All of the AI brokers that may dwell in your textual content messages 

Rather than downloading one other app, a rising variety of brokers can merely be texted like an bizarre individual. 

You textual content it what you want, and it might probably bear in mind context, connect with the apps and providers you already use, and full duties in your behalf. That can imply scheduling an appointment, organizing a calendar, researching a visit, sending an electronic mail, making a reservation, procuring on-line, or reminding you about one thing days later.

While Instinct is among the buzziest AI brokers at current, thanks to its $10 billion valuation after its latest funding round of $1 billion, there are a lot of others additionally making a play for this house.

Below are a number of the most notable choices up to now, from general-purpose private assistants to brokers designed for households, journey, and work.

Caddy

Caddy is an AI assistant that turns the data scattered throughout your cellphone into issues you possibly can really act on. It lives in iMessage for iPhone customers and RCS for Android customers, so there’s no separate app or inbox to always verify.

For occasion, an electronic mail incorporates an appointment that must be added to your calendar or a good friend sends an inventory of issues to choose up. Instead of worrying about all the small print getting buried, Caddy connects to your calendars and conversations, then identifies issues which will require motion. It can add occasions to your calendar, set reminders, maintain monitor of follow-ups, and even do analysis for you. 

Caddy has been accessible in public beta since April 2026.

Fambot

Fambot is an AI-powered “chief of workers” for households, designed to deliver collectively the various transferring elements of household life, together with faculty communications, sports activities actions, meal planning, calendars, and different day-to-day tasks, and switch them into an organized plan.

The service is designed to work throughout each an app and textual content messages. Fambot is out there on iOS units, Android units, and the net, and households also can work together with it instantly over SMS. Every evening, Fambot robotically sends a abstract of the next day, together with upcoming occasions, to-dos, and particulars similar to faculty uniform or packing necessities. Parents can reply to these messages to ask questions, verify info, or make adjustments to their calendar.

Fambot at present connects to Gmail and Google Calendar, with assist for Outlook and Apple Calendar deliberate for the longer term.

The firm launched in beta in early September 2026 and has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding. The service is at present free in the course of the beta interval, however Fambot expects to ultimately cost roughly the equal of a Netflix subscription.

Folk

Folk is designed to be an AI assistant you possibly can attain by iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram. It can bear in mind private context, handle reminders, analysis matters, monitor flights, deal with electronic mail, and carry out real-world duties similar to restaurant reservations.

One distinction is that Folk runs by itself non-public cloud laptop. It also can run code and execute multi-step duties fairly than merely responding conversationally. 

Folk launched its beta in May 2026, and it’s accessible free of charge but additionally provides a Pro subscription for $8.33/month if you need limitless duties working within the background.

Instinct

Instinct first made headlines after elevating $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. In September 2026, it raised $1 billion, valuing it at $10 billion.

The always-available agent can take actions in your behalf, fairly than merely reply questions. Users can talk with Instinct by textual content or voice and join it to the apps and providers they already use, similar to electronic mail, calendar, Google Workspace, and extra. The firm says early customers have used Instinct for duties starting from planning journeys and shopping for groceries to reserving tickets and cancelling subscriptions.

In September, Instinct started giving customers dedicated email addresses for his or her assistants. The thought is to let Instinct create and handle accounts on a person’s behalf with out filling the person’s private inbox. The agent can use its deal with to enroll in providers, contact companies, comply with up on requests, and deal with duties that require an electronic mail account. (However, this stage of autonomy has additionally raised issues about privacy and security.) It’s additionally begun rolling out support for placing calls.

The firm stays in non-public beta.

Iris

Powered by Hermes agent, Iris is designed to let customers delegate duties to an AI assistant instantly by iMessage. Users can join the apps they use and hand over a job with a easy message. The agent then works by the required steps, whereas retaining related context from earlier interactions. It’s additionally designed to comply with up with customers proactively fairly than ready for one more request.

Martin

Martin is a general-purpose private assistant reachable by SMS in addition to cellphone, WhatsApp, electronic mail, Slack, and its personal iOS app.

It might help handle calendars, electronic mail, reminders, duties, notes, and communications. It also can act on behalf of customers by sending messages or making cellphone calls, whereas offering every day summaries of what wants consideration.

It’s a bit on the pricier aspect, with subscriptions beginning at $21 monthly.

Miso

Miso takes the personal-assistant idea and applies it particularly to journey. 

It operates by iMessage and combines AI journey planning with assist from a devoted journey workforce. Users can organize flights by messaging whereas Miso takes into consideration their journey preferences, loyalty factors, and different priorities. Miso additionally offers vacationers entry to journey particulars, flight updates, together with personalised suggestions.

Ohai

Ohai is one other household assistant targeted on serving to households handle the fixed stream of data and duties concerned in on a regular basis household life.

Users can ship messages, ahead emails, or make voice requests, and the assistant can rework them into schedules, reminders, and plans. It also can coordinate calendars, family chores, and meals throughout a number of members of a household.

