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A $5 Gumroad licence check existed until 11 October 2026 and is switched off in the source.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT. It needs a paid Claude Pro or Max plan through Claude Code, or a Devin plan through the Devin CLI. The README estimates about 0.18 US cents of plan usage per AI request at API list rates. The source keeps a Gumroad product ID for \"when sales start\".", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, the README or the project site (checked 2026-10-15). The app has nothing to buy.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 163, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac#readme", "capabilities": [ "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client", "desktop.control", "meetings.transcript", "meetings.summary" ], "tags": [ "not-for-agents", "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "byo-plan", "mit", "macos", "swift", "python", "voice", "claude-code", "desktop-app", "telemetry-default-on", "approvals" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.9, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 974, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 9, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 15, "security": 49, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.", "bestFor": "A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.", "strengths": [ "MIT source, with 301 offline tests run by public CI on every push", "Safe mode on by default, with sandboxed shell commands, prompts before delete, send or buy, and rm and sudo denied", "Every request, step and cost logged locally in ~/.config/atticus/log.jsonl", "Speech recognised on the Mac, and simple requests run with no model call", "Telemetry described in the README, with a daily ping that can be turned off and failure reports off by default" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call", "Pulls and builds the main branch every six hours by default, with no signed or tagged release step", "Five days old, one maintainer, two tagged releases and no changelog or deprecation policy", "No privacy policy, SECURITY.md or security.txt", "Needs macOS 26 and a paid Claude Pro or Max plan or a Devin plan" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box", "If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac", "Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings \u003e About \u0026 Updates to turn off self-update" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 9, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 15, "security": 49, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac/main/install.sh | bash" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.memory", "tool": "https://letme.dev/atticus" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Saarth Ranka (GitHub SaarthurR), individual", "domain": "saarthurr.github.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/SaarthurR/atticus-mac/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "The commit author is Saarth Ranka. The GitHub account SaarthurR lists saarthranka.com and California and was created in January 2023. No company is named.", "The project site is a GitHub Pages page with no terms or privacy policy. /privacy, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 15 October 2026. The repository has no SECURITY.md.", "The software runs on the owner's Mac, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check. Telemetry goes to PostHog's US capture endpoint." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atticus.json" }, "answer": "Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "boba", "name": "Boba", "vendor": "humans\u0026 ai, inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://getboba.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Boba is a free AI assistant people text over iMessage, RCS or SMS, one to one or in group chats. It plans with groups, answers questions, drafts messages, makes and edits images and writes songs.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json", "license": "Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans\u0026 ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No app or sign-up form. Sending the pre-written first text, which carries an invite code, is the sign-up (https://getboba.ai). The privacy notice describes optional Google account access through Google APIs (https://getboba.ai/privacy).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "\"No subscription, no ads. Free to use\" (https://getboba.ai, checked 14 October 2026). The terms say no fees are charged today and fees may apply in future (https://getboba.ai/terms).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on getboba.ai or its terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "capabilities": [ "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "memory.user", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "free", "no-card" ], "graded": true, "disclosure": "Boba 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 10.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1084, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 39, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 39 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found.", "bestFor": "Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.", "disclosure": "Boba 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.", "strengths": [ "Free, with no subscription, ads, card or app.", "Works in group chats that mix iPhone and Android.", "Google user data isn't used for advertising or for models beyond the owner's personalised model, and is deleted within 60 days of a request." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "The privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train or fine-tune its models, with no opt-out found.", "No retention period stated for messages.", "No status page, changelog, security.txt or named subprocessors." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app.", "Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 10.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 2, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 30 }, "provenanceScore": 47 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging", "tool": "https://letme.dev/boba" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "humans\u0026 ai, inc.", "domain": "getboba.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-04-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://getboba.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://getboba.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy notice name humans\u0026 ai, inc. and were last updated on 5 October 2026.", "getboba.ai has no robots.txt (404). security.txt, llms.txt and sitemap.xml return 404. No status page or changelog was found. Contact hello@getboba.ai.", "No X account is linked from getboba.ai.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-04-30 for getboba.ai." ], "score": 47 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.json", "live": { "slug": "boba", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://getboba.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:17.829240583Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://getboba.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:01:01.592134352Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "0e6fe10285e6" }, { "url": "https://getboba.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:01:03.653966248Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "7f4fcd74900d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T21:01:03.653966248Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "SaarthurR (Saarth Ranka)", "b": "humans\u0026 ai, inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Your plan", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans\u0026 ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-14", "b": "none", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "163 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Atticus or Boba?" }, { "answer": "Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Boba.", "question": "Are Atticus and Boba open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 15 against 0", "Agent ergonomics, 9 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 51 against 2", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 39" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.", "slug": "atticus", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.", "slug": "boba", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.memory", "name": "Assistants that remember 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Boba vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-natura.json", "title": "Boba vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Boba vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Boba vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openinstinct.json", "title": "Boba vs OpenInstinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openinstinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orbits.json", "title": "Boba vs Orbits", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orbits" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Boba vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-pally.json", "title": "Boba vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Boba vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-poke.json", "title": "Boba vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Boba vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Atticus vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-haven.json", "title": "Atticus vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Atticus vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hirealpha.json", "title": "Atticus vs HireAlpha", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hirealpha" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Atticus vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-leon.json", "title": "Atticus vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Atticus vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Atticus vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-natura.json", "title": "Atticus vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Atticus vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openinstinct.json", "title": "Atticus vs OpenInstinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openinstinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orbits.json", "title": "Atticus vs Orbits", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orbits" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Atticus vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-pally.json", "title": "Atticus vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-poke.json", "title": "Atticus vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-szn.json", "title": "Atticus vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Atticus vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Atticus vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Atticus vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-town.json", "title": "Atticus vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Atticus vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Atticus vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Atticus vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Atticus vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "Boba vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.json", "title": "Boba vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Boba vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Boba vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-atticus.