The best Instinct alternatives

Better than Instinct if you want the most capable free personal agent and you're comfortable giving Meta access to your accounts.

Muse is the most complete personal agent you can get today: it books, buys, handles email and forms, and it's free to start. It also has the strongest published safeguards here: approvals before sending or buying, a full audit trail, and a separate agent that checks anything it sends out. The catch is trust: it wants deep access to your email, calendar and payments, it's run by Meta, and reporting found that some of its beta phone calls were completed by human workers.

Better than Instinct if you want a free agent in your texts that books, calls businesses and chases refunds.

Pally is the best free agent you can text: it books, calls and chases refunds, and it asks before anything consequential. It plans to earn fees from merchants when you buy through it, though it says merchants can't pay to change its picks, and working through websites needs the $95-a-month Cloud Mac add-on.

Better than Instinct if you want an assistant you text, with a real free plan, that keeps on top of email and calendar.

Poke is the most natural agent to live with: you text it like a friend, and it keeps an eye on your inbox and calendar. The free plan is real. It doesn't browse or buy for you, and the human errand service is on the $199 Ultra plan.

Better than Instinct if you're often arranging plans with other people and like the idea of your agents coordinating them.

Rene's standout idea is agent-to-agent coordination: your Rene can arrange plans with a friend's Rene. It's free to start, asks before booking or sending, and uses delegated access so it never sees your password. It's new, and paid pricing isn't published.

Better than Instinct if you want an agent that saves you money on subscriptions, bills and refunds, and you'd rather text than open an app.

Boski is the most focused money-saver here: text it a bill or a broken purchase and it does the tedious part. The free allowance refills weekly, and Regular is $5 a week. It launched in 2026, so there are no independent reviews or reported savings yet, and it isn't built for booking, shopping or research.

Better than Instinct if you mostly need calls, emails and follow-ups handled and want to try it free.

szn focuses on the part of errands most agents skip: calling businesses and chasing follow-ups. It's free while in preview, but it's very new and hasn't published pricing or usage numbers yet.

Better than Instinct if you want to call or text an assistant about your calendar and inbox, and proactive help is worth paying for.

Martin is a capable texting assistant with the widest set of ways to reach it, including a phone call. It's one of the pricier options, the Basic plan is limited to two tasks at a time, and App Store reviews mention slow support and unreliable texting.

Better than Instinct if you want an encouraging assistant in iMessage that can also help a group chat make plans.

Tomo is the friendliest agent here and the best one to add to a group chat. It's more of a coach and organizer than an errand-runner, and reviewers complain that the $19.99 price only appears after a long onboarding chat.