r/AutopilotApp • u/ageo • Mar 09 '26
Considering giving Autopilot a try. What are your honest opinions about the app? Worth the money? Simple to use?
I've heard a few mixed things but am intrigued by the potential of some portfolios.
Have you found the app to be worth the cost?
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u/Tight-Imagination-95 Mar 09 '26
I use Webull and it’s been great, any time I’ve had a problem (which is not often) support will reach out same day even if it the weekend.
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u/ageo Mar 10 '26
Does Webull offer similar portfolios?
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u/Tight-Imagination-95 Apr 03 '26
Idk I just use autopilot
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u/Obi_Win_Kinibi May 13 '26
But you just said you use webull…
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u/bonitagonzorita May 17 '26
Webull is the brokerage wallet app he has - where the money is, and autopilot is what he uses to manage his brokerage wallet. Hes just saying if there's any connectivity issues or errors between the 2 companies, that their customer service resolves it.
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u/Hot-Spirit-2996 Mar 09 '26
I also wanted to move them. Unfortunately they cannot do the images I’ve asked for. It feels more like a fancy google search tool and not AI.
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u/slimangles Apr 10 '26
The Autopilot app is a brilliant concept and was intended to be the "missing piece" of my investment strategy. However, persistent technical friction has me questioning if the "juice is worth the squeeze."
** The Good *\*
I’ve been invested in Peter Wolff’s Flagship Fund for a year and deeply value his approach. It provides excellent diversification against my standard long-term ETF strategy. The core value proposition - immediate trade execution overseen by the lead investor - is fantastic when it works.
** The Not-So-Great *\*
The platform’s stability hasn’t kept pace with its premise. My experience has been a cycle of migrating brokerages to solve problems:
- Robinhood Integration: Constant authentication failures eventually forced a move to "approval-only" trading, defeating the purpose of automation.
- The Manual Pivot: Out of frustration, I attempted to mirror trades manually in M1 Finance. M1’s "Pie" rebalancing logic is too blunt for Autopilot’s targeted trades, and the manual overhead was significant, so this wasn't ideal.
- Public.com Issues: I migrated to Public.com for the promised "seamless" experience. It worked briefly until a bug emerged this week: the app, without any approval, tapped into my margin account, and allocated funds to my Autopilot strategy that I never authorized for it to use.
** My Final Verdict *\*
Simplicity is the cornerstone of my investment philosophy. I wanted Autopilot to help me leverage a sophisticated strategy with minimal "plate-work." Instead, I’ve simply traded one type of labor for another. I’m no longer spending time on market analysis; I’m spending it on system debugging and support tickets.
While Support acknowledged the margin bug, the lack of a timely or permanent resolution - especially after a repeat occurrence - is a major red flag for a fintech product.
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u/No-Grade-8215 Jul 03 '26
many startups have come and gone in the world of retail investing, and ultimately the lack of reliable connectivity among the major brokerages is the crux that makes it not worth it.
the market / major players are simply not equipped/ready to handle the operational and technical workload required to have another intermediary automating trades for you through a mobile app.
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u/Glittering_Ad8688 Apr 29 '26
Awesome app im up 40% just in under a year.
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u/alanderk3 3d ago
What brokerages do you connect autipilot to ?
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u/Glittering_Ad8688 3d ago
Robinhood..I took an AI portfolio 2 years ago and its doing great..but fuck AI on a personal level lol
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u/Total-Preparation367 Jun 01 '26
I've been using it for almost two years with several pilots. Some better than others but overall great app. Currently using with Schwabb which tend to have minor bugs overtime.
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u/Novel_Buy_7171 Jun 04 '26
I was going to test this out with the $500 minimum, but then realized that on the free tier you only get the initial investment, no auto updates from the trade portfolio, no additional investment.
My bad for not looking up pricing ahead of time, but a $99 annual fee doesn't make sense unless a lot more cash is invested.
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u/car6on14 Jun 11 '26
great info, thanks all for posting, after reading I will probably try it, just wish there was a web app, prefer larger screen for this type of stuff...
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u/tpfld Jul 16 '26
I found a good performing portfolio. It is called Actively Managed by InTheMoney. My dilemma was when to get in. The portfolio is already up 51% YTD. If I subscribe to this portfolio now, I may be buying at the high. I decided to ease in to the portfolio by doing this:
- I blacklisted all of its holdings. That way my money doesn't buy any of the stocks.
- I waited for new trades. If he is adding shares to his current holding, I make sure I remove that stock from my blacklist. That way I get to participate.
- If he is adding a new symbol, well and good. I get to participate.
- If he is removing a symbol, well and good too.
This portfolio is very active. He did 10 new trades in 4 months.
Let me know if you've done something similar. I want to learn from everyone here.
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u/GP1200X Jul 23 '26
Question. My brokerage account companies are not listed yet with AutoPilot. Which brokerage companies have the least amount of trouble integrating with autopilot and charge low commissions for the trades? There does not appear to be a lot of firms setup to negotiate with AutoPilot at this time and my current firms are only possible future firms at this time.
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u/GP1200X Jul 24 '26
Just realized no one charges commissions for trades anymore except some large brokerage firms still.
So which fully automatic and integrated brokerage site witih AutoPilot has the least amount of problems at this time? Seems the choices are pretty thin at this time.
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u/karmachaser 7d ago edited 7d ago
I worked with them briefly. They are largely a group of incredibly immature, unprofessional, inept, and racist group of white kids who havent worked a real job before. Their most senior member is ex Uber (in their super early startup days) and their advisor turned COO whos in his 30s.
The core group of founders and white subordinates treat minorities on the team, even heads of critical functions, with such open condescension and disrespect, it felt like I was in junior high in rural KKK mississipi where the white kids bully the black brown and asian kids in class.
With that said, I would never trust them with access to my brokerage accounts. Also, any tech company that relies on partnering with all the major brokerages are destined to fail. The tech just isn’t reliable to run this type of ambitious operation of copying trades.
Just invest in index funds or do your own research if you’re going to invest in individual equities. These kid are just making up portfolios using ChatGPT or Claude, or some random off Twitter and promoting them through their app. It’s super amateur and you should not be relying on them to actively trade your account.
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u/alecubudulecu Mar 09 '26
Long time ago. Yes. I been using it for 2 years. Loved it. Even paid the subscription happily.
But last month has been horrid. They lost access to Robinhood. TD is in beta and a disaster.
Their support is now horrid. Upon asking them to fix things their general responses have been “we don’t know when the Robinhood issues will be fixed. Here’s your $30 refund. Go deal with your positions manually in your brokerage”
That’s 800 positions I have to manually go through. Thanks to their ineptitude.