Haunted vs TradeZella: a free alternative, compared honestly

TradeZella is a polished paid trading journal with deep broker integrations. Haunted is a free journal built around manual, deliberate logging, analytics and prop-firm tracking. Here is where each one fits, including the cases where TradeZella is the better pick.

Price: free versus a monthly subscription

As of October 2026, TradeZella’s pricing page lists three paid plans: Essential, Pro and Ultra. Essential starts from about $35 per month, or roughly $26 per month when billed annually, and the higher tiers cost more. The pricing page does not mention a permanent free plan or a free trial. Haunted is free: there is no trial timer, no paywalled tier and no card to enter. Every feature described on this page is available from the first day after you create an account with email or Google. If cost is the main reason you are looking for a TradeZella alternative, that difference is the headline, but it is worth reading the next section before deciding.

When TradeZella is the better choice

TradeZella advertises more than 500 broker and prop-firm integrations, with trades pulled in automatically. Haunted has no broker auto-sync and no MetaTrader import: you log trades by hand or bring history in from CSV or Notion. If you take dozens of trades a day, trade stocks or options across several brokers, or simply do not want to type anything, automatic import saves real time and TradeZella is likely the better tool. Its paid tiers also include trade replay, a backtesting engine on historical charts and AI features, which Haunted does not offer. Haunted’s backtests section is a journal for logging tested trades, not a simulator.

How logging works in Haunted

Each trade in Haunted records outcome, net P/L, R:R and risk, the session and model behind the entry, tags, notes and screenshots that you can paste straight from the clipboard. One trade can be split across several accounts, which is useful when the same entry runs on a few prop accounts at once. Manual entry takes longer than auto-sync, but many discretionary traders prefer it: writing down the reason, the model and the mistake while the trade is fresh is part of the review itself. Ideas let you record bias, levels and invalidation before a trade triggers, and documents hold plans and reviews linked to the trades they came from.

Analytics and prop-firm accounts

Haunted grades your trading on a six-dimension scorecard and breaks results down by session, pair, model and account. You get an equity curve, drawdown, expectancy and a calendar heatmap without exporting anything to a spreadsheet. Prop-firm and personal accounts live side by side: for each prop account you can track challenge phases, drawdown limits, profit targets and payout history, including repeated attempts at the same firm. TradeZella also offers strong reporting, and on its higher tiers more automated insight. The difference is that in Haunted none of these analytics sit behind a plan upgrade, so a trader with one account and a trader with ten see the same tools.

Language, access and switching

Haunted runs in any browser on desktop or phone; there is no native mobile app to install. The interface is fully available in Russian, Ukrainian and English, so you can keep your journal in the language you think in. If you already have a trade history, you can import it from a CSV file or a Notion database instead of starting from zero. You can also share a single trade or the whole journal through a read-only public link with an expiry date, which helps when working with a mentor. Once a month there is also Haunted MOTM, a free prediction tournament with a live leaderboard.

FAQ

Is Haunted a free alternative to TradeZella?

Yes. Haunted is a free trading journal with trade logging, screenshots, analytics, a backtest journal and prop-firm account tracking. The main thing it lacks compared with TradeZella is automatic broker import: in Haunted you enter trades manually or import them from CSV or Notion.

Does TradeZella have a free plan or a free trial?

As of October 2026, TradeZella’s pricing page lists only paid plans, starting from about $35 per month, or roughly $26 per month billed annually, and does not mention a free plan or trial. Prices and offers change, so check their pricing page for the current terms.

Can Haunted import trades from my broker or MetaTrader?

No. Haunted has no broker auto-sync and no MT4 or MT5 import. You can log trades by hand with screenshots and notes, or import an existing history from a CSV file or a Notion database. If automatic import is essential for you, TradeZella is the stronger option.

Can I move my journal from TradeZella to Haunted?

If you can export your trades to a CSV file, you can import that file into Haunted and map the columns to Haunted’s fields. Screenshots and notes stored inside TradeZella may need to be added again by hand, depending on what their export includes.

Is there a Haunted mobile app?

There is no native app in the App Store or Google Play. Haunted works in the browser on both desktop and phone, so you can log a trade or check analytics from your phone without installing anything.