This is a list of free or freemium tools and apps that are useful for cryptocurrency traders or hodlers.

None of these tools were backed by an ICO, which has been the original condition for getting a tool listed on here. Some of them are open source, some commercial, but all of them have at least a trial account option.

If you are a developer and want to submit a tool, contact us.

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Large Transaction Alerts

Wallet Scan is a Telegram bot that alerts you on large transaction on Bitcoin blockchain, on Tether and on several other major blockchains now.

If it is known where the transaction went to or from, it will tell you that too - many of exchange hot wallets have known addresses now.

Portfolio tracking

There are plenty options to track the fiat value of your cryptocurrency portfolio.

Just Remember: Some portfolio tracking apps require you to sign up with an email address. For your security, avoid reusing an email address that you also use for an exchange or a web wallet.

Currently the most popular app for portfolio tracking. It is worth pointing out once again that there was no ICO and no expensive marketing to get Blockfolio to this place. It even features basic charting, newsfeed and price alerts.

Coinloop is a portfolio tracking app catered towards more active traders. In addition to the usual news feed and an event calendar it also features AI signals with optional alerts. It also tracks the CME and CBOE Bitcoin futures.

Moonitor is a desktop and iOS app developed by a Redditor u/kumakote.

Crypto Taxes

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This is a free guide to US cryptocurrency taxation from The Simple Dollar.

Crypto Trader Tax - Freemium

Crypto Trader Tax is a service that will generate your report from trading logs exported from the exchange you use for crypto trading.

The tool offers some advanced functionalities like loss harvesting by pulling your crypto’s cost basis and deducting your loss to reduce your liability.

They bill per tax season based on the number of trades you executed, but they do offer a free trial.

You can also use our coupon for 10% discount: CRYPTOTAX10 .

Orderbook Monitoring

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TensorCharts - Freemium

Tensorcharts is a charting app with orderbook heatmap and segmented candlesticks for crypto and legacy markets.

Obviously useful mostly for active traders, mainly scalpers and day traders. Read more about TensorCharts or take a look at the strategy showcase for scalping crypto with Tensorcharts.

The Whale Watching App is an open-source Python code that tracks large unique orders or a stack of many same-size orders in exchange order books.

DataMish is a public Grafana dashboard with lending data from Bitfinex.

It also gives you data like shorts vs longs for main markets on finex. It is kind of a better successor of bfxdata.com , for those who remember.

TokenSpread is a tool for arbitrage traders. It monitors spreads on altcoin markets across every popular exchange (Binance, Bittrex, Bitstamp, Bitfinex, GDAX, EXMO…), highlighting the largest spreads.

TokenSpread also offers an API subscription for $40 per month.

Blockchain Network stats

There hasn’t been a lot of apps that track the network activity of cryptocurrencies, even though fundamental metrics such as transactions per day, fees, mempool size or transactions per block have correlation with the price of bitcoin. Some came and went, such as now defunct cryptosign.al .

Bitinfocharts have charts of hashrate compared with scaled price for most of the history of Bitcoin (since 2010).

The same data is available for Litecoin, ZCash, Dash and quite a few other Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies, most of which do not seem to display any correlation though.

The same page has a menu below the chart where you can switch to other crypto fundamental metrics such as transaction counts, active addresses, mining profitability and more.

Blockchain.com (formerly blockchain.info) has most of the conventional network activity metrics, including confirmation times and fees.

You cannot overlay the data with price, but you can export them into CSV.

Etherscan offers the most looked for network metrics on ETH blockchain in a style similar to what blockchian.com does for BTC.

You get data on gas usage, transaction costs and split statistics about transactions done in ETH vs ERC20 tokens.

Market Performance Metrics

RSIHunter is an app that publishes RSI values for many cryptocurrency markets.

Pretty useful tool for large cap crypto traders who want to quickly get the macro outlook and see which smaller cap altcoins are being oversold or overbought - This kind of comparison is a technique used for market timing.

RSIHunter is free and has data from Binance, BitMEX, Kucoin and Bittrex.

A free chart from bitcoinfuturesinfo.com that plots Bitcoin futures curves and premiums of derivatives on BitMEX, Deribit, Bitfinex Futures, OKEx, Kraken Futures and other smaller crypto markets.

The website also only a few articles that explain what you can do with the data.

Bitgur focuses on market cap and similar traditional performance indicators presented in the visual form of a heatmap.

Crypto Charting Apps

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CryptoWatch is a free charting platform that was acquired by Kraken Exchange in 2017. Since then you can trade on Kraken directly from there, but the free charting interface has been kept as it always was.

If you are just looking for the most common technical indicators on a candlesticks chart and possibly some alerts, cryptowatch is your best option.

