Lindy
Lindy · AI Executive Assistant for Inbox, Meetings, and Connected Workflows
A personal AI work assistant that connects to your email, calendar, and work tools to manage inbox triage, meeting notes, scheduling, and follow-ups. Lets you delegate tasks in plain language across 100+ app integrations without building explicit automation workflows.
Best for
Individual professionals and small teams who want an AI assistant that works across their actual email, calendar, and CRM without building explicit automation flows
Not ideal for
Teams that need deterministic, logic-controlled workflow automation — Zapier, Make, or n8n are better fits for that use case
Who it's for
Professionals managing inbox overload, meeting follow-through, and calendar coordination who want automation without building explicit logic flows
Capabilities
- Inbox triage: labels, prioritizes, and drafts replies in your writing voice
- Meeting recording and notes: joins calls, generates summaries with extracted action items
- Pre-meeting briefs: pulls context from calendar and email history before meetings start
- Scheduling coordination: finds available times, sends invites, and handles rescheduling requests
- Post-meeting follow-ups: drafts and sends follow-up emails and task updates automatically
- Natural language task delegation via iMessage/SMS — text Lindy from your phone to assign tasks
- Human-in-the-loop approvals: Lindy drafts actions and waits for your confirmation before executing
- Computer use (Pro and above): Lindy can operate browser-based tools on your behalf
- 100+ app integrations across email, CRM, calendar, project management, and support tools
Limitations
- No permanent free tier — entry price is $49.99/month after a 7-day trial
- Inbox limit per plan (2 on Plus, 3 on Pro, 5 on Max) constrains multi-account users
- Computer use (browser automation) requires Pro plan at $99.99/month or above
- Natural language delegation is less predictable than explicit workflow logic — not suitable where deterministic execution is required
- Usage allowance units are not defined on the pricing page, making plan comparisons difficult
Use cases
- Triaging a high-volume inbox and drafting replies without writing each email manually
- Getting a context brief before a meeting based on calendar and email history
- Automatically taking notes and sending follow-up summaries after calls
- Scheduling meetings across multiple participants without back-and-forth email chains
- Delegating repetitive tasks — CRM updates, reminders, status emails — via iMessage from your phone
Our take
Lindy's value is that it does not ask you to learn a new automation paradigm — you describe what you want done and it works across your existing tools. The meeting workflow is particularly well-executed: a context brief before the meeting, live notes during it, and a follow-up draft after are a genuine time recovery for anyone running 5+ meetings a day. The limitation is that natural language delegation is less predictable than explicit automation logic, and $49.99/month is hard to justify unless inbox and meeting overhead is genuinely costing you several hours per week. Computer use on Pro is an interesting addition but costs an extra $50/month for a feature that is still relatively nascent.
Who should use it
Professionals with heavy inbox and meeting loads — sales executives, operations managers, recruiters, and anyone spending more than 2 hours a day on email and meeting follow-through — who want automation without building explicit workflows.
Who should skip it
Users who need predictable, deterministic automation with explicit conditional logic, or anyone on a tight budget where $49.99/month is hard to justify without a clear ROI in saved time.
Strengths
- Works across your existing tools without defining trigger-action workflows
- Full meeting workflow: pre-meeting brief, live transcription and notes, action item extraction, and follow-up drafting
- Natural language delegation via iMessage/SMS — works from your phone without opening an app
- Human-in-the-loop approvals keep you in control without requiring manual execution of every task
- 100+ integrations across email, CRM, calendar, project management, and customer support tools
- HIPAA compliance available on Enterprise tier for healthcare use cases
Weaknesses
- No permanent free tier — $49.99/month is a meaningful commitment for individual users
- Natural language delegation is less reliable than deterministic workflow logic for time-critical automations
- Computer use (browser automation) locked to Pro at $99.99/month
- Inbox limits per tier (2/3/5 inboxes) create friction for multi-account power users
- Usage allowance units not defined on pricing page — hard to predict when you will hit plan limits
Lindy pricing
Plus
$49.99/month
Billed monthly
- Up to 2 inboxes
- Standard usage allowance
- iMessage/SMS task delegation
- 100+ integrations
- 7-day free trial, no credit card required
Pro
$99.99/month
Billed monthly
- Up to 3 inboxes
- 3× usage vs Plus
- Computer use (browser automation)
- All Plus features
Max
$199.99/month
Billed monthly
- Up to 5 inboxes
- 7× usage vs Plus
- All Pro features
Enterprise
Custom
- SSO and SCIM provisioning
- HIPAA compliance with signed BAA
- Audit logs
- Dedicated support
Free tier limits: No permanent free tier. 7-day free trial with full Plus access, no credit card required.
