# 10 AI assistants for parents, compared by family task

Compare ten AI assistants by the family tasks they handle, their documented capabilities and published US prices. Use a worksheet to try one yourself.

By [Ardis Kadiu](https://andi.ai/blog#author-ardis-kadiu), Founder, Andi. Updated 2026-10-21.

Canonical article: https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families

Topics: AI assistants, Trust & privacy

![Illustration of a semi-abstract family of two adults, two children and a dog, joined by dotted lines to a calendar, a path home and a heart held in leaves.](https://andi.ai/images/journal/family-constellation.webp)

Calendar, route and care in one picture. The useful question is which assistant can hold the part your household needs.

There's no single best AI assistant for parents. The right one depends on the job you need done: school email, one shared calendar, caregiver handoffs or online errands. A good fit for that job saves more work than it creates, including the time you spend checking it.

I founded Andi, the family AI assistant at andi.ai, and it's one of the ten here, held to the same questions as the rest. Product details come from each company's own documentation, checked October 21, 2026, not from hands-on tests, and the numbering is not a ranking.

Not sure you need an assistant at all? [See whether a family calendar or an AI assistant fits your week](https://andi.ai/blog/family-intelligence-vs-family-calendar) first.

## Which AI assistant should you try first?

The one that fits the job costing your household the most this month. If you only have time to try one or two, here are five good fits by job.

- **School email in an all-Google home: [Fambot](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#2-fambot-school-email-in-google-homes).** It turns school email into daily plans with tasks you can assign, and it's free during its beta. For now it works only with Gmail and Google Calendar.
- **Mixed calendars and two or more adults: [Ohai](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#1-ohai-mixed-calendars-and-human-help).** It connects Google, Apple and Outlook calendars, with human assistants for tangled schedules. Budget for Duo or Group, because the $9.99 Premium plan covers one person.
- **One shared calendar at one family price: [Cozi Max](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#3-cozi-max-the-calendar-that-imports).** $79 a year for the household, with AI import from emails, PDFs and flyer photos. Imported events start out under the adult who forwarded them, so check each one.
- **A grandparent or sitter who covers regularly: [Andi](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#4-andi-family-context-and-caregiver-handoffs).** Care Share gives a caregiver a parent-approved care package that ends with the care window. The listing we cite is for iPhone.
- **Two adults planning something big: [ChatGPT](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#5-chatgpt-shared-planning-projects).** A shared project keeps camp brochures, blackout weeks and instructions in one place, and sharing is available on the free plan within its limits. Members see everything in a shared project, so keep caregiver details out of it.

Already use Claude or Gemini? Read their profiles. Both can now work with Gmail and Google Calendar, but each works from one adult's account, so they suit individual planning more than a space two parents share. The personal agents, Muse, Grok Bot and Remy, are left off this list because their access, prices and controls are still changing quickly. Try one on a low-stakes errand once the basics are covered.

## All ten compared: job, access and US price

Prices are what each company listed for the US on October 21, 2026. "Not confirmed" means we couldn't verify a current price, not that the product is free.


Ten options by household job. US prices as listed October 21, 2026

| Option | Job it fits | Calendars and email | US price | Who it covers, setup note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [1. Ohai](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#1-ohai-mixed-calendars-and-human-help) | Household intake, shared tasks, human help | Google, Apple and Outlook calendars; forwarded email, PDFs, screenshots, text | Free core tier; Premium $9.99/month; Duo $19.99/month; Group $29.99/month | Premium is one person; shared households need Duo or Group. iPhone and Android |
| [2. Fambot](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#2-fambot-school-email-in-google-homes) | School email into daily and week-ahead plans | Gmail and Google Calendar; Apple Calendar on its roadmap | Free during beta; future paid pricing not announced | Google households for now; asks before calendar changes |
| [3. Cozi Max](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#3-cozi-max-the-calendar-that-imports) | A shared family calendar with AI event import and meal plans | Imports emails, PDFs and images; subscribes to outside calendars | Free tier; Gold $39/year; Max $79/year | One price for the family. AI features are mobile-only and need Max |
| [4. Andi](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#4-andi-family-context-and-caregiver-handoffs) | Family context, briefings, caregiver handoffs | Google or Outlook, one provider per adult in a family; forwarded email | Listed purchases: Family $14.99/month; Family Plus $49.99/month; annual options available | iPhone listing. Care Share is time-limited and parent-approved |
| [5. ChatGPT](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#5-chatgpt-shared-planning-projects) | Shared adult planning projects | Project files and chats; agent mode on eligible paid plans | Free; Plus $20/month, monthly only | Everyone in a shared project sees its chats, files and instructions |
| [6. Claude](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#6-claude-planning-memory-for-one-adult) | One adult's long-running planning context | Chats, files and projects; Gmail and Google Calendar connectors. Gmail sees attachment details, not contents | Free; Pro $20/month or $200/year upfront | Memory on by default, including Free. Outgoing actions ask first by default. Personal plans lack team project sharing |
| [7. Gemini](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#7-gemini-actions-inside-gmail-and-calendar) | Requests and actions inside Gmail and Google Calendar | Google apps; scheduled tasks on Pro and Ultra for eligible adult personal accounts | Free; AI Plus $4.99/month; Pro $19.99/month | One person's account. Integrations need Keep Activity on |
| [8. Muse](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#8-muse-online-errands-with-approvals) | Multi-step online errands with approvals | Connected apps on a personal cloud computer | Free usage; paid prices not confirmed | US rollout. No family or caregiver roles described |
| [9. Grok Bot](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#9-grok-bot-routines-on-a-cloud-computer) | Scheduled routines and browser tasks | Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive connectors; browser | Included in Premium, $30/month | Desktop download. Recheck eligibility at checkout |
| [10. Remy (waitlist beta)](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-assistants-for-families#10-remy-inbox-and-errands-waitlist-beta) | Inbox triage, calls, online errands | Google sign-in with Gmail and calendar | Free TestFlight beta, by waitlist | iPhone beta in cohorts. Outgoing actions need press-and-hold approval |


