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Messaging Agents

Agents that handle your email

Fifteen agents in this directory work with email: triaging an inbox, drafting replies, or sending on your behalf. Those are three different levels of access and three very different levels of risk, and product pages tend to describe them in one breath.

15 agents that state this

Agents compared by channel, how you start using them and pricing. Status is shown only where it is not live.
AgentChannelsHow you startPricing
ArloReads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes outText it, opens with hey ArloiMessageSMSText a numberUnknown
CatchEmail, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by defaultSMSEmailVoiceCreate an account$99/month
folkA personal AI with an isolated cloud computer and a persistent memory graphiMessageTelegramWhatsAppDiscordUnknownUnknown
HomerTexts you back on iMessage or SMS, and will phone a business for youText it, opens with Hey HomeriMessageSMSText a numberFree tier; Pro $9.99/month; Business $29.99/month
InstinctA general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly thatiMessageInvite onlyUnknown
LucasAn assistant that texts you first across iMessage, WhatsApp and SMSiMessageWhatsAppSMSUnknownUnknown
MartinCharges for proactivity rather than capacity, at $35 or $49 a monthiMessageSMSUnknown$35/month limited proactive actions, $49/month unlimited
NotisExecutes across your existing tools from a text, on five channelsiMessageWhatsAppTelegramSlackEmailUnknownUnknown
OpenClawA general agent in your contacts on five platforms, selling overnight autonomyiMessageWhatsAppTelegramDiscordSlackCreate an account$1 for a 24-hour trial, then $39/month
OrchidEmail triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processedText itEmailUnknownUnknown
PallyLife-admin triage where relationship nudges are a side effect, not the pitchiMessageWhatsAppEmailSlackUnknownFree tier; Pro $25/month; Max $100/month
PokeAcquiredThe first independent third-party agent approved on Apple Messages for BusinessiMessageWhatsAppTelegramCreate an accountFree tier; Pro $19/month; Ultra $199/month
TomoCoaching and accountability that charges for the unprompted check-iniMessageSMSWebText a numberUnknown
VellumAn agent with its own identity and filesystem, across text, desktop and voiceTelegramSlackEmailVoiceWebCreate an accountUnknown
WajoA group agent that places its own calls and pays with its own cardiMessageSMSVoiceCreate an accountFree tier available

Recorded only where the product’s own public pages state it. An agent missing here may still do this and simply not say so.

What the claim actually covers

Reading is the easy part. An agent that triages an inbox and tells you what matters is useful and low-stakes, and it is where most of these products are genuinely good.

Drafting is next: the agent writes, you approve. Arlo makes its approval boundary explicit, asking permission before anything consequential goes out, which is the conservative end of this category.

Sending unattended is the step most people hesitate at, and reasonably so. The most cited complaint about the most autonomous agent in this directory is that it acted without asking. If you are evaluating one of these, the question is not whether it can send email but what class of message it will send without checking, and whether you can change that line.

Gmail is the near-universal integration here, named by thirteen of the seventeen agents that name any integration at all.

How we source this.