Main Street Data adds Screeners, Data Visualizations, Stock Comparison, and Interest Rates coverage that Quartr skips.
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Tool Comparison
Main Street Data vs Quartr comparison
Compare pricing, supported platforms, categories, and standout capabilities to decide which tool fits your workflow.
Quick takeaways
Quartr includes Alerts, AI, AI Chat, AI Earnings Summary, Notes & Highlights, Shared Workspaces, Citations & Source Pinning, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, Webhooks, Blogs, Newsletters, and Education categories that Main Street Data omits.
Quartr offers mobile access, which Main Street Data skips.
In depth comparison
Main Street Data
mainstreetdata.com
Visual-first stock research platform with two tiers: Starter (free) includes curated charts, 10 years of financials, basic charting, and an earnings calendar. The Plus plan ($468/year) adds a KPI library, 30+ years of financial data, advanced charting, company comparisons, call transcripts, analyst estimates, calendar sync, curated groups, and multiple watchlists.
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Quick highlights
- Visual dashboards and customizable curated charts for listed companies.
- Stock screener with simplified charting for fundamentals and performance.
- KPI library with 1,100+ company-specific operating metrics, over 10 years of history, and updates within hours of earnings releases (with retroactive adjustments for reporting changes).
- Standardized financials sourced from Finnhub (with Financial Modeling Prep referenced in pricing materials). KPI data comes directly from SEC filings and company reports.
- Earnings calendar included in the free plan; calendar sync available in Plus.
Community votes (overall)
Quartr
quartr.com
Qualitative public‑market research platform focused on investor relations material: live earnings calls, real‑time transcripts, filings, slide decks, analyst estimates, and AI chat across 13k+ public companies. Mobile app is free; Quartr Pro (desktop) and Quartr API are commercial products with dataset access, exports, and API/webhook usage gated by subscription contracts and plan‑level permissions.
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Platforms
Pricing
Quick highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- AI chat built on first‑party IR material lets users ask anything across public companies globally and get instant answers and event summaries, with every quote, metric and slide fully traceable back to the original document or audio source.
Community votes (overall)
Where they differ
Main Street Data
Distinct strengths include:
- Visual dashboards and customizable curated charts for listed companies.
- Stock screener with simplified charting for fundamentals and performance.
- KPI library with 1,100+ company-specific operating metrics, over 10 years of history, and updates within hours of earnings releases (with retroactive adjustments for reporting changes).
- Standardized financials sourced from Finnhub (with Financial Modeling Prep referenced in pricing materials). KPI data comes directly from SEC filings and company reports.
Quartr
Distinct strengths 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Feature-by-feature breakdown
| Attribute | Main Street Data | Quartr |
|---|---|---|
Categories Which research workflows each platform targets | Shared: Watchlist, Calendar, Financials, Transcripts, Analyst Forecasts Unique: Screeners, Data Visualizations, Stock Comparison, Interest Rates | Shared: Watchlist, Calendar, Financials, Transcripts, Analyst Forecasts Unique: Alerts, AI, AI Chat, AI Earnings Summary, Notes & Highlights, Shared Workspaces, Citations & Source Pinning, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, Webhooks, Blogs, Newsletters, Education |
Asset types Supported asset classes and universes | Stocks | Stocks |
Experience levels Who each product is built for | Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced | Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
Platforms Where you can access the product | Web | Web, Mobile, API |
Pricing High-level pricing models | Free, Subscription | Free, Subscription |
Key features Core capabilities called out by each vendor | Unique
| Unique
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Tested Verified by hands-on testing inside Find My Moat | Yes | Yes |
Editor pick Featured inside curated shortlists | Standard listing | Highlighted |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which workflows do Main Street Data and Quartr both support?
Both platforms cover Watchlist, Calendar, Financials, Transcripts, and Analyst Forecasts workflows, so you can research those use cases in either tool before digging into the feature differences below.
Do Main Street Data and Quartr require subscriptions?
Both Main Street Data and Quartr keep freemium access with optional paid upgrades, so you can trial each platform before committing.
Which tool has mobile access?
Quartr ships a dedicated mobile experience, while Main Street Data focuses on web or desktop access.
What unique strengths set the two platforms apart?
Main Street Data differentiates itself with Visual dashboards and customizable curated charts for listed companies., Stock screener with simplified charting for fundamentals and performance., and KPI library with 1,100+ company-specific operating metrics, over 10 years of history, and updates within hours of earnings releases (with retroactive adjustments for reporting changes)., whereas Quartr stands out for 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..
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