Which personal assistant tells you the most

General-purpose agents that handle email, calendar, tasks and admin over text. Catch discloses the most of the 24 here, at 7 of 9. Every criterion is mechanical and listed below, so you can recompute any position yourself.

What each one tells you

Every disclosure below is something these companies could publish today at no cost. A low score is a choice rather than a limitation.

1
Catch
Email, scheduling, travel and outbound phone calls, proactive by default
SMSEmailVoice
7 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
2
Muse
Meta's personal agent, reachable inside WhatsApp, running on a cloud computer of its own
WhatsAppWeb
7 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names who carries the messages, Names its model providers, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
3
Orchid
Email triage, calendar and bookings, with 220,000+ emails processed
EmailText it+1 415 695 4918
7 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names who carries the messages, Names its model providers
4
Tomo
Coaching and accountability that charges for the unprompted check-in
iMessageSMSWeb
7 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names who carries the messages, Says how you start
5
Lucas
An assistant that texts you first across iMessage, WhatsApp and SMS
iMessageWhatsAppSMS
6 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Names its model providers, Says where to report a bug
6
Martin
Charges for proactivity rather than capacity, at $35 or $49 a month
iMessageSMS
6 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names its model providers
7
Notis
Executes across your existing tools from a text, on five channels
iMessageWhatsAppTelegramSlackEmail
6 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names its model providers
8
Pally
Life-admin triage where relationship nudges are a side effect, not the pitch
iMessageWhatsAppEmailSlack
6 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Names who carries the messages
9
Pokeacquired
The first independent third-party agent approved on Apple Messages for Business
iMessageWhatsAppTelegram
6 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Addresses people who never signed up, Names who carries the messages, Says how you start
10
Arlo
Reads your work tools and asks approval before anything consequential goes out
iMessageSMSText it, opens with hey Arlo+1 407 234 1884
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Names who carries the messages, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
11
Caddy
A work assistant in your texts, blue bubbles on iPhone and RCS on Android
iMessageRCSSMS
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names who carries the messages, Says how you start
12
Duckbill
The model plans, background-checked humans execute
SMSEmailWeb
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Addresses people who never signed up, Says what happens if you cancel, Says how you start
13
folk
A personal AI with an isolated cloud computer and a persistent memory graph
iMessageTelegramWhatsAppDiscord
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names who carries the messages, Says where to report a bug
14
Homer
Texts you back on iMessage or SMS, and will phone a business for you
iMessageSMSText it, opens with Hey Homer+1 415 583 6966
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says what happens if you cancel, Names its model providers, Says how you start
15
Lindy
A work assistant you reach in Slack, iMessage or Gmail, built on the web first
SlackiMessageEmailWeb
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
16
TryOpenClaw
A hosted OpenClaw in your contacts on five platforms, unaffiliated with the project
iMessageWhatsAppTelegramDiscordSlack
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Says what happens if you cancel, Says how you start
17
Vellum
An agent with its own identity and filesystem, across text, desktop and voice
TelegramSlackEmailVoiceWeb
5 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says whether it trains on you, Names its model providers, Says how you start
18
Zo Computer
A cloud computer that runs while you are away, reachable from your Messages app
iMessageSMSTelegramDiscordSlackEmail
4 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says where to report a bug, Says how you start
19
iChatWithGPT
The simplest shape in the category: a model at the end of a text thread
iMessage
3 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Names its model providers, Says how you start
20
OpenClaw
The open-source assistant you run yourself, in twenty nine channels including iMessage
iMessageWhatsAppTelegramDiscordSlack
3 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Has a privacy policy, Says how you start
21
Emberbeta
One tap to start, no signup, and its main use is decoding a confusing text
iMessageText it, opens with Hey Ember 🔥+1 484 767 7270
2 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Says how you start
22
Hermes
Open-source agent you run on your own server, reachable on Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal and Slack
TelegramWhatsAppSlackDiscord
2 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Says how you start
23
Instinct
A general agent that acts before asking, and is criticised for exactly that
iMessage
2 of 9Discloses: Publishes a price, Says how you start
24
OpenInstinct
Self-hostable open-source iMessage assistant, one-click deploy to Vercel
iMessage
1 of 9Discloses: Says how you start

How this is scored

Publishes a price: You can find out what it costs without signing up
Has a privacy policy: There is a document at all, for a product that reads your messages
Says whether it trains on you: States plainly whether your conversations train a model
Addresses people who never signed up: Says what happens to the data of others in your threads
Says what happens if you cancel: States whether your history is kept or deleted
Names who carries the messages: Names the company that actually holds your texts
Names its model providers: Says which AI companies see your conversations
Says where to report a bug: A researcher who finds a hole has somewhere to send it
Says how you start: You can tell what is required of you before you begin

Fewest steps before it does anything

Counted the same way as the onboarding ladder: joining a thread you are already in is zero, texting a number is one, installing an app before you can begin is four. Agents behind a waitlist or an invite are left out rather than ranked last, because unavailable is not the same as high friction.

1ArloText a numberiMessageSMS
2CaddyText a numberiMessageRCSSMS
3EmberTap one linkiMessage
4HomerText a numberiMessageSMS
5iChatWithGPTTap one linkiMessage
6TomoText a numberiMessageSMSWeb
7CatchCreate an accountSMSEmailVoice
8DuckbillCreate an accountSMSEmailWeb
9LindyCreate an accountSlackiMessageEmailWeb
10MuseCreate an accountWhatsAppWeb
11PokeCreate an accountiMessageWhatsAppTelegram
12TryOpenClawCreate an accountiMessageWhatsAppTelegramDiscordSlack
13VellumCreate an accountTelegramSlackEmailVoiceWeb
14Zo ComputerCreate an accountiMessageSMSTelegramDiscordSlackEmail
15HermesSelf-host itTelegramWhatsAppSlackDiscord
16OpenClawSelf-host itiMessageWhatsAppTelegramDiscordSlack
17OpenInstinctSelf-host itiMessage

The personal assistants in full, unranked and filterable, or the other categories.