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    Trading software in India by job: the tools that find trades, place them and review them

    Trading software in India does one of three jobs: it helps you find a trade (charts, scanners, screeners, option analytics), place it (your broker's terminal, or a platform that passes the order to your broker), or review it afterwards (broker reports and a journal). Many tools cover more than one job, so this page lists them by job, not by rank. Every example tool and price below was checked on the tool's own website on 13 October 2026.

    Facts checked 13 Oct 2026 against 24 sources. No affiliate links. Not investment advice.

    Trading software in India, sorted by the job it does

    Most lists of trading software in India rank twenty apps on one scale. That puts tools with different jobs in the same race. A charting site, a broker terminal and a trading journal don't compete with each other. A typical trader uses one of each, and often two or three for the first job.

    Think of your tool stack as three jobs:

    • Find. Charting software, technical scanners, fundamental screeners and option analytics help you spot a setup and plan it: entry, stop, size and the most you can lose.
    • Place. Whatever screen you click on, the order goes through your broker account. You place it from the broker's own app, web or desktop terminal, or from a platform that connects to your broker and hands the order over.
    • Review. Your broker's contract notes and P&L reports record what happened. A journal records why you took the trade and whether you followed your own plan.

    The tools named on this page are examples, each checked on its own website on 13 October 2026. A tool left out is not a judgement on it. We have no affiliate links and no one paid to be listed.

    Trading tool stack by job, checked 13 Oct 2026

    Example tools for each job, with the free tier and the paid price each tool's own site showed on 13 October 2026. Listed by job, not ranked.

    JobKind of toolExample checkedFree tierPaid price shownWorth knowing
    FindChartingTradingViewBasic plan, ₹0; NSE data delayed 15 minutes on BasicEssential ₹995, Plus ₹2,095, Premium ₹4,195, Ultimate ₹17,333 a month, billed annually; each labelled "special price"Real-time NSE included in paid plans. Sales tax may be added depending on your location
    FindTechnical scannerChartinkLibrary of user-made scans opens without signing inPremium ₹780 a month, ₹2,220 a quarter or ₹8,500 a year, inclusive of all taxesPremium adds real-time data for scans and charts, 1, 2 and 3 minute scans, and alerts by desktop, SMS and email
    FindFundamental screenerScreener.inStock screens, 10 stock alerts, 2 screen alerts; no download of resultsPremium (Active Investor) ₹4,999 a year, inclusive of GSTPremium adds downloads, an industry filter, 800 stock alerts and 75 screen alerts
    Find and planOption analyticsOpstra (Definedge)Basic plan, ₹0; option chain, OI and dashboards update every 15 minutes₹1,300 a month, ₹6,000 for 6 months or ₹11,000 a year, each plus 18% GSTPaid "live" data is 1-minute data plus a few seconds for IV and Greeks. NSE F&O only on this site. Definedge Securities' own plans page lists a different Opstra Pro price, ₹799 a month plus GST
    Find and planOption analyticsSensibullFree plan with 8 features, including a basic option chainPro shown at ₹0 a month for Zerodha users; for other brokers ₹800 a month (1 month) or ₹640 a month (6 months), the 6-month plan only for Angel One, Upstox and Google users; tax not statedShows SEBI research analyst registration INH200006895 on its home page
    Find, plan and placeOption analytics with order placementQuantsappFree plan, ₹0: 30 analytics tools including a live option chain; orders through your own broker are freePRO ₹19,999 a year or ₹4,000 a month; PRO+ ₹39,999 a year or ₹8,000 a month; prices include taxesSays it is integrated with 20 brokers. Advanced order types cost ₹20 per executed order (waived for new accounts opened through Quantsapp at Choice or 5paisa) or a Broker API plan
    PlaceBroker web and app terminalZerodha KiteNo fee for using Kite stated on its pageSame page lists flat ₹20 for intraday and F&O tradesWeb, Android and iOS; GTT orders, baskets with margins, 20-level market depth
    PlaceBroker desktop terminalFYERS NextNo price stated on the FYERS Next page; FYERS's pricing page says "no hidden platform fees"Brokerage on the Standard plan: ₹20 per executed options orderWindows only, per FYERS support. FYERS says order placement is no longer supported on its older FYERS One desktop app, which stays for charting and analysis
    PlaceBroker desktop terminalDefinedge TradePointBasic version free with a Definedge Securities demat accountPRO ₹1,799 a month or ₹17,999 a year, exclusive of GST, on Definedge's plans page; Definedge adds wallet points equal to the amount paid, adjusted against brokerageWindows 10 and above only, per Definedge's system requirements page. Scanners and Auto Trade are PRO features; new demat accounts get a one-month PRO trial
    PlaceMulti-broker front endTradingView with a connected brokerBroker list on TradingView India shows 14 names, including FYERS, Kotak Neo, Angel One, Dhan, Alice Blue and UpstoxTradingView says it doesn't process your trades; the order is handled by the broker you connectOrder ticket, chart trading and keyboard shortcuts, per TradingView's help page
    ReviewBroker back officeZerodha ConsoleZerodha calls it the central dashboard for your Zerodha accountNo separate price on the Console pageP&L statements and tax-ready reports "ready to be submitted to your Chartered Accountant"
    ReviewTrading journalOneTradeJournal (our product)Free plan: one trade per day per market, with no end date₹499 a month, ₹1,299 a quarter or ₹3,499 a yearTrades are logged by hand; no broker sync or import. Estimates charges per trade

