All of the AI brokers that may reside in your textual content messages  | TechCrunch

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 will possibly bear in mind context, connect with the apps and companies 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, buying on-line, or reminding you about one thing days later.

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

Below are a few 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 knowledge scattered throughout your cellphone into issues you may 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 examine.

For occasion, an electronic mail accommodates an appointment that must be added to your calendar or a pal sends an inventory of issues to select up. Instead of worrying about all the small print getting buried, Caddy connects to your calendars and conversations, then identifies issues that will require motion. It can add occasions to your calendar, set reminders, preserve observe 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 staff” for households, designed to carry collectively the numerous transferring elements of household life, together with college communications, sports activities actions, meal planning, calendars, and different day-to-day duties, and switch them into an organized plan.

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

Fambot presently connects to Gmail and Google Calendar, with assist for Outlook and Apple Calendar deliberate for the long run.

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

Folk

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

One distinction is that Folk runs by itself personal cloud pc. It can even run code and execute multi-step duties fairly than merely responding conversationally. 

Folk launched its beta in May 2026, and it’s accessible at no cost but in addition affords a Pro subscription for $8.33/month if you would like limitless duties operating 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 companies they already use, resembling 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 devoted electronic mail 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 tackle to enroll in companies, contact companies, observe up on requests, and deal with duties that require an electronic mail account. (However, this degree of autonomy has additionally raised issues about privateness and safety.) It’s additionally begun rolling out assist for putting calls.

The firm stays in personal beta.

Iris

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

Martin

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

It may also help handle calendars, electronic mail, reminders, duties, notes, and communications. It can even 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 facet, with subscriptions beginning at $21 monthly.

Miso

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

It operates by means of iMessage and combines AI journey planning with assist from a devoted journey group. Users can prepare flights by means of messaging whereas Miso takes under 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 centered on serving to households handle the fixed stream of knowledge 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 can even coordinate calendars, family chores, and meals throughout a number of members of a household.

It features a free fundamental choice, but in addition affords totally different subscriptions primarily based on household dimension, beginning at $9.99 monthly.

Ollie

Similar to the opposite family-focused brokers, the thought behind Ollie is that households have already got the knowledge they want, but it surely lives throughout college messages, calendars, process lists, and group chats. Ollie goals to carry these items collectively and preserve them in sync. It can preserve observe of calendars, emails, reminders, duties, and different family particulars, then ship related info to customers by means of 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 affords a free tier, in addition to paid plans beginning at $25 monthly for 150 messages. A $100-per-month plan contains as much as 1,000 messages.

Orbits

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

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

Additionally, Orbits can remind relations about chores, talk with service suppliers, and assist coordinate duties past the instant 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 pal whereas giving it entry to the apps they already depend on. The assistant can join info unfold throughout companies resembling WhatsApp, Gmail, calendars, and Google Drive, serving to customers preserve observe of plans, receipts, dates, information, and different particulars. 

There’s a free plan accessible, which affords 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 you could attain by means of textual content messaging. It can deal with duties involving calendars, planning, well being and health, smart-home controls, images, and different on a regular basis actions. 

Poke turned notably notable in June 2026 when Apple permitted Poke as the primary AI agent on the Apple Messages for Business platform. A month later, guardian 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 “best 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 that will want consideration later.

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

Rene is presently 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 linked companies and surfaces what it thinks is related by means of contextual playing cards, solutions, and every day briefings. The assistant can generate audio briefings, put together info forward of conferences, floor reminders, and determine doubtlessly helpful info. 

The firm, Signull Labs, raised about $3.6 million in seed funding in 2025. It entered personal 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 means of 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 primarily based on what the person has really been doing. Users can even 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 purpose of creating content material creation a extra steady, automated course of fairly than one thing customers have to take a seat 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 turn out to be a part of group conversations. 

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

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 find out how 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 a part of group chats, make bookings and purchases, and coordinate with individuals to finish on a regular basis duties.

A key a part of Wajo’s strategy is giving Fo its personal id. The agent has its personal electronic mail tackle, cellphone quantity, and cost card, permitting it to work together with companies with out requiring customers at hand over their very own credentials. 

Notably, when Fo encounters one thing it can not deal with by itself, Wajo says it will possibly 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 means of a paid Pro providing.