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Life-admin triage where relationship nudges are a side effect, not the pitch

Pally is an AI agent you reach on iMessage, RCS and Telegram. To start, tap one link. It messages you first rather than waiting to be asked.

iMessageRCSTelegram
What does Pally cost?
Free to start, with paid tiers. below
Does Pally train on my messages?
Qualified statement. the page
Is Pally safe?
Holds a signed-in session for connected accounts; no security contact published. the page
Who is behind Pally?
Pally Technologies, Inc.; funded. below
What does Pally do with my messages?
Carried by Photon; it says what happens to people who never signed up. the page
Pally alternatives
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How Pally works

Pally handles life-admin triage, including reply reminders and birthday nudges.

What makes it worth listing separately from the relationship-reminder category is framing: the social nudges arrive as a side effect of completing tasks rather than being the reason the product exists. That distinction matters commercially, because products sold primarily as relationship reminders have a long history of weak retention. Raised a $5.2M seed at a $30M valuation.

Its own pricing page answers the onboarding question directly: there is no app to download and no account to set up, and you begin by tapping a text button on the site.

The channel row is iMessage and RCS, and nothing else, because that is what its pages say: you text one number, from Messages on an iPhone or from Google Messages on Android. WhatsApp, email and Slack are accounts you connect, and the WhatsApp one is the one it tells you to connect first: Pally reads the chats, flags the messages that need you, sends a daily catch-up, and sends replies once you have approved them, all from the iMessage thread. This listing said for three days that Pally reaches you inside WhatsApp; it does the reverse, and the founder's own demo of never opening WhatsApp again is the plainest statement of which way round it runs.

Read again in September, on a policy last updated the same day. It is one of only a handful here that says what happens to the people who never signed up, and it says it plainly: adding Pally to a group chat means the group's messages and the participants' handles and names, and group conversations may include personal information about other participants.

Two other things it publishes that nothing else does. You can connect Pally to ChatGPT or Claude and talk to it from there, and the policy says what that costs you: the replies, including personal information in them, go to that app under that app's terms. And you can point it at your own MCP servers, where the data is governed by whoever runs the server rather than by Pally.

Agentcard, a wallet built for agents, names Pally among the products it is trusted by on its own front page. Pally's own pages do not mention a card, so the sentence is the vendor's and the capability rows stay as Pally states them.

Its privacy policy, updated 15 September 2026, gained a section on teams: when you create or join a Pally team it stores the roster, sharing choices, invitations, and "messages between members' Pally assistants", and sharing a connected account with the team takes a one-time or standing permission from the account owner. That sentence is the agent-to-agent capability as this site defines it, one agent messaging another on its person's behalf, and it is recorded from the policy because the front page does not yet describe teams at all. It is the third listing here to state it, after Town and Instinct.

Two more things arrived in the policy dated 23 September 2026. Telegram became a third channel, with the front page naming @PallyAI_bot and saying Pally works "over iMessage on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, over RCS on Android, and on Telegram anywhere", so the channel row is three wide now. And Pally runs events: RSVP to one and authorised event staff can use your saved contact details, work details, public profile links, VIP eligibility, RSVP status and check-in state, and can export the attendee list. The policy then says the thing almost nobody writes down, that deleting your account removes the event data held in Pally and "cannot recall attendee lists already downloaded". That is a company telling you in advance which copy of your data its delete button does not reach.

What Pally has shipped

One feature the company has announced, newest first, each linked to the announcement. The examples of what to use it for are the company’s.

  1. 2026-09-14

    WhatsApp from the iMessage thread

    A connected WhatsApp account becomes one more inbox the agent manages from the thread you already text it on: the chats read, the ones that matter flagged, replies sent, without opening WhatsApp.

    Use it for: keeping up with WhatsApp groups without opening the app; replying to the messages that matter from one thread.

