ConsistryAlmost every trader starts in a spreadsheet — Google Sheets or Excel, a few columns, some formulas. It's free, it's familiar, and for a while it's genuinely enough. If you trade a few times a week and love owning your own formulas, a spreadsheet can work, and we'll say so.
But a spreadsheet doesn't know what a trade is. You type every row, your formulas break the moment you add a column, and nothing tracks your prop-firm drawdown live while you're in a position. For a prop trader juggling accounts that reset every few weeks, that manual upkeep is exactly where the journal quietly dies.
TL;DR: A spreadsheet is a journal you have to remember to update. Consistry updates itself.
| Consistry | a spreadsheet | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Purpose-built prop journal + AI coach | A blank grid you build & maintain |
| Price | Free forever + Premium $15/mo (14-day trial) | Free |
| Broker auto-sync | MT4/5, cTrader, TopstepX, Match-Trader, DXtrade, TradeLocker, Tradovate & NinjaTrader + any CSV | None — every trade typed by hand |
| Prop firm rule & drawdown tracking | Daily / max / trailing + profit target, live | Only formulas you build and debug yourself |
| Pre-trade Green Light | GREEN / YELLOW / RED before you enter | Not possible |
| AI coach over your trades | Cited to your own history, included in Premium | Not offered |
| Cross-challenge memory | One profile across every account & firm | One giant sheet you maintain by hand |
| Reliability | Structured data, validated math | One wrong cell breaks every stat |
| Setup effort | Minutes — templates ship ready | Hours to build, constant upkeep |
| Mobile & voice | Native app + Voice Coach | Spreadsheet apps are painful on phones |
No spin — a spreadsheet wins if:
A spreadsheet is infinitely customizable. If you enjoy building your own metrics from scratch and know your way around a pivot table, nothing is more flexible.
A few trades a week, entered by hand as a reflection habit? A spreadsheet is free and more than enough.
It's already open in another tab. There's no signup, no app, nothing new to learn.
If that's you, keep your sheet. It's a fine place to start.
The spreadsheet dies the week you're too busy to update it, and one fat-fingered cell quietly poisons every stat. Consistry auto-syncs MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, TopstepX, Match-Trader, DXtrade, TradeLocker, Tradovate and NinjaTrader — real net P&L, no typing, no broken formulas.
No spreadsheet warns you that you're two trades from a daily-loss breach. Consistry tracks daily, max and trailing drawdown per firm and phase, and gives a GREEN/YELLOW/RED check before you enter.
In a sheet, a blown account is a tab you stop opening. In Consistry, every challenge across every firm feeds one trader profile, so the AI can see both your blown accounts died the same way — and warn you before the next one does.
SUM and AVERAGE can't tell you that you revenge-trade after a red morning or that your edge is the setup you skip when you're down. Consistry's AI is cited to your own trades and prices your leaks in real dollars.
Consistry's free plan is free forever with unlimited trades and prop-firm accounts — and unlike a blank sheet, the rule tracking, math and firm templates are already built. Premium is $15/mo when you want the AI and auto-sync.
Pick a spreadsheet if: you want a free, fully custom grid, you trade infrequently, and building and maintaining your own formulas is something you enjoy.
Pick Consistry if: you run prop-firm challenges, you want trades to sync themselves, rules tracked live and an AI that remembers your patterns — without babysitting a spreadsheet — starting free.
Free forever plan, no card required. 14-day Premium trial if you want the AI coach and auto-sync.