StonkJournal Review (2026): Free Plan, Pro at $10 and an Honest Comparison

StonkJournal has become the default answer when someone on Reddit asks for a free trading journal, and it earned that spot: the free plan has no trade cap and no trial clock. It now also sells a $10 a month Pro plan, so the real question is whether the free plan is enough and whether Pro is the right upgrade. This StonkJournal review answers both from StonkJournal’s own pricing, feature and help pages as they read on November 9, 2026, and up front: we make a competing journal.

Disclosure: I’m Mike Toney-Hoffman, founder of Financial Tech Wiz, and we make the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal, which competes with StonkJournal. We have no business relationship with StonkJournal and earn nothing if you sign up for it. I point out where StonkJournal is stronger than our journal; weigh my comparison knowing who wrote it.

Key Takeaways

• StonkJournal Free is genuinely free: unlimited trades and accounts, stocks through futures and forex, risk rules with a compliance score and an installable offline app. Every trade is typed in by hand.
• StonkJournal Pro ($10 a month) adds an AI Coach, AI Chat and broker file uploads, but no StonkJournal plan connects to your broker for automatic sync.
• The Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal free account adds broker CSV imports, trade replay and delayed scan results at no cost; our paid plan ($19 a month or $119 a year) adds Broker Auto Sync with 25+ brokers, the AI Trading Coach, today’s scan results and the backtested Official systems.

StonkJournal at a Glance

StonkJournal launched in 2021 as a free, donation-supported journal for manual trade logging. Its homepage claims 200,000+ traders, 10.8 million trades logged and a 4.7 rating, without naming the rating source. The brand voice is trust first: no ads, no data sold, no market predictions.

Item	StonkJournal Free	StonkJournal Pro
Price	$0	$10 a month (no annual price listed)
Trades and accounts	Unlimited	Unlimited, plus a combined view of all accounts
Markets	Stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto, indices	Same
Getting trades in	Manual entry	Manual entry plus Smart Import file uploads
Broker sync	No	No (listed as on the roadmap)
AI	No	AI Coach, AI Chat, AI trade actions
App	Installable web app with offline mode	Same

Is StonkJournal Free? What the Free Plan Includes

Yes. StonkJournal Free is the full journal, not a time-limited sample, and it asks for no card. The free plan lists:

• Unlimited trades and unlimited accounts (cash, prop, IRA, futures and paper)
• Stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto and indices, with contract multipliers and multi-currency support
• Multi-leg options that auto-detect verticals, iron condors, butterflies and calendar spreads
• 30+ metrics, including win rate, profit factor, drawdown and an equity curve, broken down by symbol, day of week and time of day
• A calendar heatmap of daily P&L
• Ten types of risk rules with a weighted compliance score on every trade
• Data export to CSV and Excel

The catch is one line in the plan: manual entry only, with no file import. If you place a few swing trades a week, typing them in takes minutes. If you trade options spreads every day or run several accounts, the typing adds up fast, and that is the gap Pro is built to fill.

What StonkJournal Pro Adds for $10 a Month

• Smart Import: upload an export file from Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, Webull, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers or a custom format, check the column mapping, then confirm. It is a file upload, not a live broker connection.
• AI Coach: ranks behavioral leaks by dollar damage (disposition effect, revenge sizing, mood, stop discipline, problem symbols and more) and declines to call a pattern when too few trades sit behind it.
• AI Chat: answers plain-English questions with the actual rows from your journal.
• AI trade actions: log, close, edit and size trades by typing, with a confirmation card.
• A combined dashboard across all of your accounts.

What Pro does not include is broker sync. StonkJournal’s integrations page says imports are file based and broker sync is on the roadmap. No annual plan is listed, so a year of Pro costs $120. Be careful with older comparisons, including TradeZella’s: many still call StonkJournal donation-only with no AI and no import, which stopped being true when Pro launched.

Where StonkJournal Is Genuinely Strong

Risk rules that score every trade

StonkJournal Free includes ten rule types, such as maximum risk per trade, maximum daily loss and minimum reward to risk. Each trade gets a weighted compliance score, and the app flags a broken prop firm drawdown or daily loss limit while you build the trade. Our journal has nothing equivalent to that score. We track playbooks, routines, mistakes and ratings, and our prop firm trading journal tracker records fees, resets and payouts, but if pre-trade rule checks are why you journal, StonkJournal does that better.

