Oct 22, 2026

7 Best Wabi Alternatives in 2026 (AI Assistants Compared)

Wabi is the AI assistant from Eugenia Kuyda, the founder of Replika. It opened to everyone on October 19 on iOS, Android and Mac. It works like a messenger: you get a thread for each part of your life, Wabi builds little apps inside each one (a calorie tracker, a kids’ activity calendar), and you can add your partner or friends to a thread.

It’s a fun idea, and it’s three weeks old in its current form. Here’s why people are already looking around:

There’s no business model yet. Wabi is free “for now” and the company “hasn’t settled on a business model,” TechCrunch reported, and it’s in talks to raise more money. Free assistants that need to find revenue tend to change.
It pivoted last month. Until late September Wabi was an app maker where you built mini apps from prompts, per TechCrunch. The assistant you’d be trusting with your email is brand new.
Your data feeds its ads. Wabi’s privacy policy says it shares events and identifiers like a hashed email with Meta, TikTok and Snap to target and measure its ads, and that this may count as a “sale” of personal data under some state laws. Content from your connected email isn’t used for ads or AI training.
Location, even when it’s closed. If you allow it, the app reports your location in the background “including when the Application is closed.”
Shared threads share a lot. Kuyda told TechCrunch that people in a thread can share “email and calendar information to bank account details,” so a partner can ask Wabi whether you bought the tickets.
The track record. Italy’s data protection authority fined Replika’s maker €5 million in 2025 for processing users’ data with no legal basis and no real age check.
It doesn’t run your business. Wabi can’t answer a business phone line, text your clients or run your work inboxes on rules.

The quick answer: Carly is the best Wabi alternative if you want an assistant that actually runs your email, calendar, calls and texts, by your rules, every time. It works across every Gmail and Outlook account you have, calls you with your day, and doesn’t train on your data. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month.

Wabi alternatives compared

Alternative	Best for	Where you use it	Calls and texts	Price
Carly	Email, calendar, calls and texts on your rules	Web, text, phone, ChatGPT, Claude	Answers, places and texts	Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/mo
Meta Muse	Consumer errands and shopping	App, web, WhatsApp, Mac	No business line	Free; $20 and $100/mo
ChatGPT Dots	People already paying for ChatGPT Pro	ChatGPT, Slack, Teams	No	ChatGPT Pro, from $100/mo
Hark Pro	Life admin on websites	Web, iOS, Android	No calls or texts yet	Free with a cap; $20 and $100/mo
Poke	A cheap assistant in your messages	iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram	Texts you	Free; Pro $19/mo
Tab	Calls to businesses for you	iMessage, WhatsApp	Outbound calls only	Private beta, no price
Instinct	Broad errands by text	iMessage, WhatsApp	Texts	Free invite-only beta

Prices from each vendor’s own page or our most recent check in October 2026.

1. Carly

Wabi builds you apps to look at. Carly just does the work, and tells you when it’s done.

Email labeling and sorting. Carly files every message in every Gmail and Outlook account you own, with your labels, the same way every time. Write a rule.
Advanced calendar work. It checks every calendar before booking, handles the back-and-forth over email and runs booking pages with round robin.
It calls you. “Call me every weekday at 8am with my day” and your phone rings at 8am with your meetings, conflicts and the emails you owe.
It texts you and calls people for you. Message Carly from a US or Canadian number. It can call the dentist, text a client and answer your business line in English or Spanish.
Family stuff too. “When the school emails, put the date on the family calendar and text Claire.” Every rule runs on its own, whether you’re in the app or not.
You choose who it answers. Full, Standard, Limited or Blocked for every contact. Nobody you haven’t approved gets your calendar.
No training on your data. Carly’s privacy notice says your Google and Microsoft data isn’t used to train AI models.
Inside your AI. Add the Carly plugin in ChatGPT, or the Carly connector in Claude, Grok Bot, Meta Muse or Perplexity.
Thousands of apps. Carly connects to thousands of apps, plus a built-in CRM.
Best for: anyone who wants the busywork gone, not a new app to tend.
Pricing: Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month. Get started.

