The phone and the desk, together

The Exness app beside a computer: what each screen shows and what belongs to the handset

Most people do not choose between a phone and a computer. The phone ends up in a pocket during the day and the computer sits on a desk in the evening, and both are signed in to one Exness account for months on end. That works, and it needs no special arrangement — but the two screens are not identical, and the differences are worth knowing before one of them is trusted for something the other was doing. This page sorts out which screen shows what, and which parts of the setup exist only on the handset itself.

This is a partner guide about Exness, written independently of the broker. No app is hosted here and no sign-in happens here. The official stores and the official exness.com are where the software and the account both come from.

Screen by screen

The same account, three different windows

A handset running the Exness Trade app, a desktop terminal, and a plain browser tab are three doors into one account rather than three accounts. What separates them is not what they know — that is identical — but what each of them lets a person do comfortably.

	APP Trade app on the phone	MT4/5 Desktop terminal	WEB Browser, any machine
Balance and open positions	Yes	Yes	Yes
Opening and closing a position	Yes, on MT5-based accounts	Yes	Yes, in the Web Terminal, on MT5-based accounts
Charting depth	Simplified charts, built for a small screen	The full MetaTrader toolset	A full session in a tab
Price alerts on watched instruments	Built in	Configured per installation	—
Deposits and withdrawals	Yes, inside the app	Not here — the Personal Area handles them	Yes, in the Personal Area
Leverage and account settings	Yes, inside the app	Not here	Yes, in the Personal Area
Automated tools	Not the place for them	Where they run, while the machine is on	—
Anything to install	A store download, or the official APK for Android	An installer per machine	Nothing at all

Swipe the table sideways →

The row that surprises people is account management. On a computer the terminal does not handle deposits, withdrawals, or the leverage setting — those belong to the Personal Area in a browser — while on the phone the app carries them alongside the trading screen. The full board of routes by device is on the platforms page.

Handset property

The parts of the setup that exist only on the phone

Everything about the account is shared. A short list of things is not, and every item on it is invisible to the computer no matter how long both have been signed in.

The list of instruments being watched

What sits on the app home screen is arranged on that phone, for that phone. A desktop terminal has its own watch list, arranged separately, and neither one is a copy of the other or an authority over it.

Alerts, and permission to show them

A price alert set in the app is held by the app. Whether it can actually interrupt anything depends on the notification permission granted to it in the phone settings — a decision made once on the handset, entirely outside the account.

The signed-in session itself

Signing in on the phone does not sign anything in or out elsewhere, and signing out of the phone leaves the desktop exactly as it was. Each device holds its own session and ends its own session.

The version of the software

A store install keeps itself current; a desktop terminal and an app installed from the official APK stay on the version they were given until a newer one is fetched. Two devices being a version apart changes nothing about the account they read.

None of these are worth trying to synchronise, and there is no mechanism that would. They are local decoration, in the same category as which charts a computer happens to have open.

Both signed in at once

What actually happens when a position is opened on one of them

The everyday case is both devices awake at the same time — the app open on a desk beside a terminal, or a phone checked while the computer is left running at home. It behaves the way one record read twice would behave.

The instruction goes to the server, not to the other device

An order placed in the app is sent straight to the account. The computer is not consulted, does not need to be switched on, and plays no part in it — which is why a phone works perfectly well on its own while a desktop machine is off.
The other screen shows it at its next refresh

The desktop terminal picks the new position up from the same record moments later. There is no ordering of devices, no primary and secondary, and no confirmation step on the second screen.
Either screen can close what the other opened

A position is a property of the account and not of the device that created it. Closing it from the phone, or from the terminal, or from a browser tab is the same action reaching the same record.
Only the local view differs afterwards

The two screens may draw the same instrument at different zoom levels, with different tools on the chart, and refresh a second apart. That is presentation. The statement of what was done is one statement.

Being able to act from a pocket makes decisions faster, not better — and a small screen is an easy place to mistype a size. Trading is risky and may not be suitable for everyone; a demo account runs in the app exactly as a real one does, which makes it the sensible place to get used to the layout.

