# Tomo

> 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.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.md (~4,850 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.min.md (~1,330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tomo.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: 2026-10-12

## Overview

**Grade F · 13.1/100 · rank #989 of 993 · #25 in Personal assistants · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


## Assessment

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.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mapo Labs, Inc. (https://www.tomo.ai) |
| Kind | Platform |
| Category | Personal assistants (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/personal-assistants) |
| Auth | OAuth or key · 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 ($19.99 / mo) · 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. |
| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 found on tomo.ai, checked 12 October 2026. |
| Licence | Closed service under Tomo's Terms of Service (Mapo Labs, Inc., last updated 24 September 2026). |
| llms.txt | not found |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 |
| Surface listed | The Tomo service on iMessage and the iOS app, as described on tomo.ai, its terms and privacy policy and the App Store listing, read on 12 October 2026. No account was created. |
| Where it runs | A cloud service. The hosting provider and region are not named in the reviewed pages. |
| What it acts on | Reminders, iMessage group chats, the owner's calendar and email through Google Workspace, web search, photos and videos, and custom tracker apps inside the Tomo app (https://www.tomo.ai/about and https://www.tomo.ai/privacy). |
| Outside agent access | None found. |
| Data handling | Personal data is kept as long as necessary for the stated purposes. The terms licence submitted content to Mapo Labs for operating and improving the service. Complete deletion within 30 days on request, subject to legal retention (https://www.tomo.ai/privacy and https://www.tomo.ai/terms). |
| Company | Mapo Labs, Inc., a small team in San Francisco. Support is hello@tomo.ai (https://www.tomo.ai/about). |
| 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 |
| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tomo.json |

## Score breakdown (methodology v0.4, October 2026 research run)

Assessed 2026-10-12 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 | 10 | 1.2 |
| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 54 | 4.7 |
| Transparency & trust (editorial 33, provenance 60) | 7% | 8.8 | 47 | 4.1 |
| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 |
| **Total** | | | | **13.1 → F** |

### Why each score

- Reliability 15: Read with the hosted lines. No status page found, and status.tomo.ai doesn't resolve (0). No readable incident history (5). Plans raise messaging limits, with no numbers published, and there's no interface for an outside agent (0). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). On the App Store since 5 April 2026 and not 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. Tomo 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 app for people. No llms.txt (tomo.ai/llms.txt redirects to the login page) and no Markdown docs (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). We read it this way for every listing in this batch without an agent interface, and app release notes count under maintenance instead.
- Agent ergonomics 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Tomo has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the app for people.
- Security & auth 0: Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Tomo, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the app does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. tomo.ai/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the login page, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).
- Payments & pricing 10: Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). The about page says the base plan starts at $19.99 a month, with other plans for higher messaging limits and prices that may vary by user and promotion, and the App Store lists Tomo Pro at $19.99 and $119.99, so plan-only (10). No free plan or trial found (0). A person signs up by text or at tomo.ai/login with a phone number (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 54: Read for a closed service. iOS 1.2.11 on 29 September 2026, 13 days before this check (30). At least eight iOS releases between 31 July and 29 September (20). No changelog page, App Store notes that repeat one generic line, and human support at hello@tomo.ai, which we didn't test (4 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).
- Transparency & trust 47: Closed service under terms of 24 September 2026 (15). The privacy policy of 6 October 2026 keeps data as long as necessary with no periods, completes deletion requests within 30 days, excludes Google Workspace and health data from training, and shares visitor identifiers with Meta, TikTok and Snap for ad measurement and targeting, with an opt-out by email. It doesn't say whether conversations train models, while the terms licence content for improving the service (12 of 30). The terms change on posting with no notice, and there's no deprecation policy. The Aider dossier gave 3 where nothing was found (2 of 20). Providers appear by category with the three ad partners named, AI model providers aren't named, and data may be processed wherever providers are, with no regions (4 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/tomo.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/tomo.json)

### What we couldn't check

- Whether conversations other than Google and health data are used to train models. The privacy policy doesn't say.
- The messaging limits of each plan aren't published.
- The hosting provider and region.

### Sources

- about and FAQ: <https://www.tomo.ai/about> (seen 2026-10-12)
- terms: <https://www.tomo.ai/terms> (seen 2026-10-12)
- privacy policy: <https://www.tomo.ai/privacy> (seen 2026-10-12)
- App Store listing and version history: <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tomo-your-personal-ai/id6757726935> (seen 2026-10-12)
- security.txt (redirects to login): <https://www.tomo.ai/.well-known/security.txt> (seen 2026-10-12)
- security.txt (redirects to login): <https://tomo.ai/.well-known/security.txt> (seen 2026-10-12)

## Who's behind it (provenance 60/100, checked 2026-10-12)

| Check | Finding | Points |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Legal entity named | Mapo Labs, Inc. | 20/20 |
| Domain age | tomo.ai, registered 2020-12-14 (5 years) | 11/15 |
| 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 |

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.

