Choose a broker

Your plan works with both brokers. Pick the one that fits where your money already is. You can switch any time from settings.

Key Takeaways

Amal Invest opens a brokerage account through Alpaca and trades for you inside the app
Amal x Trading 212 keeps your existing Trading 212 account and builds halal pies in it
Alpaca is the full experience: funds, individual stocks, automated selling of non-compliant holdings
Trading 212 is the lighter one: your filters, your pies, synced daily

The two options

After signing up on a paid plan you land on the broker chooser.

The Choose your broker screen with Amal Invest and Amal x Trading 212 rows — Top row: built-in Alpaca account. Bottom row: your own Trading 212 account.

	Amal Invest (Alpaca)	Amal x Trading 212
Account	New brokerage account with Alpaca, opened during onboarding	Your existing Trading 212 Invest or ISA account
Where trades happen	Inside Amal, on your behalf	Inside Trading 212, through pies Amal creates
Funds	Filtered versions of any of 100,000+ US funds, plus custom funds	Grow and Save pies built on your filters
Individual stocks	Yes	No, pies only
Non-compliant holding	Sold automatically after a review window	Removed from the pie on the next sync
Deposits	Bank transfer into Alpaca	Deposit into the pie in Trading 212
Availability	100+ countries, subject to Alpaca eligibility	Wherever Trading 212 operates

Which one to pick

Choose Amal Invest if you are starting fresh, want individual stocks, or want the app to handle selling when a holding turns non-compliant. Continue with Connect Alpaca.

Choose Amal x Trading 212 if you already invest through Trading 212, especially inside an ISA, and want to keep it that way. Continue with Connect Trading212.

Switching later

Switching changes where you land after sign-in. Nothing is sold or moved.

From the Alpaca app: the sidebar footer has Switch to Amal x 212. On a phone it is in the More sheet.
From the Trading 212 app: the dashboard tile v. Switch to Alpaca.
Either app: Settings → Account → Default broker picks the one that opens first.

The sidebar footer with the Switch to Amal x 212 button

Common problems

I do not see the broker chooser. It appears once your plan is active. Before that the app goes straight to Alpaca onboarding.

Can I run both at once? Yes. Both connections stay active. The default broker only decides which one opens first.