PatternsRadar vs Screener.in
The short version: these tools answer different questions. Screener.in asks 'is this a good business?' — ten years of financials, a real query language over ratios, the research workflow Indian value investors default to. PatternsRadar asks 'is this price setting up, and how often has that setup worked?' — thirty years of daily bars, technical vocabulary, a backtest on every scan. The realistic relationship is not either/or; it is quality there, timing here.
| Capability | PatternsRadar | Screener.in |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals screening (P/E, ROCE, growth, 10y financials) | P/E, market cap, growth & shareholding as point-in-time fields — no ROCE, statements or custom ratios | The best in India — custom ratios, historical qualifiers |
| Technical screening | 42 indicators, patterns, event conditions | Price, DMA 50/200, 52-week levels, volume — deliberately minimal |
| Text query language | Sift, over price/volume/delivery | Yes — over fundamentals; the closest analogue to Sift in India |
| Scan backtesting | Every scan, 250-session replay | No |
| Delivery % screening | Scannable and backtestable | No |
| Company research (concalls, annual reports, peers) | No | Excellent — the core workflow |
| Community screen library | 115 curated presets | 50,000+ public screens |
| Markets | NSE only | BSE + NSE |
| Alerts | EOD email on watched scans; webhooks on Max | Stock, screen and announcement-phrase alerts |
| Excel export | CSV from the results grid | Signature customizable export — premium |
| REST API + MCP for agents | Every plan, including Free | No |
| Pricing | Free to screen; ₹400–2,000/month | Free tier; Premium ₹4,999/year |
Screener.in pricing verified on screener.in/premium on 2026-08-16 (Free / Premium ₹4,999 per year, annual only). This page is maintained by PatternsRadar. Competitor capabilities as generally available at the time of writing; verify current features on their site.
The differences that matter
Two query languages that stop where the other starts
Both tools bet on the same idea — let users write queries instead of clicking dropdowns — and aimed it at different data. Screener.in's language speaks ratios and financial history ('net profit preceding year > 200'); Sift speaks bars and sequences ('crossed above the 200-day within 3 bars'). Neither can say the other's sentences. A user fluent in one tends to feel at home in the other within an evening, which is the most honest compatibility note we can offer.
The golden-cross screens nobody can test
Screener.in's most popular technical screens — DMA 50 crossing DMA 200 — demonstrate both the demand for price screening among its users and the platform's ceiling: the screen runs, but nothing there can say what its matches historically did next. On PatternsRadar the same cross is a preset with a hit-rate panel, and the answer for the current market is one click, not folklore.
Different halves of one workflow
The user story we actually see is not switching but stacking: shortlist quality businesses on Screener.in, then watch their price behaviour here — delivery building, bases forming, averages reclaiming — with each condition tested before it is trusted. Two spare, query-driven tools, one for the business and one for the stock.
Which should you use?
When Screener.in is the right choice
Use Screener.in for what it is unmatched at: fundamental screening with a real query language, ten years of financials, custom ratios, concall and annual-report workflow, and fifty thousand community screens. If your process starts from business quality, it is the right default — and its free tier is genuinely usable indefinitely.
When PatternsRadar is the right choice
Use PatternsRadar when the question turns technical: entries, accumulation, momentum, and whether a setup has historically been worth acting on. Delivery percentage, event conditions and the backtest replay have no counterpart on Screener.in — by its own design.
Common questions
Is Screener.in good for technical analysis?
By design, no. Its technical reach is current price, DMA 50/200, 52-week levels and volume — enough for golden-cross screens, which are popular there, but there are no indicators, no patterns, no delivery data, and no way to backtest any screen. It is a fundamentals tool, and an excellent one.
Does Screener.in have backtesting?
No. Screens run against current data only; there is no historical replay or hit-rate measurement of any screen, technical or fundamental. PatternsRadar's replay covers its scans — including fundamental conditions, point-in-time, so `pe < 20` replays with the P/E the market actually knew on each day — though its fundamentals reach is far narrower than Screener.in's.
Which is better for a long-term investor?
Screener.in, without hesitation — business quality is a fundamentals question and that is its entire specialty. PatternsRadar earns a place in a long-term workflow only at the edges: timing adds, watching delivery for accumulation in names you already researched there.