A TradeZella alternative that replays your actual screen
TradeZella vs. Recap: reconstructed charts or your actual screen?
If you are looking for a TradeZella alternative, decide which evidence you want after the trade: statistics and a reconstructed chart, or footage of the platform and decisions you actually saw in the moment.
| Feature | TradeZella | Recap |
|---|---|---|
| Replays your actual trading screens | No | Yes |
| Replay source | Chart reconstructed from market data (tick-by-tick trade replay) | Real screen footage captured during the trade |
| Automatically creates a labeled clip per completed trade | No | Yes |
| Shows your DOM, order ticket, alerts, and other monitors | No | Yes |
| Analytics dashboards and dollar P&L | Yes | No |
| Backtesting | Yes | No |
| Runs in a browser | Yes | Windows app |
| Price | $35–$99/mo paid monthly; $315–$891/yr billed yearly | Not announced yet |
| Current access | Public paid plans | Free 30-day trial (pre-release) |
TradeZella features and pricing are read from its public pricing page, retrieved 2026-09-05 (vendor-reported, not hands-on tested): Essential $35/mo · Pro $59/mo · Ultra $99/mo paid monthly; “Pay Yearly — Save 25%”: $26/mo billed $315/year · $44/mo billed $531/year · $74/mo billed $891/year; “Replay Your Trades Tick-by-Tick — Step back through individual trades or full sessions with second-by-second playback”. Plans and prices can change. “No” in the screen-replay, per-trade clip and DOM rows means those capabilities are not part of TradeZella’s publicly documented offering on that date.
The chart was not the whole trade
A reconstructed chart can show where price moved after your entry. It cannot show the DOM you were reading, the order ticket you changed, the alert you dismissed, the second monitor you checked, or the pause before you chased the move.
Those details are often where execution mistakes live. Recap records the screens you selected throughout the session, then uses fills from a supported platform connection to identify each trade. Stable connectors cover Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, and MotiveWave; Quantower, ATAS X, and Tradovate coverage is in beta. When you go flat, the footage is cut and labeled automatically.
Recap records the trading screens you select and can automatically create a labeled clip when a connected platform reports a completed trade — fill-triggered, clipped and labeled, without OBS.
No recorder to babysit. No session file to scrub.
Your screens are already rolling
Choose the monitors or windows you want Recap to capture, then trade normally.
Your platform reports the fills
The connector identifies entries, exits, scaling, and completed round trips.
Going flat creates the clip
Recap labels the footage with instrument, side, points, and time without a hotkey.
Every monitor replays in sync
Review the chart, DOM, order ticket, and other recorded screens on one timeline.
Instead of scrubbing six hours of OBS footage to locate nine trades, open the Library and filter the clips you want to study. The impulsive trade is captured just as reliably as the planned one.
Start your free 30-day trial
Anyone can start a free 30-day trial with just an email. Recap is pre-release and pricing isn’t announced yet.
What TradeZella still does better
- Analytics and reporting. TradeZella provides dollar P&L, dashboards, reports, and broad filtering. Recap shows points, peak position size, hold, peak and heat per trade against your own averages, and nothing in dollars.
- Backtesting and market replay. TradeZella includes historical chart-based practice and tick-by-tick trade replay built from market data. Recap reviews trades you actually took.
- Broker and device coverage. TradeZella supports hundreds of integrations in a browser. Recap is a Windows app with stable Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, and MotiveWave connectors, plus beta Quantower, ATAS X, and Tradovate coverage.
If those are the features you are buying, stay with TradeZella. If the missing piece is seeing what was actually on your trading screens, switching to another reconstructed-chart journal will not solve it.
Other TradeZella alternatives solve a different problem
If you only want a lower-cost statistics journal, Edgewonk, Tradervue, and TraderSync are closer like-for-like options. Their public plans included prepaid, free, or lower-cost entry points when we read them (dates and sources in the six-journal comparison). None lists screen recording in its publicly documented offering.
Recap is the alternative for execution review: footage of your real chart, DOM, order ticket, alerts, and other selected screens. It is not the only route to footage — a general recorder such as OBS captures the same pixels without the per-trade clipping.
Comparing the wider category? See the full trading journal comparison.
Start your free 30-day trial.
Review your actual trading screens with Recap. Pricing isn’t announced yet.
Footage is stored on your machine. Recap reads trade events and has no capability to place, change, or cancel an order. Read the product limitations before you start.
TradeZella alternative FAQ
When may Recap be a useful TradeZella alternative?
Recap may be a fit for traders who prioritize reviewing what was actually on their screens. TradeZella reconstructs charts from market data; Recap records selected trading screens and can create a labeled clip when a connected platform reports a completed trade. If you only want a cheaper statistics journal, Edgewonk, Tradervue, or TraderSync may be a closer like-for-like substitute.
Does Recap record the actual trading screen?
Yes. Recap records the screens selected by the trader and can create a labeled clip when a connected platform reports a completed trade. Recorded monitors can be replayed together in sync.
How much does Recap cost compared with TradeZella?
Recap pricing isn’t announced yet; anyone can start a free 30-day trial. TradeZella’s public pricing page listed $35–$99/mo paid monthly, or $315–$891/yr billed yearly, as of 2026-09-05.
What does TradeZella do that Recap does not?
TradeZella provides dollar P&L, analytics dashboards, broad broker imports, backtesting, tick-by-tick trade replay built from market data, and browser access. Recap focuses on automatic screen recording and per-trade video review instead.
Which trading platforms work with Recap?
Stable Recap connectors are available for Sierra Chart, NinjaTrader, and MotiveWave. Quantower and ATAS X connectors and a direct Tradovate account connection are in beta (all platforms). Recap runs on Windows 10/11 64-bit and needs a recent graphics card with hardware video encoding.
Methodology
TradeZella’s row is read from its own public pricing page; the page, retrieval date and quoted excerpt are stated under the table. It is vendor-reported, not hands-on tested. Last verified 2026-09-05 by Recap Trading LLC, the company that makes Recap. Corrections: [email protected].