Best trading journals for funded traders (2026)
An honest comparison of trading journals for 2026: prices, free plan and who each one is for. Including those built for prop firms.
Almost every good trading journal is built for forex and stocks. If you trade futures on funded accounts, the list gets much shorter.
This comparison comes from an interested party: TradiBook is ours. We say it upfront instead of hiding behind a table that happens to prove us right. What you can expect is that the others' numbers are correct and that we say what we're not good for.
The table
| Tool | From | Free plan | Strong at |
|---|---|---|---|
| TradiBook | €0 | Yes, no expiry | Funding, discipline and attention to detail |
| TradeZella | ~$29 | No | Analytics |
| Tradervue | $0 | Limited | Veteran, many brokers |
| TradesViz | $0 | Yes | Number of charts |
| Edgewonk | ~$169/yr | No | Trader psychology |
| Spreadsheet | €0 | — | Full control, zero help |
Who each one is for
If you trade funded accounts
Most fall short here, and not because they're bad: they're built for something else. A journal designed for forex doesn't know what EOD drawdown is, or a consistency rule, or what it means to have ten accounts at the same firm trading the same signal.
What you need and almost nobody has:
- A trade on ten accounts is ONE signal, not ten. If your journal counts 10 trades, your win rate and counts are inflated.
- Room calculated with your firm's rule, not a generic percentage.
- Funding costs: the challenges you buy are expenses and must be subtracted from profit to know if you really make money.
If you want pure analytics
TradeZella and TradesViz have more charts than anyone. If you want to slice your data twenty different ways, they're ahead.
If the problem is your head
Two schools here.
Edgewonk has worked on psychology for years and has good tools: its Tiltmeter measures how your emotional state affects you. It's billed yearly, with no free version, so you decide blind.
TradiBook tackles the same thing from another angle, and we think the one that actually changes something: we don't measure your mood, we measure whether you follow your plan and what breaking it costs you in money. Every trade answers one question (did you follow your plan?) and from that come your most repeated mistake, your behavior score and the "what if I followed the plan?" simulator.
Knowing you were nervous is fine. Knowing you moved your stop nine times this month and it cost you €2,300 changes behavior.
If you want to pay nothing and don't mind the work
A spreadsheet is still a legitimate option. Full control, zero cost and zero help: nobody will tell you which mistake you repeat.
It works for the first two months. It's abandoned in the third, when entering trades starts to feel like a chore and hasn't given anything back.
If you care how your daily tool looks
Sounds like a whim and it isn't: a journal that's a chore to open stops getting filled in, and a half-filled journal measures nothing.
In TradiBook each account carries its prop firm's official logo (Apex, Topstep, FundedNext, Tradeify…) in its color, so with twelve accounts open you spot yours without reading. The interface is minimal on purpose, and still adapts to you: card styles, light and dark theme, wallpapers and figures in money or percentage.
Who's behind each one
Almost every journal on this list was made by a software company selling a tool. TradiBook is run by a trader who also coaches other traders: he built it to track his own funded accounts, because no tool measured what mattered to him. Building it for his case ended up fitting everyone's, because the problems are the same. That decides what gets measured and what doesn't.
What to check before choosing
Does the free plan expire? A 14-day trial isn't a free plan. If the journal shuts off in two weeks, you won't know if it works for you: a journal takes a month to tell you anything.
Does it measure whether you follow your plan? That's the difference between a journal and a results sheet. Without it you only know how much you made, not what to change.
Does it understand your market? Futures in contracts, CFDs in lots, and point value changes by symbol. A journal that only understands "lots" will make you do math by hand.
What no other journal has
This isn't an opinion, it's a list. None of the tools above have:
Lessons inside the journal, ordered by your mistake. Videos and short tips that sort themselves by what you repeat most. Not a generic library: if your mistake is moving the stop, that's the first lesson you see.
A real mentor behind it. The rest are software companies selling a journal. Here you can share your journal and have Alejandro review it with you, with comments on specific trades. A software subscription doesn't give you that.
The prop firm rules engine. EOD drawdown that chases your balance, consistency, challenge costs subtracted from profit, and a trade replicated on ten accounts counted as one signal. The others don't have any of this because they're not built for it.
The days you decide not to trade, counted as what they are: a trading decision.
What TradiBook is NOT for
While we're at it:
- It's not for detailed stocks or crypto. It's built for futures, CFDs and funded accounts.
- If you want the broadest broker coverage, TraderSync or TradeZella connect to more brokers. We sync with MetaTrader, NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView, plus CSV.
In short
- Funded accounts → TradiBook
- Discipline, lessons and a mentor → TradiBook
- Prop firm backtesting with the firm's rules → TradiBook
- Massive analytics and broad broker coverage → TradeZella or TradesViz
- From your phone → UltraTrader
- Zero budget and lots of patience → spreadsheet
And if you're unsure: start with one that has a free plan with no expiry. A month of real data will tell you more than any comparison, this one included.
To set up your log: how to keep a journal that's actually useful. And if you trade funded accounts, first read EOD vs static drawdown.
What makes TradiBook different
Every journal imports trades and shows a win rate. Not this.
Apex, Topstep, FundedNext, Tradeify… each account with its firm's logo and color, not a list of grey text. You recognize the account at a glance.
Card styles, light and dark theme, wallpapers and figures in money or percentage. One tap to change and it stays that way.
Minimal and polished: no twenty-tab menus or endless tables. Works just as well on your phone as on your computer.
Almost every journal is built by a software team. This one is run by a trader who also coaches other traders every day.
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.
Plan adherence, no-trade days and what you repeat most, measured automatically. Free plan, no card.
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