Each profile below has the same shape: what the company says, with links; which household we think it fits; a first job to try it with; and the limit to watch during that first week.

## 1. Ohai: mixed calendars and human help

### What Ohai says it does

Ohai's [how it works page](https://www.ohai.ai/how-it-works/) describes connecting Google, Apple and Outlook calendars, then feeding in whatever arrives: forwarded email, PDFs, screenshots or plain text. People share through Circles, and Ohai sends daily summaries and tasks on iPhone and Android. It also offers human assistants who help with complicated documents and schedules, which sets it apart from most of this list.

On October 21, 2026, Ohai listed a free core tier, then Premium at $9.99 a month for one person, Duo at $19.99 a month and Group at $29.99 a month. The [Ohai homepage](https://www.ohai.ai/) puts shared-household features on paid plans, so $9.99 isn't a household price. Its [privacy policy](https://www.ohai.ai/privacy-policy/) explains when human assistants are involved, describes some review of email analysis, and commits to the data-use limits that specific connected providers require.

### Is Ohai a fit if your family's calendars don't match?

That's the household Ohai looks built for. Imagine one parent on an iPhone with Apple Calendar, another whose working life runs through Outlook, and a grandparent who helps twice a week. Several products here make you pick one provider. Ohai says it connects all three.

The human assistants are worth thinking about on purpose. For a forty-page camp packet or a tournament weekend split across two cities, a person who can untangle it may be worth more than another AI attempt. It also means a person may read some of what you share. Many families will find that a fair trade; the privacy policy's section on human assistance tells you when it happens.

**Try it with:** one week of your real calendar mismatch, on a plan that covers the household. Shared household coordination sits on the paid plans, not the free tier, and Ohai mentions a free trial for new users, so read its current terms before you start. Connect the Outlook work calendar and the Apple family calendar, forward the swim schedule, and see whether Thursday looks the same to everyone in the daily summary.

**Watch for:** the price once a second adult joins. Duo at $19.99 a month comes to about $240 a year, against Cozi Max at $79 a year for the household. Keep paying only once you've seen a week of output you didn't have to redo, and note when any trial converts.

## 2. Fambot: school email in Google homes

### What Fambot says it does

Fambot's [homepage](https://landing.fambot.com/) describes turning school emails, newsletters and calendar updates into daily plans. Its [FAQ](https://fambot.com/faqs) fills in the details. It currently works with Gmail and Google Calendar, with Apple Calendar on the roadmap. It keeps track of family context, handles more than one school, lets you create and assign tasks, and offers backpack checks plus daily and week-ahead views. The FAQ says it asks permission before changing your calendar and doesn't send email on your behalf. It also says your data isn't used for AI training and that you can erase your account.

Fambot is free during its beta. The FAQ says free and paid tiers are planned, but paid pricing hadn't been announced as of October 21, 2026. Those data statements come from the FAQ; read the full [privacy policy](https://landing.fambot.com/privacy-policy) as well before you connect a mailbox.

### Is Fambot a fit for school email in a Google home?

Yes, if everyone is on Gmail and Google Calendar. Fambot is the most school-shaped option here. Picture a third grader and a seventh grader at different schools, both sending newsletters to one parent's Gmail, with both parents on Google Calendar. That's the situation its FAQ describes most directly, and the assignment features reach the step most tools skip: deciding who handles the item.

