If you have been shopping for a value-investing tool in 2026 there is a good chance both Stock Unlock and invest-like are on your shortlist. They sit in the same price bracket (roughly $7 to $15 per month annually), they both target serious retail value investors rather than day traders, and they both publish more methodology than the average screener. The marketing-led posts in this category pick a winner up front and bend the analysis to defend it. This is not that post.
Disclosure up front: I built invest-like, so I have a structural conflict of interest. I will be honest about where Stock Unlock is genuinely better. The goal here is to help you pick the right tool for your specific workflow, not to win every comparison.
Quick comparison table
| Feature | invest-like | Stock Unlock |
|---|
| Starting price (annual) | ~$13/month (12 EUR) | ~$7.50/month |
| Starting price (monthly) | $15/month (15 EUR) | $14/month |
| Coverage universe | ~12,500 tickers | ~75,000 tickers (global) |
| AI verdicts with reasoning | Yes (Buffett Brain, 5-pillar) | No (data + ratios only) |
| Multi-investor framework consensus | Yes (7 frameworks: Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Fisher, Smith) | No (proprietary fair-value model) |
| Multi-investor debate UI | Yes (Boardroom: 4 investor AIs + skeptic) | No |
| RAG over Berkshire letters | Yes (Ask Buffett, 1977-2025) | No |
| Published 5-year backtest | Yes (track-record page) | No public backtest |
| DCF + reverse DCF calculator | No | Yes (very strong) |
| Custom screener with raw fields | Limited | Yes (deeper) |
| CSV export of every metric | No | Yes |
| Halal screening (AAOIFI Standard 21) | Yes | No |
| Multi-language UI | Yes (EN, DE, FR, ES, PT) | English-only |
| Free tier | Yes (3 AI verdicts/week + all rankings) | Yes (limited) |
| Mobile app | Yes (PWA + Capacitor wrapper in beta) | Web-first, no native app |
| Team age + funding | Solo founder, 2026 launch | Larger team, founded 2021 |
The short read of this table: invest-like wins on AI verdicts, framework consensus, and Berkshire-letter RAG. Stock Unlock wins on data export, DCF tooling, and the sheer breadth of global coverage. They are closer to complementary than competitive once you look past the surface positioning.
Where Stock Unlock genuinely wins
Stock Unlock has been around since 2021 and the team has poured real engineering into the data layer. A few places they are clearly ahead.
1. Coverage breadth
Stock Unlock covers roughly 75,000 tickers across all major exchanges, including a generous slice of small-caps and global markets. invest-like covers about 12,500 names, focused on the universe that actually passes a reasonable market-cap and instrument-type filter. If your strategy involves micro-caps, frontier markets, or you just like having every penny stock available, Stock Unlock has a much bigger universe.
2. DCF and reverse DCF calculators
Stock Unlock's DCF tooling is one of the best in the retail category. You can adjust growth rates, discount rates, and terminal multiples and watch the fair-value estimate move in real time. The reverse DCF (what growth rate does the current price imply?) is genuinely useful for sanity-checking expensive growth stocks.
invest-like does not ship a DCF calculator in v1. The Buffett Brain verdict references intrinsic-value reasoning but it is not a hands-on modelling tool. If DCF is core to your workflow, Stock Unlock is the better fit.
3. CSV export and raw data depth
Stock Unlock exposes nearly every metric on the platform as CSV. If you want to pull 5 years of operating-margin data on 200 names into Excel, it takes about three clicks. invest-like surfaces the data inside its verdict and ranking pages but does not ship a bulk-export feature at the same depth.
4. Custom screen builder
Stock Unlock has a deep custom screen builder where you compose your own filters on raw fields. Want stocks with ROIC above 15 percent, free cash flow yield above 5 percent, debt-to-equity below 0.5, and revenue growth above 7 percent? Stock Unlock lets you build that screen and save it. invest-like leans on its pre-built framework filters (Buffett, Graham, Lynch, etc.) rather than a fully custom builder.