### 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://www.tomo.ai/terms), not read yet.


**Privacy policy** (https://www.tomo.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.

## Prices

| Item | Price | Unit | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tomo base plan | $19.99 | per month (plan) | Starting price on tomo.ai. Prices may vary by user and promotion. |

Across all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md

## 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.

## Before you call it (notes for agents)

1. 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.
2. Tell the owner that adding Tomo to a group chat applies its terms to every participant.

## 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Natura tinyNature | F | 15.1 | 987 | assistant.accounts, assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, messaging.inbound, mailbox.read, notify.push, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/natura.md |
| Pally | F | 37.8 | 956 | assistant.accounts, assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, calendar.write, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md |
| Grok Bot | F | 24.4 | 980 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, calendar.write, memory.user, notify.push | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grok-bot.md |
| Instinct | F | 7.3 | 993 | assistant.messaging, assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, mailbox.read, calendar.write, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md |
| Wajo (Fo) | E | 43.9 | 907 | assistant.accounts, assistant.memory, calendar.write, memory.user | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md |
| ZeroClaw | BB | 70.2 | 161 | assistant.messaging, assistant.memory, assistant.accounts | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.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

- Mapo Labs says Tomo can join group chats, send reminders, watch videos, edit photos, search the web, proactively message the owner and connect to calendar, email and more (source: <https://www.tomo.ai/about>)
- The App Store listing says Tomo builds custom tracker apps such as workout logs, budgets and habit streaks, and works in iMessage or in the app. It was first released on 5 April 2026 and version 1.2.11 dates from 29 September 2026 (source: <https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tomo-your-personal-ai/id6757726935>)
- The terms cover iMessage group chats that Tomo is added to or starts at a user's request, and apply to every participant in them (source: <https://www.tomo.ai/terms>)
- Tomo is not intended for children under 13, and people aged 13 to 18 need a parent's or guardian's supervision and consent (source: <https://www.tomo.ai/about>)
- The privacy policy (last updated 6 October 2026) shares visitor identifiers with Meta, TikTok and Snap for ad measurement and targeting, and says Google Workspace and health data are not used to train AI models (source: <https://www.tomo.ai/privacy>)
- Owners can clear messages, reminders and memories from dashboard settings, and complete deletion requests through a form are processed within 30 days (source: <https://www.tomo.ai/about>)
- No API, MCP server, status page, changelog or security.txt was found. tomo.ai/.well-known/security.txt redirects to the login page

- #25 of 26 in Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Compare

- [CowAgent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.md): C 58.5 vs F 13.1
- [GAIA vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-tomo.md): D 49.5 vs F 13.1
- [Gemini Spark vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-tomo.md): F 24.5 vs F 13.1
- [Grok Bot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-tomo.md): F 24.4 vs F 13.1
- [Haven vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-tomo.md): F 22.2 vs F 13.1
- [Hermes Agent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.md): B 67.9 vs F 13.1
- [Instinct vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-tomo.md): F 7.3 vs F 13.1
- [IronClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-tomo.md): B 66.7 vs F 13.1
- [Leon vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-tomo.md): E 41 vs F 13.1
- [Lindy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.md): F 32.3 vs F 13.1
- [nanobot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-tomo.md): B 62.4 vs F 13.1
- [NanoClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-tomo.md): B 68.3 vs F 13.1
- [Natura tinyNature vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-tomo.md): F 15.1 vs F 13.1
- [Dots vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-tomo.md): F 28.3 vs F 13.1
- [OpenClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-tomo.md): B 67.1 vs F 13.1
- [Pally vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-tomo.md): F 37.8 vs F 13.1
- [Poke vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-tomo.md): F 37.6 vs F 13.1
- [QwenPaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tomo.md): B 62.2 vs F 13.1
- [Tomo vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-wajo.md): F 13.1 vs E 43.9
- [Tomo vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-zeroclaw.md): F 13.1 vs BB 70.2
- [Tomo vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-zo-computer.md): F 13.1 vs E 43.1
- [Talorys vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-tomo.md): F 28.9 vs F 13.1
- [AstrBot vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-tomo.md): C 58.8 vs F 13.1
- [PicoClaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-tomo.md): D 46.1 vs F 13.1

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## 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.