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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Atticus vs Town

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Atticus's 42.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Atticus leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do assistants that remember you.

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AtticusSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) · Platform E42.9/100#974 of 1094 TownTown.com, Inc. · Platform D48.7/100#878 of 1094

Which one, for what

Atticus E

Best for A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 68 against 35
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call

Town D

Best for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 33 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 49 against 9
  • Security & auth, 79 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 51
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 56

Watch for

The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtticusTownEdge
Reliability16%206835Atticus +33
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21533Town +18
Agent ergonomics13%16.2949Town +40
Security & auth14%17.54979Town +30
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Atticus +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85160Town +9
Transparency & trust7%8.85663Town +7
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 42.9/100D 48.7/100

Facts side by side

FactAtticusTown
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka)Town.com, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-142026-10-10
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
Popularity163 starsnone

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.

Town

Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

Before you call either

Atticus

  1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box
  2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac
  3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update

Town

  1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
  2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
  3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
  4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
  5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Atticus or Town?

Town scores 48.7 (D) on agent readiness against Atticus's 42.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Atticus leads on reliability and payments & pricing.

Are Atticus and Town open source?

Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Town.

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Disclosure

Town 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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