Verdict up front: Zero Balance Trading is live on Google Play right now, with over 100,000 installs and a 4.6 rating. Its listing calls it a risk-free practice app. Its users say it shows them a dollar balance, sets a $200 withdrawal threshold, and never pays. The website Google Play prints as the developer’s own is an unfinished Firebase setup page.
Zero Balance Trading
Skyeagle · com.zerostart.simple.trading
FLAGGED APP!
- Play installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.6 from 8,570
- Developer contact
- A Gmail address
- Status
- Live — still installable
One developer, three trading apps, 210,000 installs
Skyeagle publishes three near-identical finance apps. All carry ads, all are rated 4.6, all updated in autumn 2025.
Zero Balance Trading
100K+
8,570 reviews
Start Zero Deposit Trading
100K+
14,600 reviews
Start Zero Fund Trading
10K+
4,200 reviews
The rest of the same account is programming coursework: Learn Node.js PRO, Learn SQL PRO, Learn ASP.NET PRO, Learn C#, Learn React, IT Interview Question & Answer. A tutorial publisher with three trading apps bolted on is not a financial firm, and nothing on the listings claims it is.
What the listing promises, and what users describe
The store description offers “a safe environment to learn step by step” with no capital required. Google Play marks every review below as verified.
“I reached the minimum permissible withdrawal limit which is $200, guess what, I couldn’t withdraw… when I logged back in my balance disappeared completely.”
James Ugwoke, 13 February 2026 — Start Zero Deposit Trading
“They said it in their platform that if we can earn up to 200$ dollar we will be able to transfer money to our account, which is not so.” Balance: $1,648. Transferred: nothing.
Afolalu Israel, 15 July 2026 — Zero Balance Trading
“I got to start the trading and decided to check the assets on the app and voila, they are NOT REAL… nobody has withdrawn anything.”
Bearish Alvin, 27 December 2025 — 194 readers marked this helpful
Two apps, two reviewers, the same $200 figure. A practice simulator does not need a withdrawal threshold, because there is nothing in it to withdraw.
The address Google Play prints for the developer
Every Play listing carries an App Support panel holding the developer’s own website, email and privacy policy. Here it gives a web.app address, a Gmail account and a Blogspot page.
We opened the website. It loads the words “Welcome to Firebase Hosting — Firebase Hosting Setup Complete” — the untouched default page Google shows a developer who has registered a free subdomain and built nothing on it. No company name, no address, no regulator.
The privacy policy is stranger still. It is dated 3 December 2023, and it points the reader to terms “accessible at this app — Offline Tutorial”. Across its full text the words withdraw, payment, deposit, money, bank, trading and invest appear a combined zero times. It is the boilerplate from the coding tutorials, pasted onto three apps that show people a cash balance.
⚠ Verified evidence
- Zero Balance Trading (
com.zerostart.simple.trading): 100,000+ installs, 8,570 reviews, rated 4.6, contains ads, updated 29 September 2025. - Two siblings on the same account: Start Zero Deposit Trading (100,000+ installs, 14,600 reviews) and Start Zero Fund Trading (10,000+ installs, 4,200 reviews).
- Developer website listed on Play resolves to an unmodified Firebase Hosting setup page — no company, no address, no regulator.
- Developer contact is a free Gmail address; the privacy policy sits on a free Blogspot.
- That policy is dated 3 December 2023 and refers the reader to the terms of an app called Offline Tutorial.
- The $200 withdrawal threshold is described by verified reviewers on two separate apps, five months apart; no completed withdrawal appears in the reviews we read.
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How to check an app like this in two minutes
Scroll to App Support on any Play listing and open the developer’s website. A finance app whose site is a hosting placeholder, or whose contact is a personal Gmail, has told you what it is before you sign up. Then read the privacy policy: if it never mentions money, payments or withdrawals, it was not written for a product that handles money.
Finally, search the reviews for one person confirming they were paid. Star ratings are easy to accumulate. A completed withdrawal is not.
The verdict: we are not calling Skyeagle a criminal enterprise, and no regulator we checked has issued a warning about it. What the public record shows is an app with six figures of installs that presents users with a dollar balance and a withdrawal threshold, backed by a placeholder website, a Gmail address and a privacy policy written for a programming tutorial. If an app has you chasing $200 it never intends to send, the time you spend is the product.
Sources: Google Play listings for com.zerostart.simple.trading, com.zerodeposit.tradingapp and com.starttrading.stockmarket.tradingapp; the Skyeagle developer page; the developer website and privacy policy linked from those listings’ App Support panel. Install counts, review counts, dates and all quoted reviews are as published by Google Play. Checked 14 September 2026.
