Comparison
Tradoshi vs JournalPlus
JournalPlus is the closest competitor to us on substance: it does not sell statistics, it sells discipline. « Become the disciplined trader you want to be » is written on their home page, and they track emotions before and after every trade. Two things separate them radically from us, and they should be stated straight away: they cost $159 once, for life, and they chose NOT to sync your broker. They win the first point. The second is what this page is about.
Sourced on 2 August 2026
The comparison at a glance
Thirteen lines to decide fast. Everything is detailed below, with sources.
| What is compared | JournalPlus | Tradoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $159 once, for life | $19.99 to $49.99/mo |
| Cost over three years | $159 | $597 on the annual Essential |
| Automatic broker sync | None, a stated choice | 2,000+ brokers, 98 on a direct API |
| How the journal fills | Export then import a file, every time | Automatic once connected |
| Psychology tracking | Yes, emotions before and after the trade | Yes, plus the voice check-in |
| Voice check-in | No, written entry | From Essential |
| In-session guardrails | Impossible without a broker connection | Live session (Premium) |
| Mentor account | Absent from their site | Free |
| Backtesting | Absent from their site | 10 strategies then unlimited |
| Languages | English | French and English |
| Trial | Free demo account + 7-day money-back | 7-day trial with a card |
| Free plan | No, a demo only | Yes, no trade limit |
| Displayed reviews | 4.9/5 across 1,287 reviews claimed | We are starting out |
1. The customer offer, plan by plan
Every plan from both publishers, with what each one actually unlocks. Prices are the ones shown on both pricing pages on the day of the survey.
JournalPlus
Billed in dollars and rupees$0
sample data, no card- To tour the product
- Not a free plan: you cannot journal on it
$159 one time
shown struck through from $999 · code JP15: $135 · 7-day money-back- No recurring payment
- File import from any broker
- Manual entry
- AI analysis and pattern detection
- Emotion tracking before and after the trade
- Pre-trade checklist and compliance rate
Tradoshi
Billed in dollars$0/mo
permanent, no card, nothing to cancel- 1 synced broker account
- Unlimited file import and manual entry
- Full journal, dashboard and Day View
- 500+ reports and Oshi Score
- Discipline score
- Free mentor account
$19.99/mo
or $199/year ($16.58/mo)- Broker sync, 3 accounts
- Oshi AI coach on your data
- 600 AI credits per month
- Voice check-in and written
- Risk management and economic calendar
- No trade limit
$29.99/mo
or $299/year ($24.92/mo)- 50 accounts, multi prop firm
- Prop firm challenge tracking
- 1,500 AI credits
- Backtesting (10 strategies)
- Be followed by a mentor, free for them
- Risk tracking and economic calendar
$49.99/mo
or $499/year ($41.58/mo)- Unlimited accounts
- 3,000 AI credits
- Live session: in-session guardrails
- Trade Review on the real chart
- Unlimited backtesting
- Priority support
Every price on this page is in dollars, on both sides, and no exchange rate is applied. JournalPlus also displays its pricing in rupees (₹6,599), a sign of a product aimed first at the Indian market.
Let us do the arithmetic out loud, it does not favour us. $159 once is already less than our $199 first year, and the gap only widens: after three years they are at $159 and we are at $597. With their JP15 code, it is $135. We will not pretend that is a detail. What a subscription pays for, on our side, is what costs money every month: continuously polling your broker and the AI compute. Software sold once cannot carry an expense that recurs every month. That is precisely why they do not sync.
2. The partner offer, in months of revenue
JournalPlus publishes no affiliate program: no dedicated page, no rate, no threshold. The usual URLs (/affiliate, /affiliates, /partners) all return 404 as of 2 August 2026, and no such link appears on their home page.
Our schedule is public and pays from the first customer: 15% for life on every payment collected, 20% at fifteen active subscribers, 25% at fifty-one.
Comparing two percentages means nothing while the durations differ. The honest unit is months of the referred customer's revenue: it neutralises both the product price and the commission duration. Read it as: for a customer who stays N months, the partner has earned the equivalent of X months of that customer's revenue.
| Program | Stays 6 months | Stays 12 months | Stays 24 months | Stays 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tradoshi 15% (from the 1st customer) | 0.90 | 1.80 | 3.60 | 5.40 |
| Tradoshi 20% (15 customers and up) | 1.20 | 2.40 | 4.80 | 7.20 |
| Tradoshi 25% (51 customers and up) | 1.50 | 3.00 | 6.00 | 9.00 |
The table only holds our rows, for lack of a published competing schedule. It reads in months of the referred customer's revenue.
On our side, the commission lands on every payment collected, with a 30-day holding period and a €500 payout threshold.
3. Mentoring, and who pays for whom
Mentoring appears nowhere on JournalPlus's grid: no dedicated row, no student invitation, no shared space. The product is built for a solo trader facing their statistics.
At Tradoshi, the mentor account is free. The student is the subscriber, from the Pro plan up, and invites their mentor, who pays nothing to follow their trades and progress.
For a trader working alone this line is worth nothing, and that should be said. For a school or an educator it decides everything: following thirty students costs nothing extra, where elsewhere it would take one subscription per supervisor.
How mentoring works at Tradoshi · The offer for educators and schools
4. The full comparison, feature by feature
Every line comes from both public pricing pages, read on the same day. Nothing is pulled from a help centre on one side and a grid on the other: on unequal evidence, a comparison stops being honest. “Absent from the grid” means exactly that, not “does not exist”.
