Best Trading Journal Apps: 6 Journals Compared on Free Plans and Prices

If you want a free trading journal with automatic statistics, start with TradesViz: its Basic plan is free forever, without a credit card, and imports up to 3,000 executions a month, for stocks only. Tradervue and Trademetria also have free plans, but they stop at 30 trades and 30 orders a month, which an active day trader fills in a few sessions. Among paid journals, Trademetria Basic has the lowest yearly price at $169, Edgewonk includes every feature in a single $197 yearly plan, and TradeZella lists the most broker integrations. All prices were read on the official pages on November 12, 2026.

A trading journal records each trade with its setup, size, entry, stop, exit and result, then turns that record into statistics: win rate, average win and loss, profit factor and expectancy. Our guide on how to track your trading performance explains what to record and how each metric is computed. This page compares the tools that do the recording for you.

What a year of each journal costs

Monthly prices make these apps look close. Over twelve months, the first paid plan of each one ranges from $169 to $359.40, more than twice as much.

The plans are not equal. Trademetria Basic caps imports at 500 orders a month and tracks one account; its Pro plan, with unlimited imports and 50 accounts, costs $249 a year. TradeZella Essential tracks one active trading account; Pro raises that to 50 for $59 a month or $531 a year. Edgewonk has no tiers: its pricing page says it offers one subscription model with full access to all features. Tradervue publishes no yearly price for Silver or Gold, so its yearly figure is twelve monthly payments.

What the free plans allow

Edgewonk and TradeZella list no free plan on their pricing pages. Edgewonk instead offers a 14-day, 100% money-back guarantee on both of its plans.

A limit of 30 trades a month suits a swing trader who opens one or two positions a week. A day trader who takes five trades a session reaches it in the first week. Tradervue counts the limit per calendar month, on grouped trades rather than on each execution. TradesViz counts executions, so a trade scaled in and out in several fills uses several of its 3,000.

Which journal fits which trader

You trade stocks and want to pay nothing

TradesViz is the free option that holds up for active stock trading. The Basic plan keeps one account and stocks only; options, futures, forex, crypto and CFDs start with Pro, at $19.99 a month or $14.99 a month billed annually, and both paid plans start with a 7-day free trial. TradesViz lists support for 250+ brokers and platforms, 70+ of them with auto sync, and has apps for iOS and Android.

You want the lowest yearly price

Trademetria Basic costs $19.95 a month or $169 a year and imports up to 500 orders a month. Trademetria lists 140+ brokers and covers equities, options, futures, forex, CFDs and cryptos. On a phone it runs as a progressive web app on iPhone and Android rather than as a native app.

Paid month to month, the first paid plans sit closer together than their yearly prices suggest: from $19.95 to $35.

You trade forex or CFDs on MetaTrader

Edgewonk offers auto sync for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 brokers and prop firms, and fast import from platforms such as NinjaTrader 7 and 8, Interactive Brokers, thinkorswim, Tradovate and cTrader; trades from an unlisted platform go in through its Excel import. TradingView is listed for paper trading only. It covers forex, stocks, futures, crypto, options, indices and commodities. The price is $35 a month or $197 a year for the same features. Our Edgewonk review goes through its features and imports.

You want the widest broker sync

TradeZella lists 500+ broker and prop firm integrations that sync trades automatically, with auto sync on all three plans. Essential costs $35 a month or $315 a year; Pro, $59 a month or $531 a year, adds 50 active accounts and automated AI backtests. The pricing page lists no free plan and no trial.

You already know Tradervue's reports

Tradervue Silver costs $29.95 a month and Gold $49.95 a month; both include unlimited trade imports and broker sync. Its integrations list names 83 platforms, among them MetaTrader 4 and 5, NinjaTrader, Interactive Brokers, thinkorswim, Tradovate and Webull. Trial periods are available on Silver and Gold at signup, and the card is charged when the trial ends unless you switch to the free plan. Our Tradervue review covers what each plan includes.

You prefer a spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is still a valid journal: one row per trade, one column per field. Anyone with a Google account can create a sheet in Google Sheets, and Sheets imports .csv, .xlsx, .txt and other files, so a trade history exported from your platform can be pasted in. What you lose is the automatic part: you write the formulas for profit factor and expectancy, and you attach the charts yourself. The fields and formulas are in our guide to tracking trading performance.

How to choose in three questions

How many trades do you take a month? Under 30, the free plans of Tradervue and Trademetria are enough to start. Above that, TradesViz Basic for stocks, or a paid plan.

Which markets and platform? Check that your broker or platform is on the import list before you pay. Free Basic at TradesViz is stocks only; Edgewonk lists TradingView for paper trading only; Tradervue's list does not include TradingView.

Monthly or yearly? Pay monthly for the first months. A journal only helps if you keep filling it, and a yearly plan bought in week one is often the most expensive way to find out you will not.

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Practice before you journal live trades with a paper trading app, test a setup on past data with backtesting, and size each position against your risk of ruin. All our trading reviews cover software, courses and books.