# Boba > Boba is a free AI assistant people text over iMessage, RCS or SMS, one to one or in group chats. It plans with groups, answers questions, drafts messages, makes and edits images and writes songs. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md (~4,950 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.min.md (~1,230 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 ## Overview **Grade F · 10.3/100 · rank #1004 of 1010 · #38 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium** ## Assessment Boba is a free texting assistant for one-to-one and group chats over iMessage, RCS and SMS, started by sending one message with no card or app. No outside agent can call it, its privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train its models with no opt-out found, and no status page or security contact was found. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | humans& ai, inc. (https://getboba.ai) | | Kind | Platform | | Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) | | Auth | OAuth or key · No app or sign-up form. Sending the pre-written first text, which carries an invite code, is the sign-up (https://getboba.ai). The privacy notice describes optional Google account access through Google APIs (https://getboba.ai/privacy). | | Pricing | Free (Free) · "No subscription, no ads. Free to use" (https://getboba.ai, checked 14 October 2026). The terms say no fees are charged today and fees may apply in future (https://getboba.ai/terms). | | x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on getboba.ai or its terms, checked 14 October 2026. | | Licence | Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026). | | llms.txt | not found | | Surface listed | The Boba texting assistant, read from getboba.ai, the terms and the privacy notice on 14 October 2026. Boba Web, a newer surface linked from the home page, was not reviewed. No message was sent. | | Where it runs | A cloud service using third-party AI model providers, which are not named (https://getboba.ai/privacy). | | What it acts on | Group planning, answers, drafts, images and songs, and Actions on connected third-party services including Google when authorised (https://getboba.ai and https://getboba.ai/terms). | | Outside agent access | None found. | | Data handling | Messages are stored so conversations have memory. No retention period is stated (https://getboba.ai and https://getboba.ai/privacy). | | Eligibility | 18 and older (https://getboba.ai/terms). | | Capabilities | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user, web.search | | Tags | hosted, official, closed-source, free, no-card | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-10-14 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 15 | 3.0 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 0 | 0.0 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 0 | 0.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 30 | 3.8 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 2 | 0.2 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 30, provenance 47) | 7% | 8.8 | 39 | 3.4 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **10.3 → F** | ### Why each score - Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.getboba.ai has no DNS record (0). No readable incident history (5). No limits published, and no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). Boba answers texts today and isn't labelled beta (10). - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Boba has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. getboba.ai/llms.txt returns 404, and no Markdown docs were found (0). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface. - Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Boba has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people. - Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Boba, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. getboba.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found. The only address is hello@getboba.ai (0 of 20). - Payments & pricing 30: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The home page says Boba is free with no subscription and no ads, and the terms say no fees are charged today and fees may apply later. With nothing to buy, the published price is $0 and the terms leave future fees unpriced, the reading we took for every free-only service in this batch (10). The home page says $0 with no card, and the sign-up is sending a pre-written text that carries an invite code, with no form or app (20). A person starts from their own phone (0). - Task success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 2: Read for a closed service. No dated release, changelog or app listing found. The home page marks Boba Web as new, with no date (0). No dated entries in the last 90 days (0). No changelog, and hello@getboba.ai, which we didn't test (2 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0). - Transparency & trust 39: Closed service under terms of 5 October 2026 naming humans& ai, inc. (15). The privacy notice of the same date uses inputs and outputs to improve its products, including by training or fine-tuning the models behind Boba, and the home page's consent line says messages may be used to improve Boba. The FAQ's statement that messages never train third-party models is consistent with that. Google data stays out of models beyond the owner's personalised model and is deleted within 60 days of a request. No opt-out from training and no retention period for messages were found (11 of 30). The terms reserve future fees, and no deprecation policy was found (2 of 20). AI model providers aren't named, and no subprocessor list or regions were found (2 of 20). Fix list for a coding agent, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (14 items): https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/boba.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/boba.json) ### What we couldn't check - Whether owners can opt out of training on inputs and outputs. - How long messages are kept. - unchecked: Boba Web, which the home page marks as new. ### Sources - homepage and FAQ: (seen 2026-10-14) - privacy notice: (seen 2026-10-14) - terms: (seen 2026-10-14) - robots.txt (404): (seen 2026-10-14) - status subdomain DNS lookup: (seen 2026-10-14) - llms.txt (404): (seen 2026-10-14) - security.txt (404): (seen 2026-10-14) ## Who's behind it (provenance 47/100, checked 2026-10-14) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | humans& ai, inc. | 20/20 | | Domain age | getboba.ai, registered 2026-04-30 (under a year) | 0/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | published | 10/10 | | Privacy policy | published | 10/10 | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | The terms and privacy notice name humans& ai, inc. and were last updated on 5 October 2026. getboba.ai has no robots.txt (404). security.txt, llms.txt and sitemap.xml return 404. No status page or changelog was found. Contact hello@getboba.ai. No X account is linked from getboba.ai. RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-04-30 for getboba.ai. