Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run
Caddy vs folk
folk scores 19.8 (F) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Caddy leads on maintenance & community. Both do proactive personal assistants.
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Which one, for what
Caddy F
Best for People who want a free assistant in iMessage or RCS that watches mail, calendars and work tools and asks before acting.
Ahead on
- Maintenance & community, 55 against 35
Watch for
No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.
folk F
Best for People who want a texting companion for habits, workouts, study and money goals, with a free tier.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 25 against 10
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 52
Also in its favour
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Caddy | folk | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 10 | 25 | folk +15 |
| 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 | 3 | folk +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 55 | 35 | Caddy +20 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 52 | 67 | folk +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | F 16.7/100 | F 19.8/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Caddy | folk |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Caddy Technologies Inc. | Nozomio, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Caddy's Terms of Service (Caddy Technologies Inc., last updated 27 April 2026). | Closed service under folk's terms (Nozomio, Inc., last updated 8 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-12 |
| 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
Caddy
Caddy is a free iMessage and RCS assistant in public beta that watches connected mail, calendars and work apps and asks before sending email or changing data. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found, though its iOS app ships every week or two.
folk
folk is a texting accountability assistant with its own cloud computer, a free tier with no card and a privacy policy that rules out training on user data. No outside agent can call it, no status page or changelog was found, and its llms.txt and pricing file disagree on free limits and Max's price.
Before you call either
Caddy
- Don't plan to call Caddy from another agent. It answers the owner's text messages, Siri and group chats it's added to.
- Expect Caddy to ask the owner before it sends email or creates an invite.
folk
- Don't plan to call folk from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, Telegram or WhatsApp thread and iPhone app.
- Quote limits and prices from pricing.md and the terms, and note that llms.txt gives different free-tier limits.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Caddy or folk?
folk scores 19.8 (F) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Caddy leads on maintenance & community.
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Disclosure
Caddy 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.
folk 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.
Machine-readable
- This page as Markdown
/compare/caddy-app-vs-folk-nozomio.md· slim.min.md· JSON.json(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - Each listing in full
/api/v1/tools/caddy-app.json·/api/v1/tools/folk-nozomio.json - From a terminal
anchor compare caddy-app folk-nozomio(the CLI) - Over MCP
compare_tools {"a": "caddy-app", "b": "folk-nozomio"}at/mcp, no key