Wisesheets and ScreenerHero solve different problems, and the choice between them is really a choice about workflow, not features. Wisesheets is a spreadsheet add-on: it pulls financial data into cells in Google Sheets or Excel via formulas, so you build your own screening logic yourself. ScreenerHero is a standalone screener: filters, sorting, and saved presets are built into the interface, with no formula-writing required. Neither is strictly "better" — the right choice depends on whether you want to build your own analysis in a spreadsheet or work inside a purpose-built screening tool.
Last updated: July 2026.
What Wisesheets does well
Wisesheets is genuinely useful for a specific workflow: investors who already think in spreadsheets and want to pull live fundamental data (P/E, margins, growth rates, historical financials) directly into their own custom models, without manually copying numbers from ten different sources.
Strengths:
- Full control over calculations. Because the data lands in cells, you can build any custom metric, weighting, or ranking formula your own analysis requires — not limited to whatever filters a screener's UI exposes.
- Familiar interface. No new tool to learn if you already live in Google Sheets or Excel for portfolio tracking and valuation models.
- Historical financial statement data. Useful for building multi-year trend analysis and custom valuation models directly alongside your existing spreadsheet work.
Where the spreadsheet-plugin model has real limits
No built-in filtering or ranking UI. Wisesheets pulls data into cells — it doesn't provide a filter-and-sort screener interface. Building even a basic multi-criteria screen (say, operating margin > 15% and Debt/EBITDA < 3x across a universe of hundreds of European stocks) requires writing and maintaining formulas yourself, refreshing the sheet, and re-sorting manually each time.
No live universe scanning. A dedicated screener continuously evaluates the full listed universe against your filters. A spreadsheet approach requires you to first pull in the list of tickers you want to analyse — it's built for analysing companies you've already identified, not for discovering new ones across an entire market.
European small-cap and alternative market coverage depends on the underlying data source. Wisesheets' European fundamental data quality mirrors whatever data providers it pulls from — coverage of Euronext Growth, First North, AIM, and other alternative markets varies and isn't the product's core focus.
Spreadsheet fragility. Formula-based sheets break when data source column structures change, and maintaining a working screening spreadsheet across dozens of columns and hundreds of rows becomes its own maintenance project over time.
Wisesheets vs. ScreenerHero: comparison table
| Feature | Wisesheets | ScreenerHero (free) | ScreenerHero ($29/mo) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interface | Spreadsheet formulas | Filter-and-sort UI | Filter-and-sort UI |
| Universe-wide screening | Manual (self-built) | ✓ (built-in) | ✓ (built-in) |
| Custom calculated metrics | ✓ (full spreadsheet flexibility) | Limited to available filters | Limited to available filters |
| EU small cap / alt markets | Depends on data source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Learning curve | Spreadsheet formulas | Low | Low |
| Saved screener presets | Manual (save the sheet) | — | ✓ |
| Account required | Yes (paid) | No | No |
| Price | Subscription (Sheets/Excel add-on) | Free | $29/mo |
Who should use Wisesheets
Investors who already build custom valuation models. If your process centres on a personal spreadsheet-based DCF, comp set, or scoring model, Wisesheets is a genuinely efficient way to keep that model populated with live data without manual entry.
Investors who need calculations a screener's filter set doesn't expose. Any custom, proprietary metric or weighting scheme that doesn't map to a standard screener filter is easier to build in a spreadsheet than to request as a feature from any screening tool.
Who should use a dedicated screener instead
Investors who want to scan an entire market for candidates. If the goal is "find stocks I haven't already identified that meet these criteria," a filter-and-sort screener covering the full listed universe is the more direct tool — a spreadsheet requires you to already have the ticker list before you can analyse it.
Investors who don't want to maintain formulas. A dedicated screener's filters are maintained by the platform; a spreadsheet's formulas are maintained by you, and break silently when something changes upstream.
Investors screening across many small European markets at once. Building formula-based coverage across dozens of small European exchanges in a spreadsheet is a substantial undertaking; a screener purpose-built for that coverage handles it natively.
Bottom line
Wisesheets and ScreenerHero aren't really competitors — they're tools for different stages of the research process. Wisesheets is strongest once you already know which companies you want to analyse and want to build a custom model around them. A dedicated screener is strongest for the earlier step: scanning an entire market — including the European small-cap and alternative-market universe that spreadsheet-based tools cover unevenly — to find candidates worth analysing in the first place. Many investors reasonably use both: a screener to discover candidates, a spreadsheet to build the deeper model once a candidate is identified.
Frequently asked questions
Is Wisesheets a stock screener?
Not in the traditional sense. Wisesheets is a spreadsheet add-on that pulls financial data into Google Sheets or Excel cells via formulas — you build your own filtering and ranking logic yourself, rather than using a built-in filter-and-sort interface the way a dedicated screener provides.
Can Wisesheets screen European small-cap stocks?
Its coverage of European small-cap and alternative-market data depends on the underlying data sources it connects to, and isn't the product's core focus. Dedicated screeners built specifically around European coverage, including alternative markets like Euronext Growth and First North, generally offer more complete and purpose-built coverage of that segment.
Should I use Wisesheets or a dedicated stock screener?
It depends on your workflow. If you want to scan an entire market to discover candidates you haven't already identified, a dedicated screener's filter-and-sort interface is the more direct tool. If you already know which companies you want to analyse and want to build a custom valuation model with live data, a spreadsheet tool like Wisesheets fits that specific step well. Many investors use both at different stages of their process.
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