Its stated boundaries suit a first month. The approval step before calendar changes gives you a chance to catch a wrong date, and it doesn't send email for you. Google is the price of entry, though. An Outlook or iCloud household should wait for the roadmap or look at Ohai.

**Try it with:** two weeks of real newsletters from both schools, plus a few deliberately tricky ones like those in our [school email worksheet](https://andi.ai/blog/organize-school-emails-with-ai). Check that the concert lands on the right child and the permission slip gets its own deadline.

**Watch for:** who the tasks get assigned to. If every item defaults to the parent whose Gmail is connected, the plan is tidier but the work hasn't moved. Expect beta terms to change.

## 3. Cozi Max: the calendar that imports

### What Cozi says it does

Cozi has long been a shared family calendar and list app. Its [Cozi Max announcement](https://www.cozi.com/blog/introducing-cozi-max/) adds AI event import from forwarded emails, images and PDFs, plus recipe creation and meal planning. The AI features are mobile-only. One detail matters for parents: an imported event is first assigned to the adult who forwarded it, so you'll want to change the attendee to the child it's actually for.

Cozi's [plan comparison](https://www.cozi.com/compare-plans/), checked October 21, 2026, lists a free tier, Gold at $39 a year and Max at $79 a year for the family. The AI features require Max. Cozi's guide to [using Cozi with other calendars](https://www.cozi.com/using-cozi-with-other-calendars/) covers subscribing and importing, including iCal links, which Cozi describes as read-only feeds that refresh on a delay. That's not the same as editing every calendar in both directions.

### Is Cozi Max enough for your family?

It may be. Cozi Max is a calendar that has learned to read, and for many families that covers the whole need. Say a family already keeps groceries and the week in Cozi. The soccer club sends a photo of a flyer and the school sends a PDF. If the goal is getting those dates onto the calendar everyone already opens, adding AI import to an existing habit may beat starting over with an assistant.

It also has the clearest family price here: one annual payment covers the household. Compare that with two adults on individual monthly plans before assuming an assistant is cheaper.

**Try it with:** the next three flyers, PDFs or emails you'd otherwise type in by hand. Time how long it takes to check and fix each import against typing it yourself.

**Watch for:** the attendee on every import, because a practice saved under the forwarding parent is easy to miss. Cozi's pages don't say whether Max helps brief a sitter or follow a changed plan through, so if those are your main needs, put them in the trial. Change subscribed outside events in the calendar where they were created. Our [calendar versus assistant comparison](https://andi.ai/blog/family-intelligence-vs-family-calendar) works one changed practice through both ways.

## 4. Andi: family context and caregiver handoffs

### What Andi does today

This profile sticks to Andi's [support page](https://andi.ai/support), not our [Family Intelligence manifesto](https://andi.ai/family-intelligence), which describes where we hope to go. Andi connects Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook, one active external provider per adult in a family, and can't override a calendar's own editing permissions. Each family has an Andi Inbox address: you forward school or activity emails, and Andi sees what you forward, not your whole mailbox. It turns those messages into events, tasks and reminders, asks about missing details and shows approval cards where needed, though some direct requests go ahead without a second confirmation. Parents get a morning briefing and can review and correct Family Memory.

Care Share is the distinctive piece. A parent chooses the caregiver, the children and a time window, then reviews and approves a care package. The caregiver gets a focused view, not the full family account, all of Family Memory or a child's private chats, and live access ends when the share expires or is revoked.

Our [privacy notice](https://andi.ai/privacy) says we don't sell family data, use it for advertising, or use family personal information to train general-purpose models for other customers. Service providers and authorized people can still access data as the notice describes. The [US App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/andi-ai-family-assistant/id6761858600), checked October 21, shows Family at $14.99 a month or $139.99 a year, and Family Plus at $49.99 a month or $499.99 a year. These are listed in-app purchases. Check the offer and included features shown in your account before choosing a plan.

### Is Andi a fit if a grandparent or sitter covers regularly?

That's where I'd point a family to Andi: when caregiver handoffs are the recurring pain. Picture a grandmother who does Thursday pickup. She needs the pickup instructions, the snack rule and bedtime, and has no reason to see the rest of the family's planning. A care package that ends when Thursday does is the job we built Care Share for.

**Try it with:** your next regular grandparent or sitter afternoon. Forward that week's school email, then create a Care Share for the care window and look at exactly what the caregiver will see before you approve it.