TradingView - Freemium

Tradingview is a charting platform and trading community that has huge amount of technical analysis tools available for free. They are written in pine scripts and fully customizable - the charting platform is super noob friendly too, though.

We reviewed some of the best TradingView scripts that you can use with FREE account here.

TradingView PRO will let you use more scripts in a single charts. The upgrade is not ultra cheap, but it gets regular 60% discount during Black Friday promos.

You can sign up now for a free account and upgrade then.

Coinigy - Freemium

Coinigy is a cloud-based crypto trading and charting tool packed with features for altcoin scalpers, arbers and trading bot developers.

Coinigy is also great for the true altcoin traders who want to be the market makers in new markets, who want to leverage arb opportunities and want to be able to trade a market as soon as it opens.

It is not only a charting engine but also an API interface you can use to trade from an exchange account without using the exchange's web interface. UI and charting is usually terrible at small exchanges, at the same time those are the ones that you need to use when you arb.

Coinigy doesn't charge any additional fee for executing trades via the platform.

TensorCharts - Freemium

TensorCharts is an advanced charting platform with orderbook heatmap and split-colored candles. Tensorcharts were developed for crypto traders exclusively, but during the 2019 bear market the platform also started focusing on legacy markets trading aside of crypto markets and mainstream bitcoin futures.

TensorCharts are targeting more dedicated crypto traders who are not afraid to spend a little bit of time wrapping their head around the functionalities.

The learning curve is there, but this is what actually gives you the trading edge in the end.

TensorCharts can be a particularly useful tool for scalping crypto.

If you want to learn more about TensorCharts, head over to our TensorCharts intro and to our collection of TensorCharts tutorials.

Unique charting tools exclusive to TensorCharts:

orderbook heatmap

counters ratios

custom JS scripting

price action sound feature

There is a very generous FREE tier on TensorCharts. The free tier is limited in some TA functionalities and you will not get data updated in real time. You can stay on the free tier forever though.

Try the platform out and see how it works for you: Start with TensorCharts For Free and if you like it, upgrade the next Black Friday.

Social media sentiment

sentimnt.io is a simple one-glance tool that measures Reddit post and comment sentiment for major cryptocurrencies. You get the total number of mentions, positive and negative percentages and a simple chart plotting the development of the sentiment over time.

AltcoinAnalytics publishes social media analyse reports with data from a Python script that gives you the information about which cryptocurrencies and ICOs are getting most attention - positive and negative. You get free primers but the full analyses are paid. Primer on NEO from October 2017 with brief explanations here on altcointrading.net.

Solume.io is a tool for crypto media analysis that gathers mentions of 200+ coins at Twitter, Reddit and Bitcointalk. It publishes the media mention volumes and sentiment and also identifies the currently trending cryptocurrencies. Each cryptocurrency gets its own page with more detailed info such as top social media posters and an overlay chart of price development vs social media volume. Here is the page for Bitcoin.

Crypto News aggregators

Most crypto portfolio trackers will provide a news section. Bitfinex trading app also now offers this functionality. These usually only track the major publications though.

If you want to customize what you get or also see smaller blogs in your feed, there’s plenty of dedicated aggregators for that.

CoinSpectator is a news aggregator that sources hand-picked cryptocurrency blogs and blockchain news sites, all updated realtime.

You can choose whether to view blogs, news and press or all of it.

There is also a leaderboard of ICOs that you can filter out - current, upcoming, proven scams and more.

CryptoPanic is a popular news aggregator that comes in a free and premium version.

The premium version lets you add your own RSS feeds or Twitter handles to track.

CryptoPanic comes as a time-based feed, sortable by categories such as Regulation or ICO News. Other than that, if you type a symbol like ETH into the search box, it will filter out news mentioning your coin. It will also plot a chart for you with data from coinmarketcap.

CryptoFlash is a newer aggregator that gathers news mainly from various subreddits related to cryptocurrencies.

The app has better filtering by coin.

The Bitfinex trading platform now has a pretty good option for news tracking.

Users can customize Twitter feeds and other news sources to follow right from the trading interface.

CoinMarketCap Alternatives

Coinlore is a new CoinMarketCap alternative that also provides market data API.

CoinLib is a CoinMarketCap alternative that features best price explorer.

LiveCoinWatch is a CoinMarketCap alternative with more advanced market data, live updates, portfolio tracking and the option to disregard country-specific spot markets that have a high premium.

CryptoCompare is a data resource for the very basics on most cryptocurrencies.

Crypto Events

CoinMarketCal is a calendar of crypto-related events.

Features not only conferences and meetups, but also coin listings on important crypto exchanges.

The website provides email alerts if you sign up (remember to use burner email).