// monsa vs snowball analytics
Monsa and Snowball Analytics, where they overlap and where they do not.
A portfolio tracker with dividends at its centre. Monsa has no opinion about dividends unless you write one.
What Snowball Analytics is for
Tracking holdings, dividend calendars and income projections, with allocation breakdowns for people building an income portfolio.
Monsa holds the rules you wrote down and checks your holdings against them every night.
Snowball answers questions about what a portfolio pays and how it is distributed. Monsa answers whether each company in it still meets the requirements you set. If income is your strategy, the criteria that express it - payout, cover, growth - are exactly the kind of thing you would write into a Monsa portfolio and have checked every night.
Side by side
| What you want to do | Snowball Analytics | Monsa |
|---|---|---|
| Track dividends and project income | The centre of the product. | Not offered. |
| See allocation by sector, country, asset | Yes. | Portfolio weights only, and no advice about them. |
| Encode an income strategy as rules and enforce it | Not a concept it has. | Write the thresholds once; every holding is scored against them nightly. |
When you do not need Monsa
If you want a dividend calendar, Monsa does not have one and is not planning to be one.
Monsa is also not a broker, does not place trades, and never says what to buy or sell. The other comparisons say the same thing about different tools, and a spreadsheet gets further than most people expect.
Rules written down while you still remember why you bought something survive the moment the price argues with you.