AI receptionist apps,
honestly compared.
Most “best AI answering service” lists are published by the vendors on them. This one shows which products actually ship a phone answering app, what they publish as a price, and where a dash means we could not verify a claim rather than that the answer is no.
| Product | iPhone | Android | Mac / Win | App Store ratings | Published entry price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Phone 360Only product here with Mac and Windows apps, and with one-tap take-over of a call already in progress. | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | $19.99/mo + $0.15–$0.35/min |
| Beside (M1)The App Store incumbent by rating count. Pricing not published; the wider AI platform is waitlist-only. | Yes | Yes | No | 9,052 | Not published |
| ClaraUnlimited calls answered. Additional team seats are $29/mo each on the Pro plan. | Yes | Yes | No | 1,280 | $39.99/mo |
| SimplyWisePricing page returned no content when checked, so nothing here is claimed about its plans. | Yes | Not verified | No | 670 | Not published |
| TTYLIts own FAQ states Android support is not yet available. Excellent personal call screener. | Yes | No | No | 364 | Not published |
| MitraThe only one that also makes outbound calls for you, sitting through hold music and phone trees. | Yes | No | No | 331 | Free tier: 15 min |
| RosieReal iOS and Android apps. Bundled minutes are genuinely cheaper than per-minute above ~90 min/mo. | Yes | Yes | No | — | $49/mo (250 min) |
| NextPhoneUnlimited calls and users, no per-minute charge. iOS app only; no Android app published. | Yes | No | No | 0 | $199/mo |
| UpfirstBills per call rather than per minute — $1.50 for each call past 30 on the entry plan. | No | No | No | — | $24.95/mo (30 calls) |
| Marlie AINo published app, but the deepest native integrations in this list — Jobber, ServiceTitan, MyCase, HubSpot. | No | No | No | — | $49/mo (250 min) |
| GoodcallUnlimited minutes, but caps unique callers at 100/250/500 with $0.50 for each one beyond. | No | No | No | — | $79/mo per agent |
| Slang.aiRestaurant reservations specialist. Priced per location, so a second site doubles the bill. | No | No | No | — | $399/mo per location |
Platform support and pricing read from each vendor’s own site on 6 September 2026; App Store rating counts from the US store on the same date. A dash means the vendor does not publish that figure, not that the answer is zero. AI Phone 360 has no rating count listed because its apps are distributed under a separate store listing from the products ranked here.
What the table does not show
Shipping an app and being useful in an app are different things. Most of these apps are a dashboard in a smaller window — you open them after the fact to read what happened. Two capabilities separate a genuine phone app from a mobile-shaped report.
Seeing the call while it happens. A live call view with a running caller-intent line tells you whether the AI has understood a caller who is upset, confused, or describing an emergency — while you can still do something about it.
Taking the call over. The honest limit of any AI receptionist is the call it should not be handling. One-tap take-over turns that from a lost customer into a transferred one. AI Phone 360 is the only product in the table above that publishes both.
Everything else here is a fair fight, and several of these are good products. Rosie’s bundled minutes beat our per-minute pricing above roughly 90 minutes a month. Marlie’s native integrations with Jobber, ServiceTitan and MyCase go deeper than ours. Mitra makes outbound calls on your behalf and we do not. Pick on the axis that matters to your business.
Questions people ask
- Which AI receptionist apps actually have a mobile app?
- As of September 2026, AI Phone 360, Beside (M1), Clara and Rosie ship both iOS and Android apps. TTYL, Mitra and NextPhone publish an iPhone app but no Android app. Slang.ai, Goodcall, Upfirst and Marlie AI publish no mobile app at all and are operated from a web dashboard. AI Phone 360 is the only one in this comparison that also ships Mac and Windows desktop apps.
- What is the cheapest AI receptionist app?
- On published entry price, AI Phone 360 is lowest at $19.99/mo plus $0.15–$0.35 per AI minute, followed by Upfirst at $24.95/mo for 30 calls and Clara at $39.99/mo. Per-minute and per-call models are not directly comparable to flat unlimited plans though: Clara and NextPhone bundle unlimited calls, and Rosie bundles 250 minutes for $49, which works out cheaper than per-minute billing once you are consistently over roughly 90 minutes a month.
- Does an AI receptionist need an app at all?
- For setup, no — most of these can be configured from a browser. An app matters for what happens during and after a call: seeing that a call is happening right now, reading the caller’s intent as it forms, and stepping in yourself when the AI has hit the limit of what it should decide. That last one is why AI Phone 360 built native apps on four platforms rather than only a dashboard.
- Why do several of these not publish a price?
- Beside, TTYL, Numa and SimplyWise did not publish pricing when checked on 6 September 2026 — Numa quotes only after a demo, and Beside states its numbers are coming soon. That is a legitimate way to sell, but it means you cannot budget before a sales conversation. Everything marked with a dash in the table above is genuinely unpublished rather than something we have guessed at.
Try the one with the app.
iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. Watch a call happen, take it over with one tap, and pay $19.99/mo plus the minutes you actually use.