{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "poke", "name": "Poke", "vendor": "The Interaction Company of California Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://poke.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Hosted personal assistant from The Interaction Company of California, reached by text on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS. It works across the owner's Gmail or Outlook mail, calendar, contacts and connected apps.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "poke" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A person signs up at poke.com and connects a Google or Microsoft account. The Poke API takes `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e` with a V2 key created in Kitchen under API Keys. Keys are named, shown once, revocable one at a time and have no scopes. Older `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated endpoint. The CLI signs in with a browser device code and stores credentials in `~/.config/poke/credentials.json`. Third-party MCP servers are connected with an API key or OAuth (https://poke.com/docs/api; https://poke.com/docs/mcp-servers; https://poke.com/docs/creating-recipes).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at $0 with no card. Pro is $19 a month and Ultra $199 a month on monthly billing. Free and Pro have a refilling usage allowance, with no figures published, and Poke continues in a lighter mode past it. Ultra includes a monthly credit pool (1 credit is $1 of usage), with top-ups and optional auto-reload. Poke Human is included with Ultra, with real-world expenses charged at cost. Model usage is not billed separately (https://poke.com/pricing; https://poke.com/docs/usage-and-resets; https://poke.com/faq, checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$19 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms.txt or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://poke.com/docs", "llmsTxt": "https://poke.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "messaging", "imessage", "whatsapp", "telegram", "gmail", "outlook", "mcp-client", "api-key", "free-tier", "status-page", "llms-txt", "trains-on-data-by-default" ], "lastRelease": "2026-06-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.6, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 958, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 30, "maintenance": 31, "payments": 30, "reliability": 51, "schema": 42, "security": 24, "transparency": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.", "bestFor": "One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.", "strengths": [ "Answers on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS, with the channel chosen in settings, per the docs welcome page and FAQ", "Free plan with no card, Pro at $19 a month and Ultra at $199 a month, all published without a sign-in", "Connects any remote MCP server by URL, with API key or OAuth, and OAuth servers with Dynamic Client Registration need no setup", "status.poke.com lists App, Email, Integrations, three messaging channels and API, with two incidents from July to 12 October 2026", "Named API keys are created in Kitchen, shown once and revoked one at a time" ], "weaknesses": [ "No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing", "Customer content, including email contents, may train AI models unless the user selects Maximum Privacy, per the privacy notice of 11 September 2026", "Model providers, sub-processors, hosting locations and where account tokens are stored are not named in the pages read", "An API key message is processed with full access to email, calendar and integrations. Keys have no scopes", "No security.txt, disclosure policy, bug bounty or certification was found on poke.com", "The terms forbid automated access for scraping and use for benchmarking or competitive analysis. This matters before any probe is run" ], "agentNotes": [ "POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`", "Expect only `{\"success\": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller", "Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice", "Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done", "Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 37.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 30, "maintenance": 31, "payments": 30, "reliability": 51, "schema": 42, "security": 24, "transparency": 34 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "install": "npx poke@latest login", "http": "curl 'https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message' \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"message\": \"test\"}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/poke" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "billed monthly, refilling usage allowance with no published figure" }, { "item": "Ultra", "unit": "month", "usd": 199, "note": "billed monthly, includes a monthly credit pool and Poke Human" }, { "item": "Ultra top-up credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 1, "note": "1 credit is $1 of usage" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "The Interaction Company of California Inc.", "domain": "poke.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-03-26", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://poke.com/terms", "privacy": "https://poke.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.poke.com", "changelog": "https://poke.com/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The privacy notice (last updated 11 September 2026) names The Interaction Company of California Inc. and gives 169 Waverley St Apt B, Palo Alto, CA 94301 as the controller's address. The terms (last modified 17 March 2026) name The Interaction Company of California d/b/a Poke.", "Cognition announced on 23 July 2026 that The Interaction Company of California was joining it. The terms and privacy notice read on 12 October 2026 do not name Cognition.", "poke.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. poke.com/robots.txt also answered 404, so the host publishes no crawl rules.", "RDAP for poke.com gives a registration date of 1997-03-26 and NameCheap, Inc. as registrar.", "The API answers at poke.com/api/v1, on the vendor's domain." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.json", "live": { "slug": "poke", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.poke.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T22:30:27.964333088Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "poke", "version": "4.0.461", "seenAt": "2026-10-12T22:22:57.168836786Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 1828, "pages": [ { "url": "https://poke.com/docs/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:56:34.390025787Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3945311a78aa" }, { "url": "https://poke.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:56:36.556615373Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b3b15529b8e6" }, { "url": "https://poke.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:56:38.576278897Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e6eb6e92a7f5" }, { "url": "https://poke.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T19:56:40.4517992Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ceaed31d64e8" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T22:30:27.964333088Z" } }, "answer": "Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "tomo", "name": "Tomo", "vendor": "Mapo Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.tomo.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Tomo is a personal AI from Mapo Labs that a person texts over iMessage or uses in its iOS app. It remembers goals, checks in first, joins group chats, sets reminders and connects to the owner's calendar and email.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.json", "license": "Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026).", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person starts by texting Tomo, signs in at tomo.ai/login or in the iOS app, and the account is tied to their phone number (https://www.tomo.ai/about). No API key, MCP server or other programmatic access was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "The base plan starts at $19.99 a month, with other plans that raise messaging limits, and the site says prices may vary by user and promotion (https://www.tomo.ai/about). The App Store lists in-app purchases named Tomo Pro at $19.99 and $119.99 (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tomo-your-personal-ai/id6757726935), checked 12 October 2026. No free plan was found. Payments run through Stripe.", "priceSummary": "$19.99 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on tomo.ai, checked 12 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "capabilities": [ "assistant.accounts", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "messaging.inbound", "calendar.write", "mailbox.read", "notify.push", "memory.user", "web.search" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "paid", "ios" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 13.1, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 989, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 10, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.", "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.", "strengths": [ "In iMessage group chats it shares only busy times from a connected calendar, not event details.", "Google Workspace and health data are excluded from AI training, per the privacy policy.", "Complete deletion requests are processed within 30 days.", "Eight iOS releases between 31 July and 29 September 2026." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "No free plan or trial found, and prices may vary by user.", "No status page, security.txt or security contact found.", "The privacy policy shares visitor identifiers with Meta, TikTok and Snap for ad targeting." ], "agentNotes": [ "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.", "Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 13.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 54, "payments": 10, "reliability": 15, "schema": 0, "security": 0, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/tomo" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Tomo base plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19.99, "note": "Starting price on tomo.ai. Prices may vary by user and promotion." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mapo Labs, Inc.", "domain": "tomo.ai", "domainRegistered": "2020-12-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.tomo.