TrueHold vs CoinStats: an honest side-by-side

Full disclosure first: we build TrueHold, so this comparison is biased by construction. The honest version of the verdict fits in two lines. CoinStats is ahead on native mobile apps and a decade of accumulated integrations. TrueHold is ahead on perp DEX coverage, a strictly read-only custody posture, and an AI that answers questions from your own data. Which gap matters depends entirely on what you hold.

Where CoinStats is ahead

• Mobile: mature iOS and Android apps with widgets and alerts. TrueHold is a web app first.
• Track record: years in the market, hundreds of integrations hardened by time.
• Ecosystem extras: news feeds, market pages, browser extensions, the works.

Where TrueHold is ahead

• Perps: Hyperliquid and Lighter read natively by address, exchange futures through read-only keys, all totalled into one exposure number. This is the gap that sends most switchers our way.
• Custody posture: the product has no flow that requests anything beyond read access. No trading features, no swap buttons, no scope creep by design.
• AI: an agent grounded in your portfolio data that explains what changed and answers questions like realized PnL by chain and period.
• Coverage breadth per dollar: 180+ chains, DeFi and NFTs on the free start.

The philosophical split

CoinStats has grown toward a do-everything app: tracking plus trading plus discovery. That is a legitimate direction, and some people want exactly one app. TrueHold went the other way: a tracker should see everything and touch nothing, so we stripped every capability that could move money. If you hold your own keys on principle, the second philosophy probably reads as the safer default; the threat model for read-only keys explains why it matters mechanically.

Pricing shape

Both products start free and sell a premium tier. The difference is what premium buys: with us it is tax-ready exports with cost basis, realized PnL and DeFi events broken out by venue and chain. We deliberately keep the tracking itself, including perps, in the free experience.

The verdict, both directions

• Choose CoinStats if your portfolio is mostly spot on major exchanges, you live on mobile, and you want one app with market news built in.
• Choose TrueHold if perps or DeFi are a real share of your stack, you want strictly read-only access, or you want an AI that can actually answer questions about your holdings.
• Undecided? Read-only connections make running both for a week free. Keep whichever you open on day eight.

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