6 Best Trading Journal Apps and Software for 2026

Updated October 22, 2026: added OptionsVault, now my top pick for options traders.

Every trader makes mistakes. What separates the traders who improve from the ones who repeat them is a record: what you traded, why, and how it turned out. That record is a trading journal.

Modern trading journal apps do far more than log profit and loss. They import trades straight from your broker, chart your entries and exits, break down results by setup and time of day, and some now use AI to point out patterns in your behavior.

These are my six picks: five apps and a free spreadsheet. My top pick is OptionsVault, an app I built for options traders. If you trade mostly stocks or futures, TraderSync is the strongest of the general-purpose journals.

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Quick comparison

Journal	Best for	Price (October 2026)	Free option
OptionsVault	Options sellers: the wheel, covered calls, cash-secured puts	Free, or $5.99 a month	Free plan, 50 trades a month
TraderSync	Active traders who want AI feedback and a mobile app	$29.95 – $79.95 a month	7-day trial
Edgewonk	Deep analytics at a flat yearly price	$197 a year	14-day money-back guarantee
Trademetria	Beginners and light traders	Free – $29.95 a month	Free plan, 30 orders a month
Tradervue	Sharing trades with a mentor or community	$29.95 – $49.95 a month	Trial, then a limited free plan
Google Sheets	Anyone who wants full control at no cost	Free	Always free

Prices change often. Use the links in each section for the current numbers.

1. OptionsVault: my top pick for options traders

Disclosure: I built OptionsVault, so weigh this pick with that in mind. I’ve kept it to what the app does today.

The other apps on this list are general-purpose journals. They handle options trades, but they’re built around trades that open and close. Selling options adds a problem of its own: one position is often five or six trades. A put gets assigned, you sell calls on the shares for a few weeks, the shares get called away, and your broker shows a list of orders instead of one result.

OptionsVault groups those trades into a strategy and totals them. The example below is one wheel on AMD from an example account: a put sold for $280, assignment at $145, a call sold for $250, and the shares called away at $150. The app shows it as one wheel with $530 of premium and a $1,030 profit.

Key features:

• Finds wheels, covered calls, cash-secured puts and LEAPs in your trades and groups them for you
• Premium collected, realized and total P&L for each strategy, through assignment and call-away
• Dashboard with net P&L, win rate, profit factor, an equity curve and P&L by month and ticker
• Calendar of daily P&L
• Automatic sync with Robinhood; other brokers by CSV import or entering trades by hand

It’s narrower than the others. It doesn’t detect spreads or iron condors on its own, it doesn’t track rolls as one position, and Robinhood is the only broker it syncs with automatically.

OptionsVault pricing

The free plan covers 50 hand-entered trades a month, two CSV imports a month and up to three active strategies, and finds covered calls and cash-secured puts. Pro is $5.99 a month as of October 2026, an early-access price, and adds Robinhood sync, unlimited trades and wheel and LEAP tracking. See OptionsVault pricing for current details.

It’s also the cheapest paid plan here: $5.99 a month for Pro, against about $16 to $80 a month for the others’ paid plans. If you trade options and want to compare more journals built for them, I’ve covered that in the best options trading journals.

2. TraderSync

TraderSync is the most complete of these apps for active traders. It connects to a long list of brokers, imports trades automatically, and has apps for iOS and Android, so you can review trades away from your desk.

Key features:

• Integration with many brokers, with automatic and manual import
• Mobile apps for iOS and Android
• Multiple portfolios and performance reports
• Trade replay and a simulator
• AI assistant (Cypher) that reviews your trades and flags patterns

TraderSync pricing

TraderSync has three plans: Pro at $29.95 a month, Premium at $49.95 and Elite at $79.95. Trade replay starts at the Premium plan. There is no free plan, but every plan comes with a 7-day free trial. See the TraderSync site for current pricing.

3. Edgewonk

Edgewonk started as a desktop program and is now fully cloud-based, so it runs in a browser. Its strength is analysis: it looks at risk, drawdowns, streaks and trade management, and it tracks the psychological side of trading alongside the numbers.

Key features:

• Runs in the browser
• Imports trades from your broker
• Unlimited journals, accounts and trades on one plan
• Tagging, filtering and custom statistics
• Risk, drawdown and streak analytics
• Trade simulator and psychology tracking

Edgewonk pricing

Edgewonk has one plan at $197 a year, with everything included and a 14-day money-back guarantee. That works out to about $16 a month, well below the monthly plans from TraderSync and Tradervue. See Edgewonk pricing for current details.

4. Trademetria

Trademetria is the easiest place to start because it has a real free plan. It covers stocks, options, futures, forex and crypto, syncs with brokers, and now includes AI insights. It also works on phones as a web app on iPhone and Android, which it did not when this article was first written.

Key features:

• Trade history calendar and portfolio tracking
• Entry and exit points shown on charts
• Intraday reports, trade rankings and trading metrics
• Broker auto-sync and AI insights
• Works on mobile as a web app

Trademetria pricing

The free plan imports up to 30 orders a month for one account. Basic is $19.95 a month for up to 500 orders, and Pro is $29.95 a month for unlimited imports and up to 50 accounts. Paying yearly lowers both. See Trademetria pricing for current details.

5. Tradervue

Tradervue is one of the oldest trading journals and still one of the most widely used. Its standout feature is sharing: you can publish individual trades or give a mentor access to your journal, with privacy controls over what they see.

Start with Tradervue here

Key features:

• Automatic import and broker sync
• Trade notes, filtering and tagging
• Automatic price charts
• Detailed reports and risk analysis
• Sharing with mentors and the community, with privacy settings

Tradervue pricing

Tradervue has two paid plans: Silver at $29.95 a month and Gold at $49.95 a month. Gold adds exit analysis, more advanced reports and support for commissions and fees. New accounts start on a trial and can move to a limited free plan afterward. See Tradervue pricing for current details.

6. A spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is still a good trading journal. It is free, it is flexible, and building it yourself forces you to decide what you want to track.

Google Sheets has a built-in function, GOOGLEFINANCE, that pulls in prices, so you can calculate open profit and loss without typing quotes by hand.

A spreadsheet suits new investors and anyone placing a few trades a week. It does not suit active day traders. Entering dozens of trades a day by hand takes too long, and that is the point at which an app that imports from your broker pays for itself.

How to choose

• You sell options (the wheel, covered calls, cash-secured puts), especially on Robinhood: OptionsVault, my top pick.
• You place a few trades a month: start with a spreadsheet or the Trademetria free plan.
• You trade every day and want it on your phone: TraderSync.
• You want the most analysis for the lowest yearly cost: Edgewonk.
• You work with a mentor or a trading group: Tradervue.

Whichever you pick, the habit matters more than the tool. Record every trade, write one line on why you took it, and review the week every weekend.

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