Compound vs Sharesight
The short answer: Sharesight is the specialist for share portfolios: broker imports, performance done properly, and ATO-ready capital gains and dividend reports. Compound tracks your whole position (property, super, shares, cash, crypto, business) and projects when you could reach financial independence. If shares are your whole story, Sharesight; if they are one part of it, Compound. Plenty of people run both.
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Side by side
| Compound | Sharesight | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | A$149/year or A$14.99/month; 7 free days, no card needed | Free; Starter A$19/mo, Investor A$29/mo, Expert A$49/mo (billed annually; more if billed monthly) |
| Free plan | No free plan | Yes: 1 portfolio, up to 10 holdings |
| Bank connections | No bank logins: manual-first, with bank-statement import (CSV, Excel, PDF) | Broker integrations for trades; no bank feeds |
| Shares & ETFs | Yes: ASX and US shares and ETFs at live prices, in A$ | Yes, its specialty: ASX and global shares, ETFs, managed funds |
| Crypto | Yes: exchange read-only keys or public wallet addresses | Yes |
| Trusts, companies, SMSF | Yes: personal, joint, family trust, company, SMSF | SMSF reporting |
| Financial-independence projection | Yes: your "Freedom Year", with Australian tax, CGT and super access modelled | No |
| Tax time | Yes: EOFY pack per entity for your accountant (not tax advice) | Yes: capital gains, taxable income (dividends and franking) and unrealised gains reports |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, iOS, Android |
| Made in | Australia (Sabea Tech Pty Ltd) | New Zealand (Sharesight Ltd), with an office in Sydney |
Where Sharesight is the better choice
- Share-portfolio depth: broker integrations import your trades, and performance is calculated properly, including dividends.
- Tax reporting on shares is its core product: capital gains, dividends with franking credits, and unrealised gains, in reports accountants know.
- A free plan for small portfolios.
Where Compound is the better choice
- Everything that is not a share: property with loans, offsets and usable equity, super, cash, crypto and a business, in one net worth.
- A projection: the year your investments could fund your life, with Australian tax and super preservation modelled. Sharesight reports on the past; Compound projects forward.
- Budgeting, borrowing power and scenarios ("what if I put another $2,000 a month into ETFs?").
- Trusts and companies as well as SMSFs, each on its own or combined.
Which should you pick?
If you are an active share investor and tax-time share reporting is the pain, Sharesight is the right tool.
If your shares are one part of a bigger picture and you want to know where you stand overall and when work could become optional, use Compound, alone or beside Sharesight.
Common questions
Can I use Compound and Sharesight together?
Yes, and many investors do: Sharesight for detailed share performance and tax reports, Compound for the whole position (property, super, cash, crypto, business) and the financial-independence projection. Compound tracks your shares at live prices too, so the totals agree.
Does Compound do capital gains reports like Sharesight?
Compound keeps cost bases and trades and produces an EOFY pack per entity for your accountant, alongside rent, property costs, dividends and interest. For share-only capital gains reporting with every method and broker import, Sharesight is the specialist.
Which is cheaper?
Sharesight has a free plan for up to 10 holdings; its paid plans start at A$19 a month billed annually. Compound is A$149 a year (about A$12.42 a month) or A$14.99 a month, covering every asset class rather than shares alone.
Sources for Sharesight, checked 7 October 2026: www.sharesight.com/au/pricing/, www.sharesight.com/about-us/, www.sharesight.com/blog/sharesight-app-guide/. Compound’s own details: pricing, features.
See your own numbers in Compound
Property, super, shares, cash, crypto and business in one view, and the year your investments could fund your life. 7 free days, no card needed.
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