Zinley
Summary
Every AI tool so far made you faster — you still had to show up to take the call, send the reply, and chase the follow-up yourself. Zinley is built around a different premise: a persistent AI agent with its own phone number, email address, and compute environment that acts on your behalf while you are elsewhere.
The vendor describes Zinley as a 'personal extension' — an agent that carries its own identity, remembers the people and open threads in your life, and operates across calls, texts, and email without requiring you to be present. It can screen candidates, compare suppliers, book demos, and file documents by running tasks on its own computer inside your apps. The memory model is contact-centric: it tracks who matters to you and what is still unresolved with each person, updated after every interaction. The ceiling appears when you need granular control over what the agent is allowed to decide versus escalate — the docs describe a 'how far it may go' setting, but the boundary between autonomous action and a task that needs your sign-off is not deeply configurable from what the page shows. No API is available, and there is no self-hosted option, so teams with data-residency requirements or custom integration needs hit a wall immediately.
Bottom line: Use Zinley if you need a single agent to handle your inbound calls and scheduling backlog without babysitting it — but if your workflow requires custom integration logic, data-residency compliance, or programmatic control, the closed, hosted-only architecture forces you elsewhere.
Pricing Plans
Subscription- Free Tier
- 2,000 monthly credits, 10 daily credits, 3 scheduled tasks, 1 day of email & call history, 1 call at a time up to 15 min
Free
Basic agent with email, web search, 2,000 monthly credits, 10 daily credits, 3 scheduled tasks, 1 day history, 1 call at a time up to 15 min
- Own email address
- Web search with sources
- Memory and multi-channel support
- Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Figma integrations
Plus
Always-on computer, advanced search, video/music generation, 4,000-100,000 monthly credits, 10 scheduled tasks, 1 week history, up to 5 calls at once
- Always-on computer for builds and files
- Advanced search and parallel tasks
- More capable models
- 20 daily credits
Pro
Frontier models, priority processing, 20,000-500,000 monthly credits, 20 scheduled tasks, 1 month history, up to 10 calls at once up to 60 min
- Most capable models
- Priority processing
- 100 daily credits
- Faster lane on demand
Max
Double credits, 40,000-5,000,000 monthly credits, 50 scheduled tasks, 3 months history, unlimited call length, up to 20 calls at once
- Highest credit allowances
- 200 daily credits
- Maximum call and task limits
View full pricing on zinley.com →
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Pros
Sign in to edit- The agent operates under its own disclosed identity — its own name, number, and email — which means callers know they are speaking to an AI acting on your behalf, so you avoid the liability and trust problems of an undisclosed AI impersonating you on calls.
- Persistent contact memory that updates after every interaction, which means you do not re-brief the agent on who Marta is or what is still open with her every time a task involves her.
- The agent runs tasks on its own cloud computer inside your apps while you are elsewhere, so delegated work like comparing suppliers or filing documents does not require you to be present or hand-control to a screen-sharing session.
- Multi-channel coverage across call, text, and email in one record per contact, which means you avoid the fragmented context problem of a caller referencing a text thread your email tool never saw.
- Works across Gmail, Notion, and file management without requiring you to build a custom integration pipeline, so common productivity workflows connect without engineering time.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The decision boundary — how far