| Dimension | Aurafy | Tradervue |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Futures + prop-firm traders | Equities/options/futures generalists who want no-frills |
| Free tier | "Trial that never expires" — 1 account, 3 playbooks, last 30 days, no card | Free forever — limited to 100 trades/mo, no card |
| Paid (monthly) | $49 (or $19 founder — first 50 only) | Silver $29 / Gold $49 |
| Paid (annual) | $490 | ~$299 Silver / ~$499 Gold |
| Native screen recording | Yes (Aurafy Recorder) | No |
| Trade replay / chart playback | Bar-replay backtester (coming soon) | Basic — chart at entry / exit overlaid |
| Prop-firm rule tracking (trailing DD, consistency, DLL) | Built-in for Topstep, Apex 4.0, MFFU | No — generic journaling |
| Broker imports | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Sierra Chart, Rithmic | ~30+ brokers across stocks/options/futures |
| Community / public trade sharing | No | Yes — established trader community feed |
| UI / UX | Modern (2025+) | Utilitarian, dated visuals — fast though |
| Playbook / strategy tagging | Yes (structured playbooks) | Tagging, but no formal playbook concept |
| Track record | Newer (2025–2026) | Founded 2011 — longest-running |
Both products take "free" seriously, which is rare. The shapes are different though:
If you're a low-volume swing trader who takes a handful of trades a week, Tradervue free will never make you pay. If you're a futures day-trader at 10+ trades/day, the 100/mo cap is gone by the second day and you're choosing between Silver, Gold, and Aurafy. At that point Aurafy's $19 founder seat is the cheapest "real" tier on the market — but only if any seats are left.
Tradervue does not offer screen recording in any plan, including Gold. If you want to capture your screen during the session you pair it with Loom (~$15/mo) or OBS (free).
Aurafy ships Aurafy Recorder as part of the product. It captures your full screen while you trade and ties the recording to each trade automatically — entries, exits, news pops, the moment you hesitated, the size you didn't take. We wrote the long version in Trade Replay vs Screen Recording, but the short version: chart replay (which Tradervue does at a basic level) shows what the chart did; screen recording shows what you did. Eval failures and blown funded accounts are almost always behavioral, so we built the behavioral layer first.
If you don't care about behavioral review and you just want a price chart over your fills, Tradervue's overlay is adequate and you can save the $15/mo Loom subscription by simply not recording.
Tradervue treats every account the same way — it logs trades, does P&L, tags strategies. It does not know what "Apex 4.0 EOD trailing drawdown" is, or that MFFU Core requires 40% consistency. You log the trades; you do the math.
Aurafy was built for prop-firm traders specifically. It tracks:
You can replicate this in Tradervue with notes + a spreadsheet, but if you're at Topstep / Apex / MFFU, the prop-firm focus is what Aurafy is for. If you're trading your own equities account, this difference is irrelevant.
You can also use Aurafy's free prop-firm calculators standalone (no login): the trailing-drawdown calculator and consistency calculator work with any journal — Tradervue included.
Tradervue is straightforwardly ahead here, and the right answer if you trade more than one asset class.
Hard line: if your day involves anything other than futures, Aurafy is the wrong product and Tradervue (or TradeZella) is the right one. We are honest about this.
This is the place Tradervue wins on something Aurafy doesn't even compete on. Tradervue has run a public trade-sharing feed for over a decade — traders post their journaled trades publicly with charts + commentary, others browse and comment. Some well-known SMB traders have used it as a teaching tool. The community feels like a forum-era trading community, not Twitter.
Aurafy has no community feed and no public sharing today. Your journal is private. If a community-driven learning loop is part of how you improve, Tradervue is meaningfully better at that and we won't pretend otherwise.
Tradervue's interface is utilitarian — fast, no-nonsense, but dated visually. Some users love that ("it just works"); others find it hard to read.
Aurafy is built on a modern stack with a cleaner, denser layout designed for futures-specific data (ticks, R, drawdown headroom in dollars). Tradeoff: fewer reports than Tradervue Gold today, but the ones we have are formatted for prop-firm reality.
You trade equities at Interactive Brokers, take 2–4 trades a day, mostly swing entries. You want a journal that's free forever and lets you tag setups.
Pick Tradervue free. 100 trades/mo is more than enough for your volume. Aurafy doesn't import IBKR equity tickets at all, so it would simply not work for you.
You're working a Topstep 100K Combine, 10–20 trades a day, blowing out at 75% of target every time. You want to figure out why.
Pick Aurafy. The trailing-drawdown tracker tells you in-session how much intraday DD you have left; the screen recording surfaces the actual failure mode (oversizing after losses, revenge-trading after stops). Tradervue would log the trades but not the trailing-DD math or the behavioral video — you'd still be in the dark on the "why."
Yes — it's the longest-running pure trading journal (founded 2011) and still ships updates, mostly to imports and reports. The UI hasn't been radically redesigned in years, which some users prefer.
Up to 100 trades per month, yes. Past 100 you can either wait until the next month, upgrade to Silver ($29/mo), or move to another journal.
Not natively. It treats every account the same. You'd track trailing drawdown and consistency manually with notes or a sidecar spreadsheet. Aurafy is built around those rules.
No. Trade replay is a basic chart with your entries and exits overlaid. For session screen recording you'd pair it with Loom (~$15/mo) or OBS (free).
Tradervue. Its public trade-sharing feed has been around since the early 2010s and is the closest thing to a real trader community feed in the journal space. Aurafy doesn't compete on this dimension.
Not directly. If you re-import your broker history (Tradovate / NinjaTrader / Sierra / Rithmic) into Aurafy you'll get the same trades from source. Tradervue tags and journal notes don't carry over.
If you trade futures and prop-firm rules apply, Aurafy. If you trade across asset classes or want chart-replay maturity + community, Tradervue Gold. They are not the same product even at the same price.
30-day window, 1 account, 3 playbooks. No card. If you've been blowing evals or can't pinpoint a leak, the screen recording is usually where the answer hides.
Start free at aurafy.devOr grab a $19/mo founder seat (first 50, locked for life) at the same link.