SCREEN RECORDING
Trading Journal With Screen Recording Review
Most trading journals ask you to write notes about what happened. Aurafy adds recording review to the workflow: the free standalone Aurafy Recorder app (Mac, Windows, Linux) records your session and auto-links each recording to your trades so you can replay the decisions behind each entry. (Recording review is a Pro feature; the Free tier covers trade journaling and core stats.)
Aurafy is a young, independent trading journal. It earns trust by keeping the local app usable without an account, making desktop data exportable, and being clear about which features are free and which require Pro.
Why recording beats note-taking
Written notes are summaries, not data. "I got FOMO on that NQ long" hides the five minutes of indecision before the click, the specific chart pattern that pulled you in, the unrelated tab you were watching in the corner. A recording shows all of that. The first time you watch a loser play back at 2x, you typically find at least one decision point you didn't remember making.
How it works
The free standalone Aurafy Recorder app records any app on your screen, with an optional camera bubble and a ⌘⇧A start/stop hotkey, then auto-links each recording to your trades in the journal. That keeps the session context beside your trades so you can move from a trade log entry into the relevant review material without juggling separate tools.
Records any app, with a camera bubble
The Recorder captures your whole screen, your trading platform, charts, news, whatever you are watching, with an optional camera bubble so you can record your face and reactions alongside the tape. The ⌘⇧A hotkey starts and stops a recording without leaving your platform.
Recording review is a Pro feature
The Aurafy Recorder app is free, and reviewing recordings linked to your trades is part of Aurafy Pro. The Free tier is a complete trade journal with core stats; Pro adds recording review on top.
Auto-linked replay
Each recording auto-links to the trades from that session window, so jumping from a trade-log entry into the relevant moment is one click, no scrubbing through hours of footage.
File size and storage
A typical 4-hour session at 1080p60 with audio lands around 1.5–2.5 GB. The Aurafy Recorder writes recordings to your own machine, so the large video files never have to leave your computer. Old recordings can be bulk-deleted once you've reviewed them.
What recording doesn't do
It doesn't replace a written journal, it supplements one. The best workflow is: record important sessions, write a short post-session journal entry with 2–3 observations, and only re-watch recordings when the written entry has something worth investigating. Watching every session in full is overkill.
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Aurafy Pro is $49/mo (or $490 / year, save 2 months) and replaces the ~$103/mo stack of journal + screen recording + bar-replay backtester. The TradingView-powered backtester chart is free for everyone, any symbol, any history; Pro unlocks unlimited simulated trades, history jumps, analytics and exports. Start instantly in your browser at app.aurafy.dev. First 50 customers lock in founding pricing: $19/mo or $149/yr, for the life of the subscription. Free is the trial that never expires, last 30 days of trades, 1 account, 3 playbooks, no card.