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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

Lindy vs Tomo

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.3/100#971 of 993 TomoMapo Labs, Inc. · Platform F13.1/100#989 of 993

Which one, for what

Lindy F

Best for Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 24 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 32 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0
  • Security & auth, 49 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 10
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 47

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.

Tomo F

Best for People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 54 against 9

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLindyTomoEdge
Reliability16%202415Lindy +9
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2320Lindy +32
Agent ergonomics13%16.2430Lindy +43
Security & auth14%17.5490Lindy +49
Payments & pricing10%12.53510Lindy +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8954Tomo +45
Transparency & trust7%8.85247Lindy +5
Negative events≤15-30
TotalF 32.3/100F 13.1/100

Facts side by side

FactLindyTomo
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)Mapo Labs, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is publishedClosed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2025-10-212026-09-29
Terms last updated2026-09-24
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-28
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

Verdicts

Lindy

Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.

Tomo

Tomo is a hosted personal AI over iMessage and an iOS app, centred on goals, check-ins and reminders, with regular iOS releases since April 2026. No outside agent can call it, there's no free plan, and no status page, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

Before you call either

Lindy

  1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.
  2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.
  3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.
  4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.
  5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.

Tomo

  1. Don't plan to call Tomo from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage, group chats it's added to and the iOS app.
  2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Tomo?

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance & community.

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Disclosure

Tomo 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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