Autopilot vs Samurai Search
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Autopilot
This app guides you through daily routines with audio prompts, ensuring consistency and ease. Discover pre-made flows or build your own for various activities like workouts, work sessions, or learning new skills.
- Guided step-by-step instructions
- Audio prompts
- Pre-loaded routine flows
- Custom routine builder
- Versatile use cases beyond mornings
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Autopilot makes your morning routine consistent and effortless using the magic of guided step-by-step instructions w/ audio prompts. Get the exact routine you want, every time. Autopilot tells you, out loud, exactly what to do so that you don't have to think about it. If you have been wanting to try something new to get your mornings on track, this is it. You can discover lots of great flows within the app that fit right into your morning or build something from scratch. The builder tool is super flexible and you might find uses outside of the morning like: * 5 minute workouts * Pomodoro Style Work Sessions * Creative writing * Practice a musical instrument * Learn a new language or skill Some examples of flows that come with Autopilot: - Fun and easy 1 minute workouts - Write a Haiku - Have a guided conversation with a friend - Brush your teeth like a pro Autopilot comes pre-loaded with dozens of useful flows. Just press play, follow the instructions, and you'll be well on your way to a more intentional life.
Samurai Search
Efficiently search text and PDF files across your device, iCloud, and external storage. Preview matched files or open them in other applications. Supports advanced search options like regular expressions.
- Search text and PDF files
- iCloud and external storage support
- File preview
- Regular expression support
- Customizable file types
- Saved search locations
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Search your iOS device or iCloud for text, source code, plain text files, and PDFs. Find matches inside files and preview results instantly, or open any matched file in your favourite editing or viewing app. Flexible search options: whole word, case sensitive (all file types), and regular expressions (for text files). Choose which files to include by selecting standard or custom text file types, or by searching filenames that match a pattern. Select where to search from On My iPad, iCloud Drive, or external file providers such as SMB and USB folders. When possible, the app retains saved search selections so you can quickly repeat the same searches later. If you search selected folders in iCloud Drive, matching iCloud files are synced to your device before searching, ensuring fast local results. Searching plain text files is extremely fast and memory efficient. PDF search speed depends on the document content and can be slow. Note also that PDF search may consume large amounts of memory which can cause Samurai Search to crash.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Samurai Search at none against Autopilot's shown. Samurai Search also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Autopilot's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Autopilot against 5.0 for Samurai Search. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 25 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Autopilot's written reviews are positive against 100% of Samurai Search's.
Autopilot ships an update every 6 days, Samurai Search every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Autopilot | Samurai Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 25 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Black Lotus Inc. | Michael Rourke |
Customer experience
Autopilot
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In-app purchases
Autopilot
No in-app purchases
Samurai Search
No in-app purchases









