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

Poke vs Zapia

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 834 assistants comparisons

PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#960 of 1010 ZapiaBrainlogic AI S.A.S. · Platform F17.3/100#995 of 1010

Which one, for what

Poke F

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 30 against 0
  • Security & auth, 24 against 3

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

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 31

Watch for

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

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runPokeZapiaEdge
Reliability16%205115Poke +36
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2420Poke +42
Agent ergonomics13%16.2300Poke +30
Security & auth14%17.5243Poke +21
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83156Zapia +25
Transparency & trust7%8.85859Zapia +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 37.6/100F 17.3/100

Facts side by side

FactPokeZapia
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorThe Interaction Company of California Inc.Brainlogic AI S.A.S.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MITClosed service under Zapia's terms and conditions (Brainlogic AI SAS). No date was found on the terms.
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-06-252026-10-12
Terms last updated2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

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.

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

Poke

  1. 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
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. 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
  5. 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

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, Poke or Zapia?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Zapia's 17.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zapia leads on maintenance & community.

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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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