Market Mood at a Glance: Fear & Greed, VIX & VVIX in EquityLens

You glance at your portfolio and the number is down. Is this a normal wobble, or is the whole market gripped by fear? For a quick gut-check, a lot of investors reach for the same handful of signals: the CNN Fear & Greed Index, the VIX (Wall Street’s “fear gauge”), and the VVIX (the volatility of that gauge). The problem is they usually live in a browser tab, a separate finance site, or a TV ticker — never right next to the ETF you actually hold.

The latest EquityLens update closes that gap. Market sentiment now lives inside the same app you already use to track your VWCE or VWRL position — at the top of the screen, on your Home Screen, on your Lock Screen, and on your wrist.

See whether the market is fearful or greedy — without leaving the app

A quick read where you already look

At the top of both the Holdings and History screens, EquityLens now shows a compact sentiment row. One glance tells you where the Fear & Greed Index sits today, alongside the current VIX and VVIX levels. No extra tab, no separate app, no website.

Tap any indicator for the full picture

Want more than the headline number? Tap any of the three indicators and EquityLens opens a detail view with:

• a one-year chart of that indicator,
• period comparisons so you can see how today stacks up against last week, last month, and further back,
• and the components behind the score — the underlying inputs that move the Fear & Greed reading.

That is the difference between “the market is fearful” and understanding why it reads that way.

On your Home Screen and Lock Screen

A new Home Screen widget comes in small and medium sizes, plus a Lock Screen version. Pick the market-sentiment widget and you get the current reading every time you wake your phone — the same at-a-glance habit that makes the EquityLens lock screen widget for your ETF price so handy, now for market mood.

On Apple Watch

EquityLens adds a sentiment card in the Watch app and a watch-face complication, so the Fear & Greed reading can sit right on your watch face next to the time. A raise of the wrist is all it takes.

Not your thing? One switch turns it all off

Sentiment indicators are useful for some investors and pure noise for others — especially if you follow a strict buy-and-hold, ignore-the-headlines philosophy. So the whole feature is optional: a single switch in Settings turns market sentiment on or off everywhere — screens, widgets, and watch — at once.

Interactive charts: scrub to any date

The historical price chart is now fully interactive. Touch and drag across the chart on iPhone to move a crosshair along the line and read the exact date and value at any point. On Mac and iPad, hover to do the same. It turns the chart from a static shape into something you can actually interrogate — handy when you want to pin down what your VWCE or VWRL was worth on a specific day.

Now in five more languages

EquityLens is now fully localized in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese, in addition to English. Every screen, chart label, statistic, and the new sentiment view appears in your language. If you have been using the app in English out of necessity, switch your device language (or the app’s) and everything follows.

Mac refinements

On the Mac, there is a new Settings button right in the window toolbar, so you no longer have to hunt through menus to adjust currency, ETF version, or the new sentiment toggle. Controls throughout the desktop app have been polished to feel more at home on macOS.

Fixes and polish

As always, this release also includes a round of small bug fixes and refinements across the app — the kind of quiet improvements you do not notice individually but that add up to a smoother experience.

Get the update

The update is live now on the App Store. If you already have EquityLens, just update to the latest version and the sentiment row will appear at the top of your Holdings screen. New to EquityLens? It tracks your VWCE or VWRL investment with live prices, full holdings analysis, and now market sentiment — on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Download it on the App Store, or see everything it does on the EquityLens app page.