Quartr is the closest drop-in replacement with overlapping coverage in Notes & Highlights while adding Financials and Transcripts coverage and Global coverage of investor relations material from over 13,000 public companies across 27 markets, including live and recorded earnings calls, real-time and historical transcripts, filings and reports (e.g., 10-K/10-Q), and high-resolution slide presentations that are fully searchable. and Free iOS and Android mobile app for live and recorded earnings calls, real-time searchable transcripts (including offline downloads), analyst consensus estimates, valuation multiples, and revenue segment splits, with no paywall for core qualitative research features. features (category overlap ~33%).
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★ A CURATED DIRECTORY OF FINANCIAL TOOLS ★
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Saturday, December 13, 2025
Free programmatic picks
Free Alternatives to Journalytic
Zero-cost replacements ranked by category overlap, pricing, and platform access. Use this list to test Journalytic before paying for another subscription.
View standard alternativesQuick takeaways
Every pick keeps a free tier; start with Quartr, Uncle Stock, and ValueSense to road-test Journalytic workflows without paying up front.
Need mobile access? Quartr bring phone-ready workflows that Journalytic lacks.
Round out your stack with new coverage areas like Financials, Transcripts, Analyst Forecasts, and Calendar.
Similarity score 449Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Notes & Highlights
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Quartr adds mobile access for on-the-go monitoring.
- Expands into Financials, Transcripts, and Analyst Forecasts coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Global coverage of investor relations material from over 13,000 public companies across 27 markets, including live and recorded earnings calls, real-time and historical transcripts, filings and reports (e.g., 10-K/10-Q), and high-resolution slide presentations that are fully searchable., Free iOS and Android mobile app for live and recorded earnings calls, real-time searchable transcripts (including offline downloads), analyst consensus estimates, valuation multiples, and revenue segment splits, with no paywall for core qualitative research features., and Personal watchlists and dashboards with real-time updates, tailored earnings calendars, keyword alerts, and notifications when companies, products, or competitors are mentioned or when earnings calls go live; calendars can sync to Outlook, Apple, Google, and other personal calendars..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Checklist and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Financials, Transcripts, Analyst Forecasts, and Calendar
Standout features: Global coverage of investor relations material from over 13,000 public companies across 27 markets, including live and recorded earnings calls, real-time and historical transcripts, filings and reports (e.g., 10-K/10-Q), and high-resolution slide presentations that are fully searchable., Free iOS and Android mobile app for live and recorded earnings calls, real-time searchable transcripts (including offline downloads), analyst consensus estimates, valuation multiples, and revenue segment splits, with no paywall for core qualitative research features., Personal watchlists and dashboards with real-time updates, tailored earnings calendars, keyword alerts, and notifications when companies, products, or competitors are mentioned or when earnings calls go live; calendars can sync to Outlook, Apple, Google, and other personal calendars., and Quartr Pro is a desktop/web research platform used by hedge funds, asset managers, equity research and IR teams to search across all transcripts, filings, reports and slides at once, track narrative shifts, and conduct qualitative public-market research with significantly reduced manual document work.
Similarity score 443Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Checklist
Assets: Stocks and Cryptos
Experience: Intermediate and Advanced
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Screeners, Backtesting, and Watchlist coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Screening with ~4k searchable metrics, full‑text business/industry search, market/country/sector filters, and index‑constituent filters., Backtesting with annual/half‑year/quarterly rebalance, look‑ahead avoidance (uses only data known at rebalance time), position sizing (equal/volatility/expectation‑weighted), early‑sell rules (profit targets, stop loss), and risk stats (Sharpe/Sortino)., and Transparent composite scores (e.g., Uncle Stock score, Quality/Value/Financial‑Health) plus Piotroski, ERP5, Benish M, Montier and more-formulas publicly documented..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Notes & Highlights and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Screeners, Backtesting, Watchlist, and Portfolio
Standout features: Screening with ~4k searchable metrics, full‑text business/industry search, market/country/sector filters, and index‑constituent filters., Backtesting with annual/half‑year/quarterly rebalance, look‑ahead avoidance (uses only data known at rebalance time), position sizing (equal/volatility/expectation‑weighted), early‑sell rules (profit targets, stop loss), and risk stats (Sharpe/Sortino)., Transparent composite scores (e.g., Uncle Stock score, Quality/Value/Financial‑Health) plus Piotroski, ERP5, Benish M, Montier and more-formulas publicly documented., and Benchmarking vs S&P 500/other indices; industry medians and long‑history fundamentals.
