What to use instead of QuickFS

The product

QuickFS was a fundamentals site for value investors, built and run by its founder, Ted Cooper. Its selling point was depth for little money. The home page captured by the Internet Archive on 16 February 2026 offered "long-term historical financial statements for over 35,000 U.S., Canadian, Australian, and European stocks" and the ability to "export 20-year financial statements to Excel". The app in the same capture had a free tier and a Premium plan, an Excel add-in, a financial data API and bulk downloads. Its billing code priced Premium at 35 dollars a month or 348 a year. For that money a reader got the long statement tables most sites sell at several times the price, and was allowed to take them away.

What happened. The dates below come from notices in that captured app and from the domain itself.

• 3 February 2026. A notice said QuickFS "will be closing down permanently in the coming days", that current Premium users would get a full refund of their last subscription payment, and recommended GuruFocus.com as an alternative.
• 4 February 2026. A second notice, signed by Ted Cooper as founder, gave the reason: "although I told customers that I pulled data directly from company filings, I was actually redistributing GuruFocus data without permission." When he asked GuruFocus for a licence, it could not grant his users the right to download the data, "API, Excel add-in, or simple Excel exports". He wrote that he might have licensed it from Morningstar, which he says supplies GuruFocus's statements, but that he was leaving the work for reasons of faith he sets out in the same notice.
• 28 February 2026. The last Internet Archive capture in which the app's search endpoint still returned results. No notice names the day the service stopped. By 26 April the API's address served an unrelated page.
• 14 June 2026. The domain showed "QuickFS is Relaunching! Check back in the coming weeks for an important update."
• 12 July 2026. The home page became "A note from Ted Cooper": "After much prayer, I have decided not to relaunch QuickFS." The note said he had introduced Benjamin at FastFS.org to a data vendor. The version served on 24 October 2026, last modified on 14 October, drops that sentence and says instead that "Benjamin at FastFS.org is building a QuickFS successor."

FastFS, from its own page, read on 24 October 2026, is a free viewer in beta, "modeled after QuickFS", run by a former QuickFS user named Ben. You bring your own GuruFocus API key, your browser fetches the data from GuruFocus, and FastFS lays it out as statements, ratios and charts with Excel and CSV export. It says it licenses and distributes nothing, and that it earns an affiliate commission on paid GuruFocus sign-ups made through it. The same page carries a banner: GuruFocus "recently changed their Data API", company financial data "is no longer included in new GuruFocus accounts", and "a freshly created GuruFocus key will not load data". GuruFocus's own Data API page, read the same day, still ticks Fundamentals in its Free, Builder and Commercial packages, so the two pages disagree; FastFS's banner is the account of the one product that has tried a new key. For a reader without an older GuruFocus plan, FastFS does not work today by its own account.

What to use instead

QuickFS did four jobs for one price. Nothing in this catalogue does all four at that price, so split them.

The same numbers. By the founder's account, what QuickFS showed was GuruFocus's data. GuruFocus sells it under its own name: 30 years of financials, an Excel add-in and 1,000-row downloads from 549 dollars a year for the US region, more for each other region, and a Data API sold separately. It also prints its own GF Value verdicts, which QuickFS did not. TIKR is the cheaper route to the same supplier: its Morningstar dataset, picked from a dropdown, is the one it lets Pro subscribers export to Excel, with 20 years in a table at 37.95 a month billed annually. Koyfin against TIKR explains why the export only works on that dataset.

Long statements on screen. Fiscal.ai gives ten years free and the full 20-plus years on Max. ROIC.ai shows fifteen years of statements and ratios at a quote URL with no account, which is the nearest thing here to QuickFS's free page. Stock Analysis shows five years free and sells 10 to 40 on Pro at 79 dollars a year. Stock Rover holds 20 years on its Ultimate plan and lets you screen over them, but only for US and Canadian stocks.

The Excel add-in. If your models pulled figures into cells, Wisesheets is the same idea as worksheet functions in Excel and Google Sheets, at 60 dollars a year, with up to 19 years in a statement dump. GuruFocus's add-in is capped at 2,000 queries on Premium. ROIC.ai has a Google Sheets add-on but no Excel build.

The API and bulk downloads. Financial Modeling Prep serves statements and ratios over a documented API, five years on the free key and 30-plus from Premium. ROIC.ai's Professional plan, at 89 a month, opens its full 40-plus years and bulk downloads. Both license personal use at those prices. Fundamentals into a spreadsheet walks through the routes.

What you give up

The bundle at that price. 348 dollars a year bought 20-year statements, unrestricted Excel exports, an add-in and an API across four regions. In this catalogue, the long history comes with GuruFocus at 549 dollars for one region, or with TIKR, Fiscal.ai or Stock Analysis with tighter export terms. The add-in and the API are separate purchases elsewhere. And by the founder's own notice, the data was never licensed for what QuickFS let you do with it, so the licensed versions above are what that bundle actually costs.

Exports without conditions. Licensed vendors restrict what leaves the page; by the founder's account, GuruFocus would not license QuickFS's downloads at all. TIKR exports only its Morningstar dataset. Stock Analysis's downloads come from a fallback provider because its default supplier bans them. Fiscal.ai exports only on Max, and only for the US, Canada, ADRs, the UK and the EU. Koyfin blocks financial statements from download on every plan, and Stock Unlock documents no export.

One plain layout. QuickFS put a company's whole history on one page in one format. FastFS copies that layout deliberately, but on GuruFocus's current terms it is open only to holders of older GuruFocus plans.

Migration notes

Your old spreadsheets are on someone else's definitions. If the founder's account is right, every QuickFS figure you exported was GuruFocus's processing of Morningstar statements. Extending those series with another supplier's numbers will not line up on every line. Revenue usually matches; free cash flow, EBITDA, share counts and anything adjusted often will not. GuruFocus, or TIKR's Morningstar dataset, is the closest continuation. Where research terminals get their data names the suppliers behind the others.

Workbooks and scripts have stopped. The add-in's functions and the API both called an address that did not answer on 24 October 2026, so a workbook built on them shows its last refreshed values or errors. Expect to rebuild the formulas against a new add-in's syntax rather than swap a key.

Check ticker formats. QuickFS addressed companies as ticker plus a country code, such as AAPL:US or BAC:PL. Wisesheets uses Yahoo Finance suffixes such as SAP.DE, and every API here has its own convention, so a list of tickers you kept will need translating.

Do not wait on FastFS without checking your GuruFocus plan. FastFS needs GuruFocus company financials on your key, and its own banner says new accounts no longer get them. If you have an older GuruFocus plan, it may be the most familiar layout available. If not, it is not an option today.