Best free trading journals (2026)

The best free trading journals of 2026 compared: what each free plan includes, where the limit is and who each one is for.

"Free" means very different things depending on the journal. Some give you a full product with limits; others, a two-week trial in disguise.

This is the comparison of the ones you can really use without paying.

TradiBookTradesVizTradervue

The table

How to read a free plan

Before looking at which one, the key question: where's the limit?

There are three ways to cap a free plan and they're not the same:

By time: "14 days free". That's not a free plan, it's a trial. And a journal takes a month to tell you anything, so it expires right before it becomes useful.

By trades: you can use everything, but only X a month. Fine if you trade little; bad if you replicate signals across accounts.

By breadth: you get the whole product but with fewer strategies or accounts. The least annoying, because it doesn't take away data or features.

One by one

TradesViz

The most generous in amount of analysis. Hundreds of statistics and charts without paying, but stocks only on free. And a learning curve: there's so much it's hard to know where to look.

Tradervue

A basic journal with about a hundred trades a month and a huge community where you can share your log. Falls short if you trade several accounts.

Stonk Journal

The simplest. It logs and not much else. As a first step up from a spreadsheet, it works.

Spreadsheet

Still an option. Full control, zero cost, zero help: nobody will tell you which mistake you repeat. It lasts two months.

TradiBook

Ours, and we'll say it plainly. The limit is on breadth: one strategy and one account. No trade limit and no expiry, with the lessons and tips inside, the news calendar and three backtesting sessions.

The reason we cap it this way: if we limited trades, the discipline analytics would say "it happens 0 times" and the free version would be useless.

Which one to choose

• Funded accounts, with lessons inside → TradiBook
• Lots of charts on stocks → TradesViz
• Sharing your journal publicly → Tradervue
• Zero budget and lots of patience → spreadsheet

And a detail that sets free plans apart: ours doesn't take away the lessons. Tips and videos are inside from minute one, ordered by the mistake you repeat most. None of the others include content: they're logging tools.

And advice that applies to all of them: pick one with a free plan that doesn't expire and stick with it for a full month. That month will tell you more than any comparison, this one included.

To set it up right from the start: how to keep a journal that's actually useful.

Prices and terms checked in August 2026. Tools in this industry change them every few months: confirm on their website before deciding.

TradiBook by

WHO WRITES THIS

Alejandro Santiago

Funded account trader and trading coach: he reviews other traders' trading and helps them stop blowing accounts. That's where TradiBook came from. He didn't build it to sell a product: he built it because he needed to track his own accounts and no tool measured what mattered to him. Building it for his case, it ended up fitting anyone who trades funded accounts, because the problems are the same: the floor that moves, the accounts lost along the way and the plan that isn't followed.