About
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What If I Invested? is a small bilingual side-project that turns the question "what if I had bought X back then?" into a beautiful, shareable answer.
Why we built it
Every long-term investor has stared at a stock chart and thought "I should have bought that ten years ago." The professional tools that answer that question accurately are buried in trading platforms — too dense for casual curiosity, and Western-centric by default.
We wanted a simulator that GCC users would actually use: bilingual Arabic and English, native support for Tadawul, ADX and DFM, AED and SAR currencies treated as first-class, and a result that's easy to share with friends on WhatsApp.
What it does
Pick a stock, pick a past date, pick an amount. The app replays the price history, optionally compounds dividends and recurring contributions, converts to your preferred currency, and shows you both the gain and what that money could buy today — cars, gold, an apartment, a year of fuel.
Everything is calculated server-side from real historical prices. The math is open: the methodology page documents exactly how we handle splits, dividends, and FX.
What it isn't
It is not financial advice. It is not a recommendation. It is not a backtester for trading strategies. It is an educational and entertainment tool — and we are loud about that on every result page, by design.
Data sources
Stock prices and fundamentals: EODHD (paid, accurate) with Yahoo Finance fallback. Foreign exchange: Frankfurter.app (free, ECB reference rates). Company logos: EODHD CDN + Google's favicon service. "What can I buy?" item photos: Wikipedia's REST API (license-free).
When a data source is incomplete or rate-limited, we flag the result with a badge so you know.
Contact
Feedback, bug reports, partnership inquiries: tariq.almuhairi@gmail.com