PatternsRadar vs Chartink
The short version: different clocks, and two different halves of the same question. Chartink is a real-time screener with a decade of community scans, and its backtest lists who matched in the past; PatternsRadar is an end-of-day screener that measures what happened after the match. Which one you need follows from which question you are asking.
Choose Chartink if you trade intraday
This is not a close call. Chartink scans in real time during market hours; PatternsRadar is end-of-day by design — the data loads after each close, and nothing here fires while the market is open. If your triggers are 9:20 candles and momentum bursts, Chartink is the right tool and this site will not pretend otherwise.
Choose PatternsRadar if you want outcomes
The defining difference runs the other way for daily-bar traders. Both tools can replay a scan: Chartink's backtest has listed past matches since 2019, nine years deep on daily bars, and it stops at the list — symbols, dates, sectors, no prices, no returns, no win rate. Here the replay carries the other half, measuring what the matches did over the next 1, 5 and 20 days, on every scan, free and unmetered. Knowing who matched is a starting point; knowing what happened next is the thing you actually trade on.
The language is the quieter difference
Chartink expresses scans through form clauses; complex conditions become towers of offset comparisons. Sift states them the way you would say them: rsi(14) crossed above 30 within 3 bars. close has been above ema(21) for 10 bars. The practical effect is not elegance — it is that you can still read your own scan six months later, and that conditions about time and persistence become one line instead of an engineering project.
Data depth decides the tiebreaks
Thirty years of split-adjusted daily history means a 200-day average near the start of the dataset is as trustworthy as one computed yesterday, and backtests can reach across regimes. Delivery percentage — the NSE's ownership-transfer figure — is a first-class scannable field here rather than a display column, and the same is true of futures open interest, put-call ratios, and point-in-time P/E and promoter holding. "Price up with OI up, on heavy delivery, in a stock promoters actually hold" is one query here, and it backtests.
Common questions
Is PatternsRadar better than Chartink?
For real-time intraday scanning, no — Chartink does that and PatternsRadar deliberately does not, and its backtest reaches further back than the year replayed here. For measuring what a scan's matches did next — hit rate and average return rather than a list of triggers — PatternsRadar was built around exactly that gap, with event operators in a readable language, 30 years of split-adjusted data, and an API.
Can I use both?
Many traders should: Chartink for live-market triggers, PatternsRadar for the evening research loop — building scans, replaying them against history, and setting end-of-day alerts on the ones that survive testing.
Does PatternsRadar have Chartink's scan library?
Not its size. Chartink's community has published thousands of scans over a decade; PatternsRadar ships 115 curated ones covering the standard setups — breakouts, reversals, momentum, delivery, volatility and candlestick patterns — each with an explanation and a backtest panel, and each editable into your own variant.
Is PatternsRadar free?
Screening, the full language, and backtesting are free without an account. Paid plans from ₹400/month add end-of-day email alerts on the scans you save, webhooks, and higher API limits.
See the difference in one click
Open the volume shockers scan — the most-cloned scan on Chartink — and look at the hit-rate panel. That panel is the entire argument of this page, rendered as a feature. The full capability table has the row-by-row version.