Stock Screener - Stock Screens

Review by eFreeware

If you pick stocks yourself and want the filtering work done in one place, Stock Screener is built for you. It is a free Android app in the Finance category from the developer Stock Screener APP, and it gathers custom screens, trading signals, penny stock scans, news and a portfolio tracker into a single tool. The pitch is aimed at people who already follow the market and want a quicker way to narrow a long list of tickers down to a short one.

What appeals to me most is the range of filters on offer. The developer describes screens built around both technical analysis and fundamental analysis, so you can approach the market from either direction depending on how you invest. The app has been downloaded more than 10,000 times and holds a 4.3 average from 194 ratings, which suggests a modest but reasonably satisfied audience.

It arrived on June 28, 2024, and the most recent update, in August 2026, was limited to bug fixes and a target API level change. That tells you the app is being kept current rather than rebuilt. Below I go through what each part does, what it asks of you and who I think will get the most from it.

Building screens around your own criteria

The core of the app is the custom screener. You choose the criteria yourself, drawing on technical indicators and company fundamentals, so the screen matches your own approach instead of a preset list picked by someone else. The developer also provides what it calls descriptive screeners, which filter stocks by price, industry, sector, market cap, volume and dividend. Those are the familiar categories most self-directed investors reach for first, and having them ready-made saves you from building everything from scratch.

The penny stock screener is a separate, more focused tool. It tracks penny stocks with the highest daily volume, which is the kind of scan people run when they want to see where attention is concentrated rather than where price has already moved. There is also a market change screener for checking movements before the opening bell, so you can see what shifted overnight before the session starts.

For chart work, the app includes advanced charts with technical indicators such as MACD, RSI and CCI. These are standard tools, and their presence here means you can check a signal against the chart without leaving the app. I would treat the screeners as the starting point and the charts as the place to confirm what a scan turns up.

Signals, news and the portfolio tracker

The feature the developer leads with is the AI-powered stock signal. It watches for trading signals, including swing and day trades, to help you spot an opportunity sooner. That is a bold claim, and it is worth remembering that a signal is a prompt to look closer, not a conclusion. I would use it the way I would use any alert: as a reason to open the chart and check the setup.

Around that sit the supporting features. There is financial news covering market moves and ticker prices, stock alerts, stock tracking, and what the developer calls stock advice. A portfolio tracker lets you build and manage your holdings in the same app, which is useful if you would rather not keep your watchlist in one place and your positions in another. The result is a fairly complete loop: find candidates, check the chart, follow the news and record what you own.

The app is free to download and shows no ads, though it does offer in-app purchases. The absence of ads in a finance app of this kind is a point in its favor, since it keeps the screening screens clear of interruptions.

What the app asks of you

The app's screens and filters apply to stocks alone, not to futures or mutual funds. If your portfolio is mostly funds, the app will not have much to say about it. That is a narrow focus, but it is a deliberate one, and it keeps the screening tools pointed at a single asset class.

The other thing to know is that the app is not associated with Finviz, Benzinga, Tradingview, Investopedia, Webull or Robinhood. The developer states this plainly, which is worth noting if you were expecting a companion to one of those services. It stands on its own as a screening and tracking tool rather than plugging into a brokerage.

The cost picture is simple: the download is free, there are no ads, and there are in-app purchases. The app is rated for Everyone, so there is no age barrier to installing it, though the subject matter is obviously aimed at adults managing their own money.

Getting useful results from the screeners

The most practical way to approach a tool like this is to start narrow. Pick one or two criteria that match how you actually invest, whether that is sector and market cap or dividend and volume, and see what the screen returns. Once you have a list, the advanced charts give you the technical indicators to check whether the setup holds up. Building a screen with ten filters at once tends to produce either nothing or a list you cannot interpret.

The penny stock screener and the market change screener are best treated as separate routines. The first is for scanning high-volume small caps, the second for getting a read on the market before the open. Running them alongside your main screen gives you a broader picture without overloading a single query. If you track a portfolio in the app, the news and alerts feed naturally into the same routine.

I would also suggest using the app regularly rather than occasionally. Screeners reward repetition: the more familiar you are with what a given set of filters returns, the faster you can spot when something is out of the ordinary. The developer invites feedback on bugs and feature suggestions through the app, which is a reasonable sign for a tool that is still being refined.

Where the app is likely to fit

This is not a brokerage and it does not pretend to be. It is a research and organization tool for people who already make their own decisions. If you want someone else to tell you what to buy, the app will not do that, and the signals it produces are inputs to your own judgment rather than instructions. The app focuses on analyzing market trends to help you make informed decisions.

The audience I would expect to get the most from it is the self-directed investor who keeps a watchlist, follows a handful of sectors and wants screening, charts, news and portfolio tracking in one place. Beginners can use it too, since the descriptive filters are straightforward, but the technical indicators and trading signals assume some familiarity with how markets move. The app is free, ad-free and rated for Everyone, so trying it costs you nothing but time.

One thing to keep in mind is that the market itself is the hard part. No screener, however it is powered, removes the need to understand what you are looking at. The value here is in narrowing the field and keeping your research organized, and on that basis the feature set looks complete for a free app.

A screening toolkit for self-directed investors

Stock Screener is a free, ad-free Android app that puts custom stock screens, technical and fundamental filters, penny stock scans, market change checks, charts with indicators like MACD, RSI and CCI, financial news, alerts and a portfolio tracker in one place. It is focused on stocks alone, and the developer makes clear it does not cover mutual funds or futures. It is not tied to any brokerage or third-party research service.

I would recommend it to self-directed investors who want a single app for finding candidates and keeping track of what they hold. The custom screeners and the descriptive filters are the strongest part of the offer, and the portfolio tracker gives the research somewhere to live. The AI-powered signals are the headline, but I would treat them as prompts to investigate rather than answers.

If your investing is mostly in funds, or you want a tool that executes trades, this is not built for that. For everyone else, the combination of a free download, no ads and a broad set of screening tools makes it easy to try.

What's new in version 2.4

Fix bugs Update target API level