2. Meta Muse

Meta Muse is Meta’s personal agent. It books, buys and sends email from its own cloud computer, in an app, on the web, in WhatsApp and on the Mac.

Best for: personal errands in the US or Canada.
Pricing: free with limits; $20 and $100 a month.
Limitations: US and Canada only, and WIRED reports users are opted in to AI training by default. Amazon blocks it as an unauthorized agent. See Meta Muse alternatives.

3. ChatGPT Dots

ChatGPT Dots are OpenAI’s personal agents, built on the apps you’ve already connected to ChatGPT.

Best for: people already on ChatGPT Pro.
Pricing: comes with ChatGPT Pro, from $100 a month.
Limitations: no phone line and no texting your clients. See ChatGPT Dots alternatives.

4. Hark Pro

Hark Pro opens a browser on its own cloud computer and clicks through websites for you: pays the bill, cancels the subscription.

Best for: life admin on websites.
Pricing: free with a usage cap Hark doesn’t put a number on; $20 and $100 a month for more. Details in Hark pricing.
Limitations: its free-pizza promo on October 17 broke under demand, and Axios never got its pizza. No calls or texts yet.

5. Poke

Poke connects your email and calendar and texts you over iMessage, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram.

Best for: a simple assistant at a low price.
Pricing: Free; Pro $19 a month; Ultra $199.
Limitations: one assistant in one thread. See Poke alternatives.

6. Tab

Tab lives in iMessage and WhatsApp and places calls to businesses for you.

Best for: getting a restaurant or a clinic on the phone.
Pricing: private beta, no published price.
Limitations: it calls out but doesn’t answer calls, and its founder has asked users to “give us 60 min” when Tab stopped replying. See Tab AI review.

7. Instinct

Instinct is the $10 billion texting assistant that runs errands across your apps.

Best for: broad errands if you have an invite.
Pricing: free during an invite-only beta.
Limitations: training on your data is on by default, and in September it went quiet mid-task for many users. See Instinct alternatives.

How to pick a Wabi alternative

Want your inbox, calendar, calls and texts handled by your rules? Go with Carly.
Want errands done on shopping and travel sites? Meta Muse or Hark.
Already pay for ChatGPT Pro? Try Dots.
Want a cheap texting assistant? Poke.

FAQ

What is the best Wabi alternative?

Carly, for anyone who wants email, calendar, calls and texts handled across every account, by their own rules. Free Zapier-style workflows; AI agents from $35/month.

Is Wabi free?

Yes, for now. The company told TechCrunch it hasn’t settled on a business model.

Who makes Wabi?

Wabi, Inc., founded by Eugenia Kuyda after she left as CEO of Replika. Andreessen Horowitz led its $20 million pre-seed round in 2025.

Its privacy policy says it shares some identifiers and in-app events with Meta, TikTok and Snap for advertising, and doesn’t use your connected email for ads or AI training. Anything you share in a group thread is visible to the people in it.

Can Wabi make phone calls?

Wabi doesn’t answer a business line or call people for you. Carly does both, and can call you every morning with your day.

Ready to automate your busywork?

Carly schedules, researches, and briefs you—so you can focus on what matters.

See what people say

"Before Carly, I relied on a Calendly link, but the whole process felt impersonal and not very professional. Carly changed that by handling all the back-and-forth, so I'm no longer stuck in endless email threads trying to line up schedules.

Now Carly reaches out to candidates, shares my real-time availability, lets them pick a slot, then sends a Zoom link and drops it straight into my calendar. She sends reminders to both of us before each call, which has significantly reduced no-shows and last-minute confusion.

On top of scheduling, Carly acts like a full executive assistant, sending me my schedule the night before so I can prepare for each call. It reminds me of the old x.ai assistant, but Carly is noticeably smarter, faster, and better suited to my healthcare recruitment business."

Gus Ibrahim, Founder & Director, IHR