kappi vs Journalytix: Analytics While You Trade, or Proof Afterwards?

	kappi	Journalytix
Price	$15/month ($12.75 via a referral link)	$47/mo
Annual option	$180/year, billed monthly	$399/year
Free period	None	14 days
Primary purpose	Proving what you committed to	Improving how you execute
Outside reader can verify	Yes — public anchor	No
Changes behaviour how	You cannot revise the commit	Feedback and analytics

What is Journalytix built to fix?

Execution. It comes out of Jigsaw Trading, whose whole business is order-flow tooling for active futures traders, and at $47/mo^[1] — or $399 a year, about $33.25 a month — it is priced as a serious analytics product with 14 days free, roughly ten trading days.

That is a real category and kappi is not in it. If your problem is that you cannot see what your trading is doing, analytics is the answer and a recorder is not.

Which problem does a recorder actually solve?

The one analytics cannot reach: whether the plan you are grading was the plan you had. Every analytics product reads a dataset the trader assembled, and the most consequential field in that dataset — what you intended before the market answered — is the one field no platform observes. It is typed in afterwards, and by then you know how it went.

Broker-import journals prove what you did after the fact, from data you control. kappi timestamps what you said you would do, before you knew how it would turn out, on a record you cannot edit.

A commit is sealed before the fact and released on a time-capsuled delay.

Why a seal changes behaviour at all

Not through analytics. Through the removal of an option. If the stop is in the sealed commit, moving it is a decision you have to make against a record you cannot edit, rather than a small private revision that leaves no trace. Most rule-breaking is not defiant; it is a reinterpretation, and reinterpretation needs an editable record to live in.

Your notes and your trades stay yours until a time of your choosing. A commit is timestamped and sealed the moment it is made, so precedence is fixed immediately, but nothing is readable until you let it open. You decide when it becomes public; you cannot change what it says.

Do the two overlap at all?

Barely, which is unusual on this page. Journalytix reads your execution and tells you something about it. kappi fixes your statement of intent and tells a third party something about you. Running both is $62 a month at list, and the overlap is close to zero — they are complements, not alternatives.

When should you pick Journalytix?

When you are an active futures trader who needs feedback on execution quality and you already live in Jigsaw's tooling. Ten trading days free is enough to know. a Jigsaw Trading product; $399/yr, 14 days free.

When should you pick kappi?

When the gap is not information but commitment, or when someone is going to ask for a record and a screenshot will not do. At $15 a month against $47, the recorder is $384 a year cheaper. $15 a month, $12.75 through a referral link, and no free tier.