CLOSEST RIVALS, EMAIL → TASKS
AI EMAIL ASSISTANTS & CLIENTS
Everything else solves half the problem.
VS · AI EMAIL ASSISTANTS
Your business isn't only in your inbox.
$22–50 per month to sort email, while the lead that matters is a missed call, a WhatsApp read at a red light, a promise made out loud. Per-seat pricing and credit surprises are the category's loudest complaints.
Hobb: calls, texts, WhatsApp and email in the same list, flat price, meter always visible.
VS · TASK OVERLAYS IN GMAIL
A place to file tasks is not the same as noticing them.
Kanban boards and task sidebars still expect you to spot the commitment, drag the card and set the date. Most also slow Gmail down, the category's chronic complaint since 2019.
Hobb: nothing to file. The item appears, ranked, with its source attached.
VS · SMART EMAIL CLIENTS
Faster reading. Same forgetting.
Speed, snoozing and a beautiful Split Inbox make email pleasant, but an action item never becomes a task, so what you owe people still lives in your head.
Hobb: the follow-up is written down before you've put the phone in your pocket.
VS · A CRM
A CRM only knows what you type into it.
$60–100/mo, and the logging is still your job, after the call, after the showing, after you find a pen. The database is only as good as your discipline at 6pm.
Hobb: the record writes itself, from the channels where the work actually happened.
Side by side.
WHAT YOU GET
AI EMAIL ASST.
$22–50/MO
$22–50/MO
TASK OVERLAY
$5–29/MO
$5–29/MO
CRM
$60–100/MO
$60–100/MO
HOBB
$34/MO
$34/MO
Reads email and drafts replies
Yes
No
No
Yes
Extracts to-dos automatically
Sometimes
You do it by hand
You type it in
Automatic
Covers calls, texts & WhatsApp
No
No
Logging only
All of them
A real business number
No
No
No
Included
Ranks by who matters to you
Rigid rules
No
Manual stages
Learned from you
Every item links to its source
Sometimes
Yes
If you logged it
Always
Billing model
Per seat, credits
Per user
Per seat, annual
Flat, month to month
Category prices are published list prices as of June 2026 and vary by tier and billing period. Columns describe categories, not any single product, see the individual comparisons above.
FAIR QUESTIONS
The switching questions everyone asks.
What does connecting my inbox actually give Hobb?
Read and draft access only, the scopes we request cannot send or delete your mail. Your first list builds from recent messages in about a minute, and disconnecting erases everything derived from it. See the Privacy Policy.
I already use an AI email assistant. Do they stack?
They can, Hobb only ever drafts, so nothing conflicts. But most switchers drop the separate seat within a month: one list that includes calls beats two tools that each cover half your day.
Can I bring my CRM history?
Import contacts via CSV and Hobb links new calls, texts and email to them from day one. Old activity logs stay in your CRM export, and everything Hobb writes is exportable back out, so the door swings both ways.
What does “flat pricing” actually mean here?
$34/mo (yearly) includes the number and a bundle of roughly 4 hours of calls or 400 messages, or $19/mo for the Email plan without the line. The meter is always visible, top-ups are explicit, and there's no per-seat math.