20 Beside alternatives
Beside: AI receptionist and second work number for local service businesses — answers calls 24/7, transcribes everything, and turns each conversation into summaries and next steps. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Telephony, Voice Agents and CRM, ranked by how much they have in common with Beside.
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Sesame AI, Inc.
Voice-first personal AI agents with continuous memory across voice and text — four distinct personalities, ultra-low latency, free on iOS.
Also: iOS, Personal Assistant, Voice Agents
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Beautiful Ones Inc.
Always-on listening app that turns your day into a private, searchable memory and serves it to Claude, Codex or Cursor over MCP.
Also: iOS, Personal Assistant, Transcription
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A B2B database of hundreds of millions of contacts plus the sequencing, dialling, and AI to work them.
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Open-source voice AI platform you can self-host — a visual workflow builder, bring-your-own STT/LLM/TTS models, telephony, and no per-minute platform lock-in.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Autophonix, LLC
AI voice agents for inbound and outbound phone calls, priced from 2¢ per minute, with 40+ languages, native SIP trunking and HIPAA/GDPR compliance.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Developer platform for AI agents on Apple's own channels — programmable iMessage at scale, plus video agents that answer and place FaceTime calls in a few lines of code.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Bland AI
Enterprise phone agents on self-hosted models, tuned for human-sounding delivery at very large call volumes.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Build, test, and monitor production phone agents — with the testing and analytics that call centres actually require.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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A developer platform for voice agents that make and take phone calls, with sub-second turn latency.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Voice and text AI agents that run multi-week outbound calling campaigns for home-service businesses.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Estera AI LLC
AI receptionist that answers every call and WhatsApp message for local service businesses, 24/7.
Also: Telephony, Voice Agents
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Naoma AI Inc.
An AI video agent that runs live, conversational product demos on your site 24/7 — answering questions, handling objections and routing qualified leads to your CRM.
Also: CRM, Voice Agents
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TruGen AI
A face-to-face video AI sales rep that meets website visitors live, qualifies them, demos the product and books the meeting.
Also: CRM, Voice Agents
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Zinley, Inc.
A personal AI representative with its own phone number, inbox and computer that takes calls, works your email and runs tasks under rules you set.
Also: Personal Assistant, Telephony
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Pilot Alpha Labs
AI executive assistant for founders that schedules meetings, writes the follow-ups and even places phone calls - over SMS, email and Slack, with no new app to install.
Also: Personal Assistant, Telephony
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An AI sales development rep that finds in-market buyers from real-time signals, researches each one, and runs multichannel outreach across email, LinkedIn, calls and video.
Also: CRM, Personal Assistant
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Build AI assistants that handle email, scheduling, CRM updates, and follow-up without you writing a workflow.
Also: CRM, Personal Assistant
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Grain Intelligence Inc.
AI meeting notetaker built to feed other AI tools: enriched transcripts with speaker and cross-meeting context, exportable to Claude or ChatGPT in one click.
Also: CRM, Transcription
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Meeting recorder and note-taker with timestamped highlights and CRM sync, built for sales and customer teams.
Also: CRM, Transcription
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An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls with action items and CRM sync.
Also: CRM, Transcription