Buyer's guide
Free Stock Scanner — No Credit Card
Tapeline is the only US scanner that names all six of its scoring factors and their weight ordering andleaves every losing day on a public scorecard — and you can read all of it without an account or a card: the daily Top 10, the whole record, a page per ticker, and the raw CSV and JSON behind them. Be clear-eyed about the record: it currently trails SPY, and we leave it up, losing days included, because a track record you can audit beats a marketing number you can't. Since 30 August 2026 you can run the scanner itself on a free account too — an email and a password, no card — showing the top ten scored rows of any scan you build. Below is an honest, feature-only look at what each scanner lets you reach with no card, and at where a card is still required, ours included.
At a glance — what you get with no card
Features only. We compare card-free access, methodology transparency, and track record — never claimed returns.
| Scanner | No-card access | Card needed | Factors named | Track record |
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| Tapeline | Daily Top 10, the full scorecard, every per-ticker page and the raw CSV/JSON record with no account at all — plus a free plan that runs the scanner on an email and a password | None (free tier) | Yes | Public scorecard |
| StockAnalysis.io | Free screener and fundamental tables with no login wall on the basics — nothing to sign up for | None | No score | None |
| Finviz (free) | Free web screener with no signup — 60+ raw filter fields, delayed data, ads | None (free tier) | No score | None |
| TradingView (free) | Free screener + charting; a free account is required, but no credit card | None (free tier) | No score | None |
| Trade Ideas | Paid only — free trials require a credit card up front | Card for trial | No score | None |
What Tapeline gives you with no account and no card
None of the following asks for an email, an account or a card. They come from the same scoring the signed-in product uses.
- The daily Top 10 → — the ten highest-scoring US tickers, with the one-sentence read on each.
- The public scorecard → — every top-10 pick recorded so far, back-checked against SPY the next session, losses kept and corrections dated (it trails SPY).
- The raw record as CSV / as JSON — the whole dataset, so you can re-run the arithmetic yourself instead of trusting ours.
- A page per scored ticker → — composite score, all six factor sub-scores and the plain-English read, open to everyone.
- The methodology itself → — all six factors named, and the order they are weighted in.
And if you would rather run your own scan than read ours, that takes an email and a password — still no card. The free plan shows you the top ten scored rows of whatever you build. Prices are delayed about 15 minutes, on every plan.
Tapeline
No-card access: Daily Top 10, the full scorecard, every per-ticker page and the raw CSV/JSON record with no account at all — plus a free plan that runs the scanner on an email and a password
The only US scanner here that names all six of its scoring factors and their weight ordering AND leaves every losing day on a public scorecard you can download. You can read all of it without an account: the daily Top 10 at /daily-picks, the whole record at /scorecard, a page per ticker, and the raw CSV and JSON behind them. Be clear-eyed about that record — it currently trails SPY, and we leave it up, losing days and dated corrections included, because an auditable record is the whole point. Since 30 August 2026 you can also run the scanner yourself for nothing: signing up takes an email and a password, no card, and the free plan is live rather than delayed — the top ten scored rows of any scan you build, one saved screen, a five-symbol watchlist and twelve ticker deep-pages a day. What a card buys is every matching row instead of the first ten, a second saved screen, alerts by email and web push, CSV export, the 200-symbol watchlist and SEC Form 4 insider filings. Adding one starts the 30-day Premium trial through Stripe Checkout — $0 charged that day, the exact first-charge date shown before you confirm, an email about 7 days before the charge, and one click to cancel.
StockAnalysis.io
No-card access: Free screener and fundamental tables with no login wall on the basics — nothing to sign up for
The cleanest genuinely-free experience — a usable screener and readable financial tables you can reach without an account or a card. It's a filter-based screener, not a scoring engine, and there's no first-party track record. If you just want to screen and read fundamentals with zero friction, it's excellent.
Finviz (free)
No-card access: Free web screener with no signup — 60+ raw filter fields, delayed data, ads
The free Finviz screener is usable without any signup — deep on raw filter fields so you build your own thesis from the data. No composite score, no published methodology, no track record. The paid Elite tier (which does take a card) removes ads and adds real-time data. For hand-built filtering, the free tier is genuinely useful.
TradingView (free)
No-card access: Free screener + charting; a free account is required, but no credit card
A free account (no card) unlocks a genuinely usable screener plus the best charting on the internet and a large community ideas feed. The screener is filter-based rather than a scoring engine, with no first-party record of how its screens have done. Best if charts are your primary workspace.
Trade Ideas
No-card access: Paid only — free trials require a credit card up front
Included here for honesty because people search for it: Trade Ideas has no genuinely free tier, and its trials ask for a card. It's a powerful intraday tool with AI-driven signals at premium pricing — but if a no-credit-card path is your requirement, it isn't one. Listed so the comparison is complete, not to knock the product.
