AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to We turned manus into OpenClaw (it's running on iMessage)
We just made @ManusAI run inside iMessage. You can turn any agent into a native messaging experience: threads, reactions, and real-time interaction across channels. And it’s ALL open source. Everyone is making agents smarter, and we’re making them interact better.
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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Flux▲375how 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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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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AgentSea▲439Today we’re excited to introduce AgentSea, a private AI chat built for sensitive work. When you use closed-source AI models, your data can: – be stored – pulled into training pipelines – shared with third parties That might be fine if you’re making memes or drafting LinkedIn posts. But it becomes a serious risk when you’re pasting contracts, health info, financial data, or business secrets. That’s why we built AgentSea. In Secure Mode, all chats run on open-source models or models hosted on our own servers. Your data never leaves, is never used for training, and is never leaked. Agentsea…
2025 · agentsea.com · its alternatives →
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Text Agent Store▲304A marketplace for AI agents you can text
Sep 2026 · imessage.store · its alternatives →
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Task Bert▲119Fully local open-source agent for managing your texts
Apr 2026 · taskbert.com · its alternatives →
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Interachat▲122The future of messaging - Powered by AI
Nov 2025 · interachat.interasoul.com · its alternatives →
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OpenChatCut▲109Open-source AI agent video editor with a real timeline
Jul 2026 · openchatcut.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, We are Winston, Edward, and James, and we built Meka Agent, an open-source framework that lets vision-based LLMs execute tasks directly on a computer, just like a person would. Backstory: In the last few months, we've been building computer-use agents that have been used by various teams for QA testing, but realized that the underlying browsing frameworks aren't quite good enough yet. As such, we've been working on a browsing agent. We achieved 72.7% on WebArena compared to the previous state of the art set by OpenAI's new ChatGPT agent at 65.4%. You can read more about it here:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Some people would really like to text to their OpenClaw agents on iMessage AND not buy a Mac Mini. If so, this is for you.
Feb 2026 · clawmessenger.com · its alternatives →
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Zero-config hosting to launch specialized AI teams instantly
Feb 2026 · yourclaw.cloud · its alternatives →
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I was building my personal agent, but I had to use Telegram, as it was the easiest platform to integrate. I wanted to build the harness and agent, not the infrastructure around these two, yet my UX was struggling. I stick to iMessage, and then I had to use another app to interact with my agent... So I spent a weekend on building a TypeScript SDK, that unifies how to interact with different iMessage providers (as there is no official way to use iMessage), so you can play around with them, without having to commit to one, nor with a need to rewrite half of the codebase to change the…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An AI assistant that actually does things — not just chat
Feb 2026 · openclaw.easyia.dev · its alternatives →
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2011 · prompt.im · its alternatives →
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MyClaw▲4Your personal AI assistant for WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord
Feb 2026 · myclaw-eight.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm excited to finally launch this project. While existing tools like Postman excel at API discovery and testing, they often require us to navigate complex interfaces, manually construct requests, etc. That's why I created OpenAstra. The core idea is to combine the visual richness of traditional API tools with the simplicity of a chat interface. Think of it as "Postman meets ChatGPT" - allowing us to interact with APIs through natural conversation while retaining core essential features of traditional API tools. If you want to test an endpoint or understand what it does? Just ask. The…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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800M people use ChatGPT and Claude weekly. Right now they get text responses. Soon they'll get real interfaces: product cards, blog posts, booking flows, payment screens rendered directly in the conversation. We built an open-source component library for this. Install any block with one command and customize it to your brand. If you're building MCP servers or experimenting with AI-native apps, this might save you time. Are you building apps for AI assistants? Would love to hear what's missing in your workflow.
Dec 2025 · ui.manifest.build · its alternatives →
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I thought it’d be fun to create an agent that lives in iMessage, and most of all that works in group chats on iMessage. I called her Jade Multiplayer experiences with agents haven’t been really explored as much, and it was interesting to test the boundaries of LLMs with respect to that. I used durable objects from Cloudflare for the backend, and a MacMini that’s always online to handle the reading and writing to iMessage. The nice part is that it decides whether to reply in the group chat, a bit like a human would. It doesn’t always reply like you’d expect in a ChatGPT-like setting. And it…
2025 · itsjade.chat · its alternatives →
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