The strongest brand in the category, and an options page whose feature list never mentions options.
TradeZella is the best marketed product here by a wide margin, with real backtesting, an AI layer and the largest social proof. Its options landing page is headlined "The #1 Options Trading Journal" and its feature list covers notes, tags, replay and templates, with no mention of greeks, multi leg strategies, rolls or assignment. The only documented option lifecycle behaviour is a toggle that closes expired trades by inserting a synthetic zero.
Three modes including natural language backtesting. We have no backtester and are not building one.
Trustpilot 4.8 over a thousand reviews, a large community, a genuinely well produced site. We have two paying customers and no reviews.
Numbered steps, exact menu paths, sample CSVs and animated GIFs for TradeStation and IBKR. Ours are text.
Nothing here replays anything.
The documented behaviour is an Auto Close Expired Option Trades toggle that writes a synthetic zero close, which is wrong for any index option that finishes in the money. No documentation was found for assignment, exercise, roll linking or index cash settlement.
Their greeks live in a standalone pre trade profit calculator that is not connected to logged trades. Ours are computed from the fill you actually got.
A keyword scan of their pricing page returns zero occurrences of tax.
Their cheapest tier is $35 and has no free plan. Our free tier needs no account and no card.
| TradeZella | FillStub | |
|---|---|---|
| Rolls chained to their parent | no | yes |
| Assignment and exercise | no | yes |
| Expiration | a synthetic zero close | the real resolution |
| Index options recognised as cash settled | no | yes |
| Greeks | in a separate calculator | at the fill, index options |
| Section 1256 and Form 8949 | no | yes |
| An interval on every statistic | no | yes |
| Backtesting | yes | no |
| MCP for an assistant | no | yes |
| Free tier | no | the whole browser tool |
| Price | $35 to $99 a month | $24 to $49 a month |
Read from TradeZella's own site and documentation on 2026-09-06. "unclear" means we could not confirm it either way, which is not the same as no.
Choose TradeZella if you want backtesting, replay and coaching around a trading process, mostly on futures or equities. If your positions are options, check their options page against this one before paying $35 a month: what is described there is a general journal with an options headline.
Our own prices: the free tool needs no account and no card, Solo is $24 a month, and Desk is $49. What is in each tier.