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Atticus", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-atticus" } ], "scores": [ { "atticus": 68, "boba": 15, "by": 53, "edge": "atticus", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atticus": 15, "boba": 0, "by": 15, "edge": "atticus", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "atticus": 9, "boba": 0, "by": 9, "edge": "atticus", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "atticus": 49, "boba": 0, "by": 49, "edge": "atticus", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "atticus": 60, "boba": 30, "by": 30, "edge": "atticus", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atticus": 51, "boba": 2, "by": 49, "edge": "atticus", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "atticus": 56, "boba": 39, "by": 17, "edge": "atticus", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.", "verdicts": { "atticus": "Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.", "boba": "Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba.min.md" }, "markdown": "Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.\n\n- Atticus: grade E, 42.9/100, rank #974 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atticus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atticus.json\n- Boba: grade F, 10.3/100, rank #1084 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 875 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Atticus (E)\n\nGood for: A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 15 against 0\n- Agent ergonomics, 9 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 51 against 2\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 56 against 39\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call\n\n### Boba (F)\n\nGood for: Groups who want a free assistant inside a shared chat for planning, drafting and images.\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Atticus | Boba | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 15 | Atticus +53 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 0 | Atticus +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 9 | 0 | Atticus +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 0 | Atticus +49 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Atticus +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 2 | Atticus +49 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 39 | Atticus +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.9 · E** | **10.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Atticus | Boba |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | SaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) | humans\u0026 ai, inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Your plan | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans\u0026 ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | none |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | 163 stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Atticus.** Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.\n\n**Boba.** Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Atticus\n\n1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box\n2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac\n3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings \u003e About \u0026 Updates to turn off self-update\n\n### Boba\n\n1. Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app.\n2. Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Atticus or Boba?\n\nAtticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Boba's 10.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Atticus and Boba open source?\n\nAtticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Boba.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boba.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"atticus\", \"b\": \"boba\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare atticus boba`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atticus.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Atticus or Boba\n\n- [asaply vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-boba.md)\n- [Asmi vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-boba.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.md)\n- [Boba vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-boski.md)\n- [Boba vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-brea.md)\n- [Boba vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-caddy-app.md)\n- [Boba vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Boba vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del.md)\n- [Boba vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-folk-nozomio.md)\n- [Boba vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gaia.md)\n- [Boba vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Boba vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-haven.md)\n- [Boba vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Boba vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Boba vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Boba vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Boba vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-natura.md)\n- [Boba vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Boba vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Boba vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Boba vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Boba vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-pally.md)\n- [Boba vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-poke.md)\n- [Boba vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Boba vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-szn.md)\n- [Boba vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Boba vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md)\n- [Boba vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Boba vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [asaply vs Atticus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-atticus.md)\n- [Asmi vs Atticus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-atticus.md)\n- [Atticus vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-boski.md)\n- [Atticus vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-brea.md)\n- [Atticus vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-caddy-app.md)\n- [Atticus vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Atticus vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-del.md)\n- [Atticus vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-folk-nozomio.md)\n- [Atticus vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-gaia.md)\n- [Atticus vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-gemini-spark.md)\n- [Atticus vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-grok-bot.md)\n- [Atticus vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-haven.md)\n- [Atticus vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Atticus vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-hirealpha.md)\n- [Atticus vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Atticus vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-leon.md)\n- [Atticus vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Atticus vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Atticus vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-natura.md)\n- [Atticus vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Atticus vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-openinstinct.md)\n- [Atticus vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orbits.md)\n- [Atticus vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-orchid-ai.md)\n- [Atticus vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-pally.md)\n- [Atticus vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-poke.md)\n- [Atticus vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-szn.md)\n- [Atticus vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Atticus vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Atticus vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Atticus vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-town.md)\n- [Atticus vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Atticus vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Atticus vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Atticus vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atticus-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Boba vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gemini-spark.md)\n- [Boba vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.md)\n- [Boba vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Boba vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Atticus](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-atticus.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Boba competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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