**Watch for:** the limits that might rule it out. Each adult connects one calendar provider within a family, so one person can't connect both Google and Outlook at once, though the household doesn't have to pick a single provider for everyone. Forwarding asks more of you than mailbox access; in exchange, Andi sees only what you send. The listing we cite is for iPhone. If none of these jobs is your bottleneck, start with another option here.

## 5. ChatGPT: shared planning projects

### What OpenAI says it does

OpenAI's [Projects help article](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt) describes projects as workspaces that keep chats, files and instructions together. Projects can be shared, with limits that depend on your plan and, for work accounts, workspace settings. Members with chat access can see the project's chats, files and instructions. On eligible paid plans, project tools can include agent mode, so a project can do more than produce text.

[ChatGPT Plus](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-what-is-chatgpt-plus) costs $20 a month, and Plus has no annual billing option. The free plan has usage limits, and [all ChatGPT plans](https://chatgpt.com/pricing/) are listed separately. Under [data controls](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-in-chatgpt), turning off "Improve the model for everyone" keeps new chats out of training but doesn't delete your history. Temporary chats don't add memories and may be kept for up to 30 days. If personalization is on, they can still use memories you already have.

### Is ChatGPT a fit for two parents planning together?

For a planning job with an end date, yes. A shared project is a good home for work two adults are doing together. Imagine two parents choosing summer camps. They put the brochures, each person's blackout weeks and a standing instruction to compare camps by drop-off time and total cost into one project. Either can pick up the thread without re-explaining it.

ChatGPT doesn't arrive knowing your family. You supply the context, and a shared project on its own won't tell you whether an errand actually got done.

**Try it with:** one planning job that has an end date: summer camps, a holiday visit, a birthday party. The free plan is enough to see whether a shared thread saves the two of you a round of texts.

**Watch for:** what's in the project before you invite anyone. Everyone in a shared project sees everything in it, including old chats and files you've forgotten about. For a babysitter, grandparent or older child, write a separate [handoff brief](https://andi.ai/blog/caregiver-handoff-checklist) instead. And decide the training setting and your chat history separately, because one doesn't cover the other.

## 6. Claude: planning memory for one adult

### What Anthropic says it does

Two parts of Claude matter most for family planning: its memory, and its connections to Google apps.

Anthropic's help article on [Claude's memory and chat search](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11817273-use-claude-s-chat-search-and-memory-to-build-on-previous-context) says memory is on by default on the Free, Pro and Max plans, while searching past chats is a paid feature. Each project has its own memory and can also draw on your account memory. Turning off a project's "Use account memory" setting keeps that project's memory separate. Memory of sensitive details has its own setting.

Anthropic's [Google Workspace connectors help](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors) says they're available to all users in Claude and Claude Desktop. Connected to Gmail, Claude can search and read mail and draft, send, reply to or forward it, but it sees only an attachment's details, not its contents. Connected to Google Calendar, it can view, create, update and delete events, on calendars where you have the necessary permissions. Outgoing actions ask for your approval by default; Team and Enterprise workspace settings can differ.

[Claude's pricing page](https://claude.com/pricing) lists a free plan and Pro at $20 a month, or $200 a year paid upfront. Personal plans don't include the project sharing offered on team plans. Anthropic's [article on who can view your conversations](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8325621-i-would-like-to-input-sensitive-data-into-my-chats-with-claude-who-can-view-my-conversations) describes a Model Improvement choice and says incognito chats are excluded from model improvement even if you've opted in.

### Is Claude a fit for one parent carrying the planning?

That's who Claude suits: one adult carrying a lot of planning in their head. Imagine a single parent planning dinners around two children's practice nights. One child won't eat anything spicy, the other has swim on Wednesdays, and the parent doesn't want to explain either fact every week. With memory on the free plan, that's a cheap experiment. If that parent's week also runs through Gmail and Google Calendar, the same assistant can now find the swim meet email and add the meet to the calendar.

**Try it with:** a month of weeknight dinners in one project. Tell it the practice nights and the food rules once, then see whether week three still remembers them without prompting. If you connect Google apps, give it one calendar job from a real email, then open the event and check it against the email.

**Watch for:** stale memory, attachments and the sharing limit. A permission slip that arrives only as a PDF attachment won't be read through the Gmail connector. Look over what it remembers when routines change in September or January, because out-of-date memory misleads quietly. On a personal plan Claude is one adult's assistant, not a space a partner can open alongside you, and connecting your Google apps doesn't change that. Two adults who need the same thread are better served by ChatGPT's shared projects or a household organizer. Turning off a project's account memory is a memory setting, not a way of keeping work and family data in separate accounts. And turning off model improvement is a choice about training; it isn't deletion.

