Yes. Lindy works over iMessage on iPhone and SMS on any phone, and you can also call it.

Does Lindy have its own email address?

Not one per person. Its docs give a shared address, lindy@lindy.ai, to write to. Our assistant gets its own address that anyone can write to.

Lindy, to start: $49.99 per active user a month, with $50 of free credits for 7 days first. Our assistant's plans start at $99 a month after a free trial of up to 14 days.

Lindy vs Your Own AI Assistant: which should you hire?

Both can be texted and both do real work. Lindy is built for teams: it lives in Slack and plugs into a long list of work apps. Our assistant is built for one person: its own email address, its own computer, and jobs handed over by text or email.

Short answer. If you run a team that works in Slack and wants an assistant wired into its apps (CRM, calendar, meeting notes), Lindy is the better fit and starts cheaper, at $49.99 per active user a month. If you're one owner or a family who wants to hand off jobs by text, have people write back to the assistant at its own address, and have it work in ordinary websites, our assistant fits better.

Side by side

	Lindy	Your Own AI Assistant
What it is	An AI assistant for work that lives in Slack, iMessage, email and your browser and handles tasks across your apps.	A personal AI assistant with its own email address and its own computer: you text or email it a job, it does the work and writes back.
Price	Free: $0; Team: $49.99 per active user per month; Enterprise: Custom	Free trial (no card); then from $99 a month
Free to try	$50 of free credits for 7 days, no card needed	Free trial, no card: up to $250 of use or 14 days
Does the task itself	yes it acts in your connected apps and can drive a browser	Yes on its own computer and browser, end to end
Its own email address	no its docs give one shared address (lindy@lindy.ai) to write to, not an address of its own per person	Yes its own address people can write to
You can text it	yes iMessage on iPhone, SMS on any phone	Yes you text it like a person
Its own computer and browser	partly computer use drives a browser for apps without an integration	Yes its own cloud computer with a browser
Remembers you	Keeps context from your work (calls, emails, corrections) in a memory you can see and edit, personal or shared with the team	Keeps notes about you and your jobs between conversations
Where it lives	Slack, iMessage/SMS, phone, email, Chrome extension, web app	Text (iMessage, SMS) and email; no app to install

Getting real tasks done

Lindy acts in the apps you connect, and it lists more than 1,500 of them, Gmail and Google Calendar included. It answers leads, builds client reports, chases overdue invoices, takes meeting notes, handles phone calls and runs routines on a schedule. Where an app has no connection, it can drive a web browser itself.

Our assistant does most of its work on its own cloud computer, in ordinary websites, the way a person would: look things up, fill in forms, compare prices, deal with support pages. Connect your Gmail or Outlook and calendar with one button and it can reply as you and move meetings.

Email and texting

You can text Lindy over iMessage on an iPhone or SMS on any phone, call it, @mention it in Slack, or use its Chrome extension and web app. Its docs give one shared address to write to (lindy@lindy.ai), not an address of its own for each person.

Our assistant has its own email address, so a shop or a landlord can write to it directly and it can follow up with them over days. You text it (iMessage or SMS) or email it. Plain SMS from some Android phones has been less reliable than iMessage; email always works.

What it costs

Lindy is free to try with $50 of credits that last 7 days, no card. The Team plan is $49.99 per active user a month with 5,000 credits pooled across the team. A single job can use anywhere from 2 to 2,500 credits, so the monthly cost is hard to predict, and when the pool runs out the work pauses until the next cycle or a top-up.

Our assistant has a free trial with no card for up to 14 days or $250 of use, whichever comes first. Then plans run from $99 to $999 a month, each $100 step adding 10,000 credits. It costs more than one Lindy seat.

Who each suits

Lindy suits small teams: a shared assistant in Slack that anyone can ask, built-in approvals, and team memory. Its Enterprise plan adds HIPAA with a BAA, SSO and audit logs.

Our assistant suits one busy person who'd rather text than learn a new tool: the contractor who wants the supplier chased, the parent who wants the camp forms filled in, the retiree who wants the insurance renewal sorted out.

Pick Lindy if

Your team works in Slack
You want it plugged into many work apps
You want team memory and built-in approvals
You want a lower starting price per person

Pick Your Own AI Assistant if

You're one person, not a team
Others should be able to email your assistant directly
The job means working in ordinary websites
You want a longer free trial with no card

Questions people ask

Can I text Lindy?: Yes. Lindy works over iMessage on iPhone and SMS on any phone, and you can also call it.
Does Lindy have its own email address?: Not one per person. Its docs give a shared address, lindy@lindy.ai, to write to. Our assistant gets its own address that anyone can write to.
Which is cheaper?: Lindy, to start: $49.99 per active user a month, with $50 of free credits for 7 days first. Our assistant's plans start at $99 a month after a free trial of up to 14 days.

Updated 2026-11-08. Product facts from each maker's own pages: see Lindy and Your Own AI Assistant for sources.

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