TradeZella is a journal in the browser that syncs your broker account every few hours. TradeRecall records from inside your trading platform while the trade is live, and keeps your journal on your own computer.
Free, no card. Plus a bonus: the full version for your first 30 days.
Futures, forex and CFDs only, on the platforms TradeRecall works with.
| Feature | TradeRecall | TradeZella |
|---|---|---|
| How your trades get in | ||
| Sierra Chart | Live, from a study in your chart | You export the Trade Activity Log and upload the file |
| NinjaTrader 8 | Live, from an add-on | Sync through Tradovate with your NinjaTrader login, or file upload |
| MetaTrader 4 and 5 | Live, from an Expert Advisor | Sync with your account number and investor password |
| cTrader | Live | Sync after you sign in to cTrader in their pop-up |
| Quantower | Live | File upload |
| Rithmic accounts | Live through Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader or Quantower | Sync with your Rithmic username and password, last 180 days |
| TradingView | Import of TradingView's own export for futures, with your stop moves from its Activity log | Upload of the Order History export |
| When a trade shows up | The moment it is filled | Synced every 3 hours, or by hand every 15 minutes1 |
| Your broker login | Never asked for | Needed for every synced account |
| What each trade keeps | ||
| Stop and target | Read from your platform, with every move | You set them by hand on the trade page |
| Chart picture | Taken by itself on your chart in the platform at every fill and every stop or target move; on NinjaTrader, Quantower, MetaTrader and cTrader also at every order placed or cancelled | A price chart of the trade; screenshots you upload yourself |
| Your voice | A hotkey while the trade is live: the note goes into that trade at the moment you said it, written out on your computer | Dictation into a text note (the mic icon in the notebook) |
| Plan and review | ||
| Premarket plan | Spoken; your levels drawn on your chart | Pre-market notes, game plan and rules in Start My Day |
| Trades you passed on | Say you are passing and your numbers; checked later against the market | Logged by hand under a strategy, or tagged “missed” |
| Suggestions | Runs on your computer and reads setups, mistakes and plan levels from what you say | Zella AI in the cloud, 500 to 3,000 credits a month by plan |
| Prop firm accounts | Each account on its own. Trailing drawdown counted tick by tick by the rule you set, beside the balance Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader or Quantower report | Drawdown and profit target from the account you sync |
| Where it runs and what it costs | ||
| Where your journal lives | On your computer, Windows or a Mac with Apple silicon | On their servers, opened in the browser |
| Language | 28 languages | Their site is in English |
| Price | $300 once, or $33 a month for 12 months, then it's yours | $35, $59 or $99 a month, or $315 to $891 a year |
| Free | The journal is free and stays free; the full version for your first 30 days | No free plan on their pricing page |
| Refunds | Within 14 days | “No refund policy after sign-up” |
1 TradeZella's help center, in an article dated 19 July 2026. Their home page says trades flow in real time.
Yes. TradeRecall's journal is free and stays free: trades and notes by hand, import from your platform's files, the standard reports and export. TradeZella's pricing page shows three paid plans and no free one. With TradeRecall, the live part (fills as they happen, voice, tags from your voice notes and chart pictures) is yours for 30 days from your first trade, without a card; after that you buy it once for $300, or pay $33 a month 12 times, and it is yours for good. Free trading journal
TradeZella's help center describes one way in for Sierra Chart: export the Trade Activity Log and upload the file; live recording is not on their site. TradeRecall reads Sierra Chart while you trade, through a study on your chart, including every stop and target you move. Sierra Chart trading journal
A journal is only as honest as the moment it was written. Written after the trade, it is written by someone who already knows how it ended.
Press one key combination and say your reason. It goes into the trade you are in, before you know the result.
Moved your stop to break-even, or further away? Each move is in the trade, with its time and price.
A picture of your chart at every fill and every stop or target move, without taking a screenshot.
No. TradeRecall works inside your trading platform and does not ask for your broker login or your broker password.
Yes, when you trade your Tradovate account in NinjaTrader Desktop: every fill comes in live through the NinjaTrader add-on.
No. You buy it once for $300 and it is yours for good. Or you pay $33 a month, and after the 12th payment it is yours for good. If you stop the monthly payments before that, nothing is lost: the free journal keeps everything you recorded, and only the automatic features stop.
What we say about TradeZella comes from tradezella.com, its pricing page, its help center and its terms, checked on 27 October 2026. If something there has changed, tell us at support at traderecall.app and we will fix this page.
TradeRecall is a trading journal for futures, forex and CFD traders that records every fill live from Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, Quantower, MetaTrader and cTrader, puts what you say during a trade on that trade, and keeps everything on your computer.