Futures, forex and multi-currency as first-class markets

StonkJournal treats futures, forex and indices like any other market. Our journal can log futures with contract multipliers and import Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TopstepX files, but it is built around U.S. stocks, ETFs and options: futures trades get no chart, trade replay or MAE/MFE stats, and our scanners cover U.S. stocks and ETFs only. If futures or forex are most of your trading, weigh that heavily.

An app you can install that works offline

StonkJournal installs on a phone or desktop, works offline and syncs when you reconnect. The Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal runs in your phone or desktop browser, with nothing to install and no offline mode.

Unlimited accounts and automatic multi-leg detection

StonkJournal Free allows unlimited accounts; our free account allows up to 10 journal accounts. StonkJournal also detects multi-leg structures from manual entries. Our journal groups option positions by the strategy you record, and Broker Auto Sync can group compatible multi-leg fills when the broker supplies a shared order reference, but not every spread will group.

Where StonkJournal Falls Short

• No broker connection on any plan, and file import costs money: Free is manual entry only.
• Nothing to help you find the next trade: no scanners, no watchlists and no backtests. It is a rear-view mirror, and a good one.
• No trade replay, MAE/MFE (maximum adverse and favorable excursion) stats or API and MCP connection appear on its feature pages.

StonkJournal Free vs the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal Free Account

Both free plans need only an email, take no card and put no cap on trades. Our free account opened on November 5, 2026, so most StonkJournal users have not seen this comparison yet.

Feature	StonkJournal Free	Financial Tech Wiz free account
Price	$0	$0, email signup, no card
Trades	Unlimited	Unlimited
Accounts	Unlimited	Up to 10 journal accounts
Getting trades in	Manual entry only	Manual entry, broker CSV imports, IBKR Flex Query import, futures platform files
Markets	Stocks, options, futures, forex, crypto, indices	Stocks, ETFs, options and crypto; futures logged without charts
Analytics	30+ metrics, equity curve, calendar heatmap	Win rate, profit factor, R multiples, P&L by symbol, day, time of day and hold duration, trading calendar
Risk rules	10 rule types, weighted compliance score	No compliance score; playbooks, routines, mistakes and ratings
Trade replay and MAE/MFE	Not listed	Trade replay on the journal’s chart for U.S. stocks, ETFs and crypto; MAE/MFE stats
Market research	None	Delayed final scan results from every free scanner page; Official systems’ equity curves and headline stats
AI	None	None (AI is on the paid plan)
Claude or ChatGPT connection	Not mentioned	MCP and API tools for your own journal
Offline app	Yes	No, browser only

If you are happy typing every trade and want rule scoring, StonkJournal Free is excellent. If you want to upload your broker’s own export without paying, our free account has dedicated importers for Interactive Brokers, Schwab, Robinhood, Fidelity, tastytrade, Public, Webull, E*TRADE, TradeStation, Tradier and Coinbase. The Robinhood trading journal guide shows how a broker account fits into the journal. Free journals can also join our public leaderboard after 30 closed trades over 60 days.

StonkJournal Pro vs the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal Paid Plan

StonkJournal Pro is $10 a month. Our paid plan is $19 a month or $119 a year, about $9.92 a month, level with a year of Pro. Month to month, StonkJournal is $9 cheaper. Neither offers a free trial of the paid plan; both offer a free plan instead. Our plans are in the journal pricing section.

Feature	StonkJournal Pro	Financial Tech Wiz paid plan
Price	$10 a month; no annual plan listed	$19 a month or $119 a year
Broker connection	None; file uploads only	Broker Auto Sync with 25+ brokers, refreshed every morning before the open, plus Sync now
AI	AI Coach, AI Chat, AI trade actions	AI Trading Coach that answers questions using your own journal data
Scanners	None	Today’s live and preliminary results for every prebuilt scanner
Tested systems	None	Official Breakout, Official Dip and Official Combo with full backtests
API and MCP	Not mentioned	Full API and MCP tool set, including scanner and system data

Broker Auto Sync vs Smart Import

Smart Import means downloading a file from your broker and uploading it each time. With Broker Auto Sync you connect once: sign in to your broker to authorize the connection, choose how far back to import and link each account to a journal. It refreshes every morning before the market opens, and Sync now pulls fresh activity on demand. Trades come from the executions your broker reports, so today’s fill can appear after a later sync.

