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Third column: Dividend WealthDividend tracker comparison, prices checked 2026-11-09
Simply Safe Dividends vs The Dividend Tracker: pricing, forecasting and features compared
The Dividend Tracker is cheaper on the entry plan: The Dividend Tracker Premium is $89.99 a year against $468 for Simply Safe Dividends Annual membership, a difference of $378.01 a year. Of the 22 points we check, Simply Safe Dividends is ahead on 3 (portfolios on paid plans, stock and ETF research pages and free trial) and The Dividend Tracker on 4 (free plan limits, community and public portfolios and public API). On dividend forecasting Simply Safe Dividends rates "Partly" and The Dividend Tracker "Partly"; Dividend Wealth projects every future payment with a date, an amount and a confidence tier out to 10 years. Dividend Wealth, which we make, is the third column: $99.99 a year on Standard or $1,500 once for life, with dividend safety scores, a screener and free research pages, and no mobile app yet.
We make Dividend Wealth, so it sits in the third column and is labelled as ours. Simply Safe Dividends and The Dividend Tracker are described from their public pricing and feature pages, linked under Sources; anything we could not confirm is marked "Not verified".
| Simply Safe Dividends | The Dividend Tracker | Dividend Wealthours | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A research service first and a tracker second: Dividend Safety Scores, analyst write-ups, model portfolios and a newsletter, with portfolio tracking built around them, for $468 a year. | A dividend tracker with a community feed, Dividend Grades, brokerage auto-import and an MCP connector for ChatGPT and Claude, in Free, Premium and Pro tiers. | A dividend tracker built around forecasting: every future payment is projected with a date, an amount and a confidence tier, portfolios can be linked to a brokerage or reconciled by hand, and the research pages are free to read. |
| Company | Simply Safe Dividends | The Dividend Tracker Inc. | Dividend Wealth |
| Platforms | Web | Web | Web (responsive); no native mobile app yet |
| Paid plans | Annual membership $468/yr | Premium $8.99/mo or $89.99/yr; Pro $16.95/mo or $169.50/yr | Standard $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr; Premium $19.99/mo or $199.99/yr; Lifetime $1,500 once |
| Free plan | No free plan; 14-day trial instead. | 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 1 watchlist. | 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 25 transactions; no brokerage linking. |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card required. | No trial; 14-day money-back guarantee instead. | 14 days of Standard, no card required. |
| Scale (self-reported) | Not stated on the pages we read | Not stated on the pages we read | 2,700+ users, 4,000+ portfolios and $340M+ of assets tracked (as stated on dividend-wealth.com) |
| Trustpilot | Score unavailable | Score unavailable | Score unavailable |
| Product | Plan | Monthly | Yearly | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simply Safe Dividends | Annual membership | Not offered | $468/yr | $39 a month billed annually; the only plan. Unlimited portfolios, Dividend Safety Scores, alerts, income calendar and forecast, screeners, analyst research, newsletter and model portfolios |
| The Dividend Tracker | Free | $0 | $0 | 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 1 watchlist, CSV import only, restricted payout calendar, US, Canada and UK data, community |
| The Dividend Tracker | Premium | $8.99/mo | $89.99/yr | 10 portfolios, unlimited holdings and watchlists, brokerage auto-import, CSV export, advanced dividend tracking, Dividend Grades, MCP integration, community polls |
| The Dividend Tracker | Pro | $16.95/mo | $169.50/yr | 30 portfolios, API access and webhooks, long-range back-tests, priority support |
| Dividend Wealth | Free | $0 | $0 | 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 25 transactions, no brokerage linking |
| Dividend Wealth | Standard | $9.99/mo | $99.99/yr | 6 portfolios (1 brokerage-linked + 5 manual), unlimited holdings and transactions, forecasting and safety scores |
| Dividend Wealth | Premium | $19.99/mo | $199.99/yr | Unlimited portfolios and unlimited linked brokerage accounts |
| Dividend Wealth | Lifetime | $1,500 once | n/a | Premium forever, one payment (or 3 payments of $500); all future Premium features included |
Simply Safe Dividends sells one annual plan and states that it does not offer discounts or monthly billing.
