Dividend Trackers & Dividend Research Tools

A dividend tracker answers three questions a general portfolio tracker answers badly: what will this portfolio pay, on which days, and is any of it about to stop. Two facts eliminate most of the listing before features do. The first is whether it can read your broker — most automatic links here are US-only, so outside the US it is CSV or typing. The second is what the forward income figure assumes, because almost every one of them is last quarter's dividend repeated.

• A free calendar on your phone — Stock Events, 15 stocks free.
• Many brokers, worldwide, on the web — Snowball Analytics.
• Trading 212, Interactive Brokers or a European broker's CSV — Digrin.
• German brokers and net-of-tax dividends — DivvyDiary.
• US holdings, iPhone, under $50 a year — DivTracker.
• US, Canadian and UK holdings with an MCP server or API — The Dividend Tracker.
• Withholding set per holding, DRIP tracked — Dividend Watch.
• One free broker link for a US portfolio — TrackYourDividends.
• An analyst's view of whether a US dividend will be cut — Simply Safe Dividends.
• Forecasts of UK and European payments nobody has declared yet — DividendMax.

Two jobs, and why they are priced differently

Tracking is your own income: a calendar of declared payments, a forward annual figure, yield on cost, and an alert when a holding raises or cuts. Paid plans here run from about $30 to $250 a year, or the euro equivalent, and most of what you pay for is plumbing — import, currency, reinvestment.

Research is a judgement about a payout before it happens. Simply Safe Dividends assigns an analyst's 0–100 score for the risk of a cut; DividendMax forecasts the dates and amount of each future payment. Both have a tracker attached, and both sell one plan — $468 and £179 a year — because the price is for people reading company reports. A safety score inside a tracker (Snowball Analytics, TrackYourDividends, Dividend Watch) is computed from financial ratios rather than assigned by an analyst, and is a feature of the tracker rather than the reason to buy it.

The dividend database is the product

Every tracker here prints the same calendar layout, so the difference is the data under it, and almost none of them say where it comes from. Snowball Analytics credits EODHD; DivvyDiary, Stock Events, DivTracker and The Dividend Tracker name no provider; Digrin says it uses "multiple data sources". Four things show whether it is any good:

Special dividends. A one-off payout repeated as if it were regular inflates a forward figure for a year. The Dividend Tracker states its rule — the last non-special dividend extrapolated — which is the honest version; most cards do not say.

Cuts and suspensions. DivTracker says it adjusts income when a company cuts or suspends; Digrin keeps a suspended-dividends list. A tracker that repeats the last payment keeps counting a cut dividend until the next declaration overwrites it.

Non-US payment schedules. Semi-annual and annual payers with uneven interim and final amounts are where extrapolation goes wrong. DivvyDiary shows only declared dividends, which for most companies means one to three months of visibility, and refuses to forecast individual payments beyond that. DividendMax exists for exactly this gap in UK and European shares.

Corporate actions. Digrin applies splits automatically but warns it may take a few weeks to notice one, and leaves spin-offs and ticker changes to you. One more check is cheap: on 7 October 2026 DivTracker's public ex-dividend calendar printed Comcast's $0.33 quarterly payout as a 132% yield. Look up three of your own holdings before you import three hundred.

Broker import versus typing it in

Automatic links are the expensive part and are usually bought from an aggregator. Snowball Analytics uses Yodlee and SnapTrade for about 1,000 brokers on paid plans; Stock Events sells SnapTrade sync as a separate $0.99-a-week add-on; TrackYourDividends uses Plaid and gives one linked account free. DivTracker and The Dividend Tracker link US brokerages only. Digrin talks to Trading 212 and Interactive Brokers directly, and DivvyDiary to five German brokers and apps.

Two catches survive every plan. A linked account does not bring its full history: Snowball's connections usually surface 90 to 200 days of transactions, and an Interactive Brokers Flex query reaches back 365, so past dividends come from statements. And a link is not instant — The Dividend Tracker says most brokers refresh once a day and some take up to 72 hours. If you hold at several brokers, how to track dividends across brokers covers the double-counting that follows.

What the forward income figure assumes

Nearly always: the current regular dividend, at its current frequency, for twelve months. The Dividend Tracker needs six past payments before it projects a holding at all, so a new ETF shows nothing. TrackYourDividends' help page says its calendar ignores growth and reinvestment, and its "5 Year Growth Rate" divides five-year growth by five rather than compounding it, which reads higher than a CAGR. Simply Safe Dividends' longer-range forecast adds historical dividend growth, and lets you switch reinvestment and contributions on. DividendMax is the only product here whose forward figure is a per-payment forecast rather than an extrapolation.

DRIP: reinvested dividends as shares

A reinvested dividend is a purchase, and a tracker has to record it as one or the share count drifts from your statement. Digrin sets DRIP per dividend or as a rule for all future ones — and its FAQ names DRIP as the usual reason a share count looks too high. Dividend Watch supports it on Pro only. A broker link that imports the reinvestment as a trade avoids the question; a hand-entered portfolio does not.

Currency and withholding

If you hold anything paid in another currency, check two settings. Display currency first: Snowball Analytics handles 25+ currencies, Dividend Watch 11, TrackYourDividends only US and Canadian dollars. Then withholding: a forward income figure is gross unless you give the tracker a rate. Stock Events and Dividend Watch take one per holding, DivvyDiary applies a German-style personal rate and allowance on its paid plan, and Digrin estimates dividends and gains by currency. Every one of these is an estimate for planning; none is a tax report. Billing currency is a separate question — Digrin and DivvyDiary bill in euro only, DividendMax in pounds.

Where free stops

Free plans here are capped by size and then by feature. Stock Events stops at 15 stocks, Snowball Analytics at 10 holdings, DivTracker at 5, The Dividend Tracker at 10 with CSV import only, Digrin at one portfolio and 30 transactions a month with a six-month calendar. Dividend Watch's free plan has no calendar or forecast at all, so its dividend product starts at $72 a year. Simply Safe Dividends has a 14-day trial and no free plan; DividendMax's free tier is declaration emails.

Where this category connects

A dividend tracker is not a tax tool and rarely a performance tool. If you need a realised-gains report your revenue authority accepts, or a time-weighted return across several brokers, that is portfolio trackers — Sharesight above all.