Two AI coaches with different strengths

StonkJournal’s AI Coach is tightly focused on behavior: it ranks your leaks by dollars lost and can log a trade from a typed sentence. Our AI Trading Coach answers questions using your own journal data. If an AI coach is all you want to pay for, StonkJournal Pro is cheaper month to month. Our paid plan’s case rests on what sits around the coach.

Scanners and tested systems: the part StonkJournal does not try to do

I swing trade in the O’Neil tradition: bases, breakouts and relative strength. A journal tells me which of my breakouts worked, not which stocks set up today. The paid plan shows today’s live and preliminary results for every prebuilt scanner, from the VCP scanner to the Minervini Trend Template, CAN SLIM and Stage 2 scans. The same scans appear on our free stock scanner pages with final results five trading sessions delayed.

Paid also opens the Official systems: Official Breakout, Official Dip and Official Combo, rule-based systems with full backtests, trade lists and stops. The free Daily Pivot Breakout Scanner page, the entry scan behind Official Breakout, shows a backtest of its scan alerts back to 2000 next to its delayed scan results, so you can judge the approach before paying. Backtest results are hypothetical, based on historical data, and do not guarantee future returns. Scan results are general information from fixed rules, not personalized investment advice.

API and MCP access

Free and paid accounts can both connect their own journal to Claude or ChatGPT through our MCP server, and paid adds the scanner and system tools. We are not the only journal with this: TradesViz offers an MCP connection too. StonkJournal’s pages do not mention one.

Who Should Use StonkJournal, and Who Should Pick Our Journal

Choose StonkJournal if:

• You want a compliance score on every trade, especially for a prop firm evaluation
• Most of your trading is futures or forex
• You want an offline app, or a behavior-focused AI coach for $10 a month

Choose the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal if:

• You want to upload your broker’s CSV for free, or sync trades automatically once you upgrade
• You swing trade U.S. stocks and want scan results, tested systems and trade replay next to your journal
• You would rather pay once a year: $119 for the paid plan

Verdict

StonkJournal earns its reputation: an unlimited free plan, honest marketing, real risk rules and broad market coverage. Pro at $10 a month is fair for its AI Coach and file uploads, but it still leaves you without a broker connection or a way to find trades. If you log by hand and care most about discipline scoring, stay with StonkJournal. If you want free imports now and broker sync, scan results and tested systems when you upgrade, start a free Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal account. To see how both compare with Tradervue, TraderSync and TradeZella, read our ranking of the best trading journals. Weighing a switch? Our guide to StonkJournal alternatives ranks six journals by free plan, broker sync, AI and price.

FAQ

Is Stonk Journal free?

Yes. StonkJournal Free has unlimited trades and accounts with no time limit and no card, but it is manual entry only. The optional Pro plan costs $10 a month and adds file imports and AI tools.

Does Stonk Journal have an app?

It works as an installable web app rather than an app store download. Open it on your phone or computer, add it to your home screen, and it behaves like an app, including an offline mode that syncs when you reconnect.

What is Stonk Journal V2?

The current StonkJournal app runs at v2.stonkjournal.com, which is why people search for “Stonk Journal V2”. It is the same product described in this review, with the Free and Pro plans.

Can StonkJournal import trades from my broker?

Only by file, and only on Pro, through Smart Import. StonkJournal has no live broker sync on any plan; its integrations page lists it as on the roadmap.

Is StonkJournal legit and safe to use?

It is an established journal, running since 2021, and it says it shows no ads and sells no user data. The free plan is manual entry, so it never touches your brokerage account. Its Trustpilot page showed a TrustScore of 4.6 out of 5 across 205 reviews when I checked on November 9, 2026, close to the 4.7 on its homepage. You can export your data at any time.

What is the best free trading journal app?

It depends on how you get trades in. StonkJournal Free is the strongest choice for manual logging with risk rules and futures or forex. The Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal free account fits better if you want broker CSV imports, trade replay and delayed scan results without paying; create a free account to try it.

What is the best software for trading journaling?

The one you will keep using after a losing week. Manual-entry traders do well with StonkJournal; traders who want automatic broker sync, scan results and tested systems in one place are who we built the Financial Tech Wiz Trading Journal for.