What Pally costs, and how you start

ChannelsiMessageRCSTelegram
How you startTap one link
Who starts itMessages you first
Is there an appNo app Nothing to install at any point
CategoriesPersonal assistants,Social and introductions
Can doEmail,Calendar and scheduling,Task management,Reminders,Persistent memory,Web research,Bookings and reservations,Travel,Calls people for you,Talks to other people's agents
Connects toiMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Jira, Todoist, Granola, Partiful, Instacart
PricingFree, then Pro at $25 a month or $250 a year, Max at $100 a month or $1,000 a year. Calls are the meter: 15 minutes of calls a month on free, 30 on Pro, 60 on Max and then $0.50 a minute, with prepaid credits in $20 increments as the top-up. Free connects three apps, Pro connects all of them, and Max adds a dedicated phone number and an email address of its own. Its policy dated 2 October 2026 says the buy links it shares are affiliate links, so a retailer can pay Pally a commission on a purchase made through one.
Number typeNot stated on its own pages
Contact numberNone published
DocumentationNone linked
First message, pre-writtenNone published
Runs onPhoton (iMessage and RCS), Linq (iMessage, RCS and SMS on some numbers), Twilio (call audio), plus a Pally-operated Cloud Mac on the paid add-on (source)
Browses withKernel, Bright Data, Hosted Mac (source)
Number carrierNo number to look up
StatusLive

Does Pally train on your conversations?

Trains on your conversationsQualified statement“AI providers are configured so your data is not used to train AI models”
Data of people who never signed upAddressed“If you add Pally to a group chat, messages from the group and participants' handles and names ... Group conversations may include personal information about other participants.”
What it holds when you connect an accountA signed-in session Never receives the password; holds a session you opened yourself“Pally never sees, requests, types, or stores your passwords or one-time codes. To keep you signed in for the tasks you authorize, these providers may store your session credentials, fully encrypted in transit and at rest.”
If you cancelConversations and memories deleted on account deletion. Billing records retained for legal obligations.
Model providers namedNone named
JurisdictionGDPR, UK GDPR and the California CCPA as amended by the CPRA, all three set out in the same document and applied to Pally Technologies, Inc.
Security documentNone published
Asks before actingNothing published
Prompt injectionNot mentioned anywhere public
Bug bountyNone published
Who is on the lineThe agent
Calls from its own numberYes, stated
Says it is software on the callNot stated on its pages
Records the callNo: “Calls are never recorded.”
A user in crisisNo protocol page found; 988 appears in the terms.
AvailabilityNot stated
Whose hands your messages pass throughWho carries them, who runs the model, who drives the browser, and which of those Pally names. With what its policy leaves unanswered, counted against the rest of the directory.

Pally’s own pages answer 7 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Not answered: names its model providers, says where to report a bug. About the middle of its kind: 22nd of 56 personal assistants.

Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-10-03, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.

Who makes Pally

CompanyPally Technologies, Inc.
FoundersHaz Hubble, Wyatt Lansford
Based inNot published
Funding$5.2M seed at a reported $30M valuation, led by Cyber Fund with Y Combinator participating. Source: thesaasnews.com
InvestorsCyber Fund, Y Combinator, Founders Inc
TractionNot published

From Pally’s own pages at pally.com, last read 2026-09-10.

In its own words

What Pally and its founders have posted: launches, features and claims, recorded as what the product says about itself.

  • 2026-09-14Haz Hubble Pally's founder posts a video of WhatsApp being handled entirely from the iMessage thread: the chats read, the ones that matter flagged, replies sent, without opening WhatsApp. The claim is that a connected WhatsApp account becomes one more inbox the agent manages from the thread you already text it on.

    Haz Hubble

    @hazhubble · 2026-09-14

    never open WhatsApp again manage it all from iMessage, with @pallyai

    Video posted by Haz Hubble0:34 video
    PallyFounder94 likes · 10k viewsRead it

    Every other listing that names WhatsApp reaches you inside it, through Meta's business messaging or as Meta itself. This runs the other way: WhatsApp is a connected account, like Gmail, and the thread you use is iMessage. It is the same idea as an agent that triages email, applied to the one messaging app most people cannot leave, and it says something about which thread a person treats as home. Reading this is what corrected Pally's channel row here, which had said WhatsApp for three days.

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