Similarity score 415Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Research Templates
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Stock Ideas, Screeners, and Data Visualizations coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Intrinsic value suite: DCF, Reverse DCF, Earnings Power Value (EPV), Peter Lynch fair value, and relative value calculators., AI-powered earnings overviews that summarize transcripts into structured highlights/visuals., and Global stock screener with 60+ presets, country & exchange filters, heatmap/scatter visualizations, and a backtesting comparison vs S&P 500..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Checklist and Notes & Highlights.
Adds coverage: Stock Ideas, Screeners, Data Visualizations, and Quant
Standout features: Intrinsic value suite: DCF, Reverse DCF, Earnings Power Value (EPV), Peter Lynch fair value, and relative value calculators., AI-powered earnings overviews that summarize transcripts into structured highlights/visuals., Global stock screener with 60+ presets, country & exchange filters, heatmap/scatter visualizations, and a backtesting comparison vs S&P 500., and Smart Money Analysis: institutional (13F) and insider transaction tracking, plus options sentiment indicators.
Similarity score 404Category overlap: 50%
Shared coverage
Notes & Highlights
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Forums coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Ticker-centric social feed for finance; 'Like Twitter. But not like Twitter at all.', Built for note-taking on companies and discovery of people by niche interests., and Lightweight composition with character limits to focus writing..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Checklist and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Forums
Standout features: Ticker-centric social feed for finance; 'Like Twitter. But not like Twitter at all.', Built for note-taking on companies and discovery of people by niche interests., Lightweight composition with character limits to focus writing., and Algorithmic feed based on tickers; community reporting/quality controls (per founder posts).
Similarity score 397Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Notes & Highlights
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Intermediate and Advanced
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Screeners, Stock Ideas, and Improved Filings coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Specialized web platform for working with SEC filings and earnings transcripts, marketed as making “financial research easier” for thousands of subscribers including major investment banks and buy-side firms., Covers all SEC filings submitted electronically via EDGAR from 1994 onward in their original, unmodified form, with new filings typically processed within a minute or two of being filed (and by end of day for confidential filings that later become public). Browsing filings does not require a subscription, but premium features are limited to active subscribers., and All-company screening tools let you instantly search across millions of documents for any term, using filters like industry, market cap, document type and Watch List, plus advanced operators (exact phrases, boolean logic, proximity / distance between words) and email alerts for new matches..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Checklist and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Screeners, Stock Ideas, Improved Filings, and Diff View
Standout features: Specialized web platform for working with SEC filings and earnings transcripts, marketed as making “financial research easier” for thousands of subscribers including major investment banks and buy-side firms., Covers all SEC filings submitted electronically via EDGAR from 1994 onward in their original, unmodified form, with new filings typically processed within a minute or two of being filed (and by end of day for confidential filings that later become public). Browsing filings does not require a subscription, but premium features are limited to active subscribers., All-company screening tools let you instantly search across millions of documents for any term, using filters like industry, market cap, document type and Watch List, plus advanced operators (exact phrases, boolean logic, proximity / distance between words) and email alerts for new matches., and Company-level Document Search shows every mention of a term across a single issuer’s filings and transcripts, with result categorization and an “intuitive workflow” for jumping straight from search hits to the underlying documents without manual Ctrl+F scans.
