Comparison

Gecko vs Tradervue (2026): Which Trading Journal Fits You?

By the Gecko team · Updated June 2026

Yes, this comparison lives on Gecko’s site, so read it knowing that. We have tried to keep it honest anyway, because the truth is simple: these are different tools built for different traders, and Tradervue is genuinely better for some of you. Here is the real breakdown so you can pick in five minutes.

The short version

Tradervue is one of the oldest trading journals on the market, online since 2011. It is built around detailed manual entries: screenshots, custom tags, mistakes lists, and MAE/MFE analytics. Pricing runs from a small free tier to Silver at about $29/mo and Gold at about $49/mo per their site as of June 2026.

Gecko reads your uploaded statements and produces a behavioral diagnosis that prices your costliest habits in dollars across twelve significance-tested axes. It is built to grade you, not to make you fill in tags. Pro is $12 per month with a fully featured free tier, and Gecko never asks for broker credentials.

Side by side

Category	Gecko	Tradervue
Price	Free tier (every feature, last 100 trades), Pro $12/month, cancel any time.	Free tier (limited trades), Silver ~$29/mo, Gold ~$49/mo per their site as of June 2026.
Setup	Upload a statement, no broker login, first diagnosis in about two minutes.	Import trades by CSV or supported broker API. Tagging system is set up over time.
Broker support	Native parsers for Kraken, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, plus an AI extractor that reads statements from any other broker — no broker is unsupported.	CSV imports and integrations for a wide range of stock, options, and futures brokers.
Security posture	Never asks for broker credentials. Reads only the statement you upload.	Direct broker connections require you to store credentials on their servers.
Behavioral analysis	Automatic: 12 axes scored from your trades, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.	Tag-driven: you define mistakes and setups, Tradervue aggregates and reports on what you tagged.
Journaling style	30-second weekly entry, auto-graded from your real numbers. The grade is the journal.	Long-form manual notes per trade, custom tag taxonomy, screenshots. Best with daily discipline.
MAE / MFE	Not a primary view.	Long-running strength. Detailed adverse and favorable excursion analytics.
Customizable dashboard	Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer. The dashboard reflects how you actually trade.	Customization scope per their site as of June 2026.
Journal screenshots	Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand to full size.	Per-trade screenshot attachments are a long-running Tradervue strength.
Money-back guarantee	7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.	Refund policy per their site as of June 2026.
Gecko AI · personal coach	Gecko AI: your personal trading performance coach. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, and the goals you set for yourself — then suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in to see if it worked. Catches subtle drifts across months (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. ~25 messages/month free, ~500 on Pro. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6.	No conversational AI coach as of June 2026; analytics and tag rollups are rule-based.
Light + dark theme	Light and dark themes with a one-click toggle in the sidebar and on every public page.	Light theme primary as of June 2026.
Best for	Traders who want behavior named in dollars, with the grading on autopilot.	Disciplined manual journalers who already keep detailed trade notes and want deep tag analytics.
Daily Coach loop	AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.	Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.
Broker auto-sync	Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.	Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.
Trade Replay + coach commentary	Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. Sonnet writes a coach recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.	Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.

Price

Gecko: Free tier (every feature, last 100 trades), Pro $12/month, cancel any time.

Tradervue: Free tier (limited trades), Silver ~$29/mo, Gold ~$49/mo per their site as of June 2026.

Setup

Gecko: Upload a statement, no broker login, first diagnosis in about two minutes.

Tradervue: Import trades by CSV or supported broker API. Tagging system is set up over time.

Broker support

Gecko: Native parsers for Kraken, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, plus an AI extractor that reads statements from any other broker — no broker is unsupported.

Tradervue: CSV imports and integrations for a wide range of stock, options, and futures brokers.

Security posture

Gecko: Never asks for broker credentials. Reads only the statement you upload.

Tradervue: Direct broker connections require you to store credentials on their servers.

Behavioral analysis

Gecko: Automatic: 12 axes scored from your trades, each gated by a bootstrap significance test, ranked by realized dollar cost.

Tradervue: Tag-driven: you define mistakes and setups, Tradervue aggregates and reports on what you tagged.

Journaling style

Gecko: 30-second weekly entry, auto-graded from your real numbers. The grade is the journal.

Tradervue: Long-form manual notes per trade, custom tag taxonomy, screenshots. Best with daily discipline.

MAE / MFE

Gecko: Not a primary view.

Tradervue: Long-running strength. Detailed adverse and favorable excursion analytics.

Customizable dashboard

Gecko: Drag-to-reorder widgets and eye-toggle their visibility from an in-page drawer. The dashboard reflects how you actually trade.

