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Tradervue alternative: for forex you are paying $30 a month to upload a file
The short version. For forex you are paying about $30 a month for the privilege of uploading a file.
Tradervue has the longest track record in this category and more broker integrations than anyone. If you trade MetaTrader, almost none of that reaches you.
The free tier is capped at 30 trades a month and is stocks only. Manual statement import — the only way a forex trader gets data in at all — sits on the paid tiers. So the forex proposition is: pay around $30 a month for the ability to upload a file yourself.
That is less a criticism of the product than an observation about fit. Tradervue was built for US equities traders and serves them well: over eighty broker integrations, a decade and a half of iteration, and a stable, unfussy interface. It is the oldest serious journal in the category and the one most likely to still be running in ten years.
It is also the most dated. No AI, no replay, no mobile app, and the common criticism is that development slowed sharply years ago. If you want a modern interface, this is not it.
Tradervue vs TapeSheet, feature by feature
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| Tradervue | TapeSheet | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tier; $29.95–49.95 per month | Free, no tier |
| Free-tier limit | 30 trades per month, stocks only | No limit, every instrument your broker lists |
| Forex statement import | Paid tiers only | Free, and it is the primary flow |
| Signup | Account required | None |
| Broker integrationstheirs | 80+ | None — you export a file |
| Track record and stabilitytheirs | The longest in the category | New |
| Journal — notes, tags, screenshots | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile app | No | Mobile web |
| Replay or AI | No | No |
| Data leaves your device | Yes | Never |
What Tradervue does better than TapeSheet
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- Eighty-plus broker integrations. If you trade US equities through a mainstream broker, your trades arrive automatically. Nothing we do competes with that — irrelevant for MetaTrader, but for equities it is the whole game.
- Longevity. Tradervue has been running since long before most of this category existed. A journal is only useful if it is still there in five years, and on that measure they have the strongest claim of anyone here, including us.
- Equities and options depth. Built for those instruments, with the reporting to match. TapeSheet reads MetaTrader statements and nothing else.
Who should pick which
Pick Tradervue
You trade US equities or options through one of their integrated brokers and want trades imported automatically by a product that will still exist in a decade.
Pick TapeSheet
You trade forex or CFDs on MT4 or MT5 and would rather not pay a subscription for the right to upload your own statement.
Worth stating clearly since it cuts against us: “we are new” is a real disadvantage for a journal, and Tradervue’s answer to it is fifteen years of being there. Our answer is different — your journal lives in your browser and exports to a single JSON file you keep, so if TapeSheet disappears tomorrow your data does not. That is a weaker guarantee than longevity in some ways and a stronger one in others.
Questions
Can Tradervue read an MT4 statement at all?
Manual statement import is available on the paid tiers. The free tier is stocks only and capped at 30 trades a month, so for a forex trader the free tier is effectively unusable.
What happens to my TapeSheet journal if TapeSheet shuts down?
It stays in your browser, because that is where it always was. Settings → Export writes everything — trades, notes, tags, ratings and screenshots — to one JSON file. That is also the honest cost of no-signup: if you clear your browser without a backup, nobody can restore it, including us.
Where these facts come from
- tradervue.com public pricing and plan comparison, including free-tier limits, checked August 2026
- Tradervue public documentation on statement-import availability by plan, checked August 2026
Checked 21 August 2026, re-checked quarterly. Prices and features change; if something on this page is out of date or wrong, tell us and it gets corrected. There are no affiliate links on this page or anywhere in this cluster — see how this site makes money. We are not linking to Tradervue at all, in either direction: this site makes zero requests to any third party, which is a rule we would rather keep than break for a citation.
Try ours before you pay for anything
Drop an MT4 or MT5 statement on the page. Full dashboard in about three seconds, no signup, no upload — the file is parsed inside your browser tab and never leaves your device. If it does not read your broker’s file, you have lost thirty seconds.
Analyze my statementOr open the demo account first.
Other comparisons
- TradeZellaYou cannot find out whether TradeZella parses your broker’s file until after you have paid for it.
- MyfxbookMyfxbook reports. It does not review.
- TradesVizA scalper burns 3,000 executions in a week. We do not count your trades.
- Edgewonk$169 up front, before you find out whether it reads your broker’s file.
- TradelyticAlso free. But it wants an account, and your broker credentials.
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