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24 alternatives to Nelly

Hi, my name is Timothy and I've been working on Nelly for the last few months. Nelly is an AI agent platform where you can build, use and soon share AI agents/assistents. You create the agents by simply writing instructions in natural language, and you can break down these instructions into smaller parts as sub-agents. You then use these agents with Nelly's chat interface to perform tasks for you. Nelly is a desktop app, currently for Mac but soon also for Windows and Linux, that you install on your computer. The agents and their data are stored on your computer but the LLM used for…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 4 we have checked on their own sites, 4 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Build business AI agents in minutes

    Apr 2026 · jetadmin.io · its alternatives →

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    Flux▲375

    how can we make AI agents more accessible? it has been a crazy journey seeing how AI agents gets smarter every single day but interaction layer is still missing we are launching Spectrum TODAY: one Unified API connect your AI Agents into iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and more

    Jan 2026 · photon.codes · its alternatives →

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    SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589

    Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…

    2025 · simplai.ai · its alternatives →

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    Littlebirdfree tier, from $17/mo▲709

    Littlebird remembers everything across your meetings, messages, docs, and apps, then takes action so you can recall any detail and never lose context.

    Mar 2026 · littlebird.ai · its alternatives →

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    Solidfree tier, from $40/mo▲471

    Agents with their own computers, accounts, and budgets.

    Sep 2026 · solid.tech · its alternatives →

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    Agentlyfree tier, from $33/mo▲336

    Agently is an AI Work OS where documents, tasks, team chat, and integrations are fully interconnected, and AI employees operate inside that shared workspace. Instead of prompting AI in isolation, agents can read project context, turn strategy docs into tasks, coordinate with teammates, run research/outreach/content workflows, update boards, and push results back into the system or external tools. The workspace acts as persistent memory, so work continues instead of resetting every prompt. Happy to answer any questions

    Jul 2026 · agently.dev · its alternatives →

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    Orchids▲685

    Build any app using your existing AI subscriptions

    2025 · orchids.app · its alternatives →

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    You can now vibe code agentic AI apps

    Jan 2026 · blink.new · its alternatives →

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    Instant, automated support for customers and internal teams

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Build AI agents that respond with UI instead of text

    Feb 2026 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →

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    Velozity▲450

    Multiplayer platform for your teams and AI Agents.

    Sep 2026 · getvelozity.com · its alternatives →

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    Sparks AI▲128

    Hi Hacker News, we just launched our beta for Sparks AI. Sparks AI is a platform for building, sharing, and monetizing your AI assistants using app integrations and multiple LLMs. We're still working out the kinks and would love to get your feedback. We also have a discord: https://discord.gg/bdWknpfVKX We’re trying to get our initial users to serve personally and hope that you give us a shot. Thank you

    2025 · getsparks.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I made this thing: https://tryflux.ai/. Here's a demo video: https://screen.studio/share/1y2EnC26 Context: I've tried probably 15 different AI apps over the past year. ChatGPT, note-taking apps, productivity apps, all of it. But most of them are just clutter on my iphone. They live in some app I have to deliberately open. And I just... don't. But you know what I open 50 times a day without thinking? iMessage. So out of mild frustration with the "AI app graveyard" on my phone, I built Flux. What it does: - You describe a personality and what…

    Jan 2026 · tryflux.ai · its alternatives →

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    Flowise▲258

    Build AI agents, visually

    2025 · flowiseai.com · its alternatives →

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    Outerspan▲205

    Deploy agents that have their own email inbox

    2025 · outerspan.com · its alternatives →

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    Ogment AI▲159

    Make your product accessible in ChatGPT & Claude, in minutes

    Jul 2026 · ogment.ai · its alternatives →

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    For years, I was stuck. Trapped in a loop. Every new project, every team initiative – it began with the same soul-crushing setup. Hours. Gone. Not on the actual work, mind you. But on the meta-work. Defining tasks. Sketching forms. Mapping workflows. Hunting for that 'perfect' template that never quite fit. Just trying to get to zero. To a starting line where meaningful work could actually begin. Most project management tools? They're brilliant once things are up and running. Tracking, collaborating, reporting – they nail it. But that initial blank canvas? That moment you’re staring at an…

    Jul 2026 · flowtask.work · its alternatives →

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    Build, customize, deploy – AI Agents your way with OAK

    2025 · saalt.ai · its alternatives →

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    Nerve▲122

    Hi HN, Tanooj and Aziz here from Nerve. We’re building a work AI that handles full end to end workflows rather than just chat replies. It starts with proactively figuring out what’s important to you - anything you need to take action on or updates on any projects - and then moves all the way through the process. Nerve gathers the relevant information, drafts documents, writes jira tickets, sends emails, etc. What this looks like in practice is: say an account executive has a sales call that gets recorded into Gong, Nerve automatically picks up the call, and extracts the next steps. Users can…

    Dec 2025 · usenerve.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, We're Cosmic (YC W19), a headless CMS. Today we're launching Team Agents and the Cosmic Agent. Team Agents are AI-powered team members that live in Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram. They have names, roles, persistent memory, and real capabilities. Not chatbots. Not one-off prompts. Persistent agents that work alongside your team. Here's what they can do: CONTENT AGENTS write blog posts, landing pages, and marketing copy. They generate images, add SEO metadata, and publish directly to the CMS. Message them in Slack, get a finished post back. CODE AGENTS read your codebase, create…

    Dec 2025 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →

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    hi guys. been working on something i think is fundamentally missing in today's workflow with ai agents. vcs. i find myself struggling with questions that agents can't answer like "why did you do it?", "when did u delete this folder? why?", etc. or trying to /rewind (after a /compact...) or basically `bisect` to find when and why something was done by the agent in the current / previous session. just like git did for code, i think we are the same core capabilities with ai agents so... i developed an open source solution for that (currently supporting claude code) would love to…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rebolt▲110

    Build AI-powered apps and agents, by speaking with AI

    2025 · rebolt.ai · its alternatives →

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    I initially built this for myself but some folks asked me to open access to it. Let me explain what I built and why. I'm a product designer who transitioned from only designing to building complete software products myself and I found myself using AI coding agents literally every day. I started with cursor, then codex and claude code, then kilo code, and then moved to opencode. The only thing AI agents couldn't get done for me was to keep track of my todos and tasks for all my projects. I ended up vibe coding a todo app separately or using apps like TickTick. The main issue with separate…

    Apr 2026 · taskshell.app · its alternatives →

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    Build a team of AI specialists that deliver quality work

    Mar 2026 · agentlab.morphmind.ai · its alternatives →

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