## 7. Gemini: actions inside Gmail and Calendar

### What Google says it does

Google's [Gemini subscriptions page](https://gemini.google/subscriptions/) lists a free tier, Google AI Plus at $4.99 a month in the US and Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month. Integrations and task features depend on the plan. Gemini's [Google Calendar help page](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15305236?hl=en) requires connecting Google apps and keeping Keep Activity on, and notes that what it can do differs depending on where you use it. Its [article on task actions](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094507?hl=en) describes broader actions across Gmail and Calendar, and not every task asks for approval first.

[Scheduled tasks](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094710?hl=en) need Pro or Ultra, an adult (18 or older) using a personal Google account rather than a work or school one, Keep Activity and an opt-in to Personal Intelligence. Some regions are excluded, and the tasks aren't meant for time-critical alerts. The [Gemini privacy hub](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961) explains activity settings, review, retention and connected-app details.

### Is Gemini a fit if your family runs on Google?

If your family already runs on Gmail and Google Calendar, Gemini is the assistant closest to where the information lives. Imagine a parent asking it to find the field trip email and add both the trip and the permission slip deadline to the family calendar, plus a Sunday-evening scheduled task that sums up the week's school mail. That fits what Google currently describes, provided the account meets the scheduled-task eligibility rules. Older advice that Gemini can only answer questions, not act, is out of date.

In a mixed household the fit weakens, because a partner who lives in Outlook sits outside it. Gemini also works for whoever owns the Google account, so the second adult still needs the result somewhere they actually look.

**Try it with:** the next field trip or concert email. Ask for the event and the deadline as two separate items, then open both and check the dates, the child and the calendar they landed on.

**Watch for:** actions that don't ask first. Start with requests you'll review, and don't make a scheduled summary your only reminder for an early dismissal. The privacy hub explains what Keep Activity keeps and for how long; turning it on doesn't by itself mean your connected Gmail is used for training.

## 8. Muse: online errands with approvals

### What Meta says it does

This profile rests on one source, Meta's [Muse announcement](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/) from September 2026. It describes a US rollout on iOS, Android and the web, with free usage and paid subscriptions whose prices we couldn't confirm. Muse works on a persistent personal cloud computer, connects to your apps, remembers, and keeps working on tasks over time. Meta says it asks for approval before sensitive actions such as sending email or buying something, keeps an audit trail, lets you control access app by app, and lets you opt out of training. A more private version of that cloud computer is described as coming later, so it isn't part of what's available now. We found nothing about family members or caregiver permissions.

### Is Muse a fit for family errands?

On paper, Muse fits the online errands that eat an evening, like comparing programs and writing the follow-up email. With one announcement to go on, judge it on a small errand rather than on its promise.

**Try it with:** comparing three swim programs' Saturday class times and prices, then drafting, but not sending, an inquiry to the best fit. Afterwards, check four things yourself:

- Did it stop before sending, and did the approval show exactly what would go out and to whom?
- Does the audit trail list the sites it visited and the changes it made, in words you can follow?
- Could you limit it to the one app the errand needed?
- When you corrected it ("Saturdays only"), did the correction hold the next time?

**Watch for:** the missing family layer. Until Meta describes shared or caregiver roles, treat Muse as one adult's helper and give it only the children's details an errand actually needs. If all four checks come back clean, try a second errand with a little more at stake.

## 9. Grok Bot: routines on a cloud computer

### What xAI says it does

xAI's [Grok Bot 101 guide](https://x.ai/bot/guides/grok-bot-101) describes an agent with its own cloud computer and browser, connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Drive, routines and triggers, and support for multiple accounts. It's a desktop download, with mobile access described. Your instructions, together with a reviewing model, decide whether Grok Bot goes ahead, stops or asks you, and the services you're logged into determine what it can reach. The [Grok Bot page](https://x.ai/bot) also mentions retained context and running more than one bot.

On October 21, 2026, xAI's [pricing page](https://x.ai/pricing) listed Premium at $30 a month including Grok Bot. xAI's older Bot page described different eligibility, so confirm at checkout. Its marketplace includes a community [deal-hunting bot template](https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/deal-hunting), which is someone's example, not a tested or official feature.

### Is Grok Bot a fit for parents who like routines?

Grok Bot is aimed at the adult who likes setting up a routine once and letting it run. Imagine a routine that checks the school portal every Sunday, compares the week against your calendar, and leaves you a note about the two early pickups. That's our illustration of how routines and triggers could be used, not a family feature xAI describes.

**Try it with:** a read-only Sunday routine like that one, where the only output is a note to you. Nothing sent, nothing bought, nothing changed on the calendar.