5. Longer team track record
Stock Unlock has been live since 2021 with a team of multiple engineers, an active YouTube channel, and a clearly engaged user community. invest-like launched in 2026 with a solo founder. If you weight "this team has been around long enough to keep the lights on for 5 years" heavily, Stock Unlock has the obvious edge.
Where invest-like genuinely wins
1. AI verdicts grounded in published frameworks
invest-like's Buffett Brain produces a structured 5-pillar verdict for any stock: moat, durability of competitive advantage, management quality, financial strength, and valuation. Each pillar gets its own paragraph with the specific data point that triggered the scoring decision, so you can verify or disagree with each line rather than reading a black-box score.
Stock Unlock shows you the data and the proprietary fair-value model output. It does not write you a Buffett-style verdict with reasoning. If your workflow is "tell me what this stock is in plain English with the numbers behind it", invest-like is the better fit.
2. Multi-investor framework consensus
invest-like runs every stock against the published rules of seven legendary investors separately: Buffett, Graham, Fisher, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, and Terry Smith. Each framework returns a pass/partial/fail verdict with the underlying number. The composite "7-of-7 consensus" tier (stocks where all seven frameworks agree) is the single highest-conviction signal on the platform.
Stock Unlock has its own proprietary fair-value model. It does not break the analysis out by investor framework. If you want to know which kind of value investor would actually own this stock, invest-like answers that question and Stock Unlock does not.
3. The Boardroom: multi-investor debate
Open any stock on invest-like and you can launch the Boardroom, which simulates a live debate between four investor AIs (Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt) plus a dedicated skeptic role. Each persona argues for or against the stock from its actual framework rules, with citations. No competitor in the retail category ships this format.
4. Ask Buffett with Berkshire-letter RAG
invest-like indexes every Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter from 1977 to 2025, plus Charlie Munger's commentary. Ask Buffett a question about any stock and the answer cites the specific letter year and section. Real quotes from the actual source text, not a guess from training data. Stock Unlock has nothing like this.
5. Published 5-year backtest
invest-like publishes the open backtest at /track-record/. The 7-of-7 framework consensus cohort (47 stocks as of May 2026) returned a median +73.8 percentage points above the S&P 500 over a rolling 5-year window, with about 85 percent of the cohort beating the index. Methodology is documented, entry timestamps are server-side locked, and the underlying SQL is referenced on the page.
Stock Unlock does not publish a comparable backtest of its proprietary fair-value calls. (To be fair, very few stock-analysis platforms do.)
6. Halal Mode
invest-like applies the AAOIFI Standard 21 halal screen on every stock and layers it on top of the 7-framework consensus. If you are a Shariah-compliant investor wanting both the halal filter and the value-investing rigour, invest-like is currently the only retail tool that combines them. Stock Unlock does not have a halal filter.
7. Multi-language UI
invest-like ships in English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Stock Unlock is English-only. If you are reading research in your native language matters, invest-like covers more ground.
Who should pick Stock Unlock
You will probably get more out of Stock Unlock if:
- You are a hands-on modeller who wants DCF and reverse DCF tooling in the same window as the financials
- You need broad global coverage including micro-caps and frontier-market tickers
- You build your own custom screens on raw ratio filters and want CSV export of every metric
- You prefer raw data over AI-generated verdict text
- You weight team longevity (live since 2021) over feature breadth
- You are comfortable composing the value-investing analysis yourself and just want the cleanest data + DCF terminal at retail pricing
Who should pick invest-like
You will probably get more out of invest-like if:
- You want a structured Buffett-style verdict with reasoning, not just data
- You want to see how seven different legendary investors (Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Fisher, Smith) score the same stock side by side
- You want the multi-investor Boardroom debate (no other retail tool ships this)
- You want Berkshire-letter citations via Ask Buffett
- You care about a published 5-year backtest you can verify
- You need a halal-investing filter
- You read research in German, French, Spanish, or Portuguese
- You want a generous free tier (3 AI verdicts per week plus all sector and ranking pages, no credit card)
The honest case for using both
If your budget allows it, Stock Unlock plus invest-like is a strong combined stack:
- Use Stock Unlock for: deep custom screens, DCF modelling, raw data export, the actual financial statements at depth
- Use invest-like for: the structured Buffett-style verdict on the candidates Stock Unlock surfaces, the multi-investor consensus check, the Berkshire-letter context
Total cost: roughly $20-25 per month combined. Cheaper than a single Bloomberg seat by a factor of about 1,500.
