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AI Personal Assistants

General helpers that live in your launcher or browser and handle everyday questions, errands and repetitive tasks.

How to choose an AI personal assistant

This category gathers general helpers: chat assistants, AI browsers, launchers and agents that take small jobs off your plate. They overlap a lot, so it helps to sort them by where they help you.

Chat assistants. ChatGPT and Claude are the general assistants most people start with for writing, research, studying and planning. Both have free tiers and paid plans with higher limits. Pi is a free conversational assistant aimed at friendly, everyday chat. Students should read Is ChatGPT free for students? for current offers, and ChatGPT prompts for small business shows practical uses at work.

AI browsers. An AI browser puts an assistant beside every web page so it can summarize, compare tabs and sometimes carry out tasks. Comet from Perplexity is free, Dia offers paid AI plans on top of a free browser, and Gemini in Chrome adds AI to the browser many people already use. Our best AI browsers guide compares them, including what replaced ChatGPT Atlas.

Launchers on your computer. Raycast and Alfred open apps, run shortcuts and search files from the keyboard on a Mac, and Raycast adds AI chat and commands. See Raycast vs Alfred.

Agents. Lindy lets you build assistants that handle repeating work across the apps you connect to it.

Choose by habit rather than by feature lists. If you live in a browser, an AI browser or a browser extension helps most. If you live in documents, a chat assistant with file uploads is better. If you are on a phone most of the day, read our best AI personal assistant for iPhone guide. With any assistant that can act for you, keep passwords and payments in your own hands and review what it plans to do before it does it.

ChatGPTchatgpt.comOpenAI's AI assistant. On paid plans its Mac app can record and summarize meetings, and any chat can transcribe uploaded audio into notes and follow up drafts.Personal AssistantsFreemiumHN 33Raycastraycast.comMac and Windows launcher with built in AI chat, AI commands and hundreds of extensions for everyday workflows.Personal AssistantsFreemiumHN 5Alfredalfredapp.comKeyboard launcher for macOS that finds apps, files and web results, with a one time Powerpack for clipboard history, snippets and no code workflows.Personal AssistantsFreemiumHN 1Diadiabrowser.comAI browser from The Browser Company that lets you chat with your tabs and automate routine browsing.Personal AssistantsFreemiumHN 1Claudeclaude.comAnthropic's AI assistant. On every plan, including Free, it can create Docs, Slides and Design artifacts you edit beside the chat and export to Word, PowerPoint or PDF.Personal AssistantsFreemiumCometperplexity.aiPerplexity's AI native web browser with an assistant that can research, summarise and act across sites.Personal AssistantsFreeGemini in Chromegemini.googleGoogle's assistant built into Chrome that summarizes pages and compares open tabs; its auto browse agent is in US preview for Google AI Pro and Ultra.Personal AssistantsFreemiumLindylindy.aiNo code platform for building AI assistants that handle email, scheduling, meeting notes and other busywork.Personal AssistantsFreemiumPipi.aiConversational assistant from Inflection designed to be a friendly, supportive thinking partner.Personal AssistantsFree

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