Iris
LiveA non-clinical companion on iMessage, answering at any hour
Iris is an AI agent you reach on iMessage. To start, text a number. It replies when asked and does not start conversations.
How it works
Support at three in the morning, in the thread people already use at three in the morning. Iris describes itself as a non-clinical companion rather than as therapy, which is the distinction that matters and the one this listing records rather than assesses.
The number is published and answers without an account.
Its policy states that providers are barred from retaining the data or training on it, and mentions session monitoring for safety, which is an honest thing to disclose for this kind of product. It also carries an unfilled placeholder where the effective date should be, so there is no date to record, and nothing about price is published.
At a glance
| Channels | |
|---|---|
| How you start | Text a number |
| Who starts it | Only when asked |
| Is there an app | No app Nothing to install at any point |
| Categories | Coaching |
| Can do | Persistent memory |
| Connects to | None named publicly |
| Pricing | Not published on the site. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | +1 646 204 6494 |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Not disclosed |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | Not looked up |
| Status | Live |
Checked 2026-09-09.
Data and policy
| Trains on your conversations | States it does not“data or using it to train their models” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | Not stated in the policy |
| Model providers named | None named |
| Jurisdiction | Not stated in the policy |
| Availability | Not stated |
Iris publishes 4 of the 9 things we check for on every listing, which puts it 3rd of 6 in coaching. They are listed there, and none of them is a judgement about quality.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-09-09, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who is behind it
| Company | Not published |
|---|---|
| Founders | Not published |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | Not published |
| Investors | Not published |
| Traction | Not published |
Checked 2026-09-09.
Every row above is read off Iris’s own public pages at irischat.ai. A row that reads not stated is a fact about the product rather than about our research.
If Iris is not the one
Building one instead? The infrastructure side is a separate half of this site: every provider that carries these messages, what they charge, and what the headline price leaves out. Start with How to build an iMessage agent in 2026.