Most AI trading apps do one of three things: analyse charts, place trades, or sell a subscription to a signal feed. They carry very different risks, and the marketing rarely makes clear which one you are buying. These are the criteria that matter, in the order they matter.
The first filter removes most of the market: does the output explain itself? A verdict with no reasoning cannot be checked, cannot be argued with and teaches you nothing, so following it is pure trust in an anonymous model. An app that states the structure it found, the momentum and volatility conditions, the active levels and the invalidation point can be audited against your own chart in a minute.
The second filter is claims. Any app publishing a win rate, an average return or a testimonial with a profit figure is telling you something it cannot verify. Honest tools describe what they analyse and stay silent on outcomes.
Market coverage should match what you trade, and specialisation is worth more than a long list: currencies trade in sessions, crypto never closes, equities gap overnight, futures carry contract leverage, and options are priced by time and volatility as much as by direction. One general model handling all of that produces confident text and shallow analysis.
Check what the app legally is. A tool that only analyses is software. A tool that places trades or holds your money is a regulated activity, and if it does that without the licence to do it, your money is the thing at risk. Safabot analyses only — it is not a broker, fund or exchange, holds no client money and places no trades.
Use the free tier on charts you already have an opinion about. Where the model agrees with you, note whether it found evidence you missed. Where it disagrees, find out which of you is reading the level wrong. Twenty charts is enough to know whether the reasoning is real, and no amount of use will establish a win rate.
Also weigh what surrounds the analysis: a free education library, working calculators and an active trader community all matter more over a year than a slightly better one-off read, because they are the parts that change how you trade.
A published win rate, guaranteed returns, or profit testimonials. None of those can be independently verified, and all three are common in apps that are primarily marketing.
Executing trades or holding funds is a regulated activity in most jurisdictions. If an app does either without a licence, treat it as a serious risk regardless of how good the analysis looks.
Many, including Safabot, run core analysis on a free credit allowance, with paid plans raising the limit and unlocking more capable models. Safabot's education library and calculators are free with no account.