TraderSync alternatives, pricing, and how it compares to TradeZella
TraderSync is a solid journal with a lot in it: broker sync, market replay, an AI assistant. It also starts at $29.95 a month with no free plan, and the cheapest plan caps you at five accounts. Here's what it really costs, how it stacks up against TradeZella and Tradervue, and what else is out there.
The short version
If you want market replay, an AI assistant and broker sync in one app and don't mind paying for it, TraderSync is good value next to TradeZella: it's cheaper at every level. If what you're missing isn't more reports but knowing what to fix, try Actal. It grades every trade on whether you followed your rules, puts a dollar cost on each mistake and gives you one thing to work on each week, and it's free while it's in beta. I built it, so keep that in mind.
- You use market replay or backtesting inside your journal
- You want trades to sync from your broker without exporting a file
- You trade options and want spreads recognised
- You ask the AI assistant about your trades every week
- You want every trade graded on discipline, not just P&L
- You want to see what each of your mistakes costs in dollars
- You trade futures, evals or funded accounts, or forex on MetaTrader
- You'd rather pay nothing now and a founder's price later
What TraderSync costs
| Plan | Monthly | Paid yearly | What it's for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $29.95 a month | $22.46 a month, $269.52 a year | 5 accounts, 3 strategies, 5 AI messages a day, 1-minute replay |
| Premium | $49.95 a month | $37.46 a month, $449.52 a year | Unlimited accounts and strategies, 15 AI messages a day, 1-second replay |
| Elite | $79.95 a month | $59.96 a month, $719.52 a year | Options, Level II, 60 AI messages a day, 250 ms replay |
From TraderSync's pricing page in September 2026. There's a 7-day free trial and no free plan. The thing to watch is the Pro plan's limits: five accounts is fine for most people, but if you run a few prop firm evals plus a funded account and a sim, you'll be on Premium quickly.
What TraderSync does well
It's been around for over ten years and it shows. Trades sync from a long list of brokers, so you don't have to export anything. Market replay lets you step through a session bar by bar, with finer precision on the higher plans and Level II on Elite. The AI assistant, Cypher, answers questions about your trades. It covers stocks, futures, forex and crypto, with options on the Elite plan, and there's a mobile app.
If you want one app that does analysis, replay and backtesting, and you'll do the digging yourself, TraderSync is a reasonable pick and cheaper than TradeZella for the same kind of thing.
TraderSync vs TradeZella
These two are the ones most people end up choosing between. They're closer than their marketing makes them look: both sync from brokers, both have replay and backtesting, both have an AI assistant. The real difference is price.
| TraderSync | TradeZella | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan | $29.95 a month | $35 a month |
| Cheapest plan, paid yearly | $22.46 a month | $26 a month |
| Top plan | $79.95 a month | $99 a month |
| Free plan | No, 7-day trial | No |
| Broker sync | Yes | Yes |
| Replay and backtesting | Yes | Yes |
| AI assistant | Cypher, capped messages a day | Zella AI |
Prices from both pricing pages in September 2026. If you've already decided you want that kind of all-in-one journal, TraderSync costs less at every level. TradeZella's reports and interface are more polished, and it's the one most of my students tried first. My TradeZella comparison and free TradeZella alternatives go through it in more detail.
TraderSync vs Tradervue
Tradervue is the older, simpler of the two. It's strong on execution analysis and sharing trades, and it has a free plan, but that stops at 30 trades a month, which a day trader uses up in a week or two. Silver is $29.95 a month and Gold $49.95, about the same as TraderSync's Pro and Premium. For the same money TraderSync gives you replay and an AI assistant that Tradervue doesn't have. If you want something plain and proven, Tradervue. If you want more tools, TraderSync. More in my Tradervue comparison.
1. Actal
This one's mine, so read it with that in mind. It's not trying to be TraderSync with fewer features. It's built around the part those tools leave to you: working out what to fix. Every trade gets checked against your own rules and graded A to F on how well you followed your plan, separately from the P&L. Each mistake keeps a running dollar cost, you plan the day before the open, and you get one thing to work on each week. You can also tag trades with ideas you're testing and watch how each one performs.
It's free while it's in beta, with no limit on trades, accounts or history and no card, and beta users keep a founder's price for life when paid plans start. It imports from thirteen platforms, including NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, TopstepX and MetaTrader 4 and 5, or any CSV. What it doesn't have yet: live broker sync, replay, backtesting, an AI chat or a mobile app.
2. TradeZella
The closest thing to TraderSync, and the best-known name. Broker sync, backtesting, replay and Zella AI. It's more polished and more expensive: $35, $59 or $99 a month, or $26, $44 and $74 a month paid yearly. No free plan.
3. Tradervue
Good if you swing trade or trade a few times a week, because the free plan's 30 trades a month will last you. Paid plans are $29.95 and $49.95. No replay or AI, but it's reliable and has been around a long time.
4. TradesViz
The strongest free plan for stock traders: 3,000 executions a month. The free plan is stocks only with one account, so futures and forex need Pro, which is €17.99 a month or €13.49 a month paid yearly. A lot of charts and analysis for the price.
5. Edgewonk
A flat $197 a year instead of a monthly subscription, which works out cheaper than TraderSync's Pro plan. It's always cared about psychology: it has a tilt meter and discipline tracking. Less automated than TraderSync, more reflective. My Edgewonk comparison goes through it.
6. A spreadsheet
Free forever and nobody can change the plan on you, but you type every trade in yourself. My free template has the grade, mistake and plan columns that most sheets leave out.
All of them side by side
| Free plan | Paid from | Built around | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TraderSync | No, 7-day trial | $22.46 a month yearly | Analysis, replay, AI |
| Actal | Everything, during beta | Founder's price, not announced yet | Grading discipline, mistake costs, one weekly focus |
| TradeZella | No | $26 a month yearly | Analysis, replay, AI |
| Tradervue | 30 trades a month | $29.95 a month | Execution analysis, sharing |
| TradesViz | Stocks only, one account | €13.49 a month yearly | Charts and analysis |
| Edgewonk | No | $197 a year | Psychology, discipline |
| Spreadsheet | Free forever | Free | Whatever you build |
Prices from each company's own site in September 2026. They change, so check before you sign up.
How I'd pick one
- Decide what you're actually missing. More analysis and replay, or knowing what to fix. Those are different tools.
- Export last month's trades from your trading platform, not from TraderSync, and put the same file into your top two.
- Check the trade count and P&L match your platform. If they don't, that one's out.
- Ask each one what your most expensive habit was last month. If the answer is a report you have to build yourself, it's a dashboard.
- Keep the one you'll open every night after the session.
Who wrote this
I'm Joakim. I trade index futures full time and coach traders one-on-one at Jusell Trading Academy, and students turn up using all of these. I checked every price on each company's own site in September 2026. Actal is mine, so I've written down what it doesn't do as well as what the others do better.
Questions people ask
Drop in one export. In a minute Actal grades the trades it can, prices the mistakes you tagged, and tells you the first thing to fix. Free during beta, no card.
Full-time index futures trader. Coaches traders one-on-one at Jusell Trading Academy, five students at a time, since 2020. No platform was built for developing traders, so he had his own coaching software built; old students loved it and kept coming back, and Actal is that software turned into a proper journal for what matters.