# folk vs Hark Pro

> Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) to folk's 19.8 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-19

Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) on agent readiness against folk's 19.8 (F), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. folk leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you.

- folk: grade F, 19.8/100, rank #1128 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/folk-nozomio.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/folk-nozomio.json
- Hark Pro: grade F, 21.6/100, rank #1123 of 1171. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hark-pro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hark-pro.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 917 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 15
- Maintenance & community, 35 against 0
- Transparency & trust, 67 against 42

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5

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

### Hark Pro (F)

Good for: Hark Pro is a personal assistant for web, iOS and Android.

Ahead on:
- Agent ergonomics, 10 against 0
- Security & auth, 45 against 3

Watch for: External API and MCP access were not verified


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | folk | Hark Pro | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 15 | folk +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 10 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 10 | Hark Pro +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 3 | 45 | Hark Pro +42 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 0 | folk +35 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 67 | 42 | folk +25 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **19.8 · F** | **21.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | folk | Hark Pro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Nozomio, Inc. | Hark Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under folk's terms (Nozomio, Inc., last updated 8 September 2026). | Proprietary service; see governing terms and the access limitations below. |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | none |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |

## 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.

**Hark Pro.** Free tier includes the assistant capabilities. External API and MCP access were not verified.

## 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.

### Hark Pro

1. Hand onboarding to the person using the Hark app.
2. Do not treat Hark Services integrations as an API for calling Hark.

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, folk or Hark Pro?

Hark Pro scores 21.6 (F) on agent readiness against folk's 19.8 (F), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. folk leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust.


## For agents

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

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