A TabTrader alternative

TabTrader shut down on 21 August 2026. If you used it to follow pairs across exchanges, chart them, get price alerts and trade from your phone, DirectTrade does that job, for iPhone and Android.

What happened to TabTrader

TabTrader closed permanently on 21 August 2026, with little notice. Its apps left the stores, and the watchlists, alerts, chart layouts and exchange connections people had set up there went with it. DirectTrade is a separate product and is not affiliated with TabTrader.

How DirectTrade covers what you used

• Watchlists across exchanges. Pairs from Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase, KuCoin and Kraken in one list. Every row names its venue and shows the live price, the 24-hour change and a sparkline. Sort by name, price or change, or keep your own order. A home-screen widget shows the pairs you choose.
• Charts. Live candles from the exchange itself, from 1 minute to 1 month. Candlestick, hollow, Heikin-Ashi, bar, line and area charts; moving averages, Bollinger bands, RSI, MACD and more; trend lines, parallel channels, levels, Fibonacci retracements, measures and risk-to-reward drawings that stay with their pair. Save a chart configuration and apply it to any pair.
• Price alerts. Set a level and put the phone away. Alerts are watched around the clock and arrive as a notification on whichever device you are holding. An optional daily digest names the biggest movers on your watchlists.
• Trading from your own API keys. Connect an exchange with a key you create there, with read and trade permissions only. See balances, place and cancel limit and market orders, and review open orders and fills. Every order goes to the exchange under your own account.
• Order books. The live order book of the pair's exchange, beside the chart.
• Several devices. Sign in with Apple, Google or email to keep watchlists, alerts and chart configurations in step. Without an account, everything works on the phone in your hand.

What is different

• Six exchanges. Binance, Bybit, OKX, Coinbase, KuCoin and Kraken. Accounts with the European entities of OKX, Bybit and KuCoin, and with OKX in the US, are supported too.
• Spot markets only. No futures, margin, options or lending.
• Phones only. iPhone and Android; there is no web version.
• Your API keys never leave your phone. Every request to an exchange is signed on the device, and DirectTrade never holds your funds. It is not an exchange, a broker or a wallet.
• No ads. The free tier connects one exchange and covers two watchlists with ten pairs across them, three active alerts and three indicators per chart. DirectTrade Pro, monthly or yearly, lifts every limit.

Moving over

1. Install DirectTrade and add the pairs you followed to a watchlist. Search covers every pair on all six exchanges.
2. Create a new API key on each exchange you trade on, with read and trade permissions and no withdrawal access, and add it under Settings → Exchanges. The app walks through each exchange's steps. A key you made for TabTrader may still be active on the exchange; revoke it there once you no longer need it.
3. Set your price alerts again from the chart or the Alerts tab.

TabTrader's data cannot be imported, since it no longer exists anywhere. Questions about switching go to support@directtrade.app.