Catch vs Orchid: which AI assistant to text
Both do email, calendar and booking, and they disagree about your data in a way neither markets. Catch says its vendors are contractually barred from training on it; Orchid says it trains a model on your data, just not one anyone else uses.
Catch is for
Teams who want a stated compliance posture and a published price.
Orchid is for
People who want the agent to get better at them specifically, and are comfortable with what that means.
Email, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by default
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Email triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processed
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Catch and Orchid, side by side
They differ on getting in, price, trust and who runs it; a dot marks each row where they do.
| Catch | Orchid | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting in | ||
| Where do you text it? | SMS, Slack, Email, Voice. | iMessage, SMS. |
| How do you start? | Create an account. | Text a number. |
| Does it work on Android? | Yes, over SMS, Slack, Email. | Yes, over SMS. |
| Is there an app to install? | Not recorded: we have not established this. | No app: nothing to install at any point. |
| Who starts the conversation? | Messages you first. | Unknown. |
| Price | ||
| What does it cost? | From $99 a month. | Not published. |
| Trust | ||
| Does it train on my messages? | Qualified statement. | Your model only. |
| What does it hold to log in for me? | Holds what it does not say; a security contact is published. | Holds a scoped token for connected accounts; no security contact published. |
| What happens to my messages? | Who carries them is not published. | Carried by Linq. |
| Does it publish about its security? | Yes, a page of its own. its page | Nothing published. |
| Can it phone people? | Yes; the agent speaks. | It does not call. |
| Who runs it | ||
| Who is behind it? | Catch; funded. | Orchid; funded. |
| How is it funded? | $5M seed announced September 2026 on leaving stealth, co-led by Entrée Capital and Pitango. | Not published. Y Combinator backed, with no round announced on its own pages. |
| What it can do, on its own pages | ||
| Phone calls | Yes | Not stated |
| Calls people for you | Yes | Not stated |
| Payments | Not stated | Yes |
| Persistent memory | Not stated | Yes |
| Web research | Not stated | Yes |
| Both | Email, Calendar and scheduling, Bookings and reservations, Travel, Task management, Reminders. | |
What separates Catch and Orchid
On capability these two are close. Catch covers email, scheduling, travel booking, outbound phone calls, tasks and reminders, and names more integrations than almost anything else here: Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, Zoom, HubSpot, Notion, Asana and more. Orchid covers email triage, calendar, bookings, payments, reminders, memory and travel, and reports processing more than 220,000 emails.
The difference that matters is what each does with what it reads. Orchid's policy is the only one in this directory drawing this distinction: "We don't train shared models on your data. We train your model on your data." That is a real position and an unusual one. Catch's security page says AI vendors "process data solely to handle requests and are contractually prohibited from retaining or training on it", while also saying Catch uses your data to improve the experience, which is a qualified answer rather than a plain no.
Catch is $99 a month and claims SOC 2 Type II. Orchid publishes no price and came through Y Combinator's S25 batch.
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