Gold and Silver Prices in Your Pocket: How to Track Precious Metals With Your iPhone

Most people think of currency converter apps as tools for travelers — useful for checking USD to EUR before a flight or splitting a bill abroad. But there’s another group of users who rely on them just as much: people who track precious metals. Gold and silver prices fluctuate constantly, and having accurate, up-to-date rates in your pocket is just as valuable as knowing the euro exchange rate.

The challenge is that most dedicated gold-tracking apps are either too complex, require account registration, or bury the price data behind layers of financial news and advertisements. For someone who simply wants to check the current price of gold in their local currency, that’s overkill.

Currency Converter Calculator takes a simpler approach. Alongside its 160+ world currencies, the app includes Gold (XAU) and Silver (XAG) as fully supported currency pairs — treated exactly like any other conversion. Want to know how much one troy ounce of gold is worth in euros right now? Select XAU as your base, EUR as your target, and you have your answer in under a second.

Rates for precious metals are updated every 5 minutes from reliable financial data sources, so you’re always working with a current figure rather than an outdated snapshot. And because the app caches rates automatically, gold and silver prices remain accessible even when you’re offline — useful for anyone who checks prices throughout the day regardless of their connection status.

The app also includes interactive historical charts for any supported pair, including XAU and XAG. Switch between 1-day, 1-week, 1-month, and up to 1-year views to track how precious metal prices have moved over time. Whether you’re monitoring a long-term trend or reacting to a short-term spike, the chart view gives you the context to make a more informed decision.

You can even add a live home screen widget showing your gold or silver rate alongside your most-watched currency pairs — so the price is visible the moment you glance at your iPhone, without opening anything.

Whether you’re a casual investor, a jewelry buyer watching material costs, or simply someone who likes to keep an eye on the markets, having precious metal prices in the same app as your everyday currency conversions is a genuinely useful combination. Download Currency Converter Calculator free on the App Store and track gold, silver, and 160+ currencies all in one place.