It features a free fundamental choice, but additionally provides completely different subscriptions based mostly on household measurement, beginning at $9.99 monthly.

Ollie

Similar to the opposite family-focused brokers, the concept behind Ollie is that households have already got the data they want, but it surely lives throughout faculty messages, calendars, job lists, and group chats. Ollie goals to deliver these items collectively and maintain them in sync. It can maintain monitor of calendars, emails, reminders, duties, and different family particulars, then ship related info to customers by textual content. 

Its greatest differentiator from different brokers is that Ollie is among the first mainstream, family-focused AI assistants to realize SOC 2 compliance, a broadly used safety normal. 

Launched in June 2026, Ollie provides a free tier, in addition to paid plans beginning at $25 monthly for 150 messages. A $100-per-month plan consists of as much as 1,000 messages.

Orbits

Orbits additionally has an AI assistant that’s targeted on the family.

It works by each the Orbits app and textual content messaging, and might deliver collectively calendars, lists, and conversations whereas additionally finishing up duties for you. That can embrace looking the net, making purchases, reserving eating places, altering appointments, and requesting quotes for family providers.

Additionally, Orbits can remind members of the family about chores, talk with service suppliers, and assist coordinate tasks past the rapid family.

Orbits is backed by traders like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Speedrun fund, N49P, and Garage Capital.

Pally

Users can work together with Pally as they might with a good friend whereas giving it entry to the apps they already depend on. The assistant can join info unfold throughout providers similar to WhatsApp, Gmail, calendars, and Google Drive, serving to customers maintain monitor of plans, receipts, dates, information, and different particulars. 

There’s a free plan accessible, which provides options like quarter-hour of calls monthly, or there are paid plans, together with $25 monthly for half-hour of calls and $100 monthly for 60 minutes.

Poke

Poke launched in March 2026 as a general-purpose assistant which you can attain by textual content messaging. It can deal with duties involving calendars, planning, well being and health, smart-home controls, pictures, and different on a regular basis actions. 

Poke turned significantly notable in June 2026 when Apple approved Poke as the primary AI agent on the Apple Messages for Business platform. A month later, mother or father firm The Interaction Company of California was acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in a deal valued within the low 9 figures.

Rene

Rene is an AI private assistant designed to be a person’s “greatest contact” fairly than one other productiveness agent. It’s text-based and might flip natural-language conversations into duties, reminders, summaries, and different follow-up actions. Rene additionally maintains context throughout conversations, permitting it to recollect particulars and floor issues which will want consideration later.

Additionally, it has a browser, can write code, store for you, in addition to create slides and pictures.

Rene is at present accessible on iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp.

Skye

Instead of ready for customers to open an app, Skye is an “agentic homescreen” for the iPhone that analyzes info from related providers and surfaces what it thinks is related by contextual playing cards, ideas, and every day briefings. The assistant can generate audio briefings, put together info forward of conferences, floor reminders, and establish probably helpful info. 

The firm, Signull Labs, raised about $3.6 million in seed funding in 2025. It entered non-public testing and beta in April 2026, and hasn’t but introduced a public launch date.

Stanley

Stanley is an AI content material assistant aimed toward content material creators fairly than basic private productiveness. Available by iMessage, Telegram, and the net, it acts as a sort of AI head of content material, serving to customers provide you with concepts, flip them into posts, and keep a constant publishing schedule.

For occasion, Stanley can connect with a person’s Instagram account, utilizing that context to recommend content material based mostly on what the person has really been doing. Users also can ship voice notes, which Stanley turns into scripts, captions, and different social property. It features a content material calendar and might schedule posts, with the broader aim of constructing content material creation a extra steady, automated course of fairly than one thing customers have to sit down down and plan from scratch.

Tomo

The greatest differentiator with Tomo’s private assistant for iMessage is that, as an alternative of being a non-public assistant that solely you work together with, Tomo can grow to be a part of group conversations. 

Also, like different brokers, it’s designed to assist with targets, accountability, scheduling, and on a regular basis group. It additionally has the flexibility to ship reminders, search the net, work with calendars and electronic mail, watch movies, and edit pictures.

The fundamental plan begins at $19.99 monthly.

Town

Town is aimed extra at skilled life. It offers customers a “Townie,” an AI assistant designed to learn the way they work and deal with recurring skilled duties. It can work with electronic mail, calendars, paperwork, Slack, and different platforms. 

In June 2026, the corporate raised a $55 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner.

Wajo

Wajo’s first shopper agent, Fo, can name companies, ship emails, be part of group chats, make bookings and purchases, and coordinate with folks to finish on a regular basis duties.

A key a part of Wajo’s method is giving Fo its personal identification. The agent has its personal electronic mail deal with, cellphone quantity, and fee card, permitting it to work together with companies with out requiring customers handy over their very own credentials. 

Notably, when Fo encounters one thing it can not deal with by itself, Wajo says it might probably usher in a human assistant to complete the duty.

Fo launched publicly in September 2025 with a free tier, whereas heavier workloads and customized brokers can be found by a paid Pro providing.