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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

asaply vs nanobot

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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asaplyAsaply Inc. · Platform F7.6/100#1006 of 1010 nanobotHKUDS · Agent harness B62.4/100#446 of 1010

Which one, for what

asaply F

Best for People in covered neighbourhoods who want coffee, lunch, tickets and rides handled by text.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where nanobot loses 6 points for them

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

nanobot B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 10
  • Schema & documentation, 77 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 0
  • Security & auth, 63 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 2
  • Transparency & trust, 48 against 43

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runasaplynanobotEdge
Reliability16%201070nanobot +60
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21077nanobot +67
Agent ergonomics13%16.2074nanobot +74
Security & auth14%17.5063nanobot +63
Payments & pricing10%12.5060nanobot +60
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8282nanobot +80
Transparency & trust7%8.84348nanobot +5
Negative events≤150-6
TotalF 7.6/100B 62.4/100

Facts side by side

Factasaplynanobot
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorAsaply Inc.HKUDS
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPay per useFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-15
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone49k stars

Verdicts

asaply

asaply is a text-only errand assistant in early access that orders, books and pays through Apple Pay after showing the total, and can read and change a connected Google Calendar and Gmail. No outside agent can call it, the service fee isn't published, and no status page or security contact was found.

nanobot

nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes.

Before you call either

asaply

  1. Don't plan to call asaply from another agent. It answers only texts from the owner's phone number and group chats it joins.
  2. Tell the owner each errand adds an unpublished service fee to the order total.

nanobot

  1. Set tools.restrictToWorkspace to true and tools.exec.sandbox to bwrap or seatbelt before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default
  2. Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m)
  3. Keep allowFrom narrow on every channel and never set ["*"] on Email, which has no pairing
  4. Write secrets as ${VAR} references in ~/.nanobot/config.json. Plain values are stored in clear text
  5. Use nanobot -m "..." for a one-shot run, and keep nanobot gateway running for channels, schedules and heartbeat

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, asaply or nanobot?

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are asaply and nanobot open source?

No open-source release is listed for asaply. nanobot is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

asaply competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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