Comparison

Chart Alpha vs Pip

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

Head to head
About

Chart Alpha

Practice stock and FX trading risk-free with simulated market scenarios. Master trading instincts through rapid-fire rounds and analyze your performance with detailed data. Accelerate your learning curve without risking real money.

Highlights
  • Real market scenarios
  • Multiple trading styles
  • Rapid-fire practice
  • Detailed performance analytics
  • Campaign mode with historical events
  • Full indicator suite
  • Advanced order types
Features
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Accelerate Your Learning Curve, Risk-Free. Most traders struggle in their first year because they skip practice and jump straight into the live market. Pilots log hundreds of simulator hours before they ever fly a plane. But for traders, there hasn’t been a truly convenient way to practice — until now. Chart Alpha is your flight simulator for the markets. Master your edge with 38,000+ real market scenarios across 800+ tickers and multiple timeframes, from swing trading to scalping. Every bar, you call the shots: LONG, SHORT, or CASH. Then you advance the chart and instantly see the results. It’s the active, rapid-fire practice that separates profitable traders from everyone else. Compress Years Into Weeks. Grind 1 year of market history in under 1 minute. Turn your commute, your lunch break, your dead time into rapid-fire rounds that build raw trading instincts. No waiting for live candles to slowly paint the screen. No paying market tuition with real money. The Lesson Most Trading Education Skips. Trading is a game of probabilities, not perfection. After a few hundred rounds in the simulator, you'll see exactly where your instincts are sharp and where they need work—holding losers too long, cutting winners too early, ignoring trends, or overtrading in choppy markets. Hard Data. Every Session. Your alpha vs. benchmark, win rate, profit factor, max drawdown, and more — tracked across every game. You don't guess if you have an edge. You know, because the numbers prove it. The Ultimate Challenge: Beat Buy & Hold. Most Wall Street fund managers can't. Can you? Who This Is For: • The aspiring trader who needs real instincts before going live with real money • The swing trader who wants to compress years of screen time into weeks • The data-driven trader who wants hard numbers on their strengths and weaknesses • The day trader who wants to sharpen entries and exits on 1-min and 5-min charts • Anyone who knows the difference between profitable and unprofitable is pattern recognition — and pattern recognition requires practice, not textbooks Features: • 800+ real tickers across stocks, ETFs, crypto, and forex • 38,000+ unique charts to practice • 3 vault modes: Swing (daily/weekly), Day Trade (5-min), and Scalping (1-min) • Campaign mode: trade through real market events like the Dot-Com Crash and COVID • Star rating system with leveling and daily quests • Share charts of your best trades with friends • Full indicator suite: SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, and more • Advanced order types: limit orders, stop losses, and take profits • Detailed post-game analytics: alpha, win rate, profit factor, drawdown, and more Trading Education That Doesn't Cost You a Fortune. Trading education is broken. Courses cost thousands. Paper trading is slow. And live markets charge tuition in blown accounts. We built Chart Alpha because everyone deserves access to the experience that builds real skill — not just the people who can afford to lose money learning. No subscriptions required to play. No paywalls on the core experience. Just you, the charts, and the edge you're building. There is no secret indicator. There is no magic pattern. The only difference between a profitable trader and everyone else is 10,000 more charts. Play more. Trade better. Terms of Use: https://chartalpha.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://chartalpha.app/privacy.html

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Pip

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Pip is a futures trading simulator that lets you practice trading against real historical market data — no real money, no risk, just reps. Replay actual recorded market sessions and place simulated trades exactly as you would in a live market. Set your entries, manage your take-profit and stop-loss levels, and watch your decisions play out candle by candle. Whether you're learning how futures move or sharpening an existing strategy, Pip gives you a realistic place to practice. TRADE FOUR MAJOR MARKETS • ES — S&P 500 futures • NQ — Nasdaq 100 futures • Dow — Dow Jones futures • Gold — precious metals futures REPLAY REAL HISTORY Sessions are built on real historical price data. Step through the market bar by bar and react to genuine price action, so your practice reflects how these markets actually behaved. MANAGE TRADES LIKE A PRO Place simulated long and short positions with defined take-profit (TP) and stop-loss (SL) levels. Learn to plan your risk, size your trades, and let your setups play out — all without risking a cent. EARN XP AND CLIMB THE RANKS Every session you trade earns experience points. Level up, climb the rank ladder, and turn deliberate practice into measurable progress. Pip is built to keep you coming back to put in the reps. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Review your trading activity and stats to see how your decisions add up over time and spot patterns in how you trade. WHO IT'S FOR • New traders who want to understand how futures markets move before risking real capital • Experienced traders who want a risk-free sandbox to test and refine setups • Anyone who wants to practice discipline around entries, exits, and risk management IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ Pip is a practice simulator for education and entertainment only. It uses recorded historical market data. It is NOT a brokerage, is NOT connected to any live market or trading account, and involves NO real money and NO real trades. Nothing in Pip is financial, investment, or trading advice. Simulated and hypothetical performance does not reflect real trading results and is not a guarantee of future outcomes. Always do your own research and consult a licensed professional before making real financial decisions. Download Pip and start practicing today.

Screenshots

Chart Alpha4 screens
Pip3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pip at none against Chart Alpha's 6. Pip also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price and device support 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. Chart Alpha sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Pip asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chart Alpha versus Pip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChart AlphaPip
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCode & Love, LLCBen titus

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Chart Alpha

Subscriptions2
  • Chart Alpha Pro (Monthly)$19.991 Month
  • Chart Alpha Pro (Yearly)$89.991 Year
One-time4
  • 10 Lifeline Tokens$1.99
  • 100 Lifeline Tokens$9.99
  • 500 Lifeline Tokens$24.99
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  • Chart Alpha Pro (Lifetime)$149.00
None

Pip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chart Alpha free?
Chart Alpha is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pip free?
Pip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chart Alpha or Pip have ads?
Chart Alpha shows ads; Pip does not.

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