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- 3 landing pages keyword-targeted: manual-portfolio-tracker, portfolio-tracker-vs-spreadsheet, investment-journal (Article + BreadcrumbList + FAQPage JSON-LD) - llms.txt para descubrimiento por LLMs/AI assistants - apple-itunes-app smart banner en todas las páginas clave - og-image.jpg 1200x675 (84KB) — el PNG de 1.3MB rompía previews en WhatsApp/Telegram - FAQ home ampliada (bank linking, precio, iPad, idiomas) sincronizada con JSON-LD - SoftwareApplication JSON-LD: screenshots, inLanguage (7 idiomas), author - og:site_name/locale/image:alt; keywords meta - Eliminado pt=123456 (provider token placeholder inválido) de todos los links App Store - Fix typo PorfolioJournal en config.js; h1 duplicado variante B -> h2 - Sitemap actualizado Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WoScpmHdVj1aUf4rAp6hbe
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<title>Portfolio Tracker vs Spreadsheet — Should You Ditch Excel for an App?</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Tracking investments in Excel or Google Sheets? Compare spreadsheet portfolio tracking with a dedicated iOS portfolio tracker app: charts, reminders, privacy, and a CSV import path.">
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<meta property="og:description" content="What a spreadsheet does well for portfolio tracking, where it falls short, and how to migrate your history with one CSV.">
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<h1>Portfolio tracker vs spreadsheet: an honest comparison</h1>
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<p>Spreadsheets are where most serious investors start. Here's what they do well — and where an app earns its place.</p>
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<h2>What spreadsheets get right</h2>
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<p>Let's be fair to Excel and Google Sheets: they are flexible, free, and yours. You control every formula, every column, every chart. If you've been maintaining a net worth spreadsheet for years, you've already built the most important thing — the habit. A dedicated app has to beat the spreadsheet on the things spreadsheets are genuinely bad at, not on flexibility.</p>
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<h2>Where the spreadsheet starts to hurt</h2>
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<li><strong>Updating from your phone is miserable.</strong> Pinch-zooming into cell C47 on a phone screen is where most spreadsheet habits die. A purpose-built <a href="manual-portfolio-tracker.html">manual tracker</a> gives you one field per account and a save button.</li>
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<li><strong>No reminders.</strong> The spreadsheet never taps you on the shoulder. Monthly check-in reminders and streaks keep the habit alive through busy months.</li>
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<li><strong>Charts are manual labor.</strong> Evolution, allocation, drawdown, contributions vs. market returns, year-over-year comparisons — each is another hour of formula maintenance. In an app they're already built and always current.</li>
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<li><strong>One typo can silently corrupt years of data.</strong> A stray edit in a formula cell and your net worth history quietly drifts. Structured input with validation can't break that way.</li>
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<li><strong>Privacy depends on where the file lives.</strong> A Google Sheet lives on Google's servers, tied to your account. An offline-first app keeps the data on your device, behind Face ID.</li>
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<li><strong>No context, only numbers.</strong> A spreadsheet records what happened, not why. An <a href="investment-journal.html">investment journal</a> records the decision behind the number — the part your future self actually needs.</li>
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<h2>Side by side</h2>
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<h3>Spreadsheet</h3>
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<p>Infinitely flexible and free, but phone-hostile, reminder-less, fragile to typos, and chart maintenance is on you. Privacy depends on the cloud account it lives in.</p>
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<h3>Portfolio Journal</h3>
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<p>Five-minute monthly updates from your phone, built-in reminders and streaks, automatic charts and analytics, Face ID protection, and CSV/JSON export so you're never locked in.</p>
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<h2>You don't have to abandon the spreadsheet</h2>
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<p>The pragmatic answer for many people is both: the app for capturing values, the habit, and the charts; a periodic CSV export back to your spreadsheet for anything custom. Portfolio Journal treats your data as yours — <strong>import your existing spreadsheet history via CSV</strong> in minutes, and export everything back out at any time. No lock-in, by design.</p>
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<h2>Migrating your spreadsheet in three steps</h2>
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<li>Export your history as CSV (one row per account per month works best).</li>
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<li>In Portfolio Journal, choose Settings → Import and map your columns — the flexible CSV mapper adapts to your layout.</li>
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<li>Keep your monthly rhythm: same numbers, one minute per account, charts for free.</li>
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<p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/portfolio-journal/id6757678318?ct=landing_vs_spreadsheet&mt=8">Download on the App Store</a></p>
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<p>Calm, offline-first portfolio journaling for iOS.</p>
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