Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Haven vs Zapia

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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Which one, for what

Haven F

Best for A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 35 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 6 against 0
  • Security & auth, 13 against 3

Watch for

No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

Zapia F

Best for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking users who want an assistant over their mail, calendar, Drive and WhatsApp in an app.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 35
  • Transparency & trust, 59 against 51

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated connections.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runHavenZapiaEdge
Reliability16%203515Haven +20
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.240Haven +4
Agent ergonomics13%16.260Haven +6
Security & auth14%17.5133Haven +10
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83556Zapia +21
Transparency & trust7%8.85159Zapia +8
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 22.2/100F 17.3/100

Facts side by side

FactHavenZapia
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorHello Haven, Inc.Brainlogic AI S.A.S.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of ServiceClosed service under Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-09-172026-10-12
Terms last updated2026-07-24
Privacy policy last updated2026-07-24
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text

Verdicts

Haven

Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

Zapia

Zapia is a personal assistant app for iOS, Android and the web with a free plan that isn't a trial, weekly iOS releases and explicit confirmation before anything that writes. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, security contact or hosting location was found.

Before you call either

Haven

  1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
  2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
  3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
  4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
  5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

Zapia

  1. Don't plan to call Zapia from another agent. It answers only in its own app and on the web, and the terms forbid unauthorised automated access.
  2. Tell the owner that Pro and Ultra trials become paid after 7 days unless cancelled in the app store.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Haven or Zapia?

Haven scores 22.2 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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Disclosure

Zapia 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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