# Lobby vs Zapia

> Zapia scores 17.3 (F) to Lobby's 11.1 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Zapia scores 17.3 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on schema & documentation. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- Lobby: grade F, 11.1/100, rank #1182 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lobby-os.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lobby-os.json
- Zapia: grade F, 17.3/100, rank #1154 of 1197. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zapia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zapia.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1006 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Lobby (F)

Good for: A person who wants mail drafts, follow-ups and scheduling prepared for approval across Google and a few work tools.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 10 against 0

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

### Zapia (F)

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

Ahead on:
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 56 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 59 against 43

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Lobby | Zapia | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 15 | even |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 0 | Lobby +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 3 | Zapia +3 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Zapia +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 56 | Zapia +54 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 43 | 59 | Zapia +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **11.1 · F** | **17.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lobby | Zapia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Lobby OS, Inc. | Brainlogic AI S.A.S. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service under Lobby's Terms of Use (Lobby OS, Inc.), last updated 26 March 2026. | Closed service under Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | none | 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 |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Lobby.** Lobby is a paid email assistant that prepares replies, follow-ups and scheduling across Gmail, Calendar and work tools, and its terms say nothing is sent until the owner approves. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found on 21 October 2026.

**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

### Lobby

1. Don't plan to call Lobby from another agent. It works only inside its own app for the signed-in owner.
2. Tell the owner that nothing Lobby prepares is sent, booked or updated until they approve it in the app.
3. Check whether the 7-day trial takes a card before signing the owner up. The terms don't say.

### 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, Lobby or Zapia?

Zapia scores 17.3 (F) on agent readiness against Lobby's 11.1 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lobby leads on schema & documentation.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- Lobby 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.
- 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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