StockMarketEye is a paid desktop app that has served offline-first investors well for over a decade. Foliolytic is a free browser-based replacement with deeper risk-adjusted return analytics, no install footprint, no signup, and no broker login. Here is the honest comparison.
Try Foliolytic Free →Replace StockMarketEye with Foliolytic if you don't need to work fully offline, you want deeper risk-adjusted return metrics (Sharpe, Sortino, alpha, beta), and you'd rather not pay a license fee. Keep StockMarketEye if true offline operation is critical, you've already invested years in StockMarketEye's data file, or you specifically prefer a desktop-native UI. Foliolytic and StockMarketEye both keep data on your machine — they just differ in install footprint and analytics depth.
No install · No license fee · 70+ metrics · Browser-based · No signup, no broker loginStockMarketEye launched in the mid-2000s as a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It serves a specific kind of investor: someone who wants their portfolio data fully under their control, locally on disk, with no cloud sync and no broker credential storage. The user base skews technical, privacy-conscious, and stable. The product has not changed dramatically in recent years — and that's part of the appeal for users who already have years of data in their StockMarketEye file.
Foliolytic takes a different approach: there's no signup, no broker login, and no credentials to store. You upload an exported CSV manually rather than connecting an account. The trade-off is that you re-upload when you want refreshed analytics — there's no continuous broker-side sync. In exchange, you get no install, no license fee, no platform-specific build, and significantly deeper risk-adjusted return analytics.
The table below reflects the public state of both tools as of April 2026. Verify StockMarketEye's current pricing and feature set at stockmarketeye.com before purchasing.
If you've been using StockMarketEye for years, the differences below are the ones that actually matter — not surface UI changes.
Honest comparison: StockMarketEye has earned its license fee with users for a reason, and there are workflows where Foliolytic does not replace it.
$0 / month, $0 / year, no paid tier. Free unlimited use, all metrics, all broker formats. Funded by a self-imposed budget.
StockMarketEye operates on a license-fee model. Per their website, pricing typically involves a one-time or annual fee structure that has shifted over the years. Verify the current price at stockmarketeye.com before purchasing — pricing on this kind of mature desktop app is often available only through their checkout flow.
StockMarketEye supports CSV export of holdings and transaction history. Foliolytic ingests broker-format CSVs directly, so you have two clean migration paths.
If you still have access to the brokerage account StockMarketEye is tracking, the cleanest path is to download a fresh transaction-history CSV directly from your broker (Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, Interactive Brokers, etc.) and drop it onto the Foliolytic homepage. Foliolytic's format detector identifies the broker automatically and reconciles tickers, dividends, and splits.
From StockMarketEye, use the export function to write your transaction history to CSV. The standard CSV layout is parseable by Foliolytic. Note: re-uploading the original broker CSV (Option A) is usually cleaner because StockMarketEye sometimes normalizes ticker symbols in ways that Foliolytic's resolver handles differently.
Within seconds of upload, Foliolytic shows your Sharpe, Sortino, drawdown profile, alpha vs S&P 500, beta, R², XIRR, and 60+ other metrics StockMarketEye does not natively compute. Use the comparisons to spot patterns StockMarketEye's flatter analytics didn't surface.
Foliolytic is the right tool for you if any of these describe your situation:
Foliolytic is the wrong tool for you if any of these are core to your workflow:
Drop a brokerage CSV onto Foliolytic. No install, no license fee, no signup, no broker login, no PII collected.
Analyze My Portfolio Free →StockMarketEye remains a paid desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Per their website, the license fee structure typically involves a one-time or annual fee — verify the current price at stockmarketeye.com before purchasing. The product has been in market for over a decade and has a loyal following among offline-first investors.
Foliolytic is a free, browser-based alternative that does not require installation on your machine. It ingests brokerage CSVs and computes 70+ risk-adjusted return metrics including Sharpe, Sortino, XIRR, max drawdown, alpha, beta, and R-squared. There is no license fee, no platform-specific build, and no signup.
A browser-based tool runs identically on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, and any device with a modern browser. There is nothing to install, nothing to update, and no platform-specific bugs. Foliolytic also requires no signup, no broker login, and no third-party advertising trackers — so you avoid the surveillance trade-offs that account-based aggregators like Empower or Sharesight require. The trade-off is that you cannot work fully offline — you need a browser open.
Foliolytic is a web app, so it requires an active browser session on a tab loaded from foliolytic.com. You cannot launch Foliolytic without an internet connection. StockMarketEye runs fully offline after install. If true offline operation is essential to your workflow, StockMarketEye is the better fit.
StockMarketEye supports CSV export of holdings and transactions. Foliolytic's format detector handles the standard CSV layout. The cleanest path, however, is to skip StockMarketEye as the middle layer and re-upload your original brokerage transaction CSV into Foliolytic — Foliolytic auto-detects 30+ broker formats.
Yes. Foliolytic computes Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Treynor ratio, Calmar ratio, max drawdown, Ulcer Index, alpha, beta, R-squared, XIRR, and 60+ other risk-adjusted return metrics. StockMarketEye's analytics are more limited — primarily focused on cost basis tracking, total return, and dividend reporting. If you specifically want quantitative analytics, Foliolytic is the better choice.
Foliolytic doesn't ask for an account, doesn't store broker credentials, and doesn't link to your broker. You upload an exported CSV manually rather than connecting an account. We don't sell or share data with third parties, and we don't run advertising or session-recording trackers. The risk profile is different from a credentials-based aggregator like Empower or Sharesight.