Comparison
PortoAI vs Screener.in
Screener.in has 10+ years of raw data on every listed company. PortoAI connects to your broker and checks how a stock fits what you already hold.
Feature-by-feature comparison
PortoAIRaw Financial Data History
3-5 years of financials with AI-generated summaries that highlight trends and inflection points. You get the story behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves.
10+ years of quarterly and annual data for every listed company. The deepest historical dataset available for Indian equities, ideal for long-term trend analysis.
Portfolio Awareness
Syncs directly with your broker to analyse your actual holdings. Every insight is framed in the context of what you already own, including sector weights, overlap, and concentration.
Treats every stock as a standalone entity. There is no concept of your portfolio, so you cannot evaluate how a new position interacts with existing holdings.
AI Explanations
Translates raw financial data into plain-English narratives. Instead of just showing ROCE at 22%, PortoAI explains whether that is improving, how it compares to peers, and what it means for your thesis.
Presents raw numbers, ratios, and tables without interpretation. Powerful for analysts who already know what to look for, but offers no guidance for less experienced investors.
Broker Connection
One-click sync with Zerodha that keeps your portfolio up to date automatically. No manual data entry, no CSV uploads, no reconciliation headaches.
Supports manual portfolio tracking via Excel import. Requires you to keep the data updated yourself, which often leads to stale or incomplete portfolios.
Risk Checks & Red Flags
Proactive alerts for ASM/GSM surveillance, promoter pledge spikes, forensic accounting flags, and auditor qualifications. Designed to catch problems before they blow up in your portfolio.
Shows some financial health indicators but lacks proactive alerting. You need to know what to look for and manually check each stock for red flags.
Concentration Risk Monitoring
Tracks exposure at the stock, sector, and business-group level. Alerts you when any single position or sector crosses your risk threshold, before you make the trade.
Not available. Screener has no visibility into your portfolio composition, so it cannot flag concentration risk at any level.
Natural Language Queries
Ask questions in plain English like 'why did Infosys fall?' or 'compare TCS vs Wipro margins' and get structured, sourced answers. No syntax to learn, no formulas to memorize.
Supports powerful custom queries using a formula-based syntax. Extremely flexible for advanced users, but comes with a learning curve that can deter beginners.
Concall Summaries
AI-summarized management commentary from quarterly earnings calls, with key quotes highlighted. Understand what the management said and what it means without reading 40-page transcripts.
Not available. Screener focuses on quantitative financial data and does not cover earnings call transcripts or management commentary.
Behavioural Analysis
Tracks your personal trading patterns including win rate, average holding period, and overtrading frequency. Helps you identify and correct the behavioural biases that silently erode returns.
Not available. Screener has no access to your trade history, so it cannot analyse your behaviour or highlight patterns in your decision-making.
Multilingual Support
Ask questions and receive answers in English, Hindi, Tamil, or Telugu. Designed to make financial analysis accessible to investors across India, regardless of language preference.
English only. The interface, data labels, and all content are available exclusively in English.
Verdict
You probably need both
Screener.in is a legend in the Indian investing community, and deservedly so. It democratized access to financial data that was previously locked behind Bloomberg terminals and expensive databases. For value investors who love diving into 10 years of financial data, custom screens, and financial ratios, Screener remains the gold standard. Its custom query language lets you build sophisticated filters like "Sales growth > 15% AND ROCE > 20% AND Debt to equity < 0.5", something no other free tool in India does as well. If your investing process starts with quantitative screening, Screener is irreplaceable. But Screener treats every stock in isolation. When you look up HDFC Bank on Screener, you see its financials beautifully laid out. What you don't see is that HDFC Bank is already 18% of your portfolio, that you hold 4 other banking stocks making financial services 45% of your total allocation, and that adding more would push your concentration risk into dangerous territory. That portfolio context is exactly what PortoAI adds. Every analysis in PortoAI starts with what you own, your sector weights, your largest positions, your recent trading behaviour, and evaluates new information against that baseline. This is the difference between researching a stock in a vacuum and making an informed portfolio decision. The other gap is interpretation. Screener shows you the numbers, revenue growth, ROCE, debt-to-equity. PortoAI explains what those numbers mean in plain English, highlights what changed since last quarter, and pulls relevant quotes from the management concall. For investors who aren't chartered accountants or CFA holders, this is the difference between having data and having insight. When Infosys reports a dip in margins, Screener shows you the number. PortoAI tells you the management attributed it to a one-time visa cost spike, that analysts pushed back on the guidance, and that the consensus expects recovery next quarter. That narrative layer turns raw data into actionable understanding. The most productive workflow combines both tools. Use Screener's powerful custom screens to find interesting stocks, filter by growth, profitability, valuation, or any combination of 100+ ratios. Once you have a shortlist, run each stock through PortoAI to check fundamentals in context, read the AI-summarized concall, assess portfolio fit and concentration risk, and calculate your position size before buying. Screener answers "which stocks look good on paper?". PortoAI answers "should I actually buy this, given everything else I own?" Together, they cover the full journey from discovery to decision.
Best fit for PortoAI
Investors who want portfolio-aware analysis, not just standalone stock data. PortoAI is built for people who already own stocks and need to understand how every new decision affects their overall portfolio health, risk, and diversification.
What PortoAI doesn't cover
PortoAI is not a raw data query tool. We do not support complex quantitative screens like 'Sales > 500Cr AND PEG < 1 AND Promoter holding > 60%'. If you need to filter the entire universe of 5,000+ listed stocks by arbitrary financial criteria, Screener is the right tool for that job.
What Screener.in is missing
Screener doesn't know what you own. It cannot tell you if buying a stock increases your sector concentration risk, whether you are overexposed to a single business group, or how your recent trading behaviour is affecting your returns. Portfolio context is a blind spot.
See how PortoAI handles what Screener.in can't. Risk checks, position sizing, and portfolio-aware insights.
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“Spent two hours researching a stock last month. Asked PortoAI about Tata Motors this week, filings, peer comparison, risk flags, portfolio fit, all in under two minutes. Saved me roughly 6 hours of research this month alone.”
Priya Sharma
Long-term investor · ₹18L portfolio · Bengaluru
“Portfolio was deep red, I was about to double down on a losing Bank Nifty position. Got a revenge trade warning. Closed the app, went for a walk. That position dropped another 8% over the next week. PortoAI saved me roughly ₹12,400 on that single trade.”
Anil Kumar
F&O trader · 3 years active · Mumbai
“Used to keep Screener, TradingView, and Zerodha Kite open in three tabs. Now I just ask PortoAI. Fundamentals, technicals, risk check, position size. Cut my pre-trade research from 20 minutes to 3 minutes per stock.”
Ravi Mehta
Active investor · 47 stocks · Delhi
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