Dividend forecasting: how far ahead, and how sure
Every tracker here lists upcoming payouts. The difference is whether it projects each future payment on its own date, how far ahead it goes, whether it says how confident it is, and whether the method is published.
Simply Safe DividendsPartly — Income calendar and forecast of expected dividends; horizon and confidence rating not stated.
The Dividend TrackerPartly — Payout calendar and 'advanced dividend tracking' on Premium; forecast horizon and confidence rating not stated.
Dividend WealthYes — Each future payment is projected individually with a date, an amount, a growth assumption and a High, Medium or Low confidence tier, out to 10 years in the what-if projections. Built from each holding's own payment history, with the method published.
Read the forecasting method.
| Feature | Simply Safe Dividends | The Dividend Tracker | Dividend Wealthours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income | |||
| Dividend forecasting | Partly — Income calendar and forecast of expected dividends; horizon and confidence rating not stated. | Partly — Payout calendar and 'advanced dividend tracking' on Premium; forecast horizon and confidence rating not stated. | Yes — Each future payment is projected individually with a date, an amount, a growth assumption and a High, Medium or Low confidence tier, out to 10 years in the what-if projections. Built from each holding's own payment history, with the method published. |
| Dividend calendar | Yes — Income calendar. | Yes — Payout calendar, restricted on Free. | Yes — Market-wide calendar with presets (Aristocrats, Kings, monthly payers, REITs) plus a per-portfolio calendar of ex-dates and pay dates. |
| Dividend safety or quality score | Yes — Dividend Safety Scores, the core of the service, with a published track record on dividend cuts. | Yes — Dividend Grades (Premium). | Yes — Resilience Score for dividend durability and an A+ to F Overall Rating built from six published subscores. |
| DRIP modelling | Not verified — Not verified. | Not verified — Not verified. | Yes — DRIP toggle in Goals & What-If projections; DRIP backtests in the compare tool. |
| Income goal tracking | Not verified — Not verified. | Not verified — Not verified. | Yes — Income goals with year-to-date progress and milestone alerts. |
| Tracking | |||
| Brokerage sync | Not verified — Not stated on the pricing page. | Yes — Auto-import from brokerages (Premium and Pro). | Yes — Plaid and SnapTrade (Schwab, Vanguard, Fidelity, Robinhood, Interactive Brokers and more). One linked account on Standard, unlimited on Premium. Imports holdings and about two years of transactions. |
| Manual transactions | Yes — Manual portfolios, unlimited. | Yes — Manual entry; CSV import on every plan. | Yes — Unlimited on paid plans (25 on Free). Enter the ticker, date and shares; the price auto-fills from the actual close on that date, and stock splits are applied automatically so statements reconcile. |
| CSV import and export | Not verified — Not verified. | Yes — Import on every plan; export on Premium and Pro. | Yes — Import a full transaction history or current holdings from CSV; export the same Symbol, Type, Date, Shares, Price, Fee format and re-import it. |
| Portfolios on paid plans | Yes — Unlimited. | Partly — 10 on Premium, 30 on Pro. | Yes — 6 on Standard (1 linked + 5 manual); unlimited on Premium and Lifetime. |
| Free plan limits | No — No free plan; 14-day trial instead. | Partly — 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 1 watchlist. | Partly — 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 25 transactions; no brokerage linking. |
| Research | |||
| Dividend screener | Yes — Stock and closed-end fund screeners. | Not verified — Not verified. | Yes — Dividend stock screener with 21 filters: 17 numeric ranges (yield, payout ratio, increase streak, consistency, 1-, 5- and 10-year dividend growth, P/E, PEG, P/B, upside to target, return on equity, net margin, revenue growth, net debt to EBITDA, beta, market cap) plus sector, stock or ETF, payment frequency and a minimum A+ to F grade; seven one-click strategy presets. |
