Mantis

What it is

A trading journal that lives on an iPhone and asks for one thing a broker file cannot supply: how you felt. Each trade takes a ticker, the executions as they happen — entry, scale-in, partial close, full close, tracked separately — an optional stop, a strategy tag, a confidence level, notes, and one of six emotions: Confident, Anxious, FOMO, Revenge, Calm, Overconfident. The reports are built on those tags. P/L by emotion and by strategy, win rate, average R-multiple from the stop you recorded, a time-of-day breakdown, a daily P/L calendar heatmap, green-day streaks, an equity curve that groups same-day exits, and a weekly report with realised P/L, best and worst days and the daily trend. Open positions show a live price and unrealised P/L, looked up by ticker; a Quick Close button pre-fills that price.

The product is published as Mantis and sold on the App Store by Rinalds Domanovs, an individual developer; no company name or address appears on the website or the store page, and support is an email address on the product's domain. It was TradeTrackr until version 2.0.0 in March 2026. The App Store history starts at version 1.0 on 28 April 2025 and runs to 2.3.1 on 18 October 2026, about twenty releases in eighteen months. Six ratings on the US store at the time of writing.

Pricing

Free is ten trades a month with no account and no card: position tracking with live prices, emotion and strategy tags, basic analytics, and the weekly report for the current week only. Premium is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, in US dollars and varying by region, bought as an Apple in-app purchase. It removes the trade cap and adds past weekly reports, R-multiples, deeper emotion analytics, CSV import and export, and the Interactive Brokers Flex Query import.

The vendor's pages disagree on the trial. The website's pricing section says no card and no trial; the App Store lists four in-app purchases, two of them 7-day-trial variants of the monthly and annual plans, and the store description says Premium starts with a seven-day trial. The terms say subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and that no refund is given for part of a period.

Data & coverage

Whatever you type or import: the vendor says any tradeable instrument, and names stocks, ETFs, options, futures, forex and crypto, with company logos on the position cards. No exchange, market or currency is named anywhere. The live price on an open position is looked up by ticker from a source the vendor does not identify, with no statement of whether it is real-time or delayed; it needs a connection, while logging works offline. The journal holds no market data beyond that lookup: no price charts for a trade, no MFE or MAE.

Integrations

Three named CSV sources, TraderSync, Tradervue and Interactive Brokers, plus the app's own CSV format and, per the store description, a standard export from any broker that the app maps itself; each file is capped at 5 MB or 2,000 rows, and import is Premium. Interactive Brokers can also be pulled through a Flex Query for a date range, with duplicate detection and an optional diagnostics count that can be mailed to support without symbols or prices. Export is CSV, on Premium. No API, no webhooks, no MCP server, no iCloud sync.

Limitations

• iPhone only, by the vendor's own account: no Android, no web app, and the App Store's iPad and M1 Mac builds are the same app, the Mac one labelled not verified.
• No cloud copy. That is the pitch, and it also means no second device, no restore after a lost phone, and a backup that exists only as a Premium CSV export.
• Broker sync is Interactive Brokers alone, on demand, on Premium. Everyone else exports a file.
• Ten trades a month on Free is a cap on trades, not executions; an active day trader exhausts it in a session or two.
• No MFE, MAE or price charts, so nothing in the journal critiques the exit against where the price went while you were in.
• The vendor's pages disagree about the trial, about which analytics are free, and about the emotion list: the store description names confident, patient, fearful and impulsive where the website names six others. Read the version on your phone, not the marketing.
• A one-person publisher with no named company, about twenty releases in eighteen months, and six store ratings. The record of updates is real; the record of longevity is short.
• The home page's "no third-party access — ever" is narrower than the privacy policy, which discloses Firebase analytics and crash reporting; the App Store privacy label says the same.

Alternatives

TraderSync and TradesViz have phone apps beside a web journal, with broker import that the phone is a window onto. StonkJournal is the other free manual-entry journal, in a browser, with no trade cap at all. Tradervue imports 30 trades a month free with price charts and MFE/MAE on every trade. Edgewonk built its whole product around the tags and the psychology, at $197 a year on the web.