What Kyra is
Kyra is a privacy-first trading journal for iOS. Trades stay on your device, and pattern detection runs on-device, waiting for sample size before it claims — every pattern shows its sample size and an uncertainty range across four tiers (Tracking, Emerging, Developing, Established) that sharpen as your history grows. Kyra does not analyze charts, generate signals, emit per-trade verdicts, connect to brokers, or run a chatbot. The reasoning is on Manifesto, Why on-device, and The math behind Kyra.
Pricing is $4.99/mo or $39.99/yr after a 7-day trial. Primary buyer: a retail self-executor with a strategy who wants to understand why they cannot always execute it.
What Profit AI is
Profit AI is an AI trading assistant for iPhone, Mac, and Apple Vision built around chart analysis: upload a chart screenshot and it extracts indicators and chart patterns and produces a trade plan — entry zone, stop, take-profit, and a confidence rating. Around that, its listing describes a strategy builder, a journal with automatic MetaTrader 5 import, a chat assistant, and Duolingo-style lessons. In the version we reviewed hands-on (May 2026), it also scored charts against a saved strategy (Ideal / Good / Not Ideal / Poor), offered additional broker connections including prop-firm platforms, and showed a 0–100 Trader Score and an LLM "Leak Discovery" surface.
It runs its AI server-side and requires an account. Its App Store privacy label lists usage data under "Data Used to Track You," with purchases, device ID, usage, and diagnostics collected but not linked to identity. Pricing on the listing (2026-09-05): weekly at $7.99 or $9.99, $19.99/month, and $39.99 or $49.99/year. Primary buyer: a prop-firm or chart-first trader.
Feature comparison
| Dimension | Kyra | Profit AI |
|---|---|---|
| Primary persona | Retail self-executor | Prop-firm or chart-first trader |
| Storage | On-device, optional iCloud user-private sync | Cloud servers |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Cross-app tracking (App Store privacy label) | None | Usage data |
| Pattern detection approach | Sample-size-gated statistical inference, on-device | Vision-LLM chart analysis plus LLM over journal data, server-side |
| Sample size shown per claim | Yes — every pattern shows its sample size and an uncertainty range | Not surfaced |
| Per-trade alignment verdict | None (not a recommendation engine) | Chart scored against a saved strategy (May 2026 review) |
| Broker auto-sync | No | MetaTrader 5 (per listing); more connections in the version we reviewed |
| Single discipline score | None | Trader Score 0–100 (May 2026 review); weights not published |
| Pricing | $4.99/mo, $39.99/yr after 7-day trial | Weekly, monthly, and yearly SKUs from $7.99/wk to $49.99/yr |
| Platforms | iOS | iPhone / Mac / Vision |
Both apps work; they work on different problems for different traders.
Where the difference actually matters
Per-trade verdicts. In the version we reviewed, Profit AI scored a specific possible trade — Ideal, Good, Not Ideal, or Poor — against your saved rules. A verdict on a specific trade is, in function, a recommendation. Kyra never does this: its output is statistical observation about your past trades, never a verdict on the next one. The reasoning is on Manifesto (Section 2: Not a recommendation engine).
Mechanism honesty. Profit AI's Trader Score and Leak Discovery pass journal data through an LLM; the method and weights are not published, and a trader cannot see how many trades a claim was based on. Kyra surfaces individual patterns with the sample size and an uncertainty range shown on each, so every claim is auditable. It also has no prescriptive "fixes" column: the engine surfaces observations, never an instruction about the next trade.
Privacy by architecture. The App Store privacy labels tell the story. Profit AI's lists usage data as used to track you across other companies' apps, because its analysis runs on its servers. Kyra's lists no tracking and nothing linked to identity, because no trade content touches a server Kyra operates. Both labels are the developers' own declarations; the choice is which architecture you want your journal to use.
Who should pick which
Pick Profit AI if you run a prop-firm or chart-first workflow, want an AI to analyze a chart screenshot and emit a trade plan, want a per-chart verdict against your saved strategy, want broker auto-sync or a chat assistant, or want the same product across iPhone, Mac, and Vision.
Pick Kyra if you are a retail self-executor who wants trade data on-device with no account, pattern claims with explicit sample sizes and uncertainty ranges, predictable pricing, a sober UI without streaks or gamification, and a journal that is a mirror, not a coach.
Neither set of preferences is wrong. The two apps are aimed at different buyers with different problems.
What this page does not say
This is a comparison, not a put-down. Profit AI is competently built and useful for the trader it is built for — its chart analysis, broker sync, and pricing are for the buyer to evaluate, and its user base is real. What this page does say: the architectures are opposites (cloud + LLM + accounts vs on-device + classical statistics + no accounts), the trade-offs are real and visible in the privacy labels, and the retail-self-executor vs chart-first-trader split is the largest deciding factor. Pick the app aimed at the buyer you are.
Profit AI details reflect its App Store listing as checked on 2026-09-05, plus a hands-on review in May 2026 where noted. Features and pricing change; verify current details with the developer. Kyra details reflect v1.7.
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