can move the threshold until it reads “a few a day”. Rules also switch off individually with one tap.
Which devices does Pharos run on?
iPhone on iOS 18 or later, and Android through Google Play — both store links are at the top and bottom of this page. Version 2.0 is being built for iPhone first; iPad and Apple Watch come after that.
What happened to the old app?
It is being replaced. Pharos 2.0 is a full rewrite — new interface, new alert model, new backend contract — rather than a coat of paint on the 2018 version.
From the blog
How to read crypto volume
Plain-English guides to order flow, volume spikes and buy/sell delta — what they mean and how to turn them into alerts worth keeping on.
What order flow actually tells you — and what it doesn’t
The four facts in every print, why volume is not direction, and where order flow stops being useful.
AlertsHow to set a crypto volume alert you won’t end up muting
Configure by frequency, not by number — the method that keeps alerts switched on past week one.
Order flowWhale alerts vs order flow: a wallet transfer is not a trade
What an on-chain alert really reports, and what reports the thing you wanted to know.
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