Pally facts
What is Pally?
Pally is an AI personal assistant that lives in your texts. It works over iMessage on iPhone, iPad, and Mac and over RCS on Android. Pally also connects WhatsApp as an inbox it can triage.
There is no app to install and no account signup. You text a phone number. Pally is made by Pally, a Y Combinator-backed company, and its website is pally.com.
Last updated August 20, 2026.
Use cases
Who Pally is for and what people use it for
Pally is for people who want personal and work tasks handled from the text thread they already use. Examples include:
- Inbox, triagedAsk what actually needs you. Pally reads the pile, flags the few, and drafts the replies.
- Morning briefOne text every morning with what actually matters: your day, your inbox, and the things you said you'd do.
- The friendly nagHand pally the thing you keep putting off. It won't forget, and it won't let you either.
- WhatsApp catch-upThe group chats never stop. Pally reads what piled up and gives you the two lines that matter.
- iMessage catch-upBack from a flight, a meeting, or a day off your phone? Pally reads the pile-up and tells you what actually needs an answer.
- Flight finderReal fares, ranked for you, with a secure checkout link when you're ready. No tabs, no incognito games.
- Flight dayDelays, gate changes, and schedule moves, texted to you the moment the airline knows.
- Price drop & restock watchNot buying it at that price? Pally watches the listing and texts you the moment it drops or comes back.
- Buy it for meSend the link, approve the total, and pally works the checkout, payment included.
- Pre-meeting briefsWalk in knowing who's in the room, your history, and what's still open, without doing the homework.
- A memory for your peopleWhere they moved, what they're into, what they're going through: pally keeps it all, and hands it back right when you need it.
- Receipt keeperReceipts forward themselves, stack up neatly, and surface the moment you need one.
- Your Mac, from anywhereLeft something open at home? Pally can look at your Mac's screen, find the file, and run the next step with your ok.
- Call your pallyOn Pally Max, your assistant has its own phone number. Dial it from the car and just talk.
- Quote hunterMovers, contractors, repairs: pally phones the list, gets real quotes, and books the winner on your go.
Pricing
Pally plans and prices
Free
$0
Text it, connect a few apps, and get a morning catch-up that knows your life.
- Real conversation: just text your Pally
- Connect 3 apps: iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Google Calendar, Granola, Notion, Linear, or Drive
- Daily morning brief and important-message alerts from your connected apps
- A daily suggestion for your smartest next move
- 3 custom automations ("text me when my landlord emails")
- A monthly usage allowance that covers everyday use
- Quick everyday answers
- Let your Pally talk to other Pallys to get things done together
- Memory that compounds: Pally remembers the people, plans, and details in your life
- Tasks and reminders
- Web research: Pally digs through the web for real answers
- Completes things on the web for you: bookings and purchases, always with your approval
Pro
$25/mo
or $250/yr - 2 months free
Everything connected, nothing dropped. Pally watches all your channels and keeps you ahead of what matters.
- Everything in Free
- Sharper thinking on the work that needs it
- Connect all your apps: iMessage, email, WhatsApp, Slack, calendar, meetings, docs
- One morning brief across everything, every day
- 10 custom automations
- A bigger monthly usage allowance: room for busy weeks
Max
$100/mo
or $1,000/yr - 2 months free
Its own phone number and email. Hand it the errands and it gets them done.
- Everything in Pro
- Pally's best thinking on everything
- A dedicated phone number: call your Pally directly
- Pally makes calls for you: books the table, chases the contractor, gets the quote
- Its own email address for handling correspondence on your behalf
- Unlimited custom automations
- The biggest monthly usage allowance: built to run your whole life
- Never hit a wall: optionally add prepaid credits in $20 increments if you ever use it all
- Early access to new features
Connections
What Pally connects to
Pally connects to iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Drive, Notion, Linear, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Todoist, Granola, X, and the live web, and the list keeps growing. It can also answer money questions from a bank account you link (read-only), sign into almost any website through a secure browser session, and take on custom integrations you add yourself. WhatsApp is the one worth connecting first because it lets Pally catch you up on your chats, flag the messages that actually matter, and send replies once you've approved them. You choose what to turn on, and Pally only ever uses what you've connected.
Actions and safety
How Pally takes action
Yes. Pally searches the live web, digs into research, drafts messages, tracks your follow-ups, and can sign into your accounts through a secure browser link you log into yourself. It never sees or stores your passwords or codes. It can even complete a booking, order, or purchase for you, paying with a single-use virtual card capped at exactly what you approved. Anything that leaves your world, like a message to someone else, a purchase, or a calendar invite, is shown to you word-for-word and only happens after you say go.
On Max, Pally can also call businesses for the user.
Privacy
How Pally handles data
Privacy is the point. Pally is built to hold personal context. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and AI processing happens with Anthropic and OpenAI under their own privacy policies; they don't train their models on your data. You decide what to connect, approve, delete, and disconnect, and anything from outside your world is treated as information to read, never instructions to act on. Visit pally.com/privacy for the full picture.
Limitations
Requirements and limits
- You need a phone that can text.
- Messages to other people, purchases, and calendar invites require the user's approval.
- WhatsApp connects as the user's own account through WhatsApp's Linked Devices flow.
MCP
Use Pally inside other AI apps
Pally runs a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so AI apps that support MCP connectors, like Claude, can hold Pally conversations directly. The endpoint is https://agent.pally.com/mcp with standard OAuth discovery at /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.
Linking is user-initiated: an existing Pally user adds the connector, the authorize page shows a short single-use code, and the user texts that code to Pally from their own phone. Pally never sends the first text. Replies delivered into a connected AI app are handled under that provider's privacy policy. See the privacy policy.
More
More Pally information
- Compare Pally, a comparison hub with per-competitor pages.
- Use cases and recipes
- What's new
- Machine-readable changelog
- Privacy
- Terms