| Curated stock and ETF lists | Partly — Model portfolios and idea lists for members; nothing free to read. | Partly — Ideas on Premium. | Yes — 37 curated lists, free to read with live data: Dividend Aristocrats, Kings and Champions, monthly and weekly payers, covered-call, YieldMax and bitcoin-income ETFs, highest yield, undervalued, oversold, top rated and more. |
| Stock and ETF research pages | Yes — Analyst research, idea lists, model portfolios, 10-year financial charts and S&P credit ratings, behind the paywall. | Partly — Ideas and calculators (Premium). | Yes — Free research pages for thousands of US-listed stocks and ETFs: dividend history, yield, forecast and FAQ. |
| Side-by-side ticker comparison | Not verified — Not verified. | Not verified — Not verified. | Yes — Interactive DRIP comparison for up to 15 tickers, plus 1,200+ published pair pages (fees, yield, returns, overlap). |
| Community and public portfolios | No — None found. | Yes — Post, comment and follow on every plan; polls, snapshots and members' verified holdings on Premium. | Yes — Public portfolios and a portfolio contest. |
| Platform | |||
| Mobile app | Not verified — Not verified. | Not verified — Not verified. | No — No native app yet. The web app works on phones. |
| Public API | No — None found. | Yes — API access and webhooks on Pro. | No — Not yet; a public API is on the roadmap. |
| MCP server for AI assistants | No — None found. | Yes — MCP integration on Premium. | No — Not yet. An MCP server, so AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude can read your portfolio and forecasts, is in progress. |
| Markets and currencies | Partly — US-focused. | Partly — US, Canada and UK stock data. | Yes — 26 exchanges across the US, Canada and Europe. Holdings stay in their trading currency; portfolios, income and transactions are shown in your choice of 10 display currencies (USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CHF, JPY, SEK, DKK, NOK) at daily FX rates. |
| Billing | |||
| Lifetime plan | No — No lifetime plan. | No — No lifetime plan. | Yes — $1,500 once, or 3 payments of $500. |
| Free trial | Yes — 14 days, no card required. | No — No trial; 14-day money-back guarantee instead. | Yes — 14 days of Standard, no card required. |
| Refunds | Yes — 60-day money-back guarantee for first-time subscribers. | Yes — 14-day money-back guarantee on every upgrade. | Partly — Cancel anytime; cancellation stops renewals but the current period is not refunded. |
Where each one is ahead
Counted from the table above. A tracker is "ahead" on a point when its verdict ranks higher (Yes over Partly over No) and both verdicts are verified; unverified points are left out of the count.
Simply Safe Dividends over The Dividend Tracker- Portfolios on paid plans. Unlimited.
- Stock and ETF research pages. Analyst research, idea lists, model portfolios, 10-year financial charts and S&P credit ratings, behind the paywall.
- Free trial. 14 days, no card required.
The Dividend Tracker over Simply Safe Dividends- Free plan limits. 1 portfolio, 10 holdings, 1 watchlist.
- Community and public portfolios. Post, comment and follow on every plan; polls, snapshots and members' verified holdings on Premium.
- Public API. API access and webhooks on Pro.
- MCP server for AI assistants. MCP integration on Premium.
Dividend Wealth over both- Dividend forecasting. Each future payment is projected individually with a date, an amount, a growth assumption and a High, Medium or Low confidence tier, out to 10 years in the what-if projections. Built from each holding's own payment history, with the method published.
- Curated stock and ETF lists. 37 curated lists, free to read with live data: Dividend Aristocrats, Kings and Champions, monthly and weekly payers, covered-call, YieldMax and bitcoin-income ETFs, highest yield, undervalued, oversold, top rated and more.
- Markets and currencies. 26 exchanges across the US, Canada and Europe. Holdings stay in their trading currency; portfolios, income and transactions are shown in your choice of 10 display currencies (USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CHF, JPY, SEK, DKK, NOK) at daily FX rates.
- Lifetime plan. $1,500 once, or 3 payments of $500.
