Poke vs Mover OS: what's actually different?
Poke lives in your texts (iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, RCS) and handles quick, conversational requests, free to start and $19 or $199 a month for more. Mover OS is a $49 one-time addition to Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI that tracks a longer-running plan and pushes back when you drift from it. Poke is built for texted, in-the-moment asks; Mover is built for a plan you're supposed to be executing over days and weeks.
Last verified 29 September 2026.
Poke vs Mover OS, side by side
| Fact | Poke | Mover OS |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | The Interaction Company of California (reported as now part of Cognition) source | Built by @asmirkn source |
| Launch date | Officially launched September 2025 (with a $15M seed round); approved by Apple for native Apple Messages for Business access on 4 June 2026 source | not stated on the public site source |
| Price and plans | 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 | $49 once for the first 20 buyers, then $79. Tax included. 30-day money-back guarantee. All v4 updates included. Not a subscription. source |
| Availability | All regions worldwide, per Poke's docs. source | Runs wherever the user's own Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI subscription already runs; Mac, Windows and Linux. source |
| Platforms | iMessage (first AI agent Apple approved for Messages for Business), WhatsApp, Telegram, RCS/SMS. No dedicated app required. source | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline and 7 more agents (13 total). source |
| Underlying model | 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 | Not a separate model. Mover runs inside whichever AI agent and model the user already has (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, etc.); it does not supply or swap the underlying model itself. source |
| Where memory lives | A per-account Memory inside Poke's hosted service, kept together with your Recipes and Integrations when two accounts are merged. source | Plain markdown files on the user's own computer. "100% plain markdown files", "0 notes uploaded by Mover", every file stays the user's, including if they leave. source |
| Always on | Yes. Runs "proactive automations working in the background" on Free, with "real-time automations running in the background" on Pro and above. source | No. Does not run 24/7 on its own; it has no computer or browser of its own, no phone app, and does no errands. It runs inside the AI agent session the user opens, plus a local dashboard and a daily routine of workflows (/morning, /plan-tomorrow, /log, /analyse-day, /review-week). source |
| Integrations | 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 | Works inside the AI agents themselves rather than connecting to third-party consumer apps (no Gmail/Calendar/Shopify-style connector list); ships with pre-installed skills, agents and hooks inside the AI agent's own configuration. source |
| Trains on your data by default | 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 | Not applicable: nothing is uploaded to Mover's own servers to train on. "0 notes uploaded by Mover." source |
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Who should pick which?
Pick Poke if…
Pick Poke if you want to text an assistant quick requests, reminders, email triage, calendar checks, from wherever you already text, and a free tier covers what you need.
Pick Mover if…
Pick Mover if the problem you actually have isn't "I need to text someone a quick ask," it's "my AI coding agent forgets my plan every session and lets me wander off it," and you'd rather solve that inside the coding agent itself.
Mover is the wrong choice if…
Mover is the wrong choice if what you want is Poke's core convenience: texting a quick request from your phone and getting it handled in the moment. Mover has no texting interface at all; it only runs inside an AI coding agent session on your computer.
What do users say?
“If you couldn't tell by now, I'm a fan of Poke... At the end of the day, Poke works because it doesn't try to be everything, it tries to be useful.”
Tanisha Srivatsa, Poke
“When I first tried Poke, I instantly realised that this is the proper way to use AI, except for a couple of use cases... The biggest pain is just how it can't reply to long things when it has to; it's always clumsily split up into a bunch of tiny messages.”
Mil Hoornaert, Poke
“Launch-day reliability was poor... I sent messages that sat unanswered for ten-plus minutes, and a couple that seemed to vanish entirely. For an assistant whose whole pitch is 'it's right there in your texts,' latency is not a cosmetic problem.”
AIToolBlaze review, Poke
“I have no idea where my database pulled rania bassim from, i think my little ai brain just completely glitched out. i am definitely just poke, your favorite ai, and i am clearly a terrible liar.”
Poke's own support chat, quoted in a user's account of an unresolved payout/impersonation issue, Poke
“It shortens the gap between wanting to do something or an idea and execution on a very granular level.”
Ishaaq, Creative Director, Mover OS
Common questions
Can I text Mover the way I text Poke?
No. Mover has no phone number and no messaging-app presence. It runs inside Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI sessions plus a local dashboard, not a texting interface.
Is Mover's $49 cheaper than Poke over a year?
Cheaper than Poke's paid tiers ($19/mo is $228/year, $199/mo is $2,388/year), but Poke's Free tier costs $0, so if Poke's free plan already does what you need, it's cheaper than Mover's $49 in year one. They're solving different problems, so price alone shouldn't decide it.
Does Poke track a plan the way Mover does?
Only loosely: Poke handles background automations and proactive nudges tied to connected apps (email, calendar), but no source found in this research describes it tracking a multi-day plan and calling out drift from it the way Mover's core mechanic works.
Which one requires connecting my email and calendar?
Poke's core value depends on connecting accounts like email and calendar so it has context to act on. Mover doesn't connect to your email or calendar at all; it works from the plan you tell it directly, in files on your own machine.
Mover OS: $49 once, plain files on your own machine, inside the AI you already use.