Comparison

AlgoDash vs Trading Journals

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

Head to head
About

AlgoDash

This app provides private, on-device dividend tracking for investors focused on cash flow. It offers portfolio monitoring, a dividend calendar, and an AI chat assistant, with premium features for goal building and safety ratings.

Highlights
  • On-device dividend tracking
  • Portfolio monitoring with gain/loss
  • Dividend payment history
  • AI chat assistant for portfolio questions
  • Goal builder and income simulator
  • Dividend safety scores and ratings
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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AlgoDash is a private, on-device dividend tracker for investors who live off cash flow. Your holdings, transactions, and AI chat stay on your iPhone or iPad -- nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create. NEW IN 2.1: MADE FOR IPHONE DUO AND IPAD - Open your iPhone Duo flat and every screen spreads into two columns at the hinge - Partly folded, the Dividend Calendar opens like a book across the fold - On iPad, two columns with the tab bar or the sidebar, in portrait and landscape - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets in every size, including extra large on iPad - VoiceOver reads every control, chart and figure, and text follows your system size PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No sign-up, no email, no password -- ever - Sign in with Apple stays on your device; we never see your name or email - Holdings, transactions, and AI chat are stored only on your device - The AI assistant answers questions about your portfolio without a server round-trip - The server is used for one thing only: stock prices and dividend history PORTFOLIO TRACKING - Holdings with gain/loss, yield, and cost basis recovery - Every dividend payment tracked, with this year's income by account type: Taxable, Retirement, Health Savings - Import a CSV from your broker statement -- read and parsed on your device, never uploaded - Manual entry supported DIVIDEND CALENDAR (Free) - See every upcoming ex-date and payment date - Monthly cash flow view -- know exactly when money arrives - Full payment history by stock or by month AI CHAT ASSISTANT (Free) - Ask anything about your portfolio: "When do I hit $2K/month?" or "What's my safest stock?" - Runs entirely on your device -- your question and your data never leave it - The language model runs on devices with 10 GB of memory or more; on others, Chat answers from AlgoDash's built-in engine, also on the device - Built with Llama GOAL BUILDER -- INCOME SIMULATOR (Premium) - Set a monthly passive income goal - Simulate any portfolio with DRIP compounding over 1-20 years - Compare multiple strategies side by side - Backtest against real historical dividend data SAFETY SCORES & RATINGS (Premium) - Every stock rated for dividend safety, consistency, and growth - Cash flow rated and ranked across your holdings - Sector diversity analysis to reduce concentration risk DESIGNED FOR DIVIDEND INVESTORS - Dark-mode first design, built for daily portfolio monitoring - Widgets -- see your income and upcoming payments at a glance - Try Demo Account -- explore with sample data, no sign-up required FREE & PREMIUM - Free: 3 portfolios, 2 open positions per portfolio, Dividend Calendar, AI Chat - Premium ($39.99, one-time): unlimited portfolios and positions, Goal Builder, Ratings, DRIP simulator, backtests -- no subscription, ever Start tracking your dividend income privately today.

About

Trading Journals

This app helps active traders meticulously log their stock buys and sells. It automatically calculates your average cost, including commissions, to match broker data. Track realized profits, open positions, and view performance over various timeframes.

Highlights
  • Log buy and sell trades
  • Automatic average cost calculation
  • Realized P&L tracking
  • Open positions management
  • Performance summaries
  • Built-in financial calculators
  • Data backup and import
Features
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Trading Journals is a clean, fast journal for active traders. Log every buy and sell, and Trading Journals automatically blends your average cost the way Interactive Brokers does — commissions included — so your numbers match your broker. - Realized P&L in clear green / red - Open positions with shares remaining and average cost - Closed trades filtered by today, week, month, year, or any date - A calendar showing your profit and loss day by day - A summary view with win rate and per-ticker performance - Built-in calculators: position size, profit/loss, average, target/stop - English and Arabic with full right-to-left support - One-tap backup and import of your data Your trades stay private on your device. No account, no tracking, nothing sent to any server. Free to start — log up to 2 buys and 2 sells. To keep logging unlimited trades, plus the calendar, summary, and all calculators, subscribe to Trading Journals Pro: • Monthly – $4.99 • 3 Months – $12.99 • Yearly – $39.99 Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://farisjournals.netlify.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

AlgoDash4 screens
Trading Journals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: AlgoDash at 3 against Trading Journals's 1. Trading Journals's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. AlgoDash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Trading Journals sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AlgoDash against 5.0 for Trading Journals. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AlgoDash versus Trading Journals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlgoDashTrading Journals
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.8 GB13 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAlgodash Apps LLCFaris Ayoub

Customer experience

AlgoDash

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Trading Journals

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

AlgoDash

One-time1
  • AlgoDash Premium$39.99
3 purchases

Trading Journals

Subscriptions3
  • Pro +$4.991 Month
  • Quarterly Pro$12.993 Months
  • Yearly Pro$39.991 Year

Questions

Is AlgoDash free?
AlgoDash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trading Journals free?
Trading Journals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, AlgoDash or Trading Journals?
AlgoDash and Trading Journals are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do AlgoDash or Trading Journals have ads?
Neither AlgoDash nor Trading Journals shows ads.

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