# folk vs Gemini Spark

> Gemini Spark scores 24.5 (F) to folk's 19.8 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-13

Gemini Spark scores 24.5 (F) on agent readiness against folk's 19.8 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. folk leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

- folk: grade F, 19.8/100, rank #993 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/folk-nozomio.json
- Gemini Spark: grade F, 24.5/100, rank #982 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemini-spark.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-spark.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### folk (F)

Good for: People who want a texting companion for habits, workouts, study and money goals, with a free tier.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 25 against 14
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 35 against 17
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 49

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

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

### Gemini Spark (F)

Good for: A person who already keeps mail, calendar and files in a personal Google Account and accepts Keep Activity being on.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 17 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 9 against 0
- Security & auth, 60 against 3

Watch for: No public API, SDK or MCP server for an outside agent was found. Spark is reached in the Gemini mobile app, the Mac app and gemini.google.com


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | folk | Gemini Spark | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 14 | folk +11 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 17 | Gemini Spark +7 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 9 | Gemini Spark +9 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 3 | 60 | Gemini Spark +57 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 10 | folk +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 17 | folk +18 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 49 | folk +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **19.8 · F** | **24.5 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | folk | Gemini Spark |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Nozomio, Inc. | Google LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under folk's terms (Nozomio, Inc., last updated 8 September 2026). | Proprietary hosted service under the Google Terms of Service |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-05-19 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Gemini Spark.** Google's help pages state what Spark confirms before doing, how to delete its remote browser and code data, and the risks of prompt injection. Spark has no public API, Google calls it experimental, and it runs only with Keep Activity on, the setting under which chats are used for model training and human review.

## Before you call either

### folk

1. Don't plan to call folk from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, Telegram or WhatsApp thread and iPhone app.
2. Quote limits and prices from pricing.md and the terms, and note that llms.txt gives different free-tier limits.

### Gemini Spark

1. Do not plan an integration against Spark. No public API or MCP server was found, and a person must hold a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription
2. Expect a confirmation request before sends, edits, purchases and web form submissions, and note that bulk changes to private Google Tasks run without one
3. Delete remote browser data and remote code execution data in Gemini Spark Settings after a sensitive session. Deleting a task thread or Gemini Apps activity does not remove them
4. Keep within 15 running tasks and 50 active schedules. A schedule does not run when 15 tasks are running or the usage limit is reached
5. Treat every safety statement here as Google's own description. None was tested, and no message was sent to the service

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, folk or Gemini Spark?

Gemini Spark scores 24.5 (F) on agent readiness against folk's 19.8 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. folk leads on reliability, payments & pricing, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-gemini-spark.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-gemini-spark.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "folk-nozomio", "b": "gemini-spark"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare folk-nozomio gemini-spark`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/folk-nozomio.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemini-spark.json

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## Disclosure

- 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.