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Messaging Agents

Which AI agent should you text, if any

Five questions. Answer the ones you can, and the list of agents narrows as you go. When nothing here does what you want, it says so.

1What do you want off your plate?

Pick as many as you like.

2Where should it reach you?

An agent that is not in your app is not an option, whatever else it does.

3Just you, or you and other people?

Agents built for a group thread and agents built for one person are different products.

4How much setup will you put up with?

Anything that does not publish how you start stays in the list.

5Is any of this a dealbreaker?

These rule things out. If one empties the list, that is worth knowing.

Before you answer

All 90. Your answers narrow this. Nothing you pick is sent anywhere or stored.

  1. AlfiNo price

    One shared agent per group plus a private solo agent for each member

    iMessage, WhatsApp

  2. ArloFree to start

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

    iMessage, SMS

  3. asaplyFree to start

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

    iMessage, SMS

  4. BobaFree to start

    A free group-chat assistant that hangs back until somebody needs it

    iMessage, SMS, Web

  5. Dunnit$20/mo

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

    iMessage, SMS

Five of 90, until you answer something. Every listing, filterable.

From each product’s own pages, dated on its listing. What a product says it does is not a promise that it does it well.