Similarity score 375Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Checklist
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Beginner and Intermediate
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Screeners, Data Visualizations, and Stock Comparison coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include Stock screener for discovery and filtering., Per‑stock dashboards with fundamentals (TTM), valuation, earnings, dividend pages., and Cross‑stock comparison tools: Data Comparison chart and Bubble chart..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Notes & Highlights and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Screeners, Data Visualizations, Stock Comparison, and Dividends
Standout features: Stock screener for discovery and filtering., Per‑stock dashboards with fundamentals (TTM), valuation, earnings, dividend pages., Cross‑stock comparison tools: Data Comparison chart and Bubble chart., and Price vs. Fair Value chart with configurable fair P/E multiple (your custom or auto‑calculated).
Similarity score 375Category overlap: 33%
Shared coverage
Checklist
Assets: Stocks
Experience: Beginner and Intermediate
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free
Why investors switch
- Expands into Stock Ideas, Financials, and Scores coverage beyond what Journalytic offers.
- Standout features include AI overview cards: plain‑English company summaries with positives/negatives and peer positioning on hover., Sector‑adjusted scorecards across value, profit, growth, and financial health with peer rankings., and Visual Stock Explorer: 30+ years of fundamentals, 200+ metrics, annual/quarterly toggles, downloadable charts..
- Pair it with Journalytic if you still need Notes & Highlights and Research Templates.
Adds coverage: Stock Ideas, Financials, Scores, and Data Visualizations
Standout features: AI overview cards: plain‑English company summaries with positives/negatives and peer positioning on hover., Sector‑adjusted scorecards across value, profit, growth, and financial health with peer rankings., Visual Stock Explorer: 30+ years of fundamentals, 200+ metrics, annual/quarterly toggles, downloadable charts., and Real‑time alerts for insider trades and analyst price‑target changes; customizable watchlists.
Coverage Snapshot
Where alternatives already align
Most shared categories across the top matches.
Checklist×3Notes & Highlights×3Research Templates×1
New angles introduced
Categories the alternatives add beyond Journalytic.
Financials+5Watchlist+5Screeners+4Transcripts+4Alerts+3Calendar+3Data Visualizations+3Education+3
Free Access & Pricing
Free options
All 7
7 vetted picks keep a permanent free tier so you can validate workflows before upgrading.
Mobile ready
1/7
1 alternatives bring native mobile access.
API availability
2/7
2 of the shortlisted tools expose API endpoints for automation-heavy workflows.
Quality checks
2 starred / 3 tested
2 tools are flagged as analyst picks; 3 have been hands-on tested.
Avg. coverage overlap
36%
Average percentage of categories shared with the base tool.
Free Alternatives FAQ
What are the best free alternatives to Journalytic?
Start with Quartr, Uncle Stock, and ValueSense to replicate Journalytic workflows without paying for a subscription.
Do these picks stay permanently free?
Yes. Each platform listed keeps a standing free tier with no credit card required -- though export limits or seat caps may apply if you scale usage.
Which Journalytic workflows stay covered on the free plan?
Expect solid overlap across Notes & Highlights, Checklist, and Research Templates, so core Journalytic workflows can move over without a paid upgrade.
What extra coverage do the free alternatives add?
Financials, Transcripts, Analyst Forecasts, Calendar, Alerts, Watchlist, AI, AI Chat, AI Earnings Summary, Shared Workspaces, Citations & Source Pinning, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, Webhooks, Blogs, Newsletters, Education, Screeners, Backtesting, Portfolio, Valuation Models, Scores, Stock Ideas, Data Visualizations, Quant, Money Flow, News, Insider Data, 13F, Forums, Improved Filings, Diff View, Institutional Data, IPO, Spin-offs, Delisted, Stock Comparison, Dividends, Analyst Price Targets, and AI Business Summary show up most often as bonus coverage beyond the base platform, giving you room to experiment before upgrading.
Where might I still rely on Journalytic?
Checklist, Research Templates, and Notes & Highlights remain strengths for Journalytic. Keep it handy for those tasks or plan for a paid upgrade if they matter.
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