PatternsRadar vs Chartink
Different clocks, and two 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, across a longer daily history than Chartink's backtest reaches, and you set the entry, the stop, the target and the benchmark. 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. Their own support says so. The replay here carries the other half, and carries it further back, over every session since 1995, with up to four forward horizons of your choosing, entry at the close or the next open, an optional stop and target with each exit labelled, and the excess over an NSE index. It exports as CSV: equity curve, monthly breakdown, full trade list. 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, and 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 that you can still read your own scan six months later, and that a condition about time and persistence takes 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 that a replay can span 2008, 2013, 2020 and 2024 rather than one bull run. Delivery percentage, the NSE's ownership-transfer figure, is a first-class scannable field here rather than a display column. So are 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 Chartink's backtest covers intraday timeframes there is no data for here. For measuring what a scan's matches did next, PatternsRadar was built around exactly that gap: win rate, median move, payoff and index-excess rather than a list of triggers, over a replay window reaching thirty years against Chartink's nine on daily bars, with event operators in a readable language 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, setting end-of-day alerts on the ones that survive testing. I still open Chartink for the community library, which is a decade of user contributions and always will be larger than anything here.
Does PatternsRadar have Chartink's scan library?
Not its size. Chartink's community has published thousands of scans over a decade. PatternsRadar ships 142 curated ones covering the standard setups: breakouts, reversals, momentum, delivery, volatility, derivatives, fundamentals, candlestick patterns. Each has its own indexable page with an explanation and a replay panel, and each is editable into your own variant.
Is PatternsRadar free?
Screening, the full language, and the replay at full depth are free without an account. No tier withholds a longer window, an extra horizon or the stop-and-target simulation. Paid plans from ₹400/month add end-of-day email alerts on the scans you save, webhooks, higher API limits and a larger daily replay allowance.
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.