A Screener.in alternative — for the half it doesn't do
Say the honest thing first: if you are leaving Screener.in because you want better fundamentals screening, this is not the page — Screener.in is the best fundamentals tool in India. PatternsRadar carries only the headline fundamentals as scan fields (P/E, market cap, growth, shareholding, point-in-time), not financial statements or custom ratios. But Screener.in's query language stops at the price chart: a handful of DMA and 52-week fields, no indicators, no patterns, no delivery data, and no way to test whether its popular golden-cross screens have ever worked. If that ceiling is why you are looking, you are looking for a different kind of tool rather than a better version of the same one.
| 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 PatternsRadar a replacement for Screener.in?
No — and this page says so deliberately. PatternsRadar now carries P/E, market cap, growth and shareholding as point-in-time screening fields, but no ROCE, no ten-year financial statements, no custom ratios — it replaces nothing on Screener.in's home turf. What it covers is the half Screener.in deliberately leaves out: technical screening with indicators, patterns, delivery data and backtesting.
What can PatternsRadar do that Screener.in can't?
Screen on 42 technical indicators and 14 candlestick patterns, state time-based conditions ('has been above the 200-day for 20 sessions'), scan delivery percentage and futures open interest, mix a sector or P/E condition into a technical scan, run any scan against any past session across 30 years, and replay every scan for its historical hit rate — with fundamental conditions valued point-in-time, as the market knew them on each replayed day. None of these exist on Screener.in.
Should I use both?
That is the workflow we would honestly recommend: quality on Screener.in, timing and validation here. Both have usable free tiers, both are query-driven, and their vocabularies do not overlap — which is exactly why they stack cleanly.