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Compare trading journals — TradeZella, Edgewonk, Tradervue, TradesViz — free plans, broker imports and analytics. Plus a free template.
A journal is a record of trades that already happened: the instrument, the size, the reason you wrote down, and the result after you closed. It does not open the next position. Traders keep one so a bad week can be read later without relying on memory. This page compares four products. It does not grade whose analytics are wiser, and it does not offer a downloadable spreadsheet. A template file is not published here.
Broker import is a column people expect. The vendor's pricing page does not record it, so the cards do not claim that any product pulls a broker file. Ask the vendor if import is the feature you need.
Four names, with prices only where the price was confirmed. TradesViz stays visible and unpriced.
| Tool | Best for | Free tier | Starting price | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ToolTradeZella(opens in a new tab) | Best forTrading journal | Free tierNot confirmed | Starting price$315/year ($26/mo and up, annual only) | Last checked2026-10-11 |
| ToolEdgewonk(opens in a new tab) | Best forTrading journal | Free tierNot confirmed | Starting price$197/year (about $16.4/mo) | Last checked2026-10-11 |
| ToolTradervue(opens in a new tab) | Best forTrading journal | Free tierFree plan + trial | Starting price$29.95/mo (Silver) | Last checked2026-10-11 |
| ToolTradesViz(opens in a new tab) | Best forTrading journal | Free tierNot confirmed | Starting priceNot confirmed | Last checked2026-10-11 |
Annual billing only on the vendor's pricing page: $315 a year, stated as $26 a month and up. There is no checked monthly plan and no checked free tier. The alternatives section below names the other three journals, not a different category of tool.
Often used for Trading journal
TradeZella
on TradeZella's website
Lowest paid plan: Not confirmed
Annual billing: $315/year
Also annual: $197 a year, about $16.4 a month in the checked note. No free tier is printed. It is the lower annual bill next to TradeZella's $315, which is a price fact, not a verdict that the diary is better.
Often used for Trading journal
Edgewonk
on Edgewonk's website
Lowest paid plan: Not confirmed
Annual billing: $197/year
Silver is checked at $29.95 a month. A free plan and a trial are checked. This is the only one of the four with both a printed monthly price and a printed free plan. The free plan's limits are not itemized beyond that sentence.
Often used for Trading journal
Tradervue
on Tradervue's website
Lowest paid plan: $29.95/mo (Silver)
Annual billing: Not confirmed
Included so the set matches the outline. The row is not confirmed on the vendor's site, so no price is shown. No free-tier sentence either.
Often used for Trading journal
TradesViz
on TradesViz's website
Lowest paid plan: Not confirmed
Annual billing: Not confirmed
Tradervue is the checked free plan in this set. The other three do not get a free-tier sentence. There is no spreadsheet template on this page to download. A notebook still counts as a journal if you write the same fields every time: instrument, size, reason, and result. The app is optional.
If the $315 annual bill is the objection, the neighbors are Edgewonk at $197 a year and Tradervue at $29.95 a month with a free plan. TradesViz is the unpriced fourth. None of them is certified as a better diary.
Pick Tradervue if you want a checked free plan before you pay. Pick Edgewonk if you want the lower checked annual total. Pick TradeZella only if an annual bill of $315 matches how you already plan to pay. Leave TradesViz until a later check prints a figure. Then keep using the journal after the purchase. An empty login does not review your trades.
Tradervue has the checked free plan and Silver at $29.95 a month. Edgewonk is $197 a year. TradeZella is $315 a year and annual-only on the vendor's pricing page. TradesViz has no printed price.
Tradervue's free plan is checked, along with a trial. TradeZella, Edgewonk, and TradesViz do not have a printed free tier. This page does not host a spreadsheet template.
The four apps are TradeZella, Edgewonk, Tradervue, and TradesViz. "Best" is the search topic. The concrete split is Tradervue's free plan versus the two annual prices of $315 and $197.
The checked price is $315 a year, described as $26 a month and up, and the vendor's pricing page says billing is annual only. A free tier is not printed.
We only show a price we could confirm on the vendor's site on the date shown.