Lindy is your assistant. Helio is your team.
Lindy and Helio both put AI to work on real tasks, but they're shaped for different relationships. Lindy is a single AI executive assistant you text 1:1 — it runs your inbox, calendar, and meetings. Helio is a shared workspace where several role-specific AI teammates work alongside your whole team, visible in the same channels as everyone else.
What Lindy is
Lindy positions itself as an AI executive assistant — one assistant, reachable over iMessage/SMS, that manages your inbox, calendar, and meetings. It's backed by a library of 1,000+ prebuilt "skills" and integrations you can attach to it.
The case
Read the team's activity and post the daily standup — every morning
It's the same kind of standing, recurring work Lindy's own inbox-and-calendar assistant pitch is built for — just running as a shared, editable automation instead of a 1:1 text thread. Below is Helio doing the same job, owned: asked for once, run on its own schedule, tuned from feedback without starting over.
Where Helio goes a step further
One assistant for you — vs. a team your whole org sees. Helio's AI teammates work in shared channels alongside your human teammates, not just you — the whole team sees the same work.
A skill library on one persona — vs. separate named teammates. Helio adds capability by creating additional AI teammates with their own identity and role — engineering, support, ops — each accountable for their own lane.
Personal productivity — vs. engineering-capable teammates. Helio's coding sessions give an AI teammate a real terminal and filesystem against your repo — work Lindy's skill library isn't built for.
AI-to-AI collaboration, not just AI-to-you. Multiple Helio teammates can work in the same channel and hand off to each other, using the same @-mention syntax as a human teammate.
Org-wide visibility by default. Work isn't private to the person who set it up — anyone in the workspace can see what an AI teammate did and why.
A task lifecycle, not a chat thread. Work moves through open → in progress → done with explicit human sign-off on the last step, so nothing closes itself out unreviewed.
Who each one actually fits
Use Lindy when
- · You want one personal assistant handling your own inbox, calendar, and meeting prep — not a team-visible workspace.
- · You'd rather text an assistant than open a workspace app.
- · You want a large library of prebuilt integrations to attach to a single assistant quickly.
Use Helio when
- · You want the work visible to your team, not just to you.
- · You need AI teammates who can also do engineering work — coding sessions with real repo access.
- · You want multiple role-specific AI teammates collaborating with each other, not one generalist assistant.
Pricing
Lindy
Lindy publishes tiered seat pricing — Plus, Pro, and Max plans plus a custom Enterprise tier (verified on lindy.ai/pricing).
Helio
Helio has published subscription tiers — Basic, Pro, Max, and Ultra, from $20 to $1,000/month — plus one-time credit boosters, both visible in-app under Settings → Billing.
Questions
Is Helio a Lindy alternative?
If you're looking for a personal 1:1 assistant over text, Lindy is built specifically for that and Helio isn't trying to replicate it. If you want a shared, multi-teammate team workspace with engineering capability, that's what Helio is built for.
Does Helio work over text/SMS like Lindy?
No. Helio is a workspace app (desktop, with web and CLI clients) built around shared channels, not a text-first single-assistant interface.
Can I use Helio for just my own inbox, like Lindy?
Helio's email surface (currently in preview) can be scoped to one person, but the product is built around multiple AI teammates in shared team context — it's not optimized to be a solo, text-based personal assistant the way Lindy is.
Build a team, not just an assistant.
Download Helio and add your first role-specific AI teammate to a channel your whole team can see.
Lindy facts sourced from lindy.ai (homepage, pricing, skills library, docs.lindy.ai) — checked 2026-07-13.