Tradervue: Customization scope per their site as of June 2026.

Journal screenshots

Gecko: Attach up to four chart or recap images to each weekly entry; click any thumbnail to expand to full size.

Tradervue: Per-trade screenshot attachments are a long-running Tradervue strength.

Money-back guarantee

Gecko: 7-day money-back guarantee on your first paid period.

Tradervue: Refund policy per their site as of June 2026.

Gecko AI · personal coach

Gecko: Gecko AI: your personal trading performance coach. Reads your trades, weekly journal, notes, and the goals you set for yourself — then suggests one concrete action for the week and checks in to see if it worked. Catches subtle drifts across months (slipping hit rate, growing after-loss tilt) before they compound. ~25 messages/month free, ~500 on Pro. Powered by Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.6.

Tradervue: No conversational AI coach as of June 2026; analytics and tag rollups are rule-based.

Light + dark theme

Gecko: Light and dark themes with a one-click toggle in the sidebar and on every public page.

Tradervue: Light theme primary as of June 2026.

Best for

Gecko: Traders who want behavior named in dollars, with the grading on autopilot.

Tradervue: Disciplined manual journalers who already keep detailed trade notes and want deep tag analytics.

Daily Coach loop

Gecko: AI pre-market briefing keyed off your actual data, end-of-day check-in (mood + rule + journal) joined with daily P&L, weekly plan-adherence score, mood × performance correlation, AI-written Monday recap email. All in the dashboard, free tier included.

Tradervue: Not offered. A trade-journal log plus reports; no daily AI coaching surface, no EOD check-in, no plan-adherence score, no AI recap email.

Broker auto-sync

Gecko: Read-only OAuth via SnapTrade on Pro and Unlimited. 20+ brokers supported today — Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers, tastytrade, TradeStation, Webull, Public, Alpaca, Tradier, Chase, Moomoo, eToro; plus Kraken and Coinbase for crypto; plus Questrade, Wealthsimple, and Trading 212 for CA/EU. Free tier keeps the always-available statement upload path. Password never crosses Gecko; tokens can be revoked from Settings.

Tradervue: Varies. Some competitors offer broker integrations on paid tiers; others require manual CSV uploads or a TradingView hand-off. See their own table rows for specifics.

Trade Replay + coach commentary

Gecko: Play any trading day back as an interactive minute-bar chart with entry / exit markers, a 30-minute tilt window shaded on the chart, and a chronological tape weaving your trades with the behavioral alerts that fired. Zoom out to a multi-day chart on any swing position held across sessions — daily bars with entry / exit anchors, continuous across futures contract rolls. Sonnet writes a coach recap plus counterfactual on demand. Covers equities, crypto, and CME futures. Free tier.

Tradervue: Varies. A few competitors ship chart playback of trades on price bars; almost none pair it with a behavioral-alert overlay, a tilt-window band, a swing view for multi-day holds, and an AI-written recap in the same view.

The honest verdict

Choose Tradervue if...

•You already keep, or want to keep, detailed manual trade notes and screenshots.
•MAE/MFE analytics are core to how you review.
•You want a tagging system you fully control and can grow into.

Choose Gecko if...

•You want behavior named for you, not tagged manually trade by trade.
•You want a significance test on every flagged leak so you know it is real.
•You would rather not store broker credentials anywhere.
•You want a weekly review that is 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.

One honest note: Tradervue rewards a discipline most traders do not actually keep. If you are one of the rare ones who genuinely will tag every trade, it has more depth in the manual workflow than Gecko does. If, like most traders, your last journal died in two weeks, Gecko is built for you: nothing to fill in, the read is automatic, and the leaks show up priced in dollars whether you remember to log in or not.

The cheapest way to decide

Gecko’s free tier analyzes your last 100 trades with every feature unlocked, no card and no broker connection. If the diagnosis does not show you something worth fixing, you have lost two minutes.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Gecko cheaper than Tradervue?

Yes for the paid tiers. Gecko Pro is $12/month; Tradervue runs $29 to $49 per month on Silver and Gold per their site as of June 2026. Tradervue does offer a small free tier.

What does Tradervue have that Gecko does not?

A deep manual tagging system, long-standing MAE/MFE analytics, screenshot support per trade, and a long pedigree among stock and futures day traders.

What does Gecko have that Tradervue does not?

Automatic behavioral detection across twelve significance-tested axes, dollar pricing on each leak, a 30-second weekly journal that grades itself, and a no-credentials setup.

Do I have to tag every trade in Gecko?

No. The behavioral read is computed from the trades themselves. Tagging is optional, not the workflow.