Pally

Pally is an AI personal assistant that lives in your texts, made by Pally, a Y Combinator-backed company. It works over iMessage on iPhone, iPad and Mac, over RCS on Android and on Telegram, and connects WhatsApp as an inbox it can triage. There is no app to install: you text a number or message its Telegram bot. Pally connects to apps such as Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Google Calendar, Notion, Linear, Granola and Drive, sends a daily morning brief, runs custom automations, remembers the people and plans in your life, researches the web, and makes phone calls to book a table or chase an appointment. It can complete bookings and purchases on the web, paying with a single-use virtual card capped at the amount you approved, and anything that leaves your world, such as a message, purchase or calendar invite, is shown to you word for word first. An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients talk to your Pally. Free is $0 with three connected apps, three custom automations, a monthly usage allowance and 15 minutes of calls a month. Pro is $25 per month or $250 per year, with all apps connected, 10 custom automations and 30 minutes of calls a month. Max is $100 per month or $1,000 per year and adds a dedicated phone number and email for your Pally, with 60 minutes of calls a month, then $0.50 a minute. Prepaid credits can be added in $20 increments. People comparing assistants they can text can also look at Poke, an AI agent that works over iMessage, Lindy, an AI teammate in Slack, iMessage and email, and Gemini Spark, Google's always-on personal agent inside the Gemini app.