Price, and it must be said first
Their turf, with no possible argument. A one-time payment against a subscription: there is no angle that makes this favourable to us.
| What is compared | JournalPlus | Tradoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Model | One-time payment | Monthly or annual subscription |
| First year | $159 ($135 with JP15) | $199 on the annual Essential |
| Three years | $159 | $597 |
| Guarantee | 7-day money-back | 7-day trial, cancellable before any charge |
| To see the product without paying | Demo account | Trial with a card |
Syncing, and why it decides everything else
JournalPlus has a whole page titled « Why we don't do auto-sync », with four serious arguments: your credentials never leave you, a CSV file works with any broker in the world, it never breaks when an API changes, and you decide what you import. Those arguments are good. They have one consequence, and that is what matters.
| What is compared | JournalPlus | Tradoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Broker connection | None, by design | 2,000+ brokers |
| Brokers on a direct API | 0 | 98, broken down channel by channel |
| Available list | 33 names listed + « 200 more », CSV compatibility | 2,024 names + PDF |
| Action to repeat to keep the journal | Export then upload a file | None |
| Data available during the session | None, the file arrives afterwards | Live position, risk and P&L |
Psychology: their turf too, and precision matters
This is the only competitor in this series whose pitch matches ours. Writing that they do no psychology would be false: they log emotion before and after the trade, keep a pre-trade checklist and display a rule compliance rate. The difference is not there.
| What is compared | JournalPlus | Tradoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Emotion log | Yes, before and after | Yes |
| Pre-trade checklist | Yes, with a compliance rate | Rules and discipline score |
| AI assistant on your data | Yes, in plain language | Yes, Oshi |
| Voice check-in | No, everything is written | Yes, from Essential |
| Emotion detection from voice tone | No | Coming soon |
| Alert at the moment the rule breaks | After the fact, on the imported file | In session (Premium) |
What exists on our side and not on theirs
Checked on 2 August 2026 on their home page, on /features/, on /integrations/ and against the full list of links on their site. The URLs /mobile, /partners and /affiliate return 404.
| What is compared | JournalPlus | Tradoshi |
|---|---|---|
| Mentor account | Absent from their site | Free |
| Backtesting | Absent from their site | 10 strategies then unlimited |
| Prop firm and challenge tracking | Absent from their site | Multi prop firm and challenge |
| French | No | Yes, product and support |
| Mobile app | Not mentioned | iOS and Android, being published |
| Published partner program | No | 15 to 25% for life |
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5. What we concede to JournalPlus
A comparison won on every single line is not a comparison, it is an advert. Here are the points where JournalPlus is ahead, with nothing taken off.
The verdict
With no connection to your broker, nothing can speak to you during the session. That is a direct consequence of their own choice, not a cheap shot: their assistant analyses a file you exported yourself, so it always arrives afterwards. That said, JournalPlus is a good product, run by people who talk about discipline rather than curves, and at $159 for life nobody in this series comes close. What we sell on top is not one more box in a table, it is a consequence of their own choice: with no connection to your broker, nothing can speak to you during the session. Their assistant analyses a file you exported yourself, so it always arrives afterwards. Ours sees the open position and the risk taken, and can tell you that you have just broken your 2% rule while the trade is still open. If your problem is understanding what happened, their tool is enough and costs three times less. If your problem is stopping in time, a file imported in the evening has never solved it.
Frequently asked questions
Which one is cheaper?
JournalPlus, by a wide margin. They ask $159 once, for life, against $199 a year for our annual Essential plan. So they are already cheaper in the first year, and over three years the gap is $159 against $597. Their JP15 code brings the price down to $135.
Does JournalPlus connect to my broker?
No, and it is a stated choice. They have a whole page titled « Why we don't do auto-sync ». Everything goes through a CSV export from your broker, which you then upload. They list 33 brokers plus « 200 more », but that is file compatibility, not a connection. Tradoshi syncs more than 2,000 brokers, 98 of them on a direct API, and publishes the list of 2,024 names with a proof PDF.
Careful, their site contradicts itself on this point
Their integrations page says « we never ask for your broker login credentials or API keys », while the FAQ on their features page says « we use secure OAuth connections » and their home page states « JournalPlus auto-imports trades ». All three wordings were read on 2 August 2026. We will not settle it for them: if this matters to you, ask them before buying.
What does Tradoshi do that JournalPlus does not?
Automatic broker syncing, and everything that follows from it: in-session guardrails, risk tracking on an open position. Then the voice check-in, the free mentor account, backtesting, prop firm rule tracking, and French.
What does JournalPlus do better than Tradoshi?
Price, with no argument: $159 for life against a subscription. A free demo account to tour the product without a card. An import that works with any broker in the world without waiting for support to be added. And a review history where we are starting out.
Do they really do psychology tracking?
Yes, and that should be said plainly rather than implying an empty column. They log emotion before and after every trade, offer a pre-trade checklist with a compliance rate, and an AI assistant you query in plain language. What we add is the voice check-in, and the alert at the moment the rule breaks rather than when you re-read your file.
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Start for free Free plan · no credit card · nothing to cancelMethod and sources. Every figure attributed to JournalPlus was read on 2 August 2026 on its own public pages, in the served HTML, and not taken from a third-party comparison: journalplus.co/ · journalplus.co/features/ · journalplus.co/integrations/. The “absent from the grid” statements were obtained by counting term occurrences in the served page, not by eye. The months-of-revenue values are computed from the published schedules on both sides, month by month, not typed by hand. A publisher's pricing changes without notice, and this one raised all three of its plans overnight on 16 July 2026: when in doubt, the publisher's own page prevails over this one. If you spot a mistake, write to us and it will be corrected with the date. Report an error to us.