Alternatives to The 2025 State of AI

Town gives you a personal AI assistant that studies how you work, then handles your email, meetings, and recurring admin on its own.

AI meeting prep that emails you a research brief 4 hours before every external meeting.

Carly AI is an email-first AI assistant you CC to delegate scheduling, follow-ups, CRM updates, and plain-English workflows.

Lindy is a Slack-native AI teammate that runs agentic workflows across 1,500+ integrations and answers your @mentions in-thread.

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

Microsoft Outlook: unified email, calendar, contacts, and to-do across accounts, from free web and mobile apps to Microsoft 365 desktop clients.

An always-on personal cloud computer you talk to over web, SMS, email, Telegram, Discord or Slack, which hosts your sites and runs your automations.

Open-source self-hosted AI assistant that actually does the work — browser, email, calendar, code, SEO, and multi-platform publishing.

Pally is a text-based AI personal assistant that lives in iMessage, RCS, and Telegram and closes the loose threads across your other apps.

Sky is a natural language AI assistant for macOS that reads what's on your screen and acts inside the apps you already use.

Poke is an AI personal assistant that lives in your texts on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS

Superhuman is an AI email client, docs workspace, and Go assistant whose proactive agents run where your team already works.

ChatGPT is OpenAI's AI chat assistant for reasoning, Codex coding, deep research, voice, and agentic work on one subscription

AI executive assistant that sits on top of Gmail and Outlook to draft replies with full context, label mail, and run email-triggered workflows.

Slack is a channel-based work platform where teams, apps, and AI agents like Slackbot plan, decide, and ship in shared conversations.

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

Open-source, self-hosted AI agent whose SquillaRouter routes each step to cheap or flagship models to cut token cost.

A persistent-memory AI agent OS that runs your email, files, and research on a schedule.

Collaborative AI agent that builds apps, decks, docs, and designs on its own cloud computer while you watch and steer.

Skales is a local AI harness you install like an app — 290+ built-in tools, voice, phone and desktop surfaces, running goals on your own machine.

Open-source Python CLI personal assistant pairing Unix-style dev utilities with a chat interface to your own local LLMs.

An on-device AI companion for macOS that grows with you through voice and memory.

Runable is a general-purpose AI agent that builds websites, apps, slides, and videos from one prompt.

iPhone-only AI workspace combining chat, image and video generation, research, documents, voice, and coding agents in one app.

Gemini is Google's multimodal AI assistant for drafting, transcribing, and video generation inside Gmail, Docs, and Search.

Read.ai records your meetings across Zoom, Meet, and Teams, then lets you search everything it captured.

Reclaim.ai is an AI calendar whose 24/7 scheduling agents defend focus time, place tasks, and resolve meeting conflicts automatically.

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant for long-document analysis, coding, and agentic work in one chat-and-Cowork surface.

Pine AI places real phone calls to negotiate your bills, cancel subscriptions, and chase refunds for you.

DeepSeek is a free reasoning and web-search chat with native multimodal vision, plus a usage-billed developer API.