Comparison

Gecko vs Edgewonk (2026): Which Trading Journal Fits You?

By the Gecko team · Updated June 2026

Yes, this comparison lives on Gecko’s site, so read it knowing that. We have tried to keep it honest anyway, because the truth is simple: these are different tools built for different traders, and Edgewonk is genuinely better for some of you. Here is the real breakdown so you can pick in five minutes.

The short version

Edgewonk is a customization-heavy manual journal with an annual license model, popular among forex and futures discretionary traders. You define your own tags, mistakes, and trade types, and the tool aggregates what you tag. List price has historically been around $169 per year per their site as of June 2026.

Gecko skips the tagging step. It reads your uploaded statements and computes a behavioral diagnosis automatically: twelve axes, each significance-tested, ranked by realized dollar cost. Pro is $12 per month with a full-featured free tier, and Gecko never asks for broker credentials.

Side by side

Category	Gecko	Edgewonk
Price model	Subscription with free tier. Pro $12/month, cancel any time.	Annual license, around $169/year per their site as of June 2026. One up-front payment.
Setup	Upload a statement, no broker login, first diagnosis in about two minutes.	Set up your custom tags and trade types, then import or enter trades. Pays off after the setup investment.
Broker support	Native parsers for Kraken, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, plus an AI extractor that reads statements from any other broker — no broker is unsupported.	CSV imports for a wide range of brokers including forex and futures venues.
Security posture	Never asks for broker credentials. Reads only the statement you upload.	Local-first model historically (you keep the data on your machine), which is a privacy strength.
Behavioral analysis	Automatic across 12 axes, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by dollar cost.	User-defined: you write your own tag taxonomy for mistakes and setups, the tool aggregates what you tag.
Customization	Tight, opinionated. The 12 axes are the framework; you cannot define your own.	Industry-leading. Almost every field, tag, and analytics view is configurable.
Backtesting	Not offered.	Light backtesting workflow for replaying setups against historical data.
Customizable dashboard	Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer; compose your own home screen in seconds.	Customization scope per their site as of June 2026.
Journal screenshots	Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand.	Per-entry image attachments per their site as of June 2026.
Money-back guarantee	7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.	Per their site as of June 2026; their annual plan is non-refundable past activation.
Gecko AI · personal coach	Gecko AI: your personal trading performance coach. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, and the goals you set for yourself — then suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in to see if it worked. Catches subtle drifts across months (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. ~25 messages/month free, ~500 on Pro. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6.	No conversational AI coach as of June 2026; emotional tagging and review are user-driven.
Light + dark theme	Light and dark themes with a one-click toggle in the sidebar and on every public page.	Light theme primary as of June 2026.
Best for	Traders who want behavior named for them and graded weekly, without setup overhead.	Disciplined journalers who want full control over their taxonomy and prefer a one-time annual fee.
Daily Coach loop	AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.	Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.
Broker auto-sync	Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.	Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.
Trade Replay + coach commentary	Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. Sonnet writes a coach recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.	Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.

Price model

Gecko: Subscription with free tier. Pro $12/month, cancel any time.

Edgewonk: Annual license, around $169/year per their site as of June 2026. One up-front payment.

Setup

Gecko: Upload a statement, no broker login, first diagnosis in about two minutes.

Edgewonk: Set up your custom tags and trade types, then import or enter trades. Pays off after the setup investment.

Broker support

Gecko: Native parsers for Kraken, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, plus an AI extractor that reads statements from any other broker — no broker is unsupported.

Edgewonk: CSV imports for a wide range of brokers including forex and futures venues.

Security posture

Gecko: Never asks for broker credentials. Reads only the statement you upload.

Edgewonk: Local-first model historically (you keep the data on your machine), which is a privacy strength.

Behavioral analysis

Gecko: Automatic across 12 axes, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by dollar cost.

Edgewonk: User-defined: you write your own tag taxonomy for mistakes and setups, the tool aggregates what you tag.

Customization

Gecko: Tight, opinionated. The 12 axes are the framework; you cannot define your own.

Edgewonk: Industry-leading. Almost every field, tag, and analytics view is configurable.

Backtesting

Gecko: Not offered.

Edgewonk: Light backtesting workflow for replaying setups against historical data.

Customizable dashboard

Gecko: Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer; compose your own home screen in seconds.

Edgewonk: Customization scope per their site as of June 2026.

Journal screenshots

Gecko: Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand.

Edgewonk: Per-entry image attachments per their site as of June 2026.

Money-back guarantee

Gecko: 7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.

Edgewonk: Per their site as of June 2026; their annual plan is non-refundable past activation.

Gecko AI · personal coach

Gecko: Gecko AI: your personal trading performance coach. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, and the goals you set for yourself — then suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in to see if it worked. Catches subtle drifts across months (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. ~25 messages/month free, ~500 on Pro. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Edgewonk: No conversational AI coach as of June 2026; emotional tagging and review are user-driven.

Light + dark theme

Gecko: Light and dark themes with a one-click toggle in the sidebar and on every public page.

Edgewonk: Light theme primary as of June 2026.

Best for

Gecko: Traders who want behavior named for them and graded weekly, without setup overhead.

Edgewonk: Disciplined journalers who want full control over their taxonomy and prefer a one-time annual fee.

Daily Coach loop

Gecko: AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.

Edgewonk: Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.

Broker auto-sync

Gecko: Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.

Edgewonk: Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.

Trade Replay + coach commentary

Gecko: Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. Sonnet writes a coach recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.

Edgewonk: Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.

The honest verdict

Choose Edgewonk if...

•You want full control over your tag taxonomy and analytics fields.
•You prefer one annual payment to a monthly subscription.
•You are a forex or futures trader who already lives in a customized journal workflow.

Choose Gecko if...

•You want behavior detected automatically, not tagged manually.
•You want a statistical significance test on every flagged leak.
•You would rather not store broker credentials or self-define your own framework.
•You want to start free in two minutes and pay coffee money only if it earns its keep.

One honest note: Edgewonk rewards traders who are already disciplined enough to design their own framework and stick to it. If you have not built that habit yet, the customization is a tax: every field you have to define is a chance for the journal to die in week three. Gecko is opinionated on purpose so the read works whether you tag trades or not, and the framework is the same one professional behavioral coaches use.

The cheapest way to decide

Gecko’s free tier analyzes your last 100 trades with every feature unlocked, no card and no broker connection. If the diagnosis does not show you something worth fixing, you have lost two minutes.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Gecko cheaper than Edgewonk?

Over a year, Gecko Pro is roughly $208 against Edgewonk's ~$169 license, so Edgewonk is slightly cheaper if you use it actively for a full year. Gecko's free tier is materially more capable than a free Edgewonk trial.

What does Edgewonk have that Gecko does not?

A deeply customizable tag and analytics framework, a one-time annual payment model, a local-first data posture, and a light backtesting workflow.

What does Gecko have that Edgewonk does not?

Automatic behavioral detection across twelve significance-tested axes, dollar pricing of each leak, a 30-second weekly journal that grades itself, and a no-credentials setup.

Can a beginner use Edgewonk?

Technically yes, but the setup investment is real and the value is in the customization, which most beginners do not yet know how to use. Gecko is built so a first diagnosis is useful in minute one.