Note: Month-to-month billing, cancel anytime. Usage allowance units are not defined on the pricing page. Computer use requires Pro plan or above.
Technical specs
Modalities
Text, Audio (meeting transcription)
Where Lindy excels
High-volume inbox management
Lindy reads incoming email, applies priority labels, and drafts replies in your voice — useful for professionals receiving 100+ emails a day who spend significant time triaging before doing any substantive work.
End-to-end meeting workflow
Lindy generates a context brief from calendar and email data before a meeting, joins calls to take notes, and drafts follow-up emails after — handling the full overhead of a meeting at each stage.
Scheduling coordination without manual back-and-forth
Lindy handles checking calendars, proposing times, sending invites, and managing rescheduling requests — removing the manual coordination loop that consumes 15–30 minutes per meeting scheduled.
Phone-based task delegation
The iMessage/SMS interface lets users delegate tasks from their phone without opening a web app — useful for executives who are frequently mobile and want to assign follow-ups while between meetings.
Lindy vs. competitors
Lindy vs. Zapier
Zapier requires you to build explicit trigger-action workflows: define a trigger, choose an action, configure conditions. It is highly reliable for that exact flow and has thousands of app connectors. Lindy uses natural language outcome delegation — you describe what you want done and it determines how to execute it. Zapier is better when you need deterministic, auditable pipelines and can invest time in workflow setup. Lindy is better when you want to delegate open-ended tasks (handle my inbox, prep me for this meeting) without configuring explicit logic.
Lindy vs. ChatGPT / Claude
General AI assistants answer questions and generate text but are not connected to your inbox, calendar, or work tools. Lindy is connected to and acts within those systems. ChatGPT is better for one-off tasks and content generation; Lindy is better for recurring, tool-integrated workflows where context from your calendar and email matters.
Lindy vs. Fireflies.ai / Otter.ai
Fireflies and Otter focus specifically on meeting transcription and notes. Lindy handles the full meeting workflow — pre-meeting context brief from your calendar and email, live transcription, action item extraction, and follow-up drafting — plus inbox triage and scheduling tasks outside of meetings.
Frequently asked questions
Is Lindy free?
Lindy offers a 7-day free trial with full Plus access and no credit card required. After the trial, the base plan is $49.99/month. There is no permanent free tier.
When should I use Lindy instead of Zapier?
Use Lindy when you want to delegate outcomes in plain language — 'manage my inbox', 'send a follow-up after this meeting', 'schedule time with this person' — without configuring explicit trigger-action logic. Use Zapier when you need a deterministic, auditable workflow with defined conditions that runs exactly the same way every time. Lindy trades predictability for ease of delegation; Zapier trades setup time for reliability.
What type of professional gets the most value from Lindy?
Lindy is best suited for professionals whose primary overhead is inbox management, meeting preparation, and scheduling coordination — roles like sales executives, recruiters, operations managers, and executives who run 5+ meetings a day. If most of your time goes to responding to emails, preparing for meetings, and chasing follow-ups, Lindy addresses those specific costs. If your work is primarily project-based or technical, the value is less clear-cut.
Does Lindy work with Gmail?
Yes. Gmail is one of Lindy's core integrations. It can triage your inbox, apply labels, draft replies in your voice, and send follow-ups.
What is computer use in Lindy?
Computer use is a feature on Pro plan ($99.99/month) and above that allows Lindy to operate browser-based tools on your behalf — navigating web apps and interacting with interfaces that do not have a direct API integration.
Is Lindy HIPAA compliant?
HIPAA compliance with a signed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is available on the Enterprise plan. Standard plans (Plus, Pro, Max) do not include a HIPAA BAA.
Integrations & fit
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PaidAbout Lindy
Lindy connects to your existing work tools — Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Calendly, and 100+ others — and acts as an assistant that monitors what needs attention, prepares pre-meeting briefs, drafts replies in your writing voice, joins calls to take notes, and sends follow-ups. Unlike workflow automation tools like Zapier or Make, you do not define trigger-action logic; you describe what you want done and it handles execution. Unlike general AI assistants like ChatGPT, it is connected to and acts within your actual work systems. Human-in-the-loop approvals are built into the design — Lindy drafts actions for you to approve before sending. Best suited for individual professionals overwhelmed by inbox and meeting overhead, not teams needing deterministic, logic-controlled automation pipelines.
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