Trading Journal vs OptionsPilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trading Journal
This app helps traders of all levels track, analyze, and refine their strategies across various markets. Gain insights into your trading patterns with advanced analytics, customizable goal tracking, and an intuitive interface to improve performance and profitability.
- Track stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto trades
- Add rich text notes and attachments
- Advanced analytics and charts
- Customizable goal tracking
- Yearly, monthly, and daily overviews
- Filter and sort journal entries
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Turn Every Trade Into Insight Trading Journal helps you record trades, identify patterns, and make more informed decisions. Track stocks, options, futures, forex, and cryptocurrency in one organized journal. Add notes, tags, and attachments to capture the strategy behind each trade—not just the result. Explore your performance through clear analytics, review trading activity on your calendar, and create personalized goals that keep you focused on improving your process. JOURNAL YOUR TRADES • Record stocks, options, futures, forex, and crypto trades • Organize entries with custom tags • Capture strategies and reflections with rich-text notes • Add supporting attachments • Sort and filter your trading history ANALYZE YOUR PERFORMANCE • Track net profit and profit and loss • Review your win/loss ratio • Monitor trading fees • Identify your best and longest winning streaks • Compare performance across tags • Filter analytics to focus on what matters REVIEW YOUR CALENDAR • Explore yearly, monthly, and daily overviews • See your trading activity over time • Filter your calendar to uncover meaningful patterns BUILD BETTER HABITS • Create daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly goals • Set goals based on earnings, wins, or percentage gained • Customize progress colors • Filter and review your progress Whether you’re building consistency, testing a new strategy, or reviewing years of trading activity, Trading Journal gives you the tools to learn from every trade. SUPPORT Email: support@sedlaceksolutions.com EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.sedlacek-solutions.com/trading-journal-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://www.sedlacek-solutions.com/trading-journal-terms-of-service
OptionsPilot
This app helps options traders optimize their income strategies by finding optimal strike prices, tracking premium, and avoiding assignment errors. It uses AI to analyze market data and provides smart alerts for critical trading moments.
- AI-powered strike recommendations
- Real-time option price tracking
- Premium income dashboard
- Smart expiration alerts
- Assignment risk detection
- News sentiment analysis
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Plan and track options trades with OptionsPilot. TRACK YOUR POSITIONS Record covered calls and cash-secured puts, monitor key contract details, and see your portfolio in one place. FIND STRIKES Compare covered-call and cash-secured-put opportunities using strike, premium, breakeven, downside cushion, annualized return, and assignment estimates. REVIEW YOUR PROCESS Use the trade journal and performance views to document decisions and review outcomes. Check the earnings calendar before planning a trade. GET TIMELY ALERTS Set premium-capture targets and receive notifications about position milestones, strike changes, and expiration dates. OptionsPilot provides educational and informational tools. Market data may be delayed. Nothing in the app is investment advice, and all investing involves risk. Some features require an OptionsPilot Pro auto-renewable subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Trading Journal and OptionsPilot both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of OptionsPilot's written reviews are positive against 57% of Trading Journal's. OptionsPilot also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Trading Journal's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 13). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Trading Journal sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and OptionsPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Trading Journal against 4.3 for OptionsPilot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 13 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of Trading Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of OptionsPilot's.
Trading Journal ships an update every 3 weeks, OptionsPilot every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trading Journal | OptionsPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (47 ratings) | 4.3 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Sedlacek | Rachit Agarwal |
Customer experience
Trading Journal
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In-app purchases
Trading Journal
- Trading Journal Pro3 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Trading Journal Pro$2.991 Month
- Trading Journal Pro - Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
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- Trading Journal Pro – Weekly$6.997 Days
- Trading Journal Pro$7.991 Month
- Trading Journal Pro - Monthly$9.991 Month
- Trading Journal Pro - Monthly$14.991 Month
- Trading Journal Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Trading Journal Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Trading Journal Pro – Yearly$49.991 Year
- Lifetime Trading Journal Pro$19.99
- Trading Journal Pro - Lifetime$99.99
OptionsPilot
- Weekly$3.997 Days
- Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yearly$79.991 Year