How we compared them
Three feature criteria, no performance criteria: what you can reach with no credit card; whether the tool names the factors behind any score it shows; and whether it keeps a public track record. We list what fails the first test — Trade Ideas, and our own 30-day Premium trial — so the comparison is complete rather than cherry-picked.
The split worth understanding on Tapeline: reading costs nothing and asks for nothing — the picks, the record, the per-ticker pages and the raw CSV/JSON are open to anyone. Running the scanner yourself takes an account and nothing more than an email and a password, on a free plan that shows the top ten scored rows of any scan, with prices delayed about 15 minutes (the same delay as every paid plan). A cardis the third step, and it buys the rest: every matching row instead of the first ten, a second saved screen, alerts, CSV export, the 200-symbol watchlist and SEC Form 4 insider filings. Adding one starts the 30-day Premium trial — $0 that day, first charge on day 30, one click to cancel before then. The raw filter screeners don't produce a composite score, so the factors and scorecard columns simply don't apply to them — a difference in design, not a criticism.
Frequently asked
What's the best free stock scanner with no credit card?
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It depends what you want to do with no card. To READ a scanner's output and its track record without an account, Tapeline — the daily Top 10, the whole scorecard and the raw CSV/JSON record are open to everyone, and it is the only one here that names every factor behind its score. To RUN your own screens with no card: StockAnalysis.io (no account at all), the free Finviz screener (no account), TradingView (a free account, no card), and since 30 August 2026 Tapeline's own free plan, which asks for an email and a password and shows you the top ten scored rows of any scan. The one thing on this page that still takes a card is a trial — Trade Ideas', and Tapeline's 30-day Premium trial.
Which stock scanners genuinely need no signup?
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StockAnalysis.io and the free Finviz screener both let you screen without creating an account. TradingView needs a free account but never a card. Tapeline needs no account at all to read the daily Top 10, the scorecard, the per-ticker pages or the raw CSV/JSON record, and its free plan — an email and a password — runs the scanner. If your hard requirement is screening with nothing on file, all four qualify; if it is screening with no login whatsoever, StockAnalysis.io and Finviz are the two.
Does Tapeline still have a free tier?
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Yes — and since 30 August 2026 it is a logged-in one again, not only a published one. The record stays free and always will be: /daily-picks, /scorecard, a page per ticker, and the raw CSV/JSON export are open to anyone with no account and no card. On top of that, signing up takes an email and a password, and the account lands on a free plan that runs the scanner: the top ten scored rows of any scan (prices delayed about 15 minutes), one saved screen, a five-symbol watchlist, twelve ticker deep-pages a day. (For eight days in August a new account did have to add a card at first sign-in. That requirement was removed on 30 August 2026.) A card is what starts the 30-day Premium trial and turns on every matching row, a second saved screen, alerts, CSV export and SEC Form 4 insider filings — $0 charged that day, the first charge on day 30 at the plan price you pick, and one click cancels before then.
Does the no-card record still show real results?
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Yes, and it's important to be straight about it: each day's top-10 picks are logged to a public scorecard at /scorecard and back-checked against SPY the next session. Losing days stay, corrections to recorded values are dated (prices on 25 August 2026, scores capped on 15 June 2026), and the four sessions with no top 10 are listed. Right now that record trails SPY. We keep it public anyway — an honest, auditable record is the point, not a flattering headline. You can download the whole thing as CSV or JSON and check the arithmetic yourself, without an account. The other scanners on this page publish no first-party track record at all.
How did you decide which scanners qualify?
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On features only, never on returns: what you can reach with no credit card, whether the tool names the factors behind any score it shows, and whether it keeps a public track record. We list what still takes a card — Trade Ideas, and our own 30-day Premium trial — so the comparison is complete rather than cherry-picked. We never rank scanners by claimed performance; descriptive analytics only.
Keep exploring
- Browse every scored US ticker → — the full coverage directory.
- Best swing trade stocks right now → — today's top 30 by composite score.
- The public scorecard → — each recorded top-10 pick vs SPY, losses kept and corrections dated (it trails SPY).
Read the whole record — no account, no card.
The picks, the scorecard and the raw CSV/JSON stay open to everyone, with nothing to sign up for. Running your own scan takes an email and a password and nothing else — the free plan shows the top ten scored rows a scan. The 30-day Premium trial is the part that takes a card: $0 is charged that day, the first charge is on day 30, and one click cancels before then. Pro is $8.25/mo ($99.00/yr) with a 30-day money-back guarantee.