So you’ve followed the top personalities in crypto, started buying and selling some Bitcoin, then bought some Ether, and perhaps even ventured further to buy some Dash and Litecoin. After some time, seeing that you’re profiting massively, you decide to sell some of your tokens. Some time later, you decide to buy a new token that you believe will revolutionise the world.
The problem is, of course, keeping track of all these purchases and sales. You want to keep track of whether you’re actually turning a profit or not, plus you need to present your results to the taxman come end of year.
So what are your options? Surprisingly few, I discovered.
Here are the three best online cryptocurrency portfolio trackers:
Cointracker
Cointracker is the newest portfolio tracker on the market, and I think it’s the most promising one. They have automatic import from exchanges built-in, and the interface is very clean. Their support is fantastic, and best of all, everything is free. This is the system I would have built if I had to build a tracker myself.
I hope they continue developing it and including more advanced features as it would really be the undisputed leader once these features are implemented. What I’d like to see is better computation of the portfolio when including withdrawals to offline wallets like the Ledger Nano S.
Cryptocompare
Cryptocompare has a clean interface, and while it doesn’t have any exchange integrations (meaning you have to enter all trades manually), it does give you a very clear idea of how your portfolio is performing. You can also add more than one portfolio.
The big issue and deal-breaker is when you need to sell some crypto. There is no way to just enter the crypto you sold and select which cost basis to use.
Let’s sidetrack for a minute and talk about cost basis. Since Bitcoin is taxed as personal property, like shares of stock, investors theoretically have the option to sell their assets on a first-in-first-out (FIFO) basis, a last-in-first-out (LIFO) basis, or to sell those specific tax lots that are most efficient under the “specific share identification” method used for stocks.
Going back to Cryptocompare, imagine you made 60 purchases of varying amounts of Bitcoin, but always less than 1 Bitcoin. At a future point in time, you decide to dispose of 30 Bitcoin at one go. You would imagine that you would be able to open up your portfolio and enter the sale of 30 Bitcoin as a single transaction and have the tracker calculate your gains or losses based on all the other smaller previous purchases. But alas, this is not the case. The Cryptocompare portfolio expects you to select the original purchase transactions, and for each of those transactions record a corresponding sale. This gets very messy, very quickly. I was very disappointed by this situation, as I had spent a significant amount of time entering all the purchase trades manually, only to be stopped in my tracks by this issue when I made a sale.
I am still hoping that the Cryptocompare guys fix this issue by allowing us to select which cost basis to use, then enter sales trades separately from the original purchases. Until this is fixed, I wouldn’t recommend using Cryptocompare to track your portfolio, unless you are exclusively buying cryptos and not selling.
Anythingcrypto tracker
A very cool new tracker that is well worth a look. API integration allows you to monitor your balance across multiple exchanges in one place, in real-time. You can automatically synchronize if you deposit, withdraw, or trade on an exchange.
Altpocket
This is a social platform mixed with a portfolio tracker. I don’t really care about the social elements, but the interface is very nice. It’s a very new tool that is currently free but will have a price attached in the near future. The biggest issue I have with it is that it doesn’t do automatic imports from Kraken, only Bittrex and Poloniex.
Cointracking
This is the oldest and most complete portfolio tracker. It has a bunch of features and is also available in several languages. Unfortunately, it also looks very old and is nowhere as slick as the other two options above. Its import facilities are unparalleled, however, so if you can forgive the ugly interface, it’s a usable option.
Have you used any other portfolio solutions to track your cryptocurrency? Let me know if you have found something ideal.
Cryptocurrency Portfolio Trackers on iOS and Android
Delta and Blockfolio are currently the best cryptocurrency portfolio trackers for smartphones. Delta seems particularly promising, and they should be releasing a desktop app later this year.
Others worth checking out
Implementing a Coin Tracker on Your WordPress Site
If you have your own website and want to display the price of certain cryptocurrencies you can use the excellent CryptoWP plugin. I use it myself on my cryptocurrency news aggregator CryptoHeadlines.com.
