A Screener.in alternative for the half it doesn't do
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, and PatternsRadar carries only the headline fundamentals as scan fields, point-in-time P/E, market cap, growth and shareholding, with no financial statements and no 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 want 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 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 PatternsRadar a replacement for Screener.in?
No, and this page says so deliberately. PatternsRadar 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 such as '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 thirty 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 I 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.