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

asaply vs Dots

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. asaply leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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Which one, for what

asaply F

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

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 10 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 43 against 31

Watch for

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

Dots F

Best for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 41 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 22 against 0
  • Security & auth, 58 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 10 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 38 against 2

Watch for

Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runasaplyDotsEdge
Reliability16%20103asaply +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21041Dots +31
Agent ergonomics13%16.2022Dots +22
Security & auth14%17.5058Dots +58
Payments & pricing10%12.5010Dots +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8238Dots +36
Transparency & trust7%8.84331asaply +12
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 7.6/100F 28.3/100

Facts side by side

FactasaplyDots
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorAsaply Inc.OpenAI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per usePaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).Proprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-10-09
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

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.

Dots

Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

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.

Dots

  1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
  2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
  3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
  4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
  5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, asaply or Dots?

Dots scores 28.3 (F) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. asaply leads on reliability and transparency & trust.

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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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