messaging Tools

Hoy puts your people in your Mac's menu bar, on top of everything you do. Drop a file on a face. Hold to talk, and Hoy writes it down as you speak. Show your screen. Hand over a to-do. Every face is a channel, with one person or a group, and a link is all it takes to bring someone in. No sign-up, no middleman: your channels live in your own iCloud and there is no Hoy server. Free, with a pay-once Pro. Needs macOS 26. iPhone and iPad are coming soon.

Every AI is built for one person. Remember Tamagotchi? 💀 bondi is like one that lives in your friends chat and belongs to the group. Say “30 days of gym” and it sets up the challenge. Everyone checks in with a photo, and doing real things together gives it lives ❤️❤️❤️. Go quiet and it starts losing them. At zero it dies. It also makes games, stickers, countdowns and videos right in the chat. Free on iPhone, web and Mac.

Open Source Slack and Campfire inspired chat with one click deploy to Cloudflare. Slack-compatible payloads, AI assistant, media attachments, all built-in and hosted for $0 on Cloudflare free tiers.

Kettle is a helper in your family's group chat. There's no app and nothing to set up: text it on its own, or start a group message with "Kettle." It remembers the details you tell it, plans dinners around your week, builds a grocery cart for you to review and check out, and sends group or private reminders plus a short morning brief. Getting started: text hi, each person texts once so it knows who's who, then add Kettle to the group. 7 days free, then $19 a month for the whole family.

Nörth brings remote teams together with spatial voice chat, drop-in rooms, and voice and video messaging. Peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted, and native to macOS.

A daily check-in app that works like a dead man's switch. You check in by opening the app. If you miss your check-in and its reminders, your pre-written message is texted to the contacts you chose. For US and Canadian phone numbers.

Every job gets its own chat for crews, subs and clients, with snags, bookings, video meetings and a client portal built in. Photos become snags, messages become a record. Subs and clients are free. Built by builders, for UK sites.

Agent Inbox gives every AI agent its own email address, Slack handle and Telegram handle, all behind one API. Message your agent from wherever you already work, and it replies in the same thread. It works with Claude, Grok, OpenAI, Hermes and any other agent framework. No more glue code for each channel: your agent gets one inbox, and you get one place to reach it.

Fill your next B2B conference, summit, or workshop with SMS invitations and relevant follow-ups. Give TopAgent your opted-in audience, event details, registration link, and deadline. It prepares the campaign, monitors delivery, clicks, and replies, and returns with follow-ups ready for your approval.

JIMMY runs on your Windows PC and listens to your WhatsApp self-chat. Text "send the resume in Downloads to Rahul" or "screenshot" and it does the task, asks before sending anything, and replies. Scheduled tasks, custom commands, /stop and an undo log included.

Claude Duet is a helpful, proactive agent you hand off work to through messages. Tell it what you need and it works on its own computer in the cloud, using apps you connect. It messages you when it is done or needs a decision from you. While it’s always on, it uses good judgment when it reaches out and knows what can wait.

As an Apple Messaging Service Provider, we enable verified, branded conversations inside Apple's Messages app, with quick replies, interactive forms, appointment scheduling, Apple Pay, and rich media. Connect your CRM, support team, or AI agents through one unified API, with RCS, SMS, and WhatsApp supported too. This is business messaging beyond blue bubbles. Same API you've been using for the past 2 years is now compatible with the official business channel!

Your inbox, with a price on it. People pay to send yu a note or subscribe weekly. You reply from one inbx, when it suits you, and Stripe pays you. Run it fr on your own server, or let us host it: 30 days fre.

Intelli is now a plugin in ChatGPT’s directory, and works in Claude and any MCP client. Ask in plain language and your AI assistant handles your WhatsApp, Instagram and website conversations: summarise unanswered chats, launch campaigns, build chatbot flows, update contacts and products. 89 tools, OAuth sign-in, no API keys. Nothing is sent, edited or deleted until you confirm. Also new: Instagram/Facebook comment & DM automation.

Tend is a personal AI agent you text. No new app: it lives in iMessage or SMS and works inside your own accounts: Gmail, calendar, Shopify, QuickBooks, HubSpot. It replies to email in your voice, books tables, fills your cart, makes phone calls, finds leads and builds your website. The difference: nothing is sent, bought or changed without your yes, and what it learns about you sits in a Brain you can read and correct. It also texts you first with reminders, price watches and flight updates.

bonds is the messaging app for the next generation. Every friends' chat gets an AI friend with superpowers. Not an assistant: it gets your inside jokes, keeps the fun going, helps you pull things off together. A little unhinged 💀 "A week without TikTok?" It creates a challenge app with streaks, inside the chat. No downloads. Games, videos, stickers, too. It remembers what matters to each of you, notices when someone's struggling, gets grumpy if you ghost it. You care for it, it cares for you.

readywhen is the senior Personal Assistant that works inside WhatsApp. It has its own phone number, its own computer, and a project board that keeps track of everything on your plate. Call it. Message it. Voice-note it. And it gets real work done.

Tori AI support agent learns your product in depth from the content you already have, then delivers accurate answers to even the most complex customer questions through a UI you can fully customize.

Fwrd routes qualifying iPhone texts to Slack, Discord, or Telegram through a Message automation you create in Apple Shortcuts. The automation runs from your iPhone and sends to destinations you control. No Fwrd account is required. Start with 15 forwards per calendar month free. Setup guide: https://www.fwrdsms.com/guides/automation

Chatway is a live chat and customer support platform that lets you bring your own AI agent. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible assistant to manage customer conversations, reply to messages, search contacts, and access your knowledge base. No coding required. Chatway also includes a built-in AI Support Agent, shared inbox, help center, automation, iOS and Android apps, and integrations with WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and more. Get started for free.

Elocuenti is agentic commerce for WhatsApp and AI assistants. Your customers buy by chatting: on WhatsApp with your AI agent, or in ChatGPT and Claude, where their assistant searches your real catalog, builds the cart and places the order. Your agent learns from every customer, follows up, recovers carts and runs campaigns that send conversions back to Meta Ads.