Pick the tool by the job.
Koyfin is a research terminal. TradesViz is a trade journal. MAC Terminal is a trading workflow. They overlap less than the pricing pages suggest — here’s the honest version.
- ✓ Best for: research-heavy investors who live in fundamentals and macro data
- ✓ Not built for: setup scanning, trade sizing, or journaling a day’s trades
- ✓ Best for: reviewing what you already traded, across many brokers and asset classes
- ✓ Not built for: reading market conditions or planning tomorrow’s trades
- ✓ Best for: active stock traders who want a repeatable daily process
- ✓ Evidence stays visible: sample and expectancy appear when supported; unsupported or insufficient states stay labeled
Competitor monthly pricing checked July 10, 2026: Koyfin $0–79 for individual plans; TradesViz $0–29.99. Annual billing can be lower. Always check their sites. For educational market analysis only — not personalized investment advice.
Where MAC is genuinely different
Most tools sell you data or hindsight. MAC enforces a sequence: the Market View tells you whether today is worth playing and at what size; the scanners and Ideas Central tell you what’s working; guardrails size the trade inside your risk plan; the journal closes the loop. Each step feeds the next — that’s the product, not any single screen.
Where MAC is not the fit
If your process is fundamental research — ten years of financials, macro dashboards, global equities — Koyfin is the better tool. If you only want deep post-trade analytics with automatic broker sync across futures, options, and forex, TradesViz goes deeper on that one job. And MAC never executes trades: it’s prep, process, and review, not a broker.
Common questions
Is MAC Terminal a Koyfin alternative?
For an active trading workflow — scanning setups, sizing risk, journaling — yes, and at a third of Koyfin Premium’s price. For deep fundamental research it isn’t; that’s Koyfin’s home turf.
Does MAC replace a trade journal like TradesViz?
MAC includes a journal with supported CSV or pasted-fill import, P&L and session statistics, rule-based behavior flags, and risk guardrails. TradesViz goes deeper on multi-asset analytics and automatic broker syncing if journaling is the only job you’re hiring for.
Why pay $25 when journals start free?
You’re not buying a journal — you’re buying the whole loop: market regime and breadth, scheduled scanners with honest backtests, charts with the setup’s levels, position sizing, and the journal, connected in one flow. Bought separately, that’s three subscriptions and five open tabs.