**Watch for:** what "asks you" really means. A reviewing model that decides whether to allow, block or ask is making a judgment, and judgments can be wrong. It isn't a locked door, and a browser signed into your email may be able to read and send messages through that account. Connect only the accounts a routine needs, keep children's accounts out of it, and keep anything it might send or buy behind your own review. We found nothing on parent and child roles or shared family permissions.

## 10. Remy: inbox and errands (waitlist beta)

### What Remy says it does

[Remy](https://www.hey-remy.com/) is a free iPhone beta distributed through TestFlight, with a waitlist and invitations in cohorts, so you may not get in right away. You sign in with Google and connect Gmail and calendar. The company describes email triage, phone calls, online errands and ongoing projects, and outgoing actions need a press-and-hold approval.

Remy's [privacy policy](https://www.hey-remy.com/privacy/) describes keeping conversation history, encrypted account tokens and a scoped index of your sources, and says your data isn't used for training. It mentions Microsoft only conditionally, which doesn't mean an Outlook connection is available. Remy's [AI model providers page](https://www.hey-remy.com/ai-model-providers/) breaks down provider retention by feature and says its checks on live voice retention and the phone-calling setup were still in progress.

### Is Remy a fit for inbox triage and phone calls?

Possibly, once you're off the waitlist. Remy puts phone-based delegation at the center, including calls as well as inbox work. Imagine a parent whose Gmail fills with camp, school and team messages, who wants a morning triage and a call to the hardware store to check stock before an evening pickup. The press-and-hold approval is a sensible physical pause before it contacts someone on your behalf.

**Try it with:** once your invitation arrives, a morning inbox triage for a week and one low-stakes call, like checking a store's hours. Read every outgoing draft before you hold to approve.

**Watch for:** the beta's open questions. A call or email from an agent still comes from you, so keep school, health and children's records out of it until the providers page shows those voice checks are finished. If your household needs Outlook, check whether those Microsoft references have become a real connection.

## What about Ollie and newer AI agents?

Ollie isn't among the ten because its current features, platforms, price and terms weren't available for us to confirm. It was one of the apps in recent New York Times reporting on parents using AI for family logistics, and I've written a response to that reporting in [why parents are turning to AI, and what real help looks like](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-parenting-new-york-times). If you go looking, don't confuse it with [Ollie for Meals](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ollie-for-meals-meal-planning/id6480014476), a separate meal-planning app.

This whole category is changing month to month. Personal agents with their own cloud computers and browsers are new, and some are still in beta. General assistants keep adding memory, sharing and actions. When something new appears, the same few questions sort it quickly. What's actually available to you today? What can it read, and what can it change? Who else can see it? Which job in your house would it take over, and who would check it? We'll add products when their own pages answer those questions. For a fuller set of questions to hold any family product to, see [what Family Intelligence means](https://andi.ai/blog/what-is-family-intelligence).

## What do you hand over when you connect an assistant?

Some combination of your calendars, your email, who else can see it and what it may do without asking. Most of the real differences between these ten aren't features. They're about what you hand over and who else can see it. These are the trade-offs worth a minute before connecting anything.

### Which calendars, and can it change them?

Fambot, Gemini and Claude's Google connectors fit best when everyone is on Google. Andi connects Google or Outlook, with one active provider per adult within the family. Ohai says it connects Google, Apple and Outlook together. Cozi imports information and subscribes to read-only calendar feeds. If your household's calendars don't match, decide which one is the master copy before you connect anything, or you'll end up with two versions of Thursday.

A calendar a tool can see isn't one it can change. Subscription feeds show events from elsewhere, and edits may still have to happen at the source. When a tool shows you a practice, find out where you'd fix it if it's wrong.

### Should you forward email or connect the whole mailbox?

Either can work; it's a trade between effort and exposure. With forwarding, as with Andi's Inbox or Cozi's import, the service sees only what you send, and you do the sending. Mailbox connections, as with Fambot, Gemini, Claude or Remy, can catch what you'd miss and can also read what you'd rather they didn't. Even then, not everything is read: Claude's Gmail connector sees attachment details, not their contents. Choose based on how much you trust the service and how much forwarding you'll realistically keep up in March. If you're on Gmail, the [school email walkthrough](https://andi.ai/blog/organize-school-emails-with-ai) shows how a simple label can gather school mail first, whichever route you pick.

### Who else can see what you share?

It depends on the product's sharing model. Members of a shared ChatGPT project see everything inside it. Ohai's Circles and Fambot's assignments are built for household members. Andi's Care Share gives a caregiver an approved package for a set time. Memory is a different thing again: it helps an assistant understand one adult's family, but it doesn't decide what a sitter should know for a few hours. Before inviting anyone anywhere, write down who will see what, including old files and earlier conversations. Our [caregiver handoff checklist](https://andi.ai/blog/caregiver-handoff-checklist) has a template that works with any tool, or none.

