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Kalshi: Trade Football & more

by KalshiEX LLCFinanceApp Store 4.8Google Play 4.7

What Kalshi is

Kalshi is the largest federally regulated prediction market app in the U.S., where you can make money by predicting real-world events, including football, basketball, hockey, and other sports, plus crypto prices.

The sentence of its App Store description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.

Kalshi is the largest federally regulated prediction market app in the U.S., where you can make money by predicting real-world events, including football, basketball, hockey, and other sports, plus crypto prices. Perfect for sports, crypto, and event trading, forecasting, futures-style markets, and real-world predictions.

It’s like trading stocks – but instead, you trade on events you understand. Predict whether an event will happen or not, and earn money if you’re right.

Join 10M+ users trading thousands of prediction markets across finance, politics, weather, culture, sports, and more.

FINANCIAL MARKETS

Daily S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq 100, Bitcoin, Gold, WTI oil, Company earnings

ECONOMIC MARKETS

Fed interest rates, Inflation (CPI), Jobs reports, GDP, Recession, Gas prices, Mortgage rates

CLIMATE MARKETS

Daily city temperatures, Hurricane strength, Tornado numbers

CULTURE MARKETS

Billboard 100, Netflix Top 10, Oscars, Grammys, #1 Hits

HOW KALSHI WORKS

Kalshi is the largest federally regulated prediction exchange where you buy and sell contracts based on event outcomes. Contracts cost between 1¢ and 99¢ and can be sold anytime. At market close, each correct contract is worth $1.

TRADE SPORTS

Kalshi lets you trade on real sports outcomes across football, basketball, hockey, soccer, MMA, tennis, golf, and more.

Trade pro and college sports with highly liquid prediction markets. Trade live as games unfold, or combine multiple outcomes into one trade with Combos.

Kalshi is a Preferred Prediction Market Exchange of the NBA, bringing official NBA data to basketball markets.

HOW IS KALSHI REGULATED?

Kalshi is federally regulated as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Kalshi’s affiliate, Kalshi Klear LLC, is a CFTC-regulated clearinghouse that holds member funds and clears trades.

TRADE PERPETUALS

Perpetual futures, or perps, let you trade the price of an asset without owning it. Go long if you expect the price to rise, or short if you expect it to fall. Perps have no expiration date, so you choose when to close your position.

On Kalshi, you can trade perps on crypto (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP), metals (gold, silver, copper), oil, and U.S. stock indexes, in the same app as your prediction markets. Gold and silver perps trade 24/7.

KALSHI VS. STOCKS

Event contracts are direct. You trade the outcome of an event, not the future stock price of a company. In stock trading, you can be right and still lose money due to market sentiment or news. Prediction markets remove that layer.

KALSHI VS. OPTIONS

Event contracts are simpler. Options pricing depends on multiple complex factors. Kalshi contracts reflect straightforward event probabilities. No time decay. If the event odds stay the same, contract value stays stable.

HOW MUCH MONEY DO I NEED TO START?

Open and maintain a Kalshi account for free. Prediction markets require less capital than traditional trading, making it easier to diversify without risking large amounts.

18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Trading event contracts and trading leveraged products, including perpetual futures, involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Not representative of overall customer performance or success. Past results are not necessarily indicative of future performance.

Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory for more information.

Additional perpetual contract offerings are subject to applicable regulatory review and approval, and availability may vary.

Leverage amplifies both potential gains and potential losses, and losses can exceed the amount deposited. Leverage limits are determined by KalshiEX LLC or the FCM based on its own risk assessment and each customer's individual risk profile, and are subject to change.

What people say

Within complaints about company, ethics and policy for Kalshi, reviewers mainly object to gambling dressed up as trading and to markets they say are settled in the company's favour.

Written by an LLM from the lead report's counts.Read the report

Before you install Kalshi

Store score4.8from 798.9 thousand ratings on the App Store and Google Play
Written reviews3.3stars from 1,968 reviewers, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026
Written reviews run 1.5 stars well below the store score.

Store ratings count every star tap; written reviews come from people with something to say, so they usually run lower. Read the shares below as what reviewers raise, not the chance it happens to you.

Reviewers who want an easy-to-use app praise it, 14% of written reviews, and some also praise its content variety and depth. Skip it if crashes and bugs or charges and refunds bother you: 6% and 5% of written reviews raise them.

Of the people who wrote a review

Praise something50%
Complain48%

Watch out for

  • Crashes and bugs6%

    “it runs so bad that most of the time I went to sell it suddenly stopped working.”

    1 star · Google Play · Jun 27, 2026
  • Charges and refunds5%
  • Customer support5%
  • Locked out of their account1%

Share of written reviews that raise each one.

Who it suits

  • Investing47 reviewers; most raised: crashes and bugs
    Complain57%
    Praise47%
  • Everyday spending2 reviewers
    Complain0%
    Praise100%
  • Saving and budgeting1 reviewer
    Complain0%
    Praise0%
Replies to 16% of reviewsUpdated 2 days ago
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What Kalshi reviewers say

One public report on Kalshi: Trade Football & more reads 1,968 App Store and Google Play reviews from the last year. The report “Kalshi reviews: trading, payouts and whether it feels like gambling” was last updated Oct 28, 2026. Of its 1,968 judged reviewers, 48% complain, 50% praise something, 4% make a request and 3% say they're quitting. The top complaint is company, ethics and policy at 19% of complaints, then crashes and bugs (11%) and charges and refunds (9%). Top praise: easy to use, at 27% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (38%) and more content (14%). Two audience differences stand out. New user: say they're quitting 2.0x as often as everyone (5% vs 3%). Developer replied: say they're quitting 2.4x as often as everyone (6% vs 3%).

One public report on Kalshi: Trade Football & more. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.

Kalshi reviews: trading, payouts and whether it feels like gamblingNatural mix · last year · 1,968 reviews · refreshed weekly · by OneStarTop praise: easy to use, then content variety and depth. Top complaint: company, ethics and policy (19% of complaints, mentioned in 20%), then crashes and bugs.

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