Comparison

Stock Plan vs Yield Pilot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Stock Plan

Manage your stock plan accounts with this app, offering features like viewing balances, tracking vesting, and selling shares. It provides interactive data visualizations and a curated view of your portfolio, accessible via secure login.

Highlights
  • View account balance and activity
  • Check award vesting schedules
  • Sell shares and exercise options
  • Interactive data visualizations
  • Secure login with Face ID/Touch ID
  • View grant agreements and documents
Features
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Designed exclusively for stock plan participants with share plans serviced by Morgan Stanley, the Morgan Stanley at Work app brings many features and key functionality of the desktop platform to your iOS devices. The app enables you to view your stock plan account balance and activity, check your award vesting schedules, sell your shares and exercise options Interactive data visualizations give you important account information at a glance. The Morgan Stanley at Work app will apply to your existing account preferences and settings and provide you with a curated view of your stock plan portfolio. With the Morgan Stanley at Work app for iOS, you can: • Log in to your stock plan account using Face ID or Touch ID • Get visualizations of your assets, including positions, balances and transaction history • View, accept, or decline grant agreements and documents • Sell shares and exercise options • Certify your Form W-9 or Form W-8BEN To access this app, you must be a stock plan participant with a share plan serviced by Morgan Stanley and have previously registered on atwork.morganstanley.com. If you are a Morgan Stanley Online customer looking to access your brokerage account, please download the separate Morgan Stanley Wealth Management app in the Apple App Store®. Apple®, the Apple logo, iPhone®, iPad®, and iPad Air® are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the US and other countries. Apple Pay™ and iPad mini™ are trademarks of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Subject to cell phone connectivity. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (“Morgan Stanley”), its affiliates and Morgan Stanley Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors do not provide tax or legal advice. Clients should consult their tax advisor for matters involving taxation and tax planning and their attorney for legal matters. © 2023 Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. Member SIPC. CRC 5729949

About

Yield Pilot

This app helps investors find income-generating opportunities by analyzing covered call options on stocks they already own. It provides ranked setups with income estimates, return projections, and assignment risk, along with clear explanations for each recommendation.

Highlights
  • Covered call opportunity analysis
  • Income and return projections
  • Assignment risk assessment
  • Personal portfolio tracking
  • Ranked strategy cards
  • Plain-English explanations
Features
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Yield Pilot analyzes covered call opportunities on stocks you already own — giving you ranked setups with real income estimates, annualized returns, assignment risk, and execution quality, all powered by live market data. Enter a ticker and share count. Yield Pilot scans the options chain, scores every setup, and surfaces the best covered call for your position — with a plain-English explanation of why. Save your positions to a personal Portfolio, then scan all of them at once to instantly see which one has the best opportunity right now. FEATURES - Daily featured opportunity — one high-quality setup every morning - Personal Portfolio with one-tap analysis for every saved position - Scan All Positions — rank your entire portfolio by opportunity quality - Custom watchlist and recent analysis history for quick access - Ranked strategy cards with income, yield, and return projections - Assignment risk and break-even analysis - Market environment context (trend, volatility, momentum) - "Why this trade" explanations for every recommendation - Copy trade details to share or save your analysis - Supports stocks and ETFs including AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, SCHD, JEPI Built for investors running the wheel strategy, income investors, and anyone selling calls against long positions. Not financial advice. For educational use only.

Screenshots

Stock Plan4 screens
Yield Pilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

Stock Plan and Yield Pilot both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Yield Pilot's written reviews are positive against 13% of Stock Plan's. Yield Pilot also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Stock Plan's advantage is ratings volume (7.7K vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Stock Plan against 4.5 for Yield Pilot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stock Plan has 7.7K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 13% of Stock Plan's written reviews are positive against 100% of Yield Pilot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stock Plan ships an update every 2 months, Yield Pilot weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stock Plan versus Yield Pilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStock PlanYield Pilot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (7.7K ratings)4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews12.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.7K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMorgan StanleyMatthew Smith

Customer experience

Stock Plan

All ratings7,721 ratings
Positive88.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews186 reviews
Positive12.9%
Neutral9.7%
Negative77.4%

Yield Pilot

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Stock Plan

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Blank screens and crashes
  • Inability to update contact information within the app
  • Incompatibility with latest iOS versions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Historical performance tracking
  • Detailed transaction history
  • Customizable notifications and alerts
  • Portfolio analytics and reporting

Yield Pilot

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stock Plan

No in-app purchases

None

Yield Pilot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stock Plan free?
Stock Plan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Yield Pilot free?
Yield Pilot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stock Plan or Yield Pilot?
Stock Plan and Yield Pilot are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7.7K and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Stock Plan or Yield Pilot have ads?
Neither Stock Plan nor Yield Pilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stock Plan or Yield Pilot?
Stock Plan ships an update every 2 months, and Yield Pilot weekly. Most recently, Stock Plan was updated on November 6, 2026 and Yield Pilot on October 31, 2026.

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