Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run
asaply vs Orbits
Orbits scores 15.6 (F) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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.
No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.
Watch for
No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.
Orbits F
Best for Families who want one shared assistant for calendars, lists, meals, chores and household email.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 15 against 10
- Payments & pricing, 20 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 2
Watch for
No public agent API, as llms.txt states.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | asaply | Orbits | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 10 | 15 | Orbits +5 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 10 | 10 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 0 | 0 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 0 | 20 | Orbits +20 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 2 | 54 | Orbits +52 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 43 | 43 | even |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | F 7.6/100 | F 15.6/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | asaply | Orbits |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Asaply Inc. | Nemus AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under asaply's Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Messaging Terms (Asaply Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026). | Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | ||
| Privacy policy last updated | ||
| 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.
Orbits
Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found.
Before you call either
asaply
- Don't plan to call asaply from another agent. It answers only texts from the owner's phone number and group chats it joins.
- Tell the owner each errand adds an unpublished service fee to the order total.
Orbits
- Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered.
- Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, asaply or Orbits?
Orbits scores 15.6 (F) on agent readiness against asaply's 7.6 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories.
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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.
Orbits 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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