AI agents that work in group chats

These work inside a group thread rather than a one-to-one conversation. This is the part of the market where onboarding friction decides everything, because a group agent that requires each participant to install something has to be sold four times instead of once.

Agents compared by channel, how you start using them and pricing. Status is shown only where it is not live.

AlfiOne shared agent per group plus a private solo agent for each memberText it, opens with What can you do?+1 310 460 9758	iMessageWhatsApp	Install an app	Not published
BobaA free group-chat assistant that hangs back until somebody needs it	iMessageSMSWeb	Text a number	Free to start
brobotAdded to a group thread you already have, and jumps in on food, drinks and plans	iMessage	Add a number to a group	Not published
CoralA family agent in your iMessage group chat, with a private agent for each person that talks to the others	iMessage	Create an account	From $20/mo
FlipA money manager in iMessage that signs into sites as you without ever holding the passwordText it+1 628 264 7696	iMessage	Text a number	From $9.99/mo
JarvieA group-chat sidekick with a published number, free while it works out what to charge for	iMessageSMS	Text a number	Free to start
LindyA work assistant you reach in Slack, iMessage or Gmail, built on the web first	SlackiMessageSMSWeb	Create an account	From $29.99/mo
OllieA family agent that lives in the household's existing iMessage group thread	iMessage	Add a number to a group	Free to start
OrbitsA family's home manager in an app, with an assistant called Bit you text or add to the family group chat	SMS	Install an app	Not published
SeriesAI introductions that happen entirely inside iMessage, on 750+ campuses	iMessage	Text a number	Not published
ServedAn iMessage kitchen assistant that reads your fridge, builds the list and places the order	iMessage	Text a number	Free to start
ShuffleA texting AI that makes images, music and games, and runs tasks on sites for youText it, opens with hey shuffle, im new here... what can u actually do?+1 402 763 0072	iMessageSMS	Add a number to a group	Free to start
SidekicksAdd a number to any iMessage or SMS group and it participates like a memberText it, opens with Hello 👋+1 628 213 4346	iMessageSMS	Add a number to a group	From $19.99/mo
TomoCoaching and accountability that charges for the unprompted check-in	iMessageSMSWebVoice	Text a number	Not published
TownA per-user agent that joins your group text and talks to other people's agents	iMessageSMS	Create an account	Free to start
WajoA group agent that places its own calls and pays with its own card	iMessageSMSVoiceEmail	Invite only	Free to start

What the claim actually covers

Joins a thread you already have, so everyone else arrives with no install and no account
Requires an app or an account from every member

Four of these join an existing thread, which means the second, third and fourth people arrive with no invite, no install and no account. They were already there. That property is rare and it is the strongest structural advantage available in this category.

The alternative is an app download or an account per member, which turns every additional participant into a full acquisition. In a group of four that is three separate conversions before the product works as designed.

One product prices accordingly, charging per household rather than per seat and metering the agent's outbound messages instead. That follows directly from the onboarding model, because a per-seat price taxes exactly the thing the product is good at.

What these connect to

Named by the agents that state this capability. An agent that names none is not necessarily unconnected, it may simply not say.

Service

Gmail8
Google Calendar6
Instacart4
Apple Calendar2
Google Drive2
Notion2
Outlook2
Slack2

What people have posted about these

Wajo
Our research · 2026-09-26
Wajo published a benchmark on 26 September 2026 measuring personal assistants on two axes it defines: finishing an errand that goes wrong, and doing it without overstepping the user. It scores its own agent Fo against base models and two products listed in this directory, OpenClaw and Hermes, and Fo comes first on both axes and lowest on error rate. The method is the part worth reading: a simulated world of businesses with invented names, built so that no run could reach a real person. A paper is on arXiv and the company says it will open source the evaluation world, the tasks and the graders.
WajoThe companyRead it
It is the first time a product in this directory has published a benchmark scoring named competitors that are also listed here. The axes are a genuine contribution, because finishing a task that goes wrong and not overstepping while doing it are the two things this market has no shared measure for. The scores are a different matter and none of them is recorded as a field on any listing, here or on the two it ranks. A number from a scoreboard its own author competes on cannot be re-run or dated by this site, which is the standing rule and this is the clearest case of it yet. The simulated world is the detail that survives independent of who ran it: a benchmark for agents that place calls, built so it never calls anybody.
Jean-Denis Greze 💡
@jgreze · 2026-09-17
I don’t really want to scroll through X every morning, so Town does it for me. We have a skill called X Daily Digest. You give it the accounts you want to track, it pulls the posts, ranks them and sends you a scannable digest. So basically every morning I get a summary of what’s happening from the people I care about on X. Then I use that to kick off ideas for things I could tweet as a follow up. This one is something anyone can install. It’s under Powers → Explore in Town.
TownFounder44 likes · 7.2k viewsRead it
A standing job rather than an errand, and a description of how Town's skills are distributed: a catalogue inside the product that any user can install from, which is the shape Muse and Pally describe as connectors and recipes. It is the founder describing his own product, so it is summarised and linked; what it adds to the listing is the existence of a skills catalogue, which the rows here do not yet record for anybody.
Town
@TownAI · 2026-09-15
We build Town around trust and safety. You approve anything before your Townie makes a change. You choose which tools it can use and how. You can review every action it takes. We keep training off by default. Coming at the end of this month: @1Password Approve specific logins in the 1Password app, sign in through Townie, and we never see your credentials or the page while it fills.
TownThe company44 likes · 9.2k viewsRead it
It is the tight direction on the question the password piece asks, the opposite of Instinct enrolling as an authenticator: the secret stays in a vault the person already holds and the agent signs in without reading it. Nothing moves on the listing until it ships, because a row here comes from a page and not a post; when it does, the credential row would go from a scoped token to a vault, the first here that is a third party's rather than the product's own. The training line is worth reading beside the policy: the post says off by default, and the policy this site read says only that Google user data is not used, so the row stays qualified until the policy says what the post says.
Shivani Poddar
@shivanipod · 2026-09-14
BREAKING: Starting today, we are launching a Big Update to our Voice stack in Fo. We are the only agent in the market that you can call, and that makes calls for you. You can - Call Fo on it's phone number and be hands free - You can talk to it in your native language and make it call in local languages. This is big for our users across the world - You can have it speak bi-lingually, this was big for me, I speak Hinglish a lot, and it just makes the experience so personal. Agents that meet you where you are, your personal experiences, your local languages are the future. Wajo is building agents for the world. Welcome to the future.
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WajoFounder104 likes · 73k viewsRead it
Language is the part that is new here. Every listing that calls does so in English on its own pages, and this is the first to say the agent will place a call in the language the shop or the office on the other end speaks, which is what makes an errand agent usable outside the United States. The exclusivity claim is the company's: seven listings in this directory state both a voice channel and calling, so the rows do not support it, and it is recorded as what was said.

Everything people have got these agents to do · The argument in public

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. The guides cover getting an agent into iMessage, WhatsApp and SMS.