Which personal assistant tells you the most

Arlo

Reads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes out

Flip

A money manager in iMessage that signs into sites as you without ever holding the password

allora

Text it a thought and be reminded at the right time, on any phone with no app

Beside

Watches the map while you go about your day and texts the moment you are near what you asked for

folk

A personal AI with an isolated cloud computer and a persistent memory graph

Lindy

A work assistant you reach in Slack, iMessage or Gmail, built on the web first

Matcha

A chief of staff that remembers the loose ends, in the chat you already use

Muse

Meta's personal agent, reachable inside WhatsApp, running on a cloud computer of its own

Airtapbeta

A cloud Android phone with an agent driving it, reached by texting it on iMessage, RCS, SMS or Telegram

asaplybeta

A number you text to get an errand run: coffee ordered ahead, tickets held, a ride queued, paid in the thread

Bo

A health and life assistant in your texts that reads your sleep, your steps and your calendar

Boski

A goal agent on iMessage that works between conversations and checks back in

Brea

A hosted agent in iMessage with 2,100 integrations, prebuilt automations and a browser on the $39 plan

Caddybeta

A work assistant in your texts, blue bubbles on iPhone and RCS on Android

Catch

Email, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by default

Espa

An assistant for your to-dos, looped into iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp or email threads, with three published prices

Lucas

An assistant that texts you first across iMessage, WhatsApp and SMS

Martin

Charges for proactivity rather than capacity, at $35 or $49 a month

Maxi

A financial companion that starts the conversation about your money

Notis

Executes across your existing tools from a text, on five channels

Orchid

Email triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processed

Pally

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

Pokeacquired

The first independent third-party agent approved on Apple Messages for Business

Predicts

Prediction markets as a contact in Messages, with live odds and trades placed for you

Served

An iMessage kitchen assistant that reads your fridge, builds the list and places the order

textmyagent

A chief of staff in your texts: your inbox and calendar, one plan, no app and no login

Tomo

Coaching and accountability that charges for the unprompted check-in

Arlo (arlomind.com)

An assistant in iMessage that reaches out first, with three published prices and no company named

dots

OpenAI's always-on agents, each with its own cloud computer, reached in ChatGPT, Slack and Teams

Dunnit

Works overnight on the inbox and the calendar, with nothing to open in the morning

Homer

Texts you back on iMessage or SMS, and will phone a business for you

iHermes

A hosted Hermes Agent over iMessage: connect Google and other tools by link, hand off work by text, nothing to install

OpenClaw

The open-source assistant you run yourself, in twenty nine channels including iMessage

Persona

Acts in your name over iMessage or SMS, with a wearable band, SOC 2 Type I, and terms that say what it may do

Super

Orders the food and books the ride from her own accounts, so yours stay out of it

TryOpenClaw

A hosted OpenClaw in your contacts on five platforms, unaffiliated with the project

Vellum

An agent with its own identity and filesystem, across text, desktop and voice

Zapia

A Latin American assistant you reach on WhatsApp, funded partly by affiliate commission on what it recommends

Zeme

Watches every rental listing in four US markets and texts the moment one matches

Zo Computer

A cloud computer that runs while you are away, reachable from your Messages app

Duckbill

The model plans, background-checked humans execute

Eugene

Reminders, routines and the people in your life, remembered and sent back by SMS from a toll-free number

Hermes

Open-source agent you run on your own server, reachable on Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal and Slack

Navi

Watches the route between you and where you have to be, and texts you when to leave

Rene

One agent for every app and errand, in iMessage, WhatsApp or Telegram, with a morning brief and no number published

Soarbeta

A travel agent saved in your contacts: books, checks you in, chases refunds, and runs the store that lists its rivals

Tabbeta

An agent you text that browses, calls, waits on hold and pays with your approval, and says where the secrets live

Wis.aibeta

An assistant on WhatsApp and Telegram with its own computer, number, voice and email, in a private beta with no price

Air by WZRDbeta

A persistent Ubuntu computer per person, driven from an iMessage thread, in private beta at $50 a month

iChatWithGPT

The simplest shape in the category: a model at the end of a text thread

Instinct

A general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly that

sznbeta

An assistant in iMessage with its own name, number and email address, from a former Siri engineer

Miso

A travel concierge over iMessage that says it is the first travel agent Apple approved, with a team behind the thread

OpenInstinct

Self-hostable open-source iMessage assistant, one-click deploy to Vercel

Emberbeta

An AI friend in iMessage that publishes a crisis protocol because California now requires one

Maebeta

A family assistant you call or text, holding the things that live in one person's head