Comparison

Trade It vs ThetaForge

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Trade It

Turn everyday brands into investments by snapping a photo. This app uses AI to identify stocks or crypto, allowing you to invest with a simple swipe through your linked brokerage or exchange. It simplifies investing with an intuitive design, making it accessible for beginners and experienced investors alike.

Highlights
  • Snap photos of brands to find investments
  • AI-powered stock and crypto identification
  • Invest with a simple swipe
  • Connects to existing brokerages and exchanges
  • Intuitive, jargon-free interface
  • Instant trade confirmation
Features
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ALL YOUR BROKERAGE ACCOUNTS, TOGETHER Trade It gives you one focused place to see holdings, track orders, and place trades through the brokerage accounts you already use: Robinhood, Schwab, E*Trade, Webull, Public, Tastytrade, TradeStation, Moomoo, Coinbase, Kraken SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE • View balances, holdings, buying power across connected brokerages • Track orders from "placed" to "filled" and everything in between BUILD THE TRADE • Place stock and crypto orders • Build single-leg and multi-leg options trades • Add take-profit and stop-loss exits • Review the account, order, and estimated total before anything is sent STAY CONNECTED • Share complete trades, no matter how complex, with friends and invest together • Get mobile notifications and jump straight to any account that needs attention FIND INVESTMENTS IN THE REAL WORLD As a fun bonus, invest in the world around you! Photograph a product to identify the public company behind it. If the brand is not publicly traded in the U.S., Trade It will surface a related public company for you to review :) IMPORTANT INFORMATION - Trade It is not a broker-dealer, nor investment advisor, and does not provide investment advice. - All trades are executed through your connected brokerage or exchange. - Trade It never holds customer funds or securities. - Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Past performance does not guarantee future results, and there can be no assurance that any investment strategy or security will meet its objectives or achieve any specific financial outcome. You should only invest risk capital that you can afford to lose without impacting your financial stability. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ThetaForge

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ThetaForge helps you model, visualize, and understand options strategies in a visual, educational environment. Build single-leg and multi-leg options structures, explore payoff behavior, adjust volatility assumptions, and test theoretical scenarios across price and time. Whether you are learning options mechanics or comparing complex strategy shapes, ThetaForge gives you a clear way to understand breakevens, defined risk, payoff behavior, and model-based outcomes. ThetaForge is designed as an educational strategy modeling tool — not a brokerage, signal service, or financial advisor. What you can do with ThetaForge Create and analyze options strategies including calls, puts, spreads, covered positions, and multi-leg structures. Visualize strategy payoff across a range of underlying prices. Explore breakevens, max profit, max loss, and risk-defined behavior. Adjust volatility assumptions to see how theoretical values may change. Model scenarios across price movement, time, and implied volatility. Compare strategy behavior before expiration and at expiration. Use strategy templates and guided explanations to better understand common options structures. Review neutral, risk-focused explanations that explain mechanics without telling you what to trade. Built for options learners and strategy builders ThetaForge is for people who want to understand how options strategies behave. It can help you explore questions like: How does this spread behave if the underlying moves up or down? Where are the breakeven points? How much risk is defined upfront? How does volatility affect the theoretical value of the position? What happens as time passes? How do multiple legs interact inside one strategy? Educational, visual, and privacy-conscious ThetaForge focuses on strategy modeling and theoretical analysis. It does not connect to brokerages, place trades, provide trade signals, or provide personalized investment recommendations. It is built to help you explore mechanics, structure, payoff, and risk in a clearer way. Important disclaimer ThetaForge is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It does not provide financial, investment, trading, tax, or legal advice. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Theoretical outputs, models, and scenarios are estimates only and may differ from real market prices, fills, liquidity, assignment behavior, taxes, fees, and other real-world outcomes. Always do your own research and consult a qualified financial professional before making financial decisions. License Agreement By downloading or using ThetaForge, you agree to Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Trade It4 screens
ThetaForge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ThetaForge at 13.0 against Trade It's 15.1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Trade It sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and ThetaForge sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trade It ships an update every 10 days, ThetaForge fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Trade It versus ThetaForge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrade ItThetaForge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.113.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPort Fray LLCOne Nonstop Engineer LLC

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Trade It

Subscriptions4
  • Pro (Monthly)$6.991 Month
  • Unlimited (Monthly)$19.991 Month
  • Pro (Annual)$74.991 Year
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  • Unlimited (Annual)$199.991 Year
2 purchases

ThetaForge

Subscriptions2
  • ThetaForge Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
  • ThetaForge Pro Yearly$134.991 Year

Questions

Is Trade It free?
Trade It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ThetaForge free?
ThetaForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trade It or ThetaForge have ads?
Neither Trade It nor ThetaForge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trade It or ThetaForge?
Trade It ships an update every 10 days, and ThetaForge fortnightly. Most recently, Trade It was updated on October 9, 2026 and ThetaForge on October 12, 2026.

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