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.tomo.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "tomo.ai redirects to www.tomo.ai. The footer links mapolabs.com.", "tomo.ai/.well-known/security.txt and tomo.ai/llms.txt redirect to the login page.", "No status page or changelog was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2020-12-14 for tomo.ai." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "The Interaction Company of California Inc.", "b": "Mapo Labs, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT", "b": "Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-06-25", "b": "2026-09-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-03-17", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-11", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Tomo?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 51 against 15", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 42 against 0", "Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 24 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 47" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.", "slug": "poke", "watchFor": "No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 31" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.", "slug": "tomo", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.accounts", "name": "Assistants that act in your accounts" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-poke.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-poke.json", "title": "GAIA vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-poke.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-poke.json", "title": "Haven vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.json", "title": "Instinct vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-poke.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke.json", "title": "Leon vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.json", "title": "Lindy vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-poke.json", "title": "nanobot vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-poke.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-poke.json", "title": "Dots vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-poke.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Poke vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Poke vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Poke vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-tomo.json", "title": "GAIA vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Haven vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Instinct vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tomo.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Leon vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Lindy vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-tomo.json", "title": "nanobot vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tomo.json", "title": "NanoClaw vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-poke.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Dots vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo.json", "title": "OpenClaw vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-poke.json", "title": "Pally vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Pally vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Poke vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": 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vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tomo.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-tomo.json", "title": "PicoClaw vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-tomo" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 36, "edge": "poke", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "poke": 51, "tomo": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 42, "edge": "poke", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "poke": 42, "tomo": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "poke", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "poke": 30, "tomo": 0, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 24, "edge": "poke", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "poke": 24, "tomo": 0, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "poke", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "poke": 30, "tomo": 10, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "edge": "tomo", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "poke": 31, "tomo": 54, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "poke", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "poke": 58, "tomo": 47, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.", "verdicts": { "poke": "Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.min.md" }, "markdown": "Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance \u0026 community. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.\n\n- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #958 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json\n- Tomo: grade F, 13.1/100, rank #989 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Poke (F)\n\nGood for: One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 51 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 42 against 0\n- Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 24 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 58 against 47\n\nWatch for: No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing\n\n### Tomo (F)\n\nGood for: People who want accountability, check-ins and reminders by text, including in group chats.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 54 against 31\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Poke | Tomo | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 51 | 15 | Poke +36 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 0 | Poke +42 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 30 | 0 | Poke +30 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 24 | 0 | Poke +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 10 | Poke +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 31 | 54 | Tomo +23 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 47 | Poke +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **37.6 · F** | **13.1 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Poke | Tomo |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | The Interaction Company of California Inc. | Mapo Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT | Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-06-25 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-03-17 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-11 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Poke.** Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Poke\n\n1. POST JSON to `https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message` with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy `pk_` keys work only on the deprecated `/api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook`\n2. Expect only `{\"success\": true}` back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller\n3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice\n4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done\n5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with `apiKey` in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use `npx poke@latest mcp add -k`\n\n### Tomo\n\n1. 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.\n2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Poke or Tomo?\n\nPoke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Tomo's 13.1 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Tomo leads on maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"poke\", \"b\": \"tomo\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare poke tomo`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Poke or Tomo\n\n- [AstrBot vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-poke.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-poke.md)\n- [GAIA vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-poke.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-poke.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-poke.md)\n- [Haven vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-poke.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.md)\n- [Instinct vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-poke.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [Leon vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-poke.md)\n- [Lindy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.md)\n- [nanobot vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-poke.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [Dots vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-poke.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-poke.md)\n- [Poke vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Poke vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Poke vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.md)\n- [GAIA vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Haven vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Instinct vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Leon vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Lindy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.md)\n- [nanobot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-tomo.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-poke.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Dots vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-tomo.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Pally vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-poke.md)\n- [Pally vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Poke vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-wajo.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Tomo vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Tomo vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Tomo vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Poke vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-tomo.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tomo.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-tomo.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Tomo competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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