Who builds this
I am Richy. I trade from the UK, and I have been building FreeTradeJournal on my own since 2025. There is no team behind the support inbox. When you email, you get me.
Before this I was paying for Topstep combines and failing a few of them. The thing that finally helped was not a new strategy. It was writing every trade down and looking at the numbers by day and by session, which is a tedious thing to do in a spreadsheet and an expensive thing to do in the journals that existed.
Why it exists
I tried TradeZella. It was fine. It was not free, and the parts I needed were behind a paywall while I was already paying an evaluation fee. Paying a second subscription just to record what happened felt wrong, so I built my own and put it online.
More than 5,000 traders have signed up since. Most of them are on the free plan, which is the point. The people who leave reviews are real users and their words are their own. You can read them on the homepage.
What it is, and what it is not
It is a place to log trades, import them from your broker, write about your sessions, and see what your own data says. The AI coach reads your trades and your journal and tells you what is in them. It does not predict markets, it does not send signals, and it has no opinion on where anything is going.
It is built for the way I trade: prop firm evaluations, futures and forex, files from Tradovate, NinjaTrader and MetaTrader. If you trade US stocks or options there are journals with more depth for that, and the comparison post names them.
How the free plan stays free
Pro subscriptions pay for it. Pro is $12.99 a month or $99.99 a year, and it removes the free plan's limits on analytics history, journal entries and accounts. There are no ads, and the free plan has no time limit and needs no card. See the pricing page for the full list.
Get in touch
Bug reports, feature requests and blunt feedback all go to support@freetradejournal.com. Most of what shipped this year started as an email from a user. The changelog shows what changed and when.