Best trading journal software (2026)

It depends on your platform. For MT4, MT5 and cTrader traders, Dusk Analyst (our product) syncs closed trades automatically through a read-only EA or cBot for $25/month, with a free plan. TradeZella, TraderSync, Tradervue, Edgewonk and TradesViz focus on broker imports and are priced differently; check each vendor's pricing page.

Dusk Analyst has a free-forever plan (2 accounts, manual entry and CSV import) and TradesViz lists a free-forever Basic plan. TradeZella and Edgewonk list no free plan on their pricing pages.

Dusk Analyst auto-syncs all three on Pro with a read-only EA (MT4, MT5) or cBot (cTrader). Every new account gets Pro free for 5 trading days with no card. The other journals here do not name MT4, MT5 or cTrader auto-sync on their pricing pages.

On monthly billing: Dusk Analyst Pro is $25, TradesViz Pro $19.99, Tradervue Silver $29.95, TradeZella Essential $35, and Edgewonk is $197 per 12 months. Prices were checked on the vendors' pages in October 2026 and can change.

No comparison by a vendor is fully neutral: Dusk Analyst is our product. We took competitor facts only from their own pricing pages or our earlier audit, and marked anything we could not verify.

TradeZella's pricing page (checked 14 October 2026) lists no free plan and no free trial. Dusk Analyst has a free-forever plan for 2 accounts and gives every new account Pro, including MT4, MT5 and cTrader auto-sync, free for 5 trading days with no card, or 15 trading days if you add a card.

Since 14 July 2026 TradeZella costs $35 a month for Essential (1 account), $59 for Pro (up to 50 accounts) and $99 for Ultra (unlimited), or $26, $44 and $74 a month billed yearly. Dusk Analyst is $0 for 2 accounts or $25 a month for unlimited accounts.

TradeZella's Broker Sync help article says it re-syncs every 3 hours and lets you refresh by hand at most every 15 minutes. It connects MT4/MT5 by logging in with your investor password. Dusk Analyst's EA runs in your terminal, checks every 5 seconds and sends each trade as it closes, but your terminal has to be running.

Yes. The free tier costs $0 forever and includes two accounts, manual trade entry and CSV import - enough to journal a live account properly, with win rate, expectancy, drawdown and equity curve all calculated for you. There is no credit card required to start. Pro ($25/month flat) adds unlimited accounts, MT4/MT5/cTrader auto-sync, AI insights on your trading (1,000 trade-analyses a month), monthly reports and full export, and every new account gets Pro free for 5 trading days with no card. The pricing is deliberately simple: one plan, one price, no per-feature upsells.

Yes, and it needs no card. Every new Dusk Analyst account gets Pro free for 5 trading days from sign-up: auto-sync from MT4, MT5 and cTrader, AI Insights with 1,000 credits, monthly reports and unlimited accounts. Add a card to keep it free for 10 more trading days; billing ($25/month) starts only after that, and you can cancel anytime from Billing in the app, with nothing charged.

Yes - CSV import is available on every plan, including free. If you've been tracking trades in a spreadsheet, broker export or another journal, export the CSV from wherever it lives and import it into Dusk Analyst; the journal matches it against your accounts and keeps your history continuous. Import is also the fallback for platforms that don't run MT4, MT5 or cTrader. For MT4/MT5/cTrader terminals, Pro auto-syncs going forward and the EA backfills any trades your terminal missed while it was off. Any platform that exports a CSV of your trade history works. Dusk Analyst recognises TradingView, Tradovate, cTrader, MT4 and MT5 exports on sight; for anything else you map your columns once and that parser is saved for next time. Comma, semicolon and tab files are all handled, day-first and month-first dates are detected from the file itself, and any row that cannot be read is listed for you rather than dropped quietly.

Pro includes 1,000 AI trade-analyses every month. One credit covers one trade, so asking a question about a 40-trade week costs 40 credits and you can keep asking. The allowance resets on the 1st of each month and the counter sits in the top bar of the app, so you always know where you stand. Narrowing a question to one account or a shorter date range makes the same allowance go much further. Free accounts get a small number of AI credits to try AI Insights, alongside the full journal, analytics and weekly reports, and the free Pro week (5 trading days, no card) includes the full monthly allowance.