Which should you pick?
Pick Simply Safe Dividends if: You want someone else's written research and model portfolios and will pay for it; the tracker is secondary.
Pick The Dividend Tracker if: You want a community-driven tracker, UK or Canadian data, or an MCP connector so an AI assistant can read your portfolio.
Pick Dividend Wealth if: You invest for dividend income first and want every payment forecast with a date, an amount and a confidence tier, scored for safety and reconciled to your statements, with research, lists and comparisons you can read without an account.
- Simply Safe Dividends Annual membership
- The Dividend Tracker Premium
- Dividend Wealth Standard
- Dividend Wealth Lifetime
Frequently asked questions
Is Simply Safe Dividends cheaper than The Dividend Tracker?
The Dividend Tracker is cheaper on the entry plan: The Dividend Tracker Premium is $89.99 a year against $468 for Simply Safe Dividends Annual membership, a difference of $378.01 a year. Prices checked 2026-11-09.
Which has better dividend forecasting, Simply Safe Dividends or The Dividend Tracker?
They rate the same ("Partly"). Simply Safe Dividends: Income calendar and forecast of expected dividends; horizon and confidence rating not stated. The Dividend Tracker: Payout calendar and 'advanced dividend tracking' on Premium; forecast horizon and confidence rating not stated. Dividend Wealth: Each future payment is projected individually with a date, an amount, a growth assumption and a High, Medium or Low confidence tier, out to 10 years in the what-if projections. Built from each holding's own payment history, with the method published.
Does Simply Safe Dividends or The Dividend Tracker have a mobile app?
Simply Safe Dividends: Not verified. The Dividend Tracker: Not verified. Dividend Wealth: No native app yet. The web app works on phones.
Can I use Simply Safe Dividends or The Dividend Tracker without linking a brokerage?
Simply Safe Dividends: Manual portfolios, unlimited. The Dividend Tracker: Manual entry; CSV import on every plan. Dividend Wealth: Unlimited on paid plans (25 on Free). Enter the ticker, date and shares; the price auto-fills from the actual close on that date, and stock splits are applied automatically so statements reconcile.
Which covers more markets and currencies, Simply Safe Dividends or The Dividend Tracker?
Simply Safe Dividends: US-focused. The Dividend Tracker: US, Canada and UK stock data. Dividend Wealth: 26 exchanges across the US, Canada and Europe. Holdings stay in their trading currency; portfolios, income and transactions are shown in your choice of 10 display currencies (USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD, CHF, JPY, SEK, DKK, NOK) at daily FX rates.
Is there an alternative to Simply Safe Dividends and The Dividend Tracker for dividend investors?
Dividend Wealth, which publishes this page. It is ahead of both on dividend forecasting, curated stock and ETF lists, markets and currencies and lifetime plan. Standard is $99.99 a year, or $1,500 once for a lifetime licence, with a 14 days of standard, no card required. It has no mobile app yet. The full comparisons are at Dividend Wealth vs Simply Safe Dividends and Dividend Wealth vs The Dividend Tracker.
We make Dividend Wealth. Prices and limits were read from the pages below; self-reported user counts are quoted from each vendor and labelled. Anything we could not confirm is marked "Not verified". Spotted an error? Email support@dividend-wealth.com.
Simply Safe Dividends
- Simply Safe Dividends pricing (checked 2026-11-09)
- Simply Safe Dividends home page (checked 2026-11-09)
The Dividend Tracker
- The Dividend Tracker pricing (checked 2026-11-09)
- The Dividend Tracker home page (checked 2026-11-09)
Dividend Wealth
- Dividend Wealth pricing (checked 2026-11-09)
- Forecasted Dividends methodology (checked 2026-11-09)
- Brokerage linking guide (checked 2026-11-09)
- Adding transactions guide (checked 2026-11-09)
- Ticker coverage: 26 exchanges (checked 2026-11-09)
- Changelog, 25 Oct 2026: display currencies (checked 2026-11-09)
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