    Checked 13 Oct 2026 on each tool's own pricing, product or help page (see sources). Tax is shown the way each site states it; where a site doesn't say, we say so. Brokerage, statutory charges and data add-ons (for example TradingView's separate BSE add-ons) are extra where they apply. Examples only: not a ranking, no affiliate links, no paid placement.

    Sources: [1], [2], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [4], [3], [13], [24], [20], [21]

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    Job 1: finding trades with charts, scanners and option tools

    Charting software

    Most charting software lets you open a chart for free. What a free plan usually gives up is fresh prices. TradingView's data coverage page, checked on 13 October 2026, shows NSE data free with a 15 minute delay and real-time NSE included in paid plans; its Essential plan is ₹995 a month billed annually. The charts inside your broker's app are a different case: NSE's data policy says trading members get live feed data as part of their membership. Why one can be live while a free website is late, and what live data costs, is in why market data is delayed. Plan-by-plan detail for TradingView is in our TradingView plans in India guide.

    Scanners and screeners

    A scanner runs a rule across many stocks and returns the ones that match it today: a breakout, an RSI level, a candle pattern. A technical scanner such as Chartink works on price and volume. A fundamental screener such as Screener.in works on company numbers like profit growth, debt and valuation ratios, which suits investors and swing traders more than intraday traders.

    Two cautions apply to every scanner. First, public scan libraries are written by users. On 13 October 2026 Chartink's screener page listed user scans with names such as "Buy 100% accuracy". A name is not a tested result, and Chartink's own footer says its charts and tools are "provided for research purpose". Second, a scan only finds candidates. It says nothing about position size, where your stop goes or whether the trade fits your plan. Our stock screeners guide explains the common filters.

    Option analytics

    Option analytics tools take the option chain and turn it into a plan: a payoff chart, the Greeks, open interest, and the most a strategy can lose before you place it. Opstra, Sensibull and Quantsapp each have a free tier. Here too the free tier usually trades freshness for price: Opstra's Basic plan updates its option chain and open interest every 15 minutes. Sensibull's price depends on your broker, with Pro shown at ₹0 a month for Zerodha users. Quantsapp also places orders through your own broker, so it does part of the next job as well.

    A payoff chart shows what happens at each price if your assumptions hold. It cannot tell you which price will come.

    Job 2: placing trades from a broker terminal or a multi-broker platform

    Your broker's own terminal

    The broker's app and web terminal are where most traders place orders. Zerodha's Kite page, for example, states no fee for using Kite itself; the cost is per trade, flat ₹20 for intraday and F&O.

    Some brokers also offer an installable desktop terminal for traders who want more screens and faster order entry:

    • FYERS Next is FYERS's desktop trading terminal for active traders. FYERS support says it runs only on Windows, with no native Mac version, and that order placement is no longer supported on the older FYERS One desktop app, which stays for charting and analysis. The FYERS Next page states no price; FYERS's pricing page says there are "no hidden platform fees".
    • Definedge TradePoint is a desktop analysis and trading terminal that comes with a Definedge Securities demat account. The basic version is free; scanners and Auto Trade are PRO features, listed at ₹1,799 a month or ₹17,999 a year plus GST on Definedge's plans page, with the amount paid returned as wallet points against brokerage. Definedge lists Windows 10 and above as the only supported system.

    Both desktop terminals are Windows-only, so on a Mac the broker's web terminal is the usual route. For what a terminal does, older terminal names such as NEST and ODIN, hotkeys and order types, read what a trading terminal is. We don't repeat that explainer here.