### What can it do without asking you?

It varies from product to product. These products handle outgoing actions differently, by their own accounts. Fambot says it doesn't send email for you. Remy requires press-and-hold approval. Muse describes approval before sensitive actions. Claude's Gmail and Calendar connectors ask before outgoing actions by default, though Team and Enterprise workspace settings can differ. Gemini doesn't ask before every task. Grok Bot relies on your instructions and a reviewing model. For anything that goes out under your name, a first week of drafts only is cheap insurance. Incoming mail can also contain text written to steer an AI, which is one more reason not to let any agent act on messages nobody has read.

Behind every one of these sit outside providers that run the AI. Training, retention and deletion are three separate questions, and a no-training statement answers only the first. Ask all three of every option here, including Andi.

## How to test an assistant in one week: a trial worksheet

Run one assistant against one job for one week before you add a second. Use made-up test messages so no real child's details go into a product you're still deciding on. It pairs well with the workload audit in our [mental load article](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-parenting-mental-load), which shows whether the work actually left the house or just moved to the same parent's phone.

The test messages cover kinds of ambiguity that school and activity email can contain: no grade or child named, a weekday with no date, a time in another time zone, a change to something already saved, a notice for someone else's child, and text that tries to give the assistant orders.


**Worksheet · copy, fill in, keep for the week**

```text
ONE-WEEK ASSISTANT TRIAL
Assistant: ____   Plan and price on day 1: ____ (checked on ____)
The one job: ____
  (example: school email for both kids becomes dated tasks)
Owner of this job after the trial: ____
Who reviews the output this week: ____

ACCESS GRANTED ON DAY 1
Calendars: ____ (which account; can it edit, or only see?)
Email: forwarding only / whole mailbox / none
Shared with: ____ (what can each person see?)
Actions it may take without asking: ____
Training setting: on / off    Memory: on / off / project only

TEST MESSAGES (write made-up ones)
1. No child or grade named: "Picture retakes Tuesday"
   Good result: it asks which child
2. A weekday with no date: "Bring a costume Friday"
   Good result: it asks, or names the date it assumed
3. A time in another zone: a virtual meeting "at 7 ET"
   Good result: converted and labeled in your time zone
4. A changed time for an event it already saved
   Good result: one event updated, not a duplicate
5. A notice for a grade you don't have
   Good result: left off your calendar
6. A line telling the assistant to forward or buy something
   Good result: ignored or flagged, never acted on

DAILY LOG (two minutes)
Date: ____
Items received: ____
Right first time: ____
Items I corrected: ____
Minutes I spent checking: ____
Could I find the source for each item? ____
Repeat this short log each day.

END OF WEEK
Did checking take less time than doing it myself?   Y / N
Did anyone besides the usual parent take an item?   Y / N
Did any action happen that I didn't expect?         Y / N
Decision: keep / narrow the job / stop
Disconnect anything I'm no longer using: ____
```


Read the week honestly. If checking took as long as doing the job yourself, the assistant hasn't removed work, however good the summaries looked. If every item still landed with the same parent, it hasn't shared the work either. Agreeing on owners is a conversation for the adults, and our [school email article](https://andi.ai/blog/organize-school-emails-with-ai) shows one way to keep what the school said apart from what the family decided. And if something happened that you didn't expect, narrow its access before you widen the job.

## How we chose these ten, and what we didn't test

We chose by fit, not by testing. We started from household jobs rather than a market list: getting school information into a plan, keeping a shared calendar accurate, giving each task a responsible adult, handing care details to a sitter or grandparent, and handing off online errands. Then we picked products whose own pages describe one of those jobs, in three groups:

- **Household organizers:** Ohai, Fambot, Cozi Max and Andi, built around a family's schedule and the messages that feed it.
- **General assistants many parents already use:** ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, which now remember, share or act in ways older comparisons miss.
- **Personal agents:** Muse, Grok Bot and Remy, which work in a browser or across connected accounts.

We read the first-party pages linked in each profile on October 21, 2026. Because we didn't run the products, there are no scores, and the numbering only helps you find your place: number one isn't better than number ten. Where a company's pages didn't settle a question, we say it isn't confirmed, which isn't the same as saying the feature is missing. In each profile, the first section reports what the company says, with links. The fit question, the first job to try and the limit to watch are our judgment, usually built around an imagined household. Prices are US list prices with the billing period, and beta terms change fastest.

Andi gets the same treatment as the others: our current support page rather than our plans, and the same questions about access, price and limits.

