OptionsKing compared

Twelve pages comparing OptionsKing to the tools people actually weigh it against. Every competitor fact carries the date it was checked and a link to the source. Every page names something the other product does better, because a comparison that does not is an advertisement.

• vs Option AlphaAutomation through your broker, against a tool that never touches one.
• vs Market ChameleonDeep analytics you interpret, against one judgment made for you.
• vs BarchartThe whole market, against one strategy with a floor under it.
• vs OptionStratDrawing a position, against filtering one before you see it.
• Spreadsheet vs appWhere a sheet stops being enough, and where it never was the problem.
• Best covered call screenersFive tools, judged on what they throw away rather than what they surface.
• Best cash-secured put screenersReturn on secured capital, and the filter no software can apply.
• Best wheel strategy appsCarrying cost basis across the full cycle, which most tools lose.
• Best options income trackersWhat your premium selling earned, measured against buy-and-hold.
• Best free options screenersWhat free tiers actually cover, and when paying starts to make sense.
• Covered call app for iPhoneWhat runs on iOS today, and the state of the App Store listing.
• Covered call app for AndroidThe same, for Google Play.

How these pages are written

Three rules, and they are the reason any of this is worth reading.

• Competitor claims come from the competitor. Pricing and features are read off each company's own site, dated on the page, and linked. Where a fact could not be confirmed first-hand, it is not published. Market Chameleon's price is missing from these pages for exactly that reason.
• Every page names what the other tool does better. Option Alpha automates execution and OptionsKing cannot. Barchart covers the whole market and OptionsKing covers 60 tickers publicly. OptionStrat draws a better payoff diagram.
• The weaknesses go on the page. No store listing yet, one strategy family, and a confidence bar that produced zero qualifying strikes across all 60 names on the first public snapshot.

The one-line version

OptionsKing scores covered call and cash-secured put candidates on a deterministic 0 to 100 scale, refuses to show anything below 60 at any setting, defaults to 75, and keeps a record of what the trades you took actually earned against holding the shares instead. It is free, and it will never place a trade or touch your brokerage account.

If that is not the shape of the problem you have, one of the pages above will point you at something better. How it works has the detail.

All competitor pricing across this section was last verified on August 4, 2026. It is re-checked at least annually, and prices change more often than that, so treat any figure here as a starting point rather than a quote.