    Multi-broker platforms

    A multi-broker platform is one screen that can connect to accounts at different brokers. You log in with your broker account, place the order on the platform, and your broker executes it. The margin, the position and the contract note stay with your broker. Three examples checked on 13 October 2026:

    • TradingView lets you connect brokers from its charts and trade from an order ticket or the chart itself. Its India broker page lists 14 brokers.
    • Quantsapp says it is integrated with 20 brokers, from Zerodha and Upstox to HDFC Securities and Axis Direct.
    • Sensibull lists Zerodha, Angel One, Upstox and ICICI Direct, and says orders are placed, modified or cancelled only when you do it yourself.

    Before you connect any platform to your account, find out four things: whether your broker is on its list, what the platform can do with your login (read only, or place orders too), who you contact if an order fails, and whether there is a fee on top of brokerage. Quantsapp's ₹20 per executed order for advanced order types is one example of such a fee. If you want code to place orders for you, the rules and costs are different; start with our trading API section.

    “TradingView doesn't process your trades and acts as an interface only.”
    TradingView Help Center, How to trade on TradingView, opened 13 Oct 2026

    Source: [3]

    One illustrative stack, priced for a year

    An assumed part-time options trader who wants live NSE charts, real-time scans and an option strategy tool, using the yearly price of one example tool per job. Illustrative only and not a recommendation: other tools do the same jobs. Prices as each site showed them on 13 October 2026.

    Charting: TradingView Essential, billed annually₹995 a month × 12. TradingView says sales tax may be added depending on your location; not included here
    ₹11,940
    Scanner: Chartink Premium, yearlyChartink says its prices are inclusive of all taxes
    ₹8,500
    Option analytics: Opstra annual plan₹11,000 + 18% GST of ₹1,980
    ₹12,980
    Placing orders: the broker's own app and web terminalZerodha Kite as the example: no usage fee stated. Brokerage and statutory charges are per trade and not included
    ₹0
    Review: OneTradeJournal free planCovers one trade per day per market; logging more needs a paid plan, ₹3,499 a year
    ₹0
    Tools for one year, before any TradingView sales tax
    ₹33,420

    Sources: [1], [5], [8], [12], [24]

    What the ₹0 version of each job gives up

    The same five jobs can be done for ₹0 with the free tiers in the table: TradingView Basic, Chartink's public scans, Opstra Basic, the broker's own terminal and a free journal plan. What you give up is freshness and limits: the 15-minute delays in the callout above, Screener.in's cap of 2 screen alerts, and our free plan's one trade per day per market.

    It also helps to set the tool bill next to the trading bill. At Kite's flat ₹20 per order, an assumed 100 option round trips a month is 200 orders, or ₹4,000 a month in brokerage. That is ₹48,000 a year before GST, STT, exchange charges and stamp duty, more than the illustrative ₹33,420 tool stack above. Our F&O charges benchmark prices a full month of charges at 16 brokers. Fewer, better-planned trades lower both bills.

    Job 3: reviewing trades, the record and the reasons

    Your broker already keeps the record. Zerodha's Console, for example, is described as the central dashboard for your account, with P&L statements and tax-ready reports for your CA. What a broker report can't hold is the part only you know: why you entered, where your stop was meant to be, whether you moved it, and how you felt when you clicked buy. That is what a journal is for. Some analytics tools also keep a trade ledger; Sensibull's home page, for example, says you can import broker order history into one and add notes.

    The review job matters because finding and placing are the easy parts to buy. SEBI's studies released with press release PR No. 50/2026 on 20 August 2026 found that 87.7% of individual F&O traders made losses in FY26, with about 92% of those losses coming from options. SEBI's behaviour study also found that higher turnover relative to capital employed was associated with higher loss rates. These figures describe traders as a group, not you. A review is how you find out whether your own scans and setups are earning their keep.

    A backtest is a kind of review too, of rules on old prices. Our guide to backtest vs live results lists seven gaps between the two, from charges to your own hesitation.

    OneTradeJournal is built for this step. You log each trade by hand, with stop, target, strategy, emotions, plan deviation and mistakes; there is no broker sync and no import. It estimates brokerage and statutory charges per trade (₹20 per order if you don't enter your own brokerage), so P&L is shown after costs; these are estimates, not contract notes. It flags possible revenge trading, size spikes and overtrading, and its pre-trade checklist warns you from your own history. It cannot block an order, place one, or give signals. If you're new to journaling, start with how to keep a trading journal.

