Meta Muse alternatives for the UK, India and Australia
Meta Muse is free to start and works only in the US and Canada, checked 1 October 2026 against Meta's own newsroom, so it is not available in the UK, India or Australia. It gives you an agent with its own cloud computer and a documented Ideas and Goals system. Its first three weeks also produced a security researcher's zero-day, a 6.8GB internal data export, and a reported case of it handing a stranger a user's home address. If either the country restriction or that track record is a dealbreaker, OpenAI's dots, the texting-native Poke, and Mover OS each take a different approach. Mover OS is also an option if you want help following your own plan more than errands done for you: $49 once, it runs inside the coding agent you already use, such as Claude Code or Codex, keeps plain files on your own machine, plans your day, flags drift from your plan, and stops when the agent closes.
Last verified 29 September 2026.
Which alternative fits you?
Try OpenAI dots
Worth a look if you're a ChatGPT Pro or Business Premium subscriber and want the always-on cloud-computer model from a different vendor, though dots is also unavailable on the Pro plan in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
Try Poke
A good fit if you want the same proactive, handles-things-for-you feel reached through the texts you already send (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram) rather than a dedicated app, with a genuine free tier and a lower paid floor ($19/mo) than Muse's Power tier.
Try Mover OS
It suits you if what actually drew you to Muse was the Ideas/Goals tracking, not the cloud computer or shopping automation. Mover tracks your plan and goals in plain files on your own machine and pushes back when you drift, inside Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI. Mover is the wrong choice if you want an agent that browses, shops, or calls people on your behalf: it has no computer or browser of its own and does no errands.
How do the alternatives compare?
| Fact | Meta Muse | OpenAI dots | Poke |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta source | OpenAI source | The Interaction Company of California (reported as now part of Cognition) source |
| Launch date | 8 September 2026 (US); Canada 18 September 2026 source | 29 September 2026 (teased 15:00 BST, revealed 18:03-18:06 BST) source | Officially launched September 2025 (with a $15M seed round); approved by Apple for native Apple Messages for Business access on 4 June 2026 source |
| Price and plans | Free for up to 100 million tokens per week. Power $20/month and Maximum $100/month buy more usage, not extra features. source | No separate price. Included at no extra cost with ChatGPT Pro (Pro 100 at $100 a month, Pro 200 at $200 and Pro 500) and Business Premium. Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare get an opt-in beta a workspace admin enables. The Plus plan does not get it. source | Free ($0/mo, no card required); Pro $19/mo ($16/mo billed yearly); Ultra $199/mo ($160/mo billed yearly, includes pay-as-you-go usage beyond credits and the "Poke Human" add-on). Earlier coverage (mid-2026) described a novel "negotiate your own price" onboarding flow; the current official pricing page lists fixed tiers instead, so treat the negotiation mechanic as an earlier/parallel growth gimmick, not the live pricing model. source |
| Availability | US and Canada only. Explicitly NOT available in the UK, Ireland or the EU as of 1 October 2026. source | Pro users in markets outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the UK; Business Premium in all supported ChatGPT regions, which includes the UK (OpenAI's dots docs: "Business Premium: Rolling out worldwide"); Enterprise as a beta a workspace admin switches on. Texting a dot is a beta limited to Pro users in the US. source | All regions worldwide, per Poke's docs. source |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, muse.ai (web), directly in WhatsApp, and a Mac app (no Windows app). Coming to Meta AI glasses. Standalone hardware "Muse Charm" expected US-first, December 2026. source | ChatGPT desktop, web and mobile; Slack and Teams; texting "coming soon". Initial setup needs the desktop app or a desktop browser; mobile is for messaging your dot only after setup. source | iMessage (first AI agent Apple approved for Messages for Business), WhatsApp, Telegram, RCS/SMS. No dedicated app required. source |
| Underlying model | Meta's own model, internally "Avocado" (Muse Spark), for nearly every session. One independently-exported session showed a subagent task routed server-side to a model tagged azure/muse-special, likely an OpenAI model served via Azure; this is Meta's own infrastructure choice, not a user-facing way to plug in an outside account. source | GPT-6 Astra (Astra itself shipped 3 September 2026, three and a half weeks before dots; dots is a new product on the existing model, not a new model) source | A blend of models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Voyage and Mistral AI plus in-house fine-tuned models; which model handles which task is not disclosed. source |
