The investing tool catalogue I wanted when I started.

I keep research records on 360 tools, and I have used 87 of them myself. Reader votes set the rankings. No vendor can buy a place in them, and when a page is wrong I publish the fix.

Written and edited by Jera Value · Reviewed August 23, 2026

Tools researched: 360
Used first-hand: 87
Editor picks: 38
Categories: 121
Curated lists: 19
Moat companies: 397

Live counts from the published catalogue. Each number links to the pages behind it.

Editor's note

Jera Value

Independent investor and software builder. I write in public on X and jeravalue.com.

Long before anyone could ship a stock screener over a weekend with an AI assistant, there were already hundreds of investing tools. I went looking for the one that would give me an edge. A secret score. A screener nobody else had. Some number the market had missed.

That is not how it went. The vendor page sells. The review sites rank by commission. The forum thread you find is two years old. I tried dozens of products over the years and still could not find good tools for the specific jobs I cared about, so I stopped browsing and started testing on purpose. Dozens more went through my hands, and what came out was a long list of what each one did well and where it gave up.

I published that list as a Google Sheet, because sharing it cost me nothing. Then I moved it to an open GitHub repo so anyone could add to it, and people did. Strangers sent tools I had never heard of, and a few were better than what I was using at the time.

The sheet was free but painful to read, and the repo was worse. So I built a small site to hold the catalogue properly. That site is this one, and it has grown well past the list it started as.

A listing here is a research record. What the product does, who it suits, what it costs, where it falls short. If I have used it, the page says so. If all I have is the vendor's claim, the page says that instead.

Stock research follows the same rule. Moat analysis, ranking systems, and short-interest data all publish the method next to the number, so you can argue with the method.

Use this as a starting point for your own work. Nothing here is personal advice, and no page on this site knows your situation.

The site runs on affiliate commissions and sponsorships. Some links pay me when a reader buys, at the same price the reader would pay anyway, and that money never changes a rank or a label.

Where the numbers live

Live site statsWhat readers actually do here. Vote activity, trending tools, the products people are trying to replace, and moat-score movement.Vote pulseTrending toolsMoat signals Investing tool statisticsOriginal numbers pulled from the catalogue itself. What software costs by category, who bills annually, and how many tools have a real free tier.Pricing benchmarksFree tiersAI adoption

Two pages hold the raw numbers behind this site. One reports what readers do here. The other reports what the catalogue says about the software market itself.

Site stats come out of the production database, and cover votes cast, tools readers compare, and the products they are trying to replace. Tool statistics are computed from the catalogue, so they describe 360 products rather than the whole market.

Both pages are free, both refresh once a day, and both link back to the records the numbers came from.

How a listing gets built

1
Collect
Candidates come from reader suggestions, vendor emails, and my own sweeps through a category.
2
Verify
I read the vendor docs and the plan pages for pricing, platforms, data coverage, and limits. Summaries do not count.
3
Label
Tested means I used it. Starred means I would pick it. Everything else stays an unlabeled record.
4
Revisit
A correction or a product update reopens the record. A verification date only covers the facts I checked that day.

Rules I work by

1
Primary sources first
Vendor docs, published pricing, and my own use come first. A marketing claim gets labeled as a claim.
2
Votes stay separate from opinion
Reader votes set the ranking order. My labels sit next to those numbers and never move them.
3
Nobody can buy a rank
No vendor can pay for a rank, a star, or a spot on a list. I label paid placement wherever it exists.
4
The method ships with the answer
Lists and stock research show the rules that built them, so you can argue with the method instead of guessing at it.

What this site is not

I am not a broker, an adviser, or a signal service.
No category here is finished, and good tools are still missing from some of them.
Prices on this site go stale. Check the vendor page before you pay.
Ranks, stars, and list spots are not for sale.

The methodology page has the long version, with the full research process, what each label means, and how the rankings are built.

Questions readers ask

Who writes Find My Moat?

One person. I am Jera Value, an independent investor who builds software. I research the listings, write the pages, set the labels, and answer the correction emails.

How many of these tools have you actually used?

87 of the 360 tools carry the Tested label, which means I used the product instead of reading the sales page. The rest are research records built from vendor docs, plan pages, and other public sources.

What does the star on a tool mean?

The star marks an editor pick, 38 tools so far. It says I would reach for that product first in its category. It is not for sale, and it does not promise the tool fits your workflow.

How are the community rankings ordered?

Net reader votes set the order. An editor pick only breaks a tie between equal scores. No affiliate link, sponsorship, or vendor request moves a tool up the list.

Does Find My Moat make money from the tools it covers?

Yes. Some outbound links pay a commission when a reader buys, and the reader pays the same price either way. That money never reaches vote totals or ranking order, and the page says so where a commercial relationship exists.

How do I report an error in a listing?

Email support@findmymoat.com with the page URL, the claim you are disputing, and a source that backs your version. I fix confirmed errors and update the review date on that page. Corrections cost nothing and need no business relationship.

Can I suggest a tool that is missing?

Send the product URL to support@findmymoat.com with the job it does better than what is already listed. A suggestion does not guarantee a listing, and money cannot buy one either.

Why trust a one-person site over a big review site?

You do not have to. The large review sites rank by commission and rarely say who wrote what. Here you get one name, the sources behind each record, and the vote counts that set the order. Check any of it, and tell me when I get it wrong.