BackTrader vs Aerro Trading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BackTrader
This cloud-based platform mirrors trades in real-time across unlimited accounts, supporting futures traders and prop firms. It offers advanced features like limit/stop order copying and per-account scaling, all managed through a mobile dashboard with analytics and risk management tools.
- Real-time trade copying
- Limit and stop order copying
- Cloud-based, always-on infrastructure
- Per-account contract multipliers
- Integrated trading journal and analytics
- Configurable risk management rules
- Mobile dashboard with push notifications
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BackTrader is the cloud-based trade copier built for serious futures traders and prop firm accounts. Mirror every entry, exit, stop, and target from your leader account to unlimited follower accounts in real time - no downloads, no VPS, no missed trades. Built from the ground up by traders, BackTrader runs entirely in the cloud. Close your laptop, lock your phone, walk away. Your trades keep copying. WHY TRADERS CHOOSE BACKTRADER • Real-time copying - Leader fills are detected the moment they happen and pushed to every follower account with minimal latency. • Limit and stop order copying - BackTrader copies pending orders directly, not just fills, so your accounts enter at the same levels and avoid slippage from fill-propagation delay. • Always-on infrastructure - Copy trading continues even when the app and your browser are closed. Our server-side engine maintains the connection for you. • Per-account scaling - Set custom contract multipliers per follower to copy the same strategy across accounts of different sizes. • Instant configuration - Pause, resume, swap leaders, or change risk rules and it takes effect immediately. SUPPORTED BROKERS AND PROP FIRMS BackTrader connects directly to Tradovate and ProjectX, which covers the most popular evaluation and funded account programs, including: • Topstep • Apex Trader Funding • Tradeify • Lucid Trading • Alpha Futures • And most firms routed through Tradovate or ProjectX ANALYTICS AND JOURNALING INCLUDED BackTrader is more than a copier. Review every trade with detailed performance analytics, an economic calendar, and a built-in trading journal — so you can improve execution, not just replicate it. RISK MANAGEMENT Protect every account with configurable risk rules designed for prop firm requirements. Set limits, guard daily drawdown, and keep followers in sync with your plan. MOBILE DASHBOARD Monitor leader and follower positions, live P&L, execution status, and rejections from your iPhone. Get real-time push notifications the instant a trade fires, fills, or fails. BUILT BY TRADERS, FOR TRADERS BackTrader was built because existing copiers were slow, unreliable, and clunky. Our dedicated infrastructure connects directly to brokers to give you precise control, faster execution, and a platform that actually understands how prop traders work. IMPORTANT BackTrader is a tool for executing and reviewing your own trading decisions. BackTrader does not provide financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Learn more at backtrader.io Terms of Use: https://www.backtrader.io/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://www.backtrader.io/privacy-policy Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions after purchase.
Aerro Trading
This app synthesizes market signals into a single score, providing traders with a clear, consolidated view of trend, order flow, and news. It offers detailed breakdowns of factors influencing the score, order flow analysis, and a curated economic calendar with AI insights. Track your trading performance with a built-in journal and analytics.
- Real-time Confluence Score
- Detailed score breakdown
- Order flow analysis
- AI-powered economic calendar
- Trading journal and P&L analytics
- Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
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AERRO calls the trade before the move — entry, stop and target, to the tick — and grades every call against the tape, in public, in R and in dollars at your size. THE CALLOUTS An engine watches ES, NQ, GC, YM, RTY, SI, CL and NG through the Asia, London and New York sessions. When a setup fires, the call lands as a push, a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and a glass banner in the app: the setup, its confluence score and three prices — entry, stop, target. Prices, not zones, and never moved after the fact. THE RECORD Every call is graded the moment price reaches the target or the stop — automatically, in R, and in dollars at your own size. Wins and losses both, winners capped at +3R: a record, not a highlight reel. Home pins what today's calls made across all eight markets, and every call carries its pair's record — how that setup has done on that market over the last 60 days. THE CONFLUENCE SCORE Each callout is scored 0–100 on how many things agree at once — trend, level, volume, session, order flow, the news window. The ring fills as they line up; flip the card for the read behind it. IN THE TRADE Tap In trade and the call becomes your position: a P&L that rolls with every tick, the stop, entry and target drawn on the chart, your own stop and take-profit dragged onto it, sized to the risk you choose. Pick the exit — the engine's smart trail or a plain bracket — and see how the pair has done under it. Missed the entry? Say so, and the screen prices the trade from where you got in. NEWS & THE FED The week's prints one day at a time, colour-coded by impact, with a countdown to every high-impact release on the tab itself — 4:59 to 0:01, then LIVE. The Fed priced off fed funds futures, meeting by meeting, and how the odds moved on each print. Every release pushed with an AI read of what it means for the tape. TRADERS Post your trades to Ideas with the proof from your platform; once reviewed they count on your verified record and the leaderboard. Share your wins with flavor — card effects, streak frames, avatar rings and name glows, won in crates and kept for good, dress the trades you post. Follow traders, ring a bell the moment the ones you trust enter a trade, and share win cards in one tap. SERVERS Rooms run by traders: text channels, live voice, the room's own callouts, tournaments, guest passes, and boosts that give a room its glow — a tag its members wear anywhere in AERRO and an animated ring on every avatar. Message anyone directly; send polls, stickers cut from your own photos, and gift crates opened right in the thread. YOUR LOOK Wallpapers, accents and app icons; a Home you arrange; the Summary Card turned in 3D; a Live Activity face you design. Sleep mode makes the phone a desk clock that counts the day's called P&L and speaks the session opens. AERRO ON THE WEB Scan a code with your phone to sign in at aerroapp.com — the same account on your desk, a console of two or four screens, mirrored back to your phone's hub. MEMBERSHIP Start free. Pro unlocks every callout with its exact levels, real-time alerts, the graded record, the News Pack and every server's Pro rooms, on the futures or the options engine. Pro+ adds the confluence score on every call, the proven setups, the full eight-market grid and the summarised 3D card. Pro and Pro+ are auto-renewing subscriptions, monthly or annual; the News Pack is sold on its own. AERRO is a software tool — not a broker, an exchange or an investment adviser — and holds no customer funds. Callouts, scores and reads are market analysis for informational and educational purposes, not financial advice or a recommendation to trade. Futures and options trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Past performance, including graded callouts, does not guarantee future results. Terms of Use: https://aerroapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://aerroapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aerro Trading at 5.0 against BackTrader's 4.7. Aerro Trading also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). BackTrader's advantage is chart position (#169 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. BackTrader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $34.99 per month and Aerro Trading sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $28.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Aerro Trading holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of BackTrader's written reviews are positive against 100% of Aerro Trading's.
BackTrader ships an update every 2 weeks, Aerro Trading every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BackTrader | Aerro Trading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (36 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #169 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | BackTrader | Reinhard Moebius |
Customer experience
BackTrader
Aerro Trading
In-app purchases
BackTrader
- Standard$34.991 Month
- Premium$49.991 Month
- Pro$99.991 Month
Aerro Trading
- AERRO Pro Monthly3 Days trial$28.991 Month
- AERRO Pro+$84.991 Month
- AERRO Pro Annual3 Days trial$289.991 Year
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