| Where memory lives | Yes, named and documented: MEMORY.md plus dated files under memory/ and memory/bank/, inside the user's isolated cloud VM. "You can find out what Muse remembers about you at any time by asking directly, or by viewing files like your MEMORY.md." A named "Forget skill" removes specific topics/people; a full reset deletes all Muse data. source | Not spelled out as a dots-specific memory system in the launch post. "The more you work together, the more your dot learns your preferences." Whether it rides ChatGPT's general Memory system (Settings > Personalization > Memory, viewable/editable/deletable there) is inferred, not confirmed by OpenAI's dots copy. source | A per-account Memory inside Poke's hosted service, kept together with your Recipes and Integrations when two accounts are merged. source |
| Always on | Yes. "Muse keeps things moving after you close the app. It monitors, follows up, and sends a notification when something needs your attention." source | Yes. "They have their own cloud computer, learn from feedback over time, and can work towards your goals 24/7." source | Yes. Runs "proactive automations working in the background" on Free, with "real-time automations running in the background" on Pro and above. source |
| Integrations | Gmail, Google Calendar, HealthEx, OpenTable, Facebook, Instagram, Peloton, Plaid/Finances, Function Health, Google Contacts at launch; Walmart, Best Buy, Sephora, Instacart, Notion, GitHub, Gap, Wayfair, Expedia, Granola, Shopify (via Shop Pay), PayPal added at Meta Connect (23 Sep). Checkout runs through Link by Stripe. source | "Through our ecosystem of plugins, they can readily connect to over 4,000 apps" (the existing ChatGPT plugin/app ecosystem, not a new developer surface). No public dots-specific API or SDK found. source | Email and calendar (Free tier onward); Notion, Linear, Oura and roughly 20 more cited by a third-party review; Recipes and an MCP layer for power users. source |
| Trains on your data by default | ON by default at first use. Toggle under Settings > Data controls turns it off. Excluded from ad targeting regardless of this setting. source | "We don't use content from ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, or Edu workspaces to improve our models by default. On personal ChatGPT plans, you can control whether dots' conversations and work are used to improve our models." The launch post gives no default setting for personal (Pro) plans. source | A third-party review states "no training on your data" as part of Poke's privacy stance; Poke's own published policy text stating a default was not independently located in this pass. source |
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Mover OS is a different kind of tool: files your own AI agent reads, $49 once, with no cloud computer or messaging reach. Muse vs Mover OS sets the two side by side.
What do users say about Muse?
“I'm slowly cleaning up the suburbs with Muse. Saw this mess of wires on a pole. Took a picture and asked Muse to contact Verizon to get them cleaned up... 'Someone should do something about that' is now a prompt.”
@toddsaunders, Meta Muse
“This weekend, I used Instinct to order bagels for my son's birthday. When I arrived to pick them up, the store hadn't received the order... I was late for the party, really frustrated, and made the decision to switch to Muse... Assistants are going to need nines of reliability, not just in uptime but in terms of task execution.”
@benspringwater, Meta Muse
“I used to use chat GPT for everything I needed, but I get more done with muse in 30 minutes than I do in 2 hours with chat gpt... My favorite part about it is the NO BS opinions it gives me. Chat gpt will tell me what I want to hear most of the time.”
kingbulltrev, App Store review "Better than gpt", Meta Muse
“It's cute. It's cuddly. And it wants all your data.”
NBC News, Meta Muse
Common questions
Is Meta Muse available in the UK or EU?
No, not as of 29 September 2026. It launched in the US on 8 September and Canada on 18 September, with no UK, Ireland or EU date announced; one analysis guesses a UK launch could slip into 2027.
What happened with Muse's security incidents?
In order: a macOS zero-day exposed a user's auth token to any local app (21 Sep); a researcher's request for Muse's own filesystem returned 6.8GB of internal data (22 Sep); Meta admitted routing some "AI" calls to human call-center staff without disclosure (22 to 23 Sep); Muse read a user's iMessage database without the expected permission gate (28 Sep); and it gave a stranger a user's home address on Facebook Marketplace (28 Sep). Each is documented with a dated, named source in this site's Muse fact table.
Does Muse train on my conversations by default?
Yes. Meta's help page states training is on when you first use Muse, with an opt-out in Settings > Data controls. It's excluded from ad targeting regardless of that setting.
Can I see and delete what Muse remembers about me?
Yes, this part is well documented: you can ask Muse directly or view files like MEMORY.md, use a named "Forget skill" for specific topics or people, or reset Muse entirely to delete all your data.
Weighing Muse against a tool that holds you to your own plan? Mover OS: $49 once, plain files on your own machine, inside the AI you already use.