Quartr adds Transcripts, Calendar, Alerts, Watchlist, AI, AI Chat, AI Earnings Summary, Notes & Highlights, Shared Workspaces, Citations & Source Pinning, Webhooks, Newsletters, and Education coverage that Visible Alpha skips.
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Tool Comparison
Quartr vs Visible Alpha comparison
Compare pricing, supported platforms, categories, and standout capabilities to decide which tool fits your workflow.
Quick takeaways
Visible Alpha includes Analyst Price Targets, Analyst Recommendations, Data Visualizations, Stock Comparison, Sheets / Excel Add-ins, and Playbooks & Case Studies categories that Quartr omits.
Quartr has a free tier, while Visible Alpha requires a paid plan.
Quartr ships a mobile app. Visible Alpha is web/desktop only.
In depth comparison
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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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.
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Visible Alpha
visiblealpha.com
Granular, line‑item consensus from full sell‑side models (7,000+ companies; 250+ contributing brokers) with VA Actuals historicals, Excel add‑in, and enterprise delivery via API/Data Feed/Snowflake. Now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence and available as an add‑on within S&P Capital IQ Pro. Includes modules like Target Price & Ratings and a Line Item Monitor for alerts and revision analysis.
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Quick highlights
- Deep, line‑item consensus built from full working sell‑side models; 7,000+ companies, 250+ contributing brokers, 1M+ consensus line items; 170+ industries covered.
- VA Actuals: stitched historical fundamentals not always disclosed in filings, integrated with forward estimates for seamless time series.
- Excel Add‑in with real‑time updating of figures, pre‑built templates, and one‑click tear‑sheets/export from the web app.
- Target Price & Ratings: consensus rating distributions, target prices and valuation context with an ‘Open Entitlements’ contributor‑visibility framework.
- Company & Line Item Monitor: alerting on threshold changes, dispersion, trend and revision analysis at the metric level.
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Where they differ
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.
Visible Alpha
Distinct strengths include:
- Deep, line‑item consensus built from full working sell‑side models; 7,000+ companies, 250+ contributing brokers, 1M+ consensus line items; 170+ industries covered.
- VA Actuals: stitched historical fundamentals not always disclosed in filings, integrated with forward estimates for seamless time series.
- Excel Add‑in with real‑time updating of figures, pre‑built templates, and one‑click tear‑sheets/export from the web app.
- Target Price & Ratings: consensus rating distributions, target prices and valuation context with an ‘Open Entitlements’ contributor‑visibility framework.
Feature-by-feature breakdown
| Attribute | Quartr | Visible Alpha |
|---|---|---|
Categories Which research workflows each platform targets | Shared: Financials, Analyst Forecasts, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, Blogs Unique: Transcripts, Calendar, Alerts, Watchlist, AI, AI Chat, AI Earnings Summary, Notes & Highlights, Shared Workspaces, Citations & Source Pinning, Webhooks, Newsletters, Education | Shared: Financials, Analyst Forecasts, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, Blogs Unique: Analyst Price Targets, Analyst Recommendations, Data Visualizations, Stock Comparison, Sheets / Excel Add-ins, Playbooks & Case Studies |
Asset types Supported asset classes and universes | Stocks | Stocks |
Experience levels Who each product is built for | Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced | Intermediate, Advanced |
Platforms Where you can access the product | Web, Mobile, API | Web, Desktop, API |
Pricing High-level pricing models | Free, Subscription | 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 | Not yet |
Editor pick Featured inside curated shortlists | Highlighted | Standard listing |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which workflows do Quartr and Visible Alpha both support?
Both platforms cover Financials, Analyst Forecasts, Data APIs, APIs & SDKs, and Blogs workflows, so you can research those use cases in either tool before digging into the feature differences below.
Which tool offers a free plan?
Quartr offers a free entry point, while Visible Alpha requires a paid subscription. Review the pricing table to see how the paid tiers compare.
Which tool has mobile access?
Quartr ships a dedicated mobile experience, while Visible Alpha focuses on web or desktop access.
What unique strengths set the two platforms apart?
Quartr differentiates itself with 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., whereas Visible Alpha stands out for Deep, line‑item consensus built from full working sell‑side models; 7,000+ companies, 250+ contributing brokers, 1M+ consensus line items; 170+ industries covered., VA Actuals: stitched historical fundamentals not always disclosed in filings, integrated with forward estimates for seamless time series., and Excel Add‑in with real‑time updating of figures, pre‑built templates, and one‑click tear‑sheets/export from the web app..
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