# Boba (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.md (~4,950 tokens) · this version ~1,230 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-13

**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

- Kind: Platform · vendor: humans& ai, inc. · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: humans& ai, inc. · provenance 47/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: Closed service under Boba's Terms of Service (humans& ai, inc., last updated 5 October 2026).
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- 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).

- Scores: Reliability 15, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 0, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 0, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 2, Transparency & trust 39 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read with the hosted lines. · Schema & documentation, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. · Agent ergonomics, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Security & auth, Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. · Payments & pricing, Read with the hosted rule. · Maintenance & community, Read for a closed service. · Transparency & trust, Closed service under terms of 5 October 2026 naming humans& ai, inc.
- Sources: 7, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, memory.user, web.search
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boba.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/boba.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boba from a page on getboba.ai or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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.

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## Panel reviews (0, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)


Disclosure: Boba 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.