Guides · Updated 21 October 2026

Robinhood portfolio tracker: a read-only sign-in, and Robinhood beside everything else

Robinhood offers no API for your stock account, so every tracker that shows a Robinhood portfolio either reads a file or goes through an aggregator. Fortunest uses SnapTrade: you sign in at Robinhood's own site, approve read-only access, and your positions and transaction history come in — then sit in one dollar-denominated portfolio with your other brokers and crypto exchanges, with time-weighted and money-weighted returns, dividends, risk and an assistant that reads it all. Empower, Sharesight, Snowball, Stock Rover, Kubera and Ghostfolio each read Robinhood differently; the table below says how.

The short answer

• How it connects: a SnapTrade sign-in at Robinhood, approved there, read-only. It needs a free Fortunest account and is not part of the desktop app.
• What comes over: holdings first, then the transaction history SnapTrade collects — buys, sells, dividends and reinvestments, interest, fees, transfers and splits. Options are skipped.
• What you get: Robinhood beside Fidelity, Schwab, a CSV from another broker or a Coinbase key, in US dollars, with TWR and IRR against the S&P 500, a dividend projection, risk metrics and the AI assistant.
• Free, then Pro if you outgrow it. The free plan is the whole dashboard and the assistant for up to 3 accounts and 50 assets, no card. Pro is €6.99 a month or €69 a year, VAT added at checkout — unlimited accounts and assets, the Taxes tab and MCP access for external AI agents.

How to connect Robinhood

The steps follow how a SnapTrade connection works in the docs; Robinhood's row is in the Supported platforms table.

1. Make a free Fortunest account Open the app and sign up with an email or Google — no card. A broker link has to outlive a browser session, so SnapTrade brokers are greyed out for a guest; everything else in the app works without an account.
2. Pick Robinhood in the connect list Open ⚙ Settings → Data → Connect an account and type Robinhood. Its row carries the SnapTrade sign-in mark, and the app says before anything opens that you are about to sign in at Robinhood, not in Fortunest.
3. Sign in at Robinhood's own site and approve read-only access SnapTrade's portal opens with Connect with read-only access on its first screen, then hands you to Robinhood's own login and consent page. Your Robinhood password and two-factor code go to Robinhood only — never to Fortunest or SnapTrade — and the approval can be revoked from your Robinhood account at any time.
4. Holdings first, history behind them You come back to the dashboard and each account the approval covers becomes its own account in Fortunest, named after Robinhood and numbered (rename it from its row). Positions arrive first; the transaction history SnapTrade collects for the connection follows in the background and is imported when it lands.

How far back. SnapTrade's own documentation says a connection's activity record “often has years of history” and sometimes reaches the account's opening, refreshed once a day; how far it goes for a given Robinhood account is up to Robinhood's side of the integration. Fortunest takes whatever arrives and never invents the rest: when the history starts after you bought something, the holding is still there at the quantity Robinhood reports, and the gap is written as a flagged correction on the Portfolio tab instead of a made-up trade. Options are skipped — the app has no model for a contract — while dividends, reinvested dividends, interest, fees, transfers, splits and spin-offs come in as what they are.

What you get once Robinhood is in

Once Robinhood is in, it is one account among the others rather than a separate app to check:

• One view across brokers and exchanges. Add another broker the same way, upload the CSV of a broker that exports one, or connect Coinbase or Kraken directly with a read-only key — every position lands in one holdings table with the account it belongs to as a badge, and transfers between your own accounts are matched so nothing is counted twice.
• In dollars. US dollars are the default display currency; anything you hold in another currency is converted every day at that day's rate, and 29 other display currencies are a setting away.
• Returns that ignore your deposits. Time-weighted return (TWR) and money-weighted return (IRR) side by side, against the S&P 500, the Nasdaq 100, MSCI World, US bonds, gold, the dollar or Bitcoin — each benchmark fed the same deposits on the same dates, so the comparison is like for like.
• Dividends and risk. A monthly income chart with a forward projection per holding (Dividends & income), and volatility, Sharpe, Sortino, max drawdown, beta and correlations on the Risk card.
• An assistant that reads the portfolio. Ask what your Sharpe ratio means, which holdings dragged this year or what a company reported last quarter, and the assistant answers from your own numbers — on the free plan. On Pro the same portfolio opens to Claude Code, Codex or another MCP agent; the MCP guide has the setup.

Read-only, and what that means

Every connection in the app is read-only: Fortunest can see your positions and transaction history, and cannot place, change or cancel an order, and cannot move money. That is the sentence the connect panel shows, and it is built in twice — Fortunest asks SnapTrade for a read connection, and the app has no code that places a trade. Your Robinhood login never reaches Fortunest; what is stored is SnapTrade's per-user secret, encrypted at rest and never sent to your browser. Disconnecting a SnapTrade brokerage leaves the transactions it already brought in place, so you keep the history; revoking the approval at Robinhood ends the access itself. Where everything else lives is in the Privacy chapter.

What it does not do (yet)

• No Robinhood CSV. Robinhood's account activity report is not one of the 29 exports Fortunest reads, so a Robinhood account without the sign-in is a statement or screenshot read with AI — holdings as of that date, without the trades behind them — or positions added by hand.
• Options are not modelled. Option trades are skipped rather than imported as something they are not; the shares and cash around them come in.
• Not on the desktop app. SnapTrade is part of the web app only; the Mac and Windows app connects exchanges directly and reads CSV files.
• No US tax forms. The Taxes tab (Pro) pairs every sale with the lots it used and applies a holding-period test from one configurable rulebook whose defaults are Czech; it does not produce a Form 8949 or reconcile a 1099-B.
• No native phone app yet. The web app is built for phones and can be added to the Home Screen.

How other trackers read a Robinhood account

Each cell is what the vendor's own help or product pages say, checked on 21 October 2026. Not described means the page we read does not say. Prices and free tiers for all of them are in the US comparison.

Checked against the sources below on 21 October 2026. Empower's help center could only be read through search results that day, so its cell is the least certain one here — check it there. "Not described" is a statement about those pages on that date, not about the product.

How we compared

We read each vendor's own help, import and pricing pages rather than a review site; where a page says nothing about a row, the cell says so. We build Fortunest, so we are not neutral: the table is meant to be checkable rather than impartial, and our own limits are listed above.

Questions people ask

Sources

1. Fortunest — every supported platform, how a SnapTrade connection works, history gaps, the Portfolio chapter and the Privacy chapter.
2. Empower — Robinhood accounts updating to a new connection (21 October 2026).
3. Sharesight — Robinhood partner page (21 October 2026).
4. Snowball Analytics — importing from Robinhood, portfolio tracker and pricing (21 October 2026).
5. Stock Rover — connecting to brokerage houses (21 October 2026).
6. Kubera — security (21 October 2026).
7. Ghostfolio — project page on GitHub (21 October 2026).
8. Robinhood — finding your account documents; SnapTrade — Robinhood integration, Vanguard integration and account data (21 October 2026).

Signals, analyses and assistant answers in Fortunest are informational — not financial or tax advice.