# Logbook — for Alpaca > Logbook — for Alpaca (iPhone/iPad app by RedPixl.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/logbook-for-alpaca/id6803156999 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [RedPixl](https://appshunter.io/developer/6791876004) - Category: Finance, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-01 - Data updated: 2026-09-10 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/logbook-for-alpaca/id6803156999/reviews.md ## What is Logbook? Alpaca gives you orders and fills. It does not tell you what a trade made, what it really cost, or which orders quietly failed. Logbook works that out on your device. WHAT A TRADE MADE Alpaca returns orders and fills, not results. A buy and a sell come back as two unrelated rows, and pairing them is left to you. Logbook does that pairing on your device — first in, first out, per symbol, using Alpaca's own position intent so a short closed lower reads correctly as a win. Every trade shows what it rode on and what it returned. A 90 dollar loss means nothing until you know it was staked on 24,700 — which makes it a scratch, not a disaster. THE ORDERS THAT NEVER FILLED An order can be submitted, accepted, and then expire without ever trading. If it was the exit on an open position, that position is still open. On a strategy meant to be flat overnight, that is a real loss sitting somewhere nobody looks. Logbook lists them separately: still working, and ended without filling. FEES INCLUDED, BECAUSE THEY CHANGE THE ANSWER Alpaca charges no commission on equities, which is not the same as free. It passes on SEC, FINRA and CAT fees, billed per day, on an endpoint the orders API never mentions. A total computed from orders alone is always slightly flattering. Logbook fetches them, itemises each charge under the day it belongs to, and shows a net figure that reconciles with your balance. WHAT YOU GET • Book — equity, cash, buying power, and every open position with its size and return • History — closed trades with realised P&L, each fee itemised, filtered by period or a custom date range • Charts — the equity curve after fees, results by instrument, and how long positions were actually held • Markets — what you hold and trade, with last prices and the US market clock in your own timezone • Several accounts — paper and live side by side, each with its own keys, switching instantly • Home Screen widget — equity, the day's change, and whether anything is outstanding READ-ONLY, BY CONSTRUCTION Logbook cannot place, modify or cancel an order. Not as a setting — the code that would do it does not exist. It is a viewer for accounts traded by something else, whether that is you or a strategy you run. YOUR KEYS STAY YOURS API keys are verified once against Alpaca and then stored in your device's Keychain. There is no Logbook account, no server of ours, and no analytics in the app. Nothing is transmitted anywhere except to Alpaca's own API under your own credentials. PRICING Free for three days, everything included. After that a single 4.99 purchase unlocks the app permanently. No subscription, no account. BEFORE YOU START You need an Alpaca brokerage account, paper or live, and an API key pair from your Alpaca dashboard. Prices come from Alpaca under your own data plan; on the free plan that is the IEX feed, a fraction of consolidated volume rather than the full tape, and Logbook labels it that way. Logbook is an independent client for the Alpaca API. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Alpaca Securities LLC or Alpaca Markets. It displays information from your own account and does not provide investment advice. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Unlock Logbook | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-04 Quieter, and easier to read. Fee rows are now hidden by default — turn them back on any time in History. Dollar-denominated orders are priced exactly as the broker filled them, so your realised total matches the ledger to the cent. And the widget now shows today's change as a percentage alongside the amount. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-03 Your balance, accounted for. • Deposits and withdrawals now appear in History, in their place on the timeline. They are never counted as a trading result — you put that money there, you did not earn it. • Dividends and interest are totalled on their own line, rather than folded into your trading result or left out of it altogether. • A new breakdown shows where your equity comes from: what you paid in, what you made, what the fees took and what your open positions are worth, added up against the balance Alpaca reports. • Tap any symbol in Book or History to open its detail, the same as in Markets. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-03 iPad Logbook now runs on iPad. Your accounts sit in a sidebar and the book fills the rest, so switching between them keeps both in view — and rows stay readable instead of stretching across the screen. Larger Text Every number and label now scales with your Larger Text setting. If you have not changed it, nothing moves. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-01 Tap any ticker in Markets to open it in full: current price, the last 90 days, and your own entries and exits marked on the chart — plus what this account has actually made in that symbol and how long it typically holds. Accounts now shows the app version and links to the website and privacy policy. Reliability improvements. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-01 No release notes. ## More apps by RedPixl - [DIT Media Calculator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dit-media-calculator/id6791876002) All apps by RedPixl: https://appshunter.io/developer/6791876004 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*