Here's what each one costs, what it tracks, and who it suits. All prices and features were checked on each company's own website on 14 October 2026.
Disclosure: the Passive Nomads journal is our own free tool. It's included and labelled as ours. We've been specific about what it doesn't do. There are no affiliate links on this page.
Trading journals compared at a glance
Last checked: 14 October 2026
| Journal | Free tier | Paid from (monthly) | Options support | Broker auto-import | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TradesViz | Yes: stocks only, up to 3,000 executions/month | US$14.99 billed annually (monthly price shown in local currency) | Paid plans | Yes (70+ auto-sync connections) | Web, iOS, Android |
| Tradervue | A free plan is referenced; limits not stated on the pricing page | $29.95 | Listed as a feature | Yes (named brokers include Interactive) | Web |
| TraderSync | No (7-day free trial) | $29.95 | Yes, including spread recognition | Yes (hundreds of brokers and platforms) | Web, mobile app |
| TradeZella | No | $35 ($26 billed annually) | Options reports listed | Yes (500+ integrations) | Web |
| Edgewonk | No (14-day money-back guarantee) | Annual only: US$197/year | Yes | Yes (automated imports) | Web |
| Passive Nomads (ours) | Fully free; no account needed | — | Built for options: multi-leg positions, rolls | No: manual entry, or via a connected AI (Claude, ChatGPT) | Web (desktop and mobile browser) |
"$" prices are shown as listed on each site; TradesViz and Edgewonk state US dollars.
What should a trading journal track?
At minimum: what you traded, why you traded it, and what happened. Everything beyond that is analysis. The useful extras, roughly in order of value:
- Your reasoning before the trade. The setup, the expected move and the exit plan. This is what turns a log into a learning tool.
- Tags or setups, so you can see which kinds of trades actually make money.
- Win rate and average win vs average loss. Either one alone is misleading.
- Maximum favourable and adverse excursion (MFE/MAE): how far a trade went for and against you before you exited. This shows whether your stops and targets are well placed.
- For options: the Greeks and implied volatility at entry. The same directional view can win or lose depending on volatility and time decay, so a stock-style journal misses half the story.
TradesViz
Price: Free "Basic" plan, described as "free forever with no credit card required". Paid plans (Pro and Platinum) start from US$14.99/month billed annually; monthly prices are shown in local currency on the pricing page. 7-day trial on paid plans.
Strengths: The only established journal here with a genuine free tier. Paid plans cover stocks, stock and futures options, futures, forex, crypto and CFDs, with 100+ charts on Pro and 600+ stats on Platinum. AI features include an AI coach, AI queries and daily briefs. iOS and Android apps.
Limits: The free plan is stocks only: no options. It's limited to 1 account and 3,000 executions a month.
Suits: Traders who want a free starting point, or the most analytics per dollar on a paid plan.
Tradervue
Price: Silver $29.95/month, Gold $49.95/month. A free plan is mentioned, but its limits aren't set out on the pricing page. Trials are available on paid plans.
Strengths: One of the longest-running journals. Unlimited imports and accounts, broker sync, 100+ reports, MFE/MAE statistics, exit analysis, and mentor/mentee sharing for trading groups.
Limits: No AI features or mobile app mentioned on its pricing page. The broker list on the pricing page names Tradestation, Ameritrade, Interactive, Lightspeed, Tradezero, DAS, Sterling and E-Trade; check Tradervue's own list for others.
Suits: Active stock and day traders who want mature reporting and the ability to share trades with a mentor.
TraderSync
Price: Pro, Premium and Elite, listed at $29.95, $49.95 and $79.95 a month. Annual billing is also offered. 7-day free trial; no free plan.
Strengths: Broad broker coverage (hundreds of brokers and platforms), broker auto-sync, options spread recognition, a mobile app, and an AI assistant ("Cypher"). Higher tiers add trade replay, market replay, and automated backtesting (Elite).
Limits: No free tier. The most useful replay and backtesting features are on the more expensive plans.
Suits: Active traders across many brokers who want automation and are happy to pay for it.
TradeZella
Price: Essential $35/month ($26 billed annually), Pro $59 ($44), Ultra $99 ($74). No free tier stated.
Strengths: 500+ broker and prop-firm integrations with automatic sync, 300+ reports, MFE/MAE, and manual bar-by-bar backtesting on 11+ years of data on every plan. Pro and Ultra add AI agents for auto-tagging trades and reviewing sessions.
Limits: The most expensive journal here. The cheapest plan has one active account and no trade replay. Options reporting is listed, but per-plan options features aren't spelled out.
Suits: Futures and prop-firm traders who want journaling and backtesting in one subscription.
Edgewonk
Price: Annual only: US$197 a year (a lower US$169 sale figure was also shown during our check). No free trial, but a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Strengths: Strong on trader psychology and risk: drawdown analysis, best-exit analysis, MFE/MAE, a performance simulator, and an automated "Edge Finder" that scans weekly. Covers all markets, including options.
Limits: No monthly option. No AI features or mobile app mentioned on its pricing page.
Suits: Discretionary traders focused on discipline and process who know they'll journal for a full year.
Passive Nomads options journal (our tool)
Price: Free. No account needed: entries save in your browser. A free account syncs them across devices.
What it tracks: Built specifically for options. A position holds all its legs (calls, puts and stock), each with side, strike, expiry, quantity, entry price and optional IV at entry, plus dated notes for your thesis. Closing part of a leg records a harvest, and a roll closes the old leg and opens its replacement in one step.
- Banked across rolls: profit taken from rolls and harvests stays banked on the open position, separate from finished trades, and each dollar is counted once in your totals.
- Greeks from your marks: enter your broker's Greeks, or just the underlying's price, when you update prices. Each leg, position and the whole portfolio show Delta, Gamma, Theta and Vega; reported values are used as-is and anything missing is calculated with Black-Scholes (marked "calc").
- History with a period filter: finished trades for the last 7, 14 or 30 days, a month, or all time.
- Performance graph: cumulative P&L (realised plus open, from the prices you enter) over 1M to all time; back-dated trades redraw it.
- AI connection (MCP): with a free account, connect Claude or ChatGPT to log, roll and review trades in chat. The AI must show you the exact values and wait for your yes before every change, can't delete anything or place orders, and every change it makes is logged.
Each position can also generate a P&L profile with time, volatility and price sliders, and the journal exports to CSV.
Where the others are better (plainly):
- No broker import. Trades are entered by hand or through a connected AI, which you still have to tell what you traded. Every paid journal here imports automatically.
- Far less analytics. No MFE/MAE, tag reports or hundreds of charts.
- Options only. It isn't designed for stocks, futures or forex journaling.
- No mobile app, though it works in a mobile browser.
Suits: Options traders, especially newer ones, who want to record the reasoning behind each trade, and how rolls add up, without paying for a subscription. Manual entry is slower, but it forces you to look at every trade, which is the point of a journal.
Track your options trades free: every leg, every roll, your P&L and your thesis. No account needed to start.
Free. The journal works without signup; the simulator needs no signup for your first 10 orders.
Is a free trading journal good enough?
For most beginners, yes. The habit matters more than the software. A journal you actually fill in beats one with 600 statistics you never open. Paid journals earn their price when you trade often enough that manual entry becomes a chore, or when you need statistics across hundreds of trades to find what's working.
Is a spreadsheet good enough as a trading journal?
It can be. A spreadsheet is free and flexible, but everything — calculations, charts and options Greeks — has to be built and entered by hand, and it gets harder to analyse as the number of trades grows. A purpose-built free journal gives you the structure without the setup.