# Brea (slim)

> Brea is a hosted personal AI assistant people text in iMessage. It replies to email, books flights and handles tasks across more than 2,000 connected apps, and uses a cloud browser for sites without an integration.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.md (~5,300 tokens) · this version ~1,330 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-13

**F · 12.9/100 · rank #1001 of 1010 · #36 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found.

## Facts

- Kind: Platform · vendor: Brea AI LLC · category: Personal assistants · legal entity: Brea AI LLC · provenance 55/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026).
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Surface listed: Brea's iMessage assistant and iOS app, read from brea.ai, llms.txt, the security page, terms and privacy policy on 14 October 2026. docs.brea.ai was not read. No account was created.
- Where it runs: A cloud service with a dedicated, isolated instance per customer (https://brea.ai/security). Hosting and model providers are not named.
- What it acts on: Email, calendar, files and more than 2,000 connected apps, plus any website through a browser, including bookings and purchases (https://brea.ai).
- Outside agent access: None found.
- Company: Brea AI LLC. Support support@brea.ai (https://brea.ai/terms and https://brea.ai/llms.txt).

- Scores: Reliability 15, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 10, Agent ergonomics 0, Security & auth 7, Payments & pricing 20, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 4, Transparency & trust 48 · 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 last updated on 2 July 2026 naming Brea AI LLC (15).
- Sources: 11, open questions: 2, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, messaging.rcs, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, mailbox.send, calendar.write, browser.hosted, commerce.checkout, payments.card-token, travel.booking, memory.user, notify.push
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/brea.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea from a page on brea.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 Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread.
2. Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action.

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


Disclosure: Brea 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.