AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Owl
Owl - Always-on Wearable AI
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Owl launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Open Wearables▲631Hi, I'm Bart, one of the maintainers of Open Wearables. For the past few months we've been building an open-source, self-hosted backend that normalises health and fitness data from multiple wearable providers (Garmin, Whoop, Apple Health, Samsung Health and others) into a single AI-ready REST API - and thought it was worth sharing here too :) We built this out of our own experience doing custom wearable integrations for clients, and from working with paid SaaS solutions that often lack the flexibility to customise data pipelines or debug what's actually happening under the hood.…
Apr 2026 · openwearables.io · its alternatives →
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Hi, HN! I built a proactive open-source AI necklace that transforms your conversations into summaries, proactive feedback, and insights I built this because I want to use it myself: many companies are advertising such technology but no one is shipping The app can work with or without wearables so you can try the experience without buying anything --- Update: wasn't expecting this post to get attention, so please let me know if I need any special tags like Show HN
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Muse Gadgets▲185Meta's open-source kit for building your own AI gadgets
19d ago · gadgets.muse.ai · its alternatives →
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The next evolution of performance AI glasses
2025 · meta.com · its alternatives →
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Owlish▲110Reduce support volume with AI agents trained on your docs
May 2026 · owlish.bot · its alternatives →
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The most accessible AI assistant, now wearable
2025 · ally.me · its alternatives →
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SensWear▲33An open-source modular platform for building wearables
Aug 2026 · sens-wear.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Last year the project I launched here got a lot of good feedback on creating speech to speech AI on the ESP32. Recently I revamped the whole stack, iterated on that feedback and made our project fully open-source—all of the client, hardware, firmware code. This Github repo turns an ESP32-S3 into a realtime AI speech companion using the OpenAI Realtime API, Arduino WebSockets, Deno Edge Functions, and a full-stack web interface. You can talk to your own custom AI character, and it responds instantly. I couldn't find a resource that helped set up a reliable, secure websocket (WSS) AI…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ROOK▲74A wearable API that empowers apps with actionable insights
2023 · tryrook.io · its alternatives →
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FeetMe Sport▲103A smart insole to help you run better with AI coaching
2017 · feetmesport.com · its alternatives →
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1. In the US, about 1/5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children's emotions. 2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you're having a hard time in life or at work, and you can't tell your parents or friends. So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth. We believe this is a complement tool and it…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vi. The first true artificial intelligence personal trainer
2016 · artofthekickstart.com · its alternatives →
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A free course to learn how to design an Apple Watch app
2015 · its alternatives →
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WearUI▲186Collection / Inspiration for wearable device interfaces.
2014 · wearui.co · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is an SDK for ESP32s (microcontrollers) that runs against OpenAI's new WebRTC service [0] My hope is that people can easily add AI to lots of 'real' devices. Wearable devices, speakers around the house, toys etc... You don't have to write any code, just buy a device and set some env variables. If you have any feedback/questions I would love to hear! I hope this kicks off a generation of new interesting devices. If you aren't familiar with WebRTC it can do some magical things. Check out WebRTC for the Curious[1] and would love to talk about all the cool things that does also.…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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