How to verify this comparison yourself
The honest test: open the same stock on both tools side by side. Pick a name you already know well (your largest position, or a stock you decided not to buy and want to gut-check). Compare what each tool tells you, then ask which framing actually helps you make the decision.
Specifically:
- Open Apple (AAPL) on /buffett/aapl/ on invest-like. Read the 5-pillar Buffett Brain verdict, the per-framework consensus, then run the Boardroom on AAPL (free up to 3x per week).
- Open Apple on Stock Unlock. Look at the proprietary fair-value estimate, the DCF builder, and the raw data depth.
- Decide which framing actually helps you decide whether you would own Apple at the current price.
If you find Stock Unlock's data depth more useful than invest-like's reasoning depth, that is a legitimate preference. The argument I am making in this post is not "invest-like wins on every dimension". It is "invest-like wins on the AI verdict, multi-investor framework consensus, Berkshire-letter RAG, and published backtest dimensions; Stock Unlock wins on data export, DCF tooling, custom screening, and coverage breadth".
Common questions
Is Stock Unlock worth the $90 per year? If your workflow leans on DCF modelling and custom screens, yes. The DCF tooling alone is competitive with platforms charging 5x more. If you mostly want a verdict on the stocks you are considering, the value is less obvious because Stock Unlock will not write you that verdict.
Is invest-like worth the 12 EUR per month? If your workflow involves applying value-investing frameworks (Buffett, Graham, Lynch, Greenblatt, Munger, Fisher, Smith) and you want the verdict written for you with the underlying numbers shown, yes. The free tier gives you three AI verdicts per week and all the ranking pages, so you can evaluate the methodology without paying anything.
Which one has the bigger universe? Stock Unlock, by a wide margin (~75,000 vs ~12,500). invest-like focuses on quality coverage; Stock Unlock has roughly every tradeable instrument on most major exchanges.
Do either of them give actual investment advice? No. Both are educational tools that show data, frameworks, and verdicts. Neither replaces a personalised conversation with a financial adviser, and neither knows your tax situation, risk tolerance, or time horizon.
Can I trust the Stock Unlock fair-value number? It is the output of a proprietary DCF-style model with their default assumptions. Like all fair-value numbers in this category, it is only as good as the inputs and assumptions. Stock Unlock lets you adjust those inputs yourself, which is the right answer for serious users.
Can I trust invest-like's verdicts? The methodology is documented at /methodology/buffett-fit/, and the 5-year backtest is published at /track-record/. The honest answer is: trust the methodology, not the verdict in isolation. If the methodology makes sense to you and the backtest holds up, the verdicts are useful inputs into your own decision. They are not a recommendation.
Disclosure
This is an opinionated comparison written by the founder of invest-like. I have tried to be specific about both tools' strengths and to call out the places where Stock Unlock is genuinely better. If you think I have mischaracterised Stock Unlock anywhere, please email me at zaid@invest-like.com and I will update the post.
Stock Unlock is a product of Stock Unlock LLC, not affiliated with invest-like. Both are educational tools, not investment advisers. Past framework verdicts and past DCF outputs do not guarantee future stock returns. Do your own research.
Author: Zaid Ghazal, founder of invest-like, indie SaaS, Kiel, Germany.