Letting each do what it is good at

A workable split between the pocket and the desk

Phone

Watching, and acting quickly

Checking on open positions, reacting to an alert, closing something while away from the desk, and the account errands — a deposit, a withdrawal request, a look at the leverage setting — all of which the app carries without a computer being involved.

Computer

Preparing, and looking properly

Several charts at once, indicators arranged on them, saved templates, and anything automated. The desktop terminal is where a setup is built and kept, because that is where the files that make it up actually live. What stays on the machine →

Browser

Everything on a machine that is not yours

A borrowed computer is the case for installing nothing: the Personal Area and the Web Terminal both open in a tab, leave nothing behind, and end when the session is signed out rather than when the window is closed.

Which handset app to fetch is not a preference — it follows the account, and the table above has already settled it. Where each file comes from is on the download page.

When nobody is looking

What each device does while it sits idle

A phone in a pocket and a terminal left open overnight are doing different amounts of work, and the difference explains several small mysteries.

Idle behaviour, device by device

The phone, screen off. The app is not drawing charts and is not deciding anything. What can still reach the handset is a notification, and only if the phone was given permission to show them.
The desktop terminal, left running. It stays connected, keeps its own alerts armed, and continues to run anything automated that was started on it. Sleep, a lost connection, or a shutdown ends all of that until the machine is back.
Neither device, at any point. Positions and waiting orders are held with the account on the server, so they do not depend on any screen being awake. That is true whether both devices are on, one is, or none.
The account, always. Balance and statement carry on being the account's own record. No device is keeping them, and no device can be the one that loses them.

Anything about the account itself that a screen cannot answer belongs with official Exness support inside the Personal Area; questions about the routes and the software on this page can go to Live Help here.

The other half of the asymmetry

What the computer holds that the pocket will never show

Handset property was one list; there is a longer one on the other side. A desktop terminal quietly builds a workspace out of files in its own folders, and none of it is account data, which is exactly why no handset can display it however long both have been signed in.

	Where it is kept	Visible on the handset
Chart templates	A folder inside the terminal installation	No — a template is a file, not a setting on the account
Saved arrangements of several charts	The same folder tree on that machine	No — and a small screen would have nowhere to put them
Indicators added by hand	Dropped into the terminal directories and read at start-up	No — the app carries its own built-in drawing tools instead
Anything automated	A program inside one terminal, running while it is open	No — and it keeps running whether the phone is awake or not
Downloaded chart bars	A cache each installation fills for itself	No — the app fetches whatever depth its own view needs
The terminal journal	A log written by that machine about its own connection	No — it describes the installation, not the account

Swipe the table sideways →

Read together with the earlier list, the shape of the thing is clear enough: two devices share one record and share nothing else at all. What the desktop side keeps, and how it moves between computers, is set out on the MT4 and MT5 pages.

One record, two very different windows

The same numbers read differently at two sizes

Nothing below is a limitation of the account or of the software. It is geometry — a wide monitor and a hand-sized panel showing identical figures, and the practical consequences of that are worth naming before one of them is used for something the other usually does.

Width

How much of a chart is in front of you

A wide screen holds far more of the past at a readable size, so a shape that is obvious on a monitor may need scrolling and pinching to see at all in a pocket. Same data, same instrument — a narrower window onto it.

Rows

How many open positions fit at once

A desk terminal lists a whole set of positions in one table with every column showing. A handset paginates and abbreviates, which is fine for checking one thing and awkward for surveying everything at the end of a week.

Fingers

How easily a number is mistyped

Touch input with a keyboard that covers half the screen is a different proposition from a full keyboard and a mouse. Reading a figure back before confirming it costs a second and is worth the second every time.

The sensible conclusion is not that one screen is better. It is that each is better at a particular job, which is precisely why so many setups end up with both rather than with a winner.

Quick answers

Phone and computer together — frequently asked questions

Can the Exness app and a desktop terminal be signed in at the same time?

