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Alternatives to Magic

30 tools that compete with or replace Magic. Ranked by direct product-type match — not generic category overlap.

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What is the best Magic alternative?

The best Magic alternative today is Town because it is a safe bet on our live viability checks and it has the widest real-user coverage of these options; it also has a free tier.

Ranked on live viability checks, real-user mentions and how often AI engines read each tool — never pay-for-placement.

Lindy

Lindy

Lindy is an AI employee that runs multi-step workflows across 3,000+ integrations and reports finished work back in Slack.

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Town

Town

Town is a personal AI work assistant that learns your inbox, calendar and docs, then runs routines for you.

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Floatboat

Floatboat

Floatboat is a calendar-driven AI agent OS that preps briefs, drafts, and follow-ups before you sit down.

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Bond

Bond

Bond is an AI chief of staff that mines Slack, email and calendar into one prioritized P0–P3 to-do list

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RecallVerse

RecallVerse

RecallVerse is an AI contact memory app that lets you find anyone in your network by describing how you met.

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Carly AI

Carly AI

CC Carly on an email and an AI agent handles scheduling, inbox triage, outreach, and CRM updates for you.

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Dume.ai

Dume.ai

Dume.ai is an AI executive assistant that triages your inbox, runs scheduled routines and takes calls on WhatsApp, phone and desktop.

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Roxy AI

Roxy AI

Private AI assistant on your own dedicated server that remembers every conversation and takes real-world action.

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Slack

Slack

Slack channel-based team messaging with Slackbot AI agents that research, automate workflows, and hand off to agents

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Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365 puts a tenant-grounded AI assistant inside Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams.

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Poke (Interaction Co.)

Poke (Interaction Co.)

Poke is an AI personal assistant you text on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram or RCS to run email, calendar and reminders

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Attrove AI

Attrove AI

Attrove AI watches commitments made in email, chat, and meetings and alerts an owner when the work goes quiet.

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Ambient

Ambient

Ambient pools your team's meetings, chats, and emails into one shared context layer your AI assistants can read.

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Routine Android

Routine Android

Routine for Android: a local-first AI workspace for tasks, calendar, notes and custom databases, now at desktop parity.

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RPLY

RPLY

NOX (formerly RPLY) unifies 10 chat apps on macOS and drafts replies in your own voice.

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Pally

Pally

Pally is the AI personal assistant you text — it remembers, books, chases, and calls so you don't have to.

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Dex

Dex

Dex is an AI workspace with operational memory across Gmail, Slack, and CRM that runs agents and completes work in your browser.

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Waylight

Waylight

On-device AI memory that lets you chat with everything you've seen on your Mac or PC — no cloud copy.

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Gaia

Gaia

Open-source AI assistant that runs multi-step workflows across Gmail, Slack, Notion and 100+ other tools from a plain-English prompt.

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ZenAI

ZenAI

ZenAion is an AI agent with persistent memory that runs scheduled email, Drive, and Reddit workflows for you.

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Zoom Workplace

Zoom Workplace

Zoom Workplace is an AI-first work platform that turns meetings into notes, docs, and next steps.

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writeGPT

writeGPT

writeGPT puts a ChatGPT side panel on any webpage in Chrome for drafting replies, summarizing articles, and rewriting text.

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Coda

Coda

Coda (now Superhuman Docs) is a collaborative workspace where docs behave like apps — tables, formulas, and AI built in.

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Clade

Clade

Clade is a chat-based AI product manager that runs your project tracking inside Slack, Telegram, and iMessage

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Overlord

Overlord

Overlord is an AI accountability partner that blocks apps, places calls, and charges real money when you break your own rules.

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BeeDone

BeeDone

BeeDone is a gamified to-do list with an AI coach and a Doomscroll Blocker that locks TikTok and Instagram until you earn your daily XP.

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Raycast

Raycast

Raycast is a keyboard-first launcher that runs your Mac apps, files, extensions, and AI agents from one hotkey.

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Slashit App

Slashit App

Slashit is a Mac and Windows text expander with built-in AI sentence rewriting and clipboard history for any app

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Tally

Tally

Free form builder with unlimited forms and submissions — type questions like a doc, add conditional logic, payments and e-signatures.

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PopTask

PopTask

PopTask turns messy typed or spoken tasks into scheduled reminders on Mac, iPhone and iPad with on-device parsing under 500ms.

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Magic alternatives compared

Magic and its closest alternatives: pricing type, starting price, free tier, last verified date and viability band
ToolPricing typeStarting priceFree tierLast verifiedViability
MagicFreemium$360/wkYesSafe bet
LindyFreemium$49.99/moYesSafe bet
TownFreemium$15/moYesSafe bet
FloatboatFreemium$12.99/packYesSafe bet
BondFreemium$49/moYesSafe bet
RecallVerseFreemium$4.99/moYesSafe bet
Carly AIFreemium$35/moYesSafe bet
Dume.aiFreemium$8/mo billed annuallyYesModerate
Roxy AIPaid$99/moNoSafe bet

First row is Magic itself. Starting price is the cheapest paid plan on each vendor's published pricing; viability is our band, not a score.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Magic?

Yes — RecallVerse starts at $4.99/mo against Magic's $360/wk, on the pricing each vendor publishes today.

Which Magic alternative is free?

Town has a free tier on its published pricing and is also our top pick. Free tiers change often; the "Last verified" column shows when we last checked each one.

Is Magic still active?

Yes. Magic is live and its listing was verified on 7 Nov 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Magic alternative?

The best Magic alternative today is Town because it is a safe bet on our live viability checks and it has the widest real-user coverage of these options; it also has a free tier.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Magic?

Yes — RecallVerse starts at $4.99/mo against Magic's $360/wk, on the pricing each vendor publishes today.

Which Magic alternative is free?

Town has a free tier on its published pricing and is also our top pick. Free tiers change often; the "Last verified" column shows when we last checked each one.

Is Magic still active?

Yes. Magic is live and its listing was verified on 7 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Magic?

We currently list 30 alternatives to Magic: Lindy, Town, Floatboat, Bond, RecallVerse. Each is ranked by direct product-type match rather than generic category overlap.

How do you choose which Magic alternatives to show?

Alternatives are ranked by direct product-type match — tools that do the same job — not by shared category tags. Every listed tool is independently re-verified on a continuous cycle.

How this page is made: drafted with AI models from our own verified data — live site checks, current pricing and the public sentiment we gather from Reddit, Product Hunt, G2 and community forums — and checked against our editorial standards before it is published. Every claim carries its source and date. Nothing here is pay-for-placement. Read the full methodology.