Alternatives

Free TradeZella alternatives in 2026

TradeZella doesn't have a free plan. $35 to $99 a month is a lot when you're not profitable yet, and students ask me what else is out there. So here's the list, and what you actually get for free on each one. A couple of these free plans run out after a week of day trading.

Joakim JusellWritten by , trading coach at Jusell Trading Academy
Updated 8 min read

The short version

If you trade futures, I'd go with Actal while it's free in beta. I built it, so keep that in mind. If you trade stocks, TradesViz has a good free plan, but it's stocks only. If you want to own the software, TradeTally is open source. Tradervue and Trademetria are fine, but their free plans stop at around 30 trades or orders a month.

Stay on TradeZella if
  • You need broker auto-sync and don't want to export a file
  • You backtest or replay trades inside your journal
  • You use the AI assistant and all the reports and don't mind paying for them
Try Actal if
  • You trade futures, evals or funded accounts
  • You want every trade graded on whether you followed your rules
  • You want one thing to work on each week instead of a pile of reports

What TradeZella costs

PlanMonthlyYearly
Essential$35 a month$26 a month, $315 a year
Pro$59 a month$44 a month, $531 a year
Ultra$99 a month$74 a month, $891 a year

These are from TradeZella's pricing page in September 2026, and there's no free plan on it. To be fair, TradeZella is a good product, and my full comparison says where it's better than Actal. This page is for people who don't want to pay.

What to check on a free plan

Free plans are there to get you to upgrade, so there's always a limit somewhere. Check these before you put a month of trades into one.

  • How many trades you can import. 30 a month sounds like plenty until you take five a day.
  • Whether your market is included. Some free plans are stocks only.
  • How many accounts you get. If you have an eval, a funded account and a sim, you need three.
  • How much history it keeps.
  • What happens when the free part ends.

1. Actal

I'll be upfront, this one's mine. It's on the list because it's the only one here with no limit on trades, accounts or history and nothing locked away. It's built for futures traders. Every trade gets checked against your rules and graded A to F, mistakes get a dollar cost, you plan the day before the open, and you get one thing to work on each week.

Everything is free while it's in beta, no card needed, and beta users keep a founder's price for life once paid plans start. It imports from eleven platforms, including NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic and TopstepX, or any CSV. What it doesn't have yet: live broker sync, backtesting, trade replay, an AI chat or a mobile app.

2. TradesViz

If you trade stocks, this is probably the best free plan out there. You get 3,000 executions a month, a P&L calendar and basic charts. The catch is that the free plan is stocks only, with one account. For futures, options or forex you need Pro, which is €17.99 a month or €13.49 a month if you pay yearly, and they have sales pretty often. Platinum is €19.46 a month yearly.

3. Tradervue

Tradervue has been around a long time and it's good at showing you how you execute. The free plan lets you import 30 trades a month. They count grouped trades, not every fill. That's fine for a swing trader, but a day trader will hit it in a week or two. Silver is $29.95 a month and Gold is $49.95.

4. Trademetria

The free plan has a long list of features, but you get 30 orders a month, one account and three open positions. It counts orders, so if you scale out, one trade uses up a few of them. Basic is $19.95 a month for 500 orders and Pro is $29.95 for unlimited. It's cheaper if you pay yearly.

5. TradeTally

Free and open source. You can use their cloud version or run it on your own server. They say unlimited free trade storage, auto-sync with Schwab and Interactive Brokers, and CSV import for Tradovate, TradingView and others. It's newer than the rest, but if owning your data matters to you, it's worth a look.

6. A spreadsheet

No limits and nobody can change the plan on you, but you type in every trade yourself. If you go this way, my free template has the grade, mistake and plan columns most sheets are missing, and I wrote a guide to building one in Excel.

All of them side by side

Free planThe limitFutures on free?Paid from
ActalEverything, during betaNo broker sync or backtesting yetYesFounder's price, not announced yet
TradesVizBasicStocks only, one accountNo€13.49 a month yearly
TradervueFree30 trades a monthYes$29.95 a month
TrademetriaFree30 orders a month, one accountYes$19.95 a month
TradeTallyFree, open sourceNewer productYesFree to self-host
SpreadsheetFree foreverYou type everythingYesFree
TradeZellaNonePaid onlyPaid$26 a month yearly

All from each company's own pricing or help pages in September 2026. People also list TraderSync and Edgewonk as TradeZella alternatives, but neither is free. TraderSync has a 7-day trial and then starts at $29.95 a month, and Edgewonk is $197. Prices change, so check before you sign up.

How I'd pick one

  • Export last month's trades from your platform.
  • Put the same file into your top two from this list.
  • Check that the number of trades and the P&L match your platform. If they don't, that one's out.
  • Ask both what your most expensive habit is and what to do about it this week.
  • Keep the one you'll actually open every night.

Who wrote this

I'm Joakim. I coach futures traders one-on-one at Jusell Trading Academy, and my students turn up using pretty much everything on this list. I checked the free plans and prices on each company's own site in September 2026. Actal is mine and it's first on the list, so I've written down what every tool is missing, Actal included, and you can decide for yourself.

Questions people ask

No. In September 2026 TradeZella's pricing page lists Essential at $35, Pro at $59 and Ultra at $99 a month, or $26, $44 and $74 a month if you pay yearly. No free plan.
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About the author
Joakim Jusell

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.