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service** (https://getboba.ai/terms), not read yet. **Privacy policy** (https://getboba.ai/privacy), not read yet. ## Probe metrics Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## Strengths - Free, with no subscription, ads, card or app. - Works in group chats that mix iPhone and Android. - Google user data isn't used for advertising or for models beyond the owner's personalised model, and is deleted within 60 days of a request. ## Weaknesses - No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. - The privacy notice uses inputs and outputs to train or fine-tune its models, with no opt-out found. - No retention period stated for messages. - No status page, changelog, security.txt or named subprocessors. ## Before you call it (notes for agents) 1. Don't plan to call Boba from another agent. It answers only text messages in the Messages app. 2. Tell people in a group chat that messages sent to Boba may be used to train its models. ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Town | D | 48.7 | 834 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md | | Asmi | F | 33.3 | 973 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.inbound, web.search, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asmi.md | | Boski | F | 26.2 | 981 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boski.md | | OpenInstinct | F | 21.8 | 988 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openinstinct.md | | Del | F | 20.6 | 991 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md | | Orchid | F | 20.2 | 992 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/orchid-ai.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - Boba works in the Messages app over iMessage, RCS and SMS, including group chats that mix iPhone and Android (source: ) - The home page consent line says "Messages you send may be used to improve Boba". The privacy notice says inputs and outputs are used "including by training or fine-tuning the AI models that power such tools" (source: ) - The FAQ says messages are never used to train third-party models or sold to advertisers (source: ) - Google user data is not used for advertising or to train models beyond the owner's personalised model (source: ) - The terms describe an "AI agent-powered autonomous personal assistant" that takes Actions on third-party services on the user's behalf (source: ) - trygist.ai redirects to getboba.ai - #38 of 42 in Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Compare - [asaply vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-boba.md): F 7.6 vs F 10.3 - [Asmi vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-boba.md): F 33.3 vs F 10.3 - [AstrBot vs Boba](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-boba.md): C 58.8 vs F 10.3 - [Boba vs Boski](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-boski.md): F 10.3 vs F 26.2 - [Boba vs Brea](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-brea.md): F 10.3 vs F 12.9 - [Boba vs Caddy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-caddy-app.md): F 10.3 vs F 16.7 - [Boba vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-cowagent.md): F 10.3 vs C 58.5 - [Boba vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-del.md): F 10.3 vs F 20.6 - [Boba vs folk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-folk-nozomio.md): F 10.3 vs F 19.8 - [Boba vs GAIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gaia.md): F 10.3 vs D 49.5 - [Boba vs Grok Bot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-grok-bot.md): F 10.3 vs F 24.4 - [Boba vs Haven](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-haven.md): F 10.3 vs F 22.2 - [Boba vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hermes-agent.md): F 10.3 vs B 67.9 - [Boba vs HireAlpha](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-hirealpha.md): F 10.3 vs F 8.4 - [Boba vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-instinct.md): F 10.3 vs F 7.3 - [Boba vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-ironclaw.md): F 10.3 vs B 66.7 - [Boba vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-lindy.md): F 10.3 vs F 32.3 - [Boba vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanobot.md): F 10.3 vs B 62.4 - [Boba vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-nanoclaw.md): F 10.3 vs B 68.3 - [Boba vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-natura.md): F 10.3 vs F 15.1 - [Boba vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openai-dots.md): F 10.3 vs F 28.3 - [Boba vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openclaw.md): F 10.3 vs B 67.1 - [Boba vs OpenInstinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-openinstinct.md): F 10.3 vs F 21.8 - [Boba vs Orbits](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orbits.md): F 10.3 vs F 15.6 - [Boba vs Orchid](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-orchid-ai.md): F 10.3 vs F 20.2 - [Boba vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-pally.md): F 10.3 vs F 37.8 - [Boba vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-picoclaw.md): F 10.3 vs D 46.1 - [Boba vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-poke.md): F 10.3 vs F 37.6 - [Boba vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw.md): F 10.3 vs B 62.2 - [Boba vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-szn.md): F 10.3 vs F 7.3 - [Boba vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-tab-bot.md): F 10.3 vs F 10.7 - [Boba vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-tomo.md): F 10.3 vs F 13.1 - [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md): F 10.3 vs D 48.7 - [Boba vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zapia.md): F 10.3 vs F 17.3 - [Boba vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 10.3 vs BB 70.2 - [Boba vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-zo-computer.md): F 10.3 vs E 43.1 - [Boba vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-gemini-spark.md): F 10.3 vs F 24.5 - [Boba vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-leon.md): F 10.3 vs E 41 - [Boba vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-talorys.md): F 10.3 vs F 28.9 - [Boba vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-wajo.md): F 10.3 vs E 43.9 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. 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