You’ve probably run a company through Screener.in by now. It focuses on the numbers: every company page lays out profit, sales, and debt alongside auto-generated Pros and Cons and key ratios, and the screener lets you filter thousands of companies using your own rules or ready-made screens built around well-known investing formulas.
That said, pure fundamentals aren’t what every trader or investor is chasing. Sometimes you want an AI layer and test a setup before you risk real money on it, and other times you just want a fast scanner and nothing else. There are days you want a complete research terminal with granular control over your options strategies, and days you want a simple, guided view of your portfolio instead of digging through balance sheets yourself. Screener.in does its own job well, but the four platforms below take a different approach, and one of them is likely a better fit for what you actually need on any given day.
Tradomate positions itself as an AI-first intelligence layer built specifically for traders, covering stock discovery and strategy testing in one place. Instead of asking you to build a scan from scratch, which you can also do if that is your style, they have ready-made public screens for the setups traders look for most often: crossovers, breakouts, reversals, top gainers and losers, and valuation-based filters. AI-assisted screener creation lets you describe what you are looking for in your natural language and have it built into a filter, so you are not stuck writing rules by hand. Its screener backtesting takes this a step further, letting you run a screen or setup against historical price data before you commit real capital to it, so you get a sense of how a strategy would have actually performed rather than relying on a hunch.
Apart from it you can layer in sector and index-level browsing, an events calendar to keep you ahead of market-moving dates. Detailed company pages let you plot candlestick patterns and show you dynamic support and resistance on your chosen timeframe, all with a click of a button. This makes it functions less like a plain scanner and more like a workspace built around a trader’s daily routine. You can also set custom alerts on your screen, watchlist and individual stocks so you don’t have to manually track the market.
Best suited for: Active traders hunting for fundamental and technical setups and breakout patterns, with news and backtesting without switching tabs.
Pricing: Freemium, with a paid tier at ₹249 per month.
Chartink is built around one thing: getting you from an idea to a filtered list of stocks as quickly as possible. Its scanner lets you search through thousands of stocks using more than 150,000 ready-made scans, or build your own without writing a single line of code. Custom charts come with no-code indicators through Xpress Indicator, and Atlas dashboards let you group multiple widgets, or mini-views, on a single screen. Magic filters let you type a request in plain English and have it turned into a working filter, and alerts reach you over SMS, email, desktop, or webhooks, so you’re notified the moment a stock matches your criteria.
Best suited for: Active Indian retail traders, especially those trading intraday and swing setups, who want a fast, no-frills scanner over a full research terminal.
Pricing: Freemium, with paid Premium plans at ₹780 per month, ₹2,220 per quarter, or ₹8,500 per year.
Tickertape is built for the investor who wants clarity. Its screener offers more than 200 filters spread across 13 categories, so you can slice the market by almost any rule you care about. If building filters from scratch feels like overkill, curated screens such as Cash Rich Smallcaps, powered by smallcase, give you a ready starting point.
Where Tickertape stands out is portfolio tracking. Link your demat account, and it will actively flag red flags in your holdings, warning signs that are easy to miss when you are tracking a portfolio manually. Its Market Mood Index gives a quick read on whether the broader market is fearful or greedy, and price and earnings forecasts with analyst ratings help you sanity-check a stock before you commit capital.
Best suited for: Everyday Indian retail investors.
Pricing: Freemium, with paid plans starting at ₹399 per month and going up to ₹2,999 per year.
Trendlyne is close to an all-in-one research terminal, the kind of platform where a DVM Score gives you a stock’s health at a glance, screeners and SWOT analysis do the digging for you, and dedicated tools like MarketMind AI, SmartOptions, Alpha Alerts, and StarFolio mean you rarely have to leave the platform. It also tracks what well-known investors are buying through its Superstar Portfolios and insider trade tracking, and rounds out its offering with portfolio analysis that includes tax and profit-or-loss reporting.
Best suited for: Indian retail investors across the spectrum, from beginners who want guided research to serious investors who want granular control.
Pricing: Freemium, with paid plans ranging from roughly ₹2,190 to ₹10,000 per year depending on the feature set.
There’s no single right answer here, only the right fit for how you trade and invest.
Screener.in still holds its own for anyone whose process starts and ends with the fundamentals. But raw numbers aren’t always what you may need on a given day. What you do with the list a screener hands you is where these platforms start to differ, and that’s where it’s worth spending a little time finding the one that matches how you actually invest.
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