Grais vs Pally (2026)

Pally is one assistant you text. There is no signup and no app: you message a number over iMessage on iPhone, iPad and Mac, or over RCS on Android, and that is the setup. Grais has nothing that matches it. The only public live surface is a desktop browser extension; iOS is live on TestFlight for people who request access. If you run your life from a phone, Pally works today and Grais mostly does not.

Pally also reaches further into the rest of the day. It connects Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Google Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, Drive, Docs, Sheets, GitHub, Jira, Todoist and Granola, and it ships a morning brief across email, calendar and messages on every plan, including the free one. Grais does not ship those first-party inbox and calendar connectors. It reaches work tools through MCP and Skills, and its home surface is still the open messaging thread.

Then there is the part that leaves the screen entirely. Pally completes checkout on purchases you approve, books flights, watches prices, handles check-in, and fires reminders pinned to places. On the $200 a month Max plan it gets a phone number you can call, makes calls to businesses on your behalf, and has its own email address. Grais does none of that and does not claim to.

Price is the last honest point. Pally Free costs $0 and covers unlimited texting, three connected apps, a daily brief and three automations. Pally Pro is $25 a month, less than Grais Core at $29. Grais starts with 20 free actions a week, then paid entry is $29, so you can try it, but Pally’s free plan is the more generous one.

• You live on a phone. Pally works over iMessage and RCS with nothing installed. Grais has no mobile browser.
• The job is life admin. Trips, birthdays, receipts and bookings are Pally home ground, not something Grais covers.
• You want it to act, not draft. Pally buys, books, calls and checks you in. Grais stops at the message.

Grais is not a second thread. It runs inside the conversation you already have open. You are on WhatsApp Web, Telegram Web, Instagram, LinkedIn or Tinder, looking at a real message from one specific person, and Grais reads that thread on screen and drafts the reply there. The unit of work is one reply to one person, not an errand to hand off.

Approval works per contact. Grais grants trust one relationship at a time and lets it escalate from review, to voice approval, to known-safe autonomy, and nothing sends without the trust level you set for that contact. Pally uses one uniform rule instead: everything outbound is shown word for word and waits for a go. Pally never surprises you. Grais stops re-asking about people you have already vouched for.

Memory points at the person rather than the task. Grais carries context across conversations, channels and time, so it knows who said what and what was promised to whom, and it recognises the same person across WhatsApp, LinkedIn and Telegram. It reads intent, tone and stakes, plans multi-turn sequences with fallbacks, and flags when someone goes quiet. Promise tracking tends to show up first, because that is usually what goes missing.

The limits are worth stating plainly. Grais runs as a desktop extension for Chrome, Brave, Edge and Arc on macOS, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS. There is no Firefox or Safari build and no mobile browser support, iOS is TestFlight and waitlist rather than the App Store, and the Mac app is planned rather than shipped. It does not ship first-party inbox or calendar connectors; MCP and Skills are how it reaches those tools. If any of that is a dealbreaker, that is the answer today.

Core is $29 a month and Pro is $79. Both carry the same agent, memory and public browser platforms; Pro raises the reasoning ceiling and adds pre-access to iPhone and Mac. The higher tier buys depth on the hard messages: a negotiation sequence, a conversation where tone decides the outcome.

The two collide less than the category suggests. Pally lives on iMessage and RCS and watches WhatsApp, Slack and email as inboxes. Grais works on WhatsApp Web, Telegram Web, Instagram, LinkedIn and Tinder in a desktop browser. WhatsApp is the only real overlap, and even there the behaviour differs: Pally catches you up and sends approved replies from its own thread, while Grais drafts in the chat window you are looking at.

A workable split is to let Pally hold the calendar, the inbox, the bookings and the morning brief from your phone, and let Grais handle the replies that decide something, such as the client thread on LinkedIn or the negotiation you would otherwise rewrite four times.