Comparison

Trading Journal vs Trading Progress Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Trading Progress Tracker

This app helps traders monitor their performance, visualize account growth, and stay focused on their trading plan. It offers a private journal for logging daily profits and losses, tracking account balances, and recording trade notes. Features include balance projections, performance charts, and a trading calendar.

Highlights
  • Log daily profit and loss
  • Track account balance, deposits, withdrawals
  • Generate account balance projections
  • Compare projected and actual growth
  • Interactive performance charts
  • Trading calendar
  • Record trade notes
Features
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Track your trading performance with a clean, private journal built for consistency. A monthly auto-renewable subscription is required to access all Trading Progress Tracker’s features. Whether you trade futures, stocks, options, or forex, Trading Progress Tracker helps you monitor performance, visualize account growth, and stay focused on your trading plan. Features • Log daily profit and loss in seconds • Track account balance, deposits, withdrawals, and adjustments • Automatically generate account balance projections • Compare projected and actual account growth • Interactive performance charts and equity curves • Trading calendar with daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and all-time views • Record trade notes and journal entries to review your decisions • Keep your data private with local storage and personal iCloud sync Privacy First Your trading data belongs to you. Trades, profits, losses, account balances, and journal entries are stored privately. Even the app developer cannot view your trading data. Built for traders who value simplicity, accountability, and long-term consistency. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/anchorsoftware-privacypolicy/home

Screenshots

Trading Journal4 screens
Trading Progress Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Trading Progress Tracker at 100% against Trading Journal's 57%. Trading Progress Tracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). Trading Journal's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (47 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Trading Journal sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Trading Progress Tracker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Trading Progress Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trading Journal has 47 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Trading Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Trading Progress Tracker's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Trading Journal versus Trading Progress Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrading JournalTrading Progress Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (47 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJames SedlacekSEAN ALEXANDER MAYHUE

Customer experience

Trading Journal

All ratings47 ratings
Positive74.5%
Neutral6.4%
Negative19.1%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive57.4%
Neutral10.6%
Negative31.9%

Trading Progress Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Trading Journal

Subscriptions8
  • 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 - Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Trading Journal Pro - Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Trading Journal Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Trading Journal Pro – Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Trading Journal Pro$19.99
  • Trading Journal Pro - Lifetime$99.99
1 purchases

Trading Progress Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Trading Progress Tracker Monthly$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Trading Journal free?
Trading Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trading Progress Tracker free?
Trading Progress Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trading Journal or Trading Progress Tracker?
Trading Progress Tracker is rated higher. Trading Journal averages 4.2 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while Trading Progress Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Trading Journal or Trading Progress Tracker have ads?
Neither Trading Journal nor Trading Progress Tracker shows ads.

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