GridTrade vs Edgewonk

Honest answer: don't, unless one of these matters to you — (1) you want mobile journaling, (2) you run multiple funded accounts and want them in one workflow, (3) you're switching computers and re-installing/re-licensing is becoming a pain. If none of those apply, your Edgewonk install is genuinely fine, and we'd rather say so than push a switch you don't need. Edgewonk's built-in statistical depth, its tilt-meter and its custom stat fields are real strengths, and if you've already built a routine around them on a fixed desktop, that routine has value you shouldn't throw away lightly. Where GridTrade differs is per-trade emotion tracking, native multi-account handling, EU-hosted cloud sync and flat pricing — differences that only matter if the three points above describe you. The fair way to decide isn't to trust our word: run both side by side for 14 days during the GridTrade trial, journal the same real trades in each, and let your actual usage tell you which workflow you reach for.

Direct integration: not yet. You can export your history from Edgewonk as CSV — which, to give credit where it's due, is exactly the kind of open, portable export that makes leaving any tool painless — but our import is currently manual. That's partly a limitation we're honest about and partly by design: we want you to re-touch each trade during migration, because retyping a setup and re-rating its emotion forces a genuine review rather than a blind copy-paste. For a few dozen trades that's a useful exercise; for a large back catalogue it's obviously tedious, so we won't pretend it scales well today. A proper CSV importer is on the roadmap specifically for traders carrying 500+ historical trades who reasonably don't want to re-enter years of data by hand. Until it ships, a practical middle path is to import only your recent, still-relevant trades manually and archive the older CSV as a backup you can revisit whenever you need the older numbers.

Fair question for any cloud SaaS, and one where a desktop tool like Edgewonk has a legitimate edge — with a local install you keep the software and your database regardless of what happens to the company, and that's a real advantage worth naming honestly. GridTrade's answer is to reduce the risk in the ways a cloud product can. You can export your full data as JSON or CSV at any time, so you're never locked in, and we publish quarterly status updates covering revenue and runway so the picture stays transparent rather than a black box. The single-founder model means there's no VC pressure forcing a pivot, an acquisition or an abrupt shutdown to chase growth targets; GridTrade is built to run for the long term on its own subscription revenue. None of that is an ironclad guarantee — no online service can offer one — but between portable exports and a lean, self-funded operation, your data and continuity are protected as well as a cloud model reasonably allows.

Yes — GridTrade is solo-founded by Fabian Lehmann in Germany, with servers in Frankfurt (Hetzner), GDPR by default, and EU privacy law applied on every layer rather than bolted on afterwards. If part of why you trusted Edgewonk was its German roots and the care that tends to come with them, that's a fair instinct, and GridTrade carries the same flag — just on the modern, cloud-native side of the fence. The meaningful difference here is where your journal actually lives: because GridTrade is cloud-based, your trades sit on EU-hosted infrastructure under European data-protection rules, synced across your devices, instead of only on your local machine. For traders who care that their emotional notes and setup reasoning never leave the EU, that hosting choice is deliberate. It doesn't make GridTrade automatically better than a German-built desktop tool — it's a different model with a different privacy profile — but if EU data residency and a founder you can actually email matter to you, the values you liked in Edgewonk carry over.

No — and we'd rather explain why than dress it up. Cloud sync, weekly updates and the infrastructure behind them (Hetzner, Supabase, Stripe) all carry ongoing monthly costs, so a subscription is the honest way to fund a service that keeps running and improving, not a pricing trick. This is genuinely where Edgewonk's one-time license has an appeal we won't deny: you pay once, you own it, and there's no recurring line item on your card — for a trader who wants exactly that and doesn't need cloud sync or mobile, it's a reasonable preference. GridTrade simply makes a different trade-off. What you get for the flat 24.99 EUR per month is a single tier with no add-on upsells, no "pro" version gated behind a higher price, EU-hosted sync across your devices and every update included, and you can cancel anytime with your data exportable on the way out. Verify Edgewonk's current license terms on their site, since pricing can change.