Brea alternatives

Brea is on iMessage, SMS, RCS, Telegram and Web, and to start you create an account. These 8 agents do a similar job. Each row says what the two have in common and the one thing that changes if you switch.

The 8 closest

Ordered by how much ground they share with Brea: same job first, then the same things it can do, then the same places you can reach it. Not a ranking of quality, which we have not measured.

Lindy
A work assistant you reach in Slack, iMessage or Gmail, built on the web first
SlackiMessageEmailWeb
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on SMS, RCS and Telegram
Arlo
Reads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes out
iMessageSMSText it, opens with hey Arlo+1 407 234 1884
Both do Email and Web researchNot on RCS, Telegram and Web
Air by WZRDbeta
A persistent Ubuntu computer per person, driven from an iMessage thread, in private beta at $50 a month
iMessageWebEmail
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on SMS, RCS and Telegram
Caddybeta
A work assistant in your texts, blue bubbles on iPhone and RCS on Android
iMessageRCSSMS
Both do Calendar and scheduling and Task managementNot on Telegram and Web
Instinct
A general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly that
iMessage
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on SMS, RCS, Telegram and Web
Notis
Executes across your existing tools from a text, on five channels
iMessageWhatsAppTelegramSlackEmail
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on SMS, RCS and Web
Orchid
Email triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processed
EmailText it
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on iMessage, SMS, RCS, Telegram and Web
Espa
An assistant for your to-dos, looped into iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp or email threads, with three published prices
iMessageSMSWhatsAppEmail
Both do Email and Calendar and schedulingNot on RCS, Telegram and Web

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