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
- ✓ MAC owns the validation: incomplete evidence stays out of the approved shortlist instead of becoming homework for the trader
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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: Market View tells you whether conditions support risk; the flagship Scanner finds leaders in active themes; Guardrails sizes the trade inside a defined invalidation; the Journal closes the loop. Each step feeds the next.
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, at a lower 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 for MAC when journals start free?
You’re not buying a journal — you’re buying the whole loop: market regime and breadth, a momentum Scanner tied to active themes, 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.