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    Platform guides, each checked and dated

    Every guide in this section is researched on its own from regulators' circulars, exchange documents and each tool's own pages. New guides appear here as they are published.

    Trading software questions Indian traders search

    What is the best trading software in India?+

    There isn't one answer, because trading software does different jobs. Charting, scanners and option analytics help you find and plan trades; your broker's terminal places them; a journal and broker reports help you review them. Pick one tool per job based on what you trade and how fresh your data needs to be. The table on this page lists examples by job, with prices checked on 13 October 2026.

    Is there free trading software in India?+

    Yes, for every job. On 13 October 2026, TradingView, Chartink's scan library, Screener.in, Opstra, Sensibull and Quantsapp all had free tiers, and broker terminals such as Zerodha Kite state no usage fee. The trade-off is mostly data freshness and limits: TradingView Basic shows NSE 15 minutes late and Opstra Basic updates every 15 minutes.

    Is there a free trading terminal in India?+

    Your broker's own app and web terminal are the usual free option; Zerodha's Kite page, for example, states no fee for using Kite. Among desktop terminals, Definedge TradePoint's basic version is free with a Definedge demat account, with PRO features on top, and FYERS's pricing page says it has no hidden platform fees, though the FYERS Next page itself states no price. Both desktop terminals run on Windows only. Brokerage on each trade still applies.

    Which charting software shows real-time Indian prices?+

    Your broker's charts show live prices to its clients. On TradingView, real-time NSE data is included in paid plans and delayed 15 minutes on the free Basic plan, per its data coverage page on 13 October 2026; BSE real-time is a separate add-on. Our page on why market data is delayed has the details and costs.

    What is a multi-broker trading platform?+

    It is a screen that can connect to accounts at different brokers and send your order to the one you are logged into. TradingView, Quantsapp and Sensibull work this way with the brokers each lists. The broker still executes the order and holds your margin and positions, so check that your broker is supported and what the platform can do with your login.

    What is option trading software?+

    Option trading software, or option analytics, turns the option chain into a plan: payoff charts, Greeks, open interest and the maximum loss of a strategy. Examples checked on 13 October 2026 include Opstra, Sensibull and Quantsapp, each with a free tier. Some also place orders through your broker. None of them can tell you where the market will go.

    What tools do traders use?+

    Most traders use at least three: a chart (often with a scanner or option tool) to find trades, the broker's terminal to place them, and a record to review them. Broker P&L reports show the numbers; a journal adds the reasons, the plan and the mistakes, which is where most of the learning is.

    Sources

    Every figure on this page comes from one of these. Each was checked on the date shown.

    1. [1]TradingView India, Subscriptions and pricing page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    2. [2]TradingView India, Market data global coverage page (NSE row) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    3. [3]TradingView Help Center, How to trade on TradingView · checked 13 Oct 2026
    4. [4]TradingView India, Brokers page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    5. [5]Chartink, Premium subscription page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    6. [6]Chartink, All stocks screeners and scans page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    7. [7]Screener.in, Premium plans page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    8. [8]Opstra by Definedge, Pricing page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    9. [9]Sensibull, home page (plans, brokers and features) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    10. [10]Quantsapp, Pricing page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    11. [11]Quantsapp, home page (integrated brokers) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    12. [12]Zerodha, Kite product page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    13. [13]Zerodha, Console product page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    14. [14]FYERS, FYERS Next desktop terminal page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    15. [15]FYERS Support, Why can't I place orders on FYERS One? (last updated 19 Nov 2025) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    16. [16]FYERS Support, Is FYERS Next available for Mac? (last updated 19 Nov 2025) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    17. [17]FYERS, Pricing page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    18. [18]Definedge Securities, TradePoint product page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    19. [19]Definedge Securities, home page (platforms and FAQ) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    20. [20]Definedge Securities, Products, plans and packages page · checked 13 Oct 2026
    21. [21]Definedge Securities, TradePoint system requirements · checked 13 Oct 2026
    22. [22]SEBI press release PR No. 50/2026, SEBI studies indicate key trends in retail participation, trading behaviour and profitability in the equity derivatives, 20 Aug 2026 · checked 13 Oct 2026
    23. [23]NSE and NSE Data & Analytics, Data Usage and Data Sharing Policy (clause 4.1) · checked 13 Oct 2026
    24. [24]OneTradeJournal, plans and pricing · checked 13 Oct 2026