How to Track Your Kraken Crypto Profit and Loss (P&L)
Track your Kraken crypto profit and loss in real time with Widgets for Kraken — per-coin P&L, cost basis and portfolio allocation, read-only and private. Setup guide.
Your portfolio value only tells half the story. Ten thousand dollars in crypto means something very different if you paid five thousand for it than if you paid twelve. The number that actually matters is profit and loss: how much you are up or down versus what you put in. A good P&L view answers that instantly, per coin and overall, and keeps updating as the market moves.
This guide shows how to track your Kraken crypto profit and loss with Widgets for Kraken, an independent, read-only app for iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch. We will cover what P&L and cost basis mean, how to set it up, and how to read your gains without ever giving an app permission to trade.
Profit and loss, cost basis and allocation explained
Three numbers turn a list of balances into a real picture of your portfolio. Together they tell you not just what you hold, but how well it is doing and where your risk sits.
- Cost basis: what you paid for a holding on average — the baseline every gain is measured against.
- Unrealized P&L: how much a holding is up or down right now, before you sell, shown as an amount and a percentage.
- Allocation: each coin's share of your portfolio, so you can see concentration at a glance.
- Total P&L: your whole portfolio's gain or loss, today and all-time, in one figure.
How to set up P&L tracking
Track your profit and loss
- 1Download Widgets for Kraken
Install Widgets for Kraken from the App Store on iPhone or iPad, or the Mac App Store on your Mac. Your setup syncs across devices through iCloud.
- 2Connect Kraken in read-only mode
Connect your Kraken account with the secure read-only sign-in so the app can read your holdings and prices. It can never trade, deposit or withdraw — those permissions are never requested.
- 3Let the app calculate your P&L
Widgets for Kraken pairs your holdings with live prices to show unrealized profit and loss per coin and for the whole portfolio, as both a value and a percentage. Green means up, red means down.
- 4Sort by performance
Sort your assets by P&L to see your best and worst performers first, and open any coin for its price chart and its weight in your portfolio.
- 5Add a P&L widget
Place a portfolio widget on your Home Screen, in your Mac menu bar, or on your Apple Watch so your gain or loss is visible at a glance, no app to open.
See your P&L without opening the app
Once P&L is set up, you rarely need to open the app to check it. A Home Screen or Lock Screen widget shows your total gain today; a Mac menu bar ticker keeps it next to the clock; an Apple Watch complication puts it on your wrist. When a coin makes a big move, a Live Activity can follow it in real time on your iPhone Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
Keep your numbers private
Your profit and loss is sensitive information, and it should stay yours. Widgets for Kraken keeps your holdings and P&L on your own devices, syncing through your personal iCloud rather than a company server. There is no account to create and nothing to sell. Because the connection is read-only, seeing your gains never gives anyone the ability to move your funds. Widgets for Kraken is independent and not affiliated with Kraken.
Frequently asked questions
Widgets for Kraken focuses on unrealized P&L — how much your current holdings are up or down against their cost basis, before you sell. It updates live as prices move, so you always see where you stand right now.
It is derived from your Kraken holdings so the app can estimate what you paid on average and measure your gain against it. It is meant for tracking your performance at a glance, not as tax advice.
You can follow live prices, charts and news for any coin via a watchlist, and see profit and loss for the assets you actually hold once your Kraken account is connected in read-only mode.
No. Widgets for Kraken is an independent, third-party app and is not affiliated with Kraken. You connect your own account in read-only mode, so it can display your P&L but can never trade, deposit or withdraw.
Want to know exactly where you stand? Download Widgets for Kraken, connect Kraken in read-only mode, and see your live profit and loss per coin and overall — then add a widget so it is always a glance away. Free trial, then a subscription, with a lifetime option if you prefer to pay once.
Put Kraken on every screen
Download Widgets for Kraken and add live widgets, Live Activities and complications across iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch — read-only and private.