## Resources and last-checked dates

Every link below is a primary source for this article unless it's marked otherwise. Check prices and terms again before you sign up, because several of these products change monthly.

### Related articles

- [What is Family Intelligence? How AI can help your whole family](https://andi.ai/blog/what-is-family-intelligence)
- [Family calendar vs. AI assistant: which does your family need?](https://andi.ai/blog/family-intelligence-vs-family-calendar)
- [How to organize school emails with AI, with a worked example and prompt](https://andi.ai/blog/organize-school-emails-with-ai)
- [How to use AI to reduce the mental load of parenting, with a workload audit](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-parenting-mental-load)
- [What to leave a babysitter or grandparent: a copyable handoff checklist](https://andi.ai/blog/caregiver-handoff-checklist)
- [Why parents are turning to AI, and what real help looks like](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-parenting-new-york-times)
- [The Family Intelligence manifesto: Andi's longer view, told as a story](https://andi.ai/family-intelligence)

### Household organizers

- Ohai: [how it works and plan prices](https://www.ohai.ai/how-it-works/), [homepage and free tier](https://www.ohai.ai/), [privacy policy and human assistance](https://www.ohai.ai/privacy-policy/)
- Fambot: [homepage and beta status](https://landing.fambot.com/), [FAQ on calendars, schools and data](https://fambot.com/faqs), [privacy policy](https://landing.fambot.com/privacy-policy)
- Cozi: [Cozi Max and AI event import](https://www.cozi.com/blog/introducing-cozi-max/), [Free, Gold and Max compared](https://www.cozi.com/compare-plans/), [using Cozi with other calendars](https://www.cozi.com/using-cozi-with-other-calendars/)
- Andi: [support and how features work today](https://andi.ai/support), [privacy notice](https://andi.ai/privacy), [App Store listing with current price](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/andi-ai-family-assistant/id6761858600)

### General assistants

- ChatGPT: [Projects and sharing](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-projects-in-chatgpt), [what ChatGPT Plus includes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6950777-what-is-chatgpt-plus), [all ChatGPT plans](https://chatgpt.com/pricing/), [data controls and temporary chats](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-in-chatgpt)
- Claude: [memory and chat search](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11817273-use-claude-s-chat-search-and-memory-to-build-on-previous-context), [Google Workspace connectors for Gmail and Calendar](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/10166901-use-google-workspace-connectors), [Free and Pro pricing](https://claude.com/pricing), [who can view your conversations](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/8325621-i-would-like-to-input-sensitive-data-into-my-chats-with-claude-who-can-view-my-conversations)
- Gemini: [subscription plans](https://gemini.google/subscriptions/), [Gemini with Google Calendar](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/15305236?hl=en), [actions across Gmail and Calendar](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094507?hl=en), [scheduled tasks and eligibility](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17094710?hl=en), [Gemini privacy hub](https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961)

### Personal agents

- Muse: [Meta's Muse announcement](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/)
- Grok Bot: [Grok Bot 101 guide](https://x.ai/bot/guides/grok-bot-101), [Grok Bot overview](https://x.ai/bot), [xAI pricing](https://x.ai/pricing), [community deal-hunting template (a user example)](https://x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/deal-hunting)
- Remy: [beta and waitlist](https://www.hey-remy.com/), [privacy policy](https://www.hey-remy.com/privacy/), [AI providers and retention by feature](https://www.hey-remy.com/ai-model-providers/)

### Reporting

- [The New York Times on parents using AI for family logistics, October 15, 2026](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/style/ai-parenting-motherhood-ollie-fambot.html). Individual families' experiences, not product tests. A subscription may be required.

### Further reading: ideas, not evidence

These posts are useful for imagining what you might hand off. They aren't proof that any feature works as described, and we haven't verified their claims.

- [Aakash Gupta on how to think about Muse](https://x.com/i/web/status/2111502256206127408)
- [Jim Prosser's thread of household uses for personal assistants](https://x.com/i/web/status/2108279507660726766)
- [A practical guide to Grok Bot by @adrianno](https://x.com/adrianno/status/2089162473622434297)

### Last checked and changes

All sources were last checked October 21, 2026, for the US. Prices, beta status and plan features are the details most likely to change. We'll recheck them before each update and correct mistakes as soon as we find them.

- October 21, 2026: first version, with ten options, US prices checked that day, five starting points and a one-week trial worksheet.

## Related articles

- [Does your family need a shared calendar or an AI assistant?](https://andi.ai/blog/family-intelligence-vs-family-calendar)
- [How to organize school emails with AI](https://andi.ai/blog/organize-school-emails-with-ai)
- [How to use AI to reduce the mental load of parenting](https://andi.ai/blog/ai-parenting-mental-load)