Group chats
Add Pally to the group chat.
Pally sits in an iMessage group chat or a Telegram group with everyone else. It speaks when someone says its name or replies to one of its messages. The rest of the time it stays quiet and reads along.
Everyone in the group can talk to it. General questions and research are open to all. A personal ask runs in that person's own Pally, on their own accounts and their own plan, with approvals handled privately.
One thread, one Pally, and one set of privacy rules. Pally answers for the group with what the requester would want the group to see, and it sends the sensitive parts to your private chat.
Setup
How to add Pally
- On iMessage, add Pally's number to an existing group chat. On Telegram, add Pally to the group.
- Pally asks you privately in your own chat first. It joins the group after your yes.
- In the group it speaks only when someone says its name or replies directly to one of its messages.
- From your own chat you can also ask Pally to say something in one of your group chats.
Per person
Everyone gets their own Pally
A personal ask never runs on someone else's accounts. A member who uses Pally gets their own connected apps, on their own plan, and every approval happens privately in their own chat, never in the group.
Asking about another member's data goes through that member's own Pally. It answers under what that person chose to share, or asks them privately once.
Priya asks
pally, put the cabin weekend on my calendar
Priya's own Pally books it on Priya's calendar.
Sam asks
pally, forward me the rental confirmation
Sam's own Pally sends it from Sam's email.
You ask
pally, what did we agree on the budget?
Group memory answers in the thread for everyone.
Privacy
What the group sees
- Answers in the group show only what the requester would want the whole group to see: free and busy instead of meeting titles, a summary instead of raw email.
- Sensitive results go to your private chat with a short pointer in the group, like "sent you the details".
- Each member decides what their Pally may share with the group. The default is minimal: free and busy, name, role, profile links, and general area.
- Say "share my calendar with this group" or "stop sharing" and it applies at once.
The group
Group memory and vibe
Pally keeps the group's decisions, plans, running jokes, and open loops. Group memory holds only what the group itself said. Private notes never enter it.
It also reads the room. Replies match the group's energy and inside jokes. It plays games, does roasts and memes, ranks things, and makes images on the first ask. It reacts with tapbacks.
- Pally can create images, send files, and deliver generated videos and songs, either in the thread or privately to you.
- Send a PDF into the group and Pally can read it for everyone, including scanned documents.
Automations
Scheduled posts
Anyone in the group can set up a scheduled post into the group: a standup, a reminder, a weekly plan. Members can pause it, stop it, or take it over.
A scheduled post that needs your own accounts runs in your own Pally and posts only into the group.
Limits
What stays out of a group
- Group chats work on iMessage and Telegram. WhatsApp groups are not supported.
- Payment wallets, site sign-ins, and the live browser view stay private and are never exposed in a group.
- For your own asks Pally uses only a general area, never an exact address.
Everything else matches private chat. Pally in group chats has the same toolkit, under the privacy rules above.
Compare
Group chats vs teams
A group chat is a real thread where one Pally sits with everyone. A Pally team is Pally-to-Pally coordination with no shared thread, where you task your own Pally and it works with your teammates' Pallys.
Get started
Three texts to send the group
- Ask for the group
pally, who's free saturday?- Schedule a post
pally, post a standup here every weekday at 9- Play with it
pally, rank us by who's most likely to be late
Group chats are on every plan. Friends can join Pally right from a group chat, with the usual referral perks.
Privacy
Sharing is per member
A group never widens what your Pally may read or do on its own. Read the Pally privacy policy.