The good one is also Wallmine. I was able to transfer portfolio easily and I can see the performance in the crypto screener via 1 click. It has nice features like emails alerts or push notifications. Cool are heat maps visualizations but I use those for stock screening more. I would like to see the app and I am really missing the broker integration but otherwise, I am happy with it
Hi Jean,
CoinSigma.com is a new Excel-like crypto accounting application, built for Windows power-users with many transactions.
Some highlights:
– Import any CSV or Excel format with our flexible mapping tool. (+API imports coming 1 Feb!)
– Edit transactions interactively in an Excel-like grid, and even Copy&Paste with Excel
– It calculates Cost Basis for you on-the-fly: FIFO, LIFO, HAFO, LAFO, HCFO, LCFO, HPFO, and LPFO. And, it allows you to override any cost.
– See all your coin prices, portfolio value, and values per wallet, and per coin. (Prices pulled from 200+ exchanges and over 50 000 market pairs.)
– Tax: Calculates your gains report in seconds and shows you which is best among the cost basis options.
Please give CoinSigma.com a go and let me know your thoughts? It’s free for up to 200 transactions.
Email us at [email protected]
All the best
Corne Schriek
(I work for an Australian startup Dyna Guru Pty Ltd., and this is our first product, launching now!)
There many portfolio. can any one add this exchange in your app. to track the price in Realtime
Bituniverse and Coinstats are good for portfolio tracker. To track the price in realtime (exchange specfic) Tab-Trader and Byte ( https://getbyte.app ) are great. they have added all exchanges in Realtime. works great
Hello guys,
Me and my friends just set up a 100% free, fully automated, crypto portfolio tracking app at https://coinmash.net . This means you can track your crypto portfolio, without adding/removing coins manually, after you do transactions.
Transactions are seamlessly synced from your blockchain/exchange accounts. We also have real time ticker updates, alarms and other cool features. We are just now working hard to release android/iOS versions. We aim to be the complete go-to tool for tracking and managing your portfolio in real time.
We would appreciate it if you folks could take a look at the app and tell us what you think about it.
Hi Jean, try out coinstats.app as well, it’s not only a web portfolio tracker but also available for smartphones, both IOS and Android. I am using it for already three months and can’t complain so far. All the needed info in one place, saves a lot of time
Here is a link to it https://coinstats.app/
Hi Jean,
I’m also looking for a desktop app, WinOS, better than cointracking.info
I don’t really need a mobile app to monitor pricing, all trading would be done on the desktop app and a browser with 12+ tabs, mobile devices don’t cut it.
Hi Jean,
Our app, CoinView, offers an alternative to Blockfolio and Delta. Our users tell us they love the UI, news, watchlists, alerts, ICO info, and ability to trade on multiple exchanges through a single app.
If you’re up for it, we’d love to know that you think. Details here: https://en.coinjinja.com/coinview
Hi Jean,
We have recently launched a Free smartphone app (Android & iOS) which offers an efficient way to track crypto portfolios. The details are available on http://www.KryptoGraphe.com.
Would love to hear your feedback.
Hi Jean,
We have added a lot of new features and would love to hear from you about our app KryptoGraphe – http://www.kryptographe.com
Features
– Automated alerts for your favorite coins
– P&L report
– Tax basis report
– GDPR compliance
& many more
Regards,
Rohan
Hi there, i use a site called Crypnotes.com. It has all the tools you will need
CoinView only just launched in BETA but so far it looks nice and clean. You can integrate directly with major crypto exchanges so no manual adding needed.
https://coinview.pro
Great post — very helpful! Will check out http://www.cointracker.io; looks awesome.
Hey Jean!
Do you mind trying our app? Moonitor.io, it’s optimized for Desktop (max, windows, linux).
There is no auto import for now (future updates), but the best part is that it’s private unlike other apps which sell you data to spam companies 🙂
Currently I’m using vertfolio https://vertfolio.com, it’s new but simple and easy to use.
Looks nice but doesn’t seem to have auto import from exchanges nor a website or desktop app, which are crucial for me.
Yes, they don’t have auto import from exchanges but they just released a web version on https://web.vertfolio.com. Thanks
You should try out Delta for iOS & Android too. Desktop is coming soon. 🙂
https://getdelta.io – eager to find out your thoughts!
Hello, i suggest to add in your list crypolio.com – it’s easy-to-use free tracking tool