PatternsRadar vs Screener.in
These tools answer different questions. Screener.in asks whether this is a good business: ten years of financials, a real query language over ratios, the research workflow Indian value investors default to. PatternsRadar asks whether this price is setting up and how often that setup has worked, from thirty years of daily bars with a replay 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 and 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; window, horizons, entry, stop and target all configurable | No |
| Delivery % screening | Scannable and backtestable | No |
| Company research (concalls, annual reports, peers) | No | Excellent, and the core workflow |
| Community screen library | 142 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, or 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, that users would rather write queries than click 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: close crossed above sma(200) within 3 bars. Neither can say the other's sentences. Someone fluent in one tends to feel at home in the other inside an evening, which is the most honest compatibility note I can offer.
The golden-cross screens nobody can test
Screener.in's most popular technical screens are DMA 50 crossing DMA 200. They show two things at once: how much its users want price screening, and where the platform stops. The screen runs, and nothing there can say what its matches historically did next. Here the same cross is a preset with a hit-rate panel, and the answer for the current market is one click away. Most people who arrive here from Screener.in end up stacking the two. Shortlist quality businesses on Screener.in, then watch their price behaviour here.
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, the concall and annual-report workflow, 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 a replay whose window, horizons, entry, stop, target and benchmark are all yours to set 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. That is enough for the golden-cross screens that 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, and there is no historical replay or hit-rate measurement of any screen, technical or fundamental. The replay here covers its scans including fundamental conditions, point-in-time, so `pe < 20` replays with the P/E the market actually knew on each day. Its fundamentals reach is far narrower than Screener.in's, though.
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.