Yes, and it is the ordinary arrangement. Both read one account, so a position opened on either appears on the other. Neither has to be closed for the other to work, and neither takes priority.

Does a trade placed on the phone show up on the computer?

It does, as soon as the computer next hears from the server. The instruction went to the account rather than to the other device, so the desktop terminal is simply reading a record that has changed.

Why does the watch list on the phone differ from the one on the desktop?

Because each of them is arranged locally, on that device, and there is no mechanism that copies one to the other. The same applies to chart layouts and to which tools are drawn on them. None of it touches the account.

Why does the computer send a person to a browser for something the phone does in place?

Because a desktop terminal is a charting and order program and stops there, so the errands around an account belong to the Personal Area in a browser tab on that machine. It is a difference in where the control sits, not in what the account allows.

Do price alerts set on the phone also fire on the computer?

No. An alert set in the app belongs to the app, and one configured in a desktop terminal belongs to that installation and only sounds while it is open. Setting the same alert in two places means it may arrive twice.

Does signing out on the phone sign the computer out as well?

No. Each device holds its own session and ends its own session. Changing the account password is the action that reaches every device at once, which is why it is the right move when a device has gone missing.

Does a chart arranged on the computer show up the same way in the pocket?

No, and there is no mechanism that would carry it. A template, a saved arrangement of several charts, and any indicator dropped into a terminal folder are files belonging to that installation. The handset draws its own simplified chart of the same instrument from the same prices.

Where does a downloaded statement end up when it is fetched on the phone?

In the storage of that handset, like any other file it downloads, and not on the computer. Anything meant to be kept on both has to be sent across in the ordinary way, since the two devices share the account rather than a folder.

Can automated tools be run from the phone while the computer is off?

No. Anything automated is a program inside a desktop terminal and runs only while that machine is on and connected. Orders already sitting on the server are unaffected by the computer being off, but nothing new is being decided.

Does using both devices count as two logins that need separate details?

Not separate details, no. The app signs in with the Personal Area email and password, while MT4 and MT5 ask for the trading account number, trading password, and server name — two kinds of key for one account, explained in the login guide, and neither of them multiplied by adding a device.

Is a tablet a third device or a bigger phone?

A bigger phone, for practical purposes: the mobile apps are published for tablets on both stores and behave the same way there, with more room for the chart. A tablet browser can also open the Personal Area, and the Web Terminal was drawn for a desktop-sized screen.

Do indicators added to a desktop terminal appear on the small screen too?

They do not. Anything dropped into a terminal folder is read by that installation when it starts, and it exists nowhere else — not on another computer and not on a handset. The two views of the same instrument are drawn independently from the same prices.

Why does the desktop chart look deeper than the one in the pocket?

Width, mostly. A monitor holds far more of the history at a readable size, while a small panel shows a narrower slice and asks for scrolling. It is the same series of prices in both, presented with the room each screen has.

Can a long list of open positions be reviewed properly on a small screen?

It can be read, with paging and abbreviated columns, and it is genuinely less comfortable than the same table on a monitor. For a quick check the difference does not matter; for going through a week of activity it does, which is a fair reason to leave that job to the desk.

Does anything automated keep going while the phone is being used?

It runs on the machine that hosts it and pays no attention to the handset either way. Closing that computer stops it; picking the phone up does not restart it. Orders already resting with the account are unaffected by either device.

How many devices is too many?

There is no number to worry about technically. The practical limit is how many screens are left permanently signed in and out of sight, since each is another place the account is visible to whoever picks it up. Retiring one properly is covered in the login guide.

One account, and then as many screens as suit

Both devices on this page point at a single Exness trading account, so that is the thing to create first. It takes a few minutes on the official Exness website — an email address and a short questionnaire, followed by identity verification in the Personal Area — and choosing an MT5-based account at that moment is what makes the Trade app route available immediately. The registration walkthrough →

Open Exness Account

Pressing it hands over to the official exness.com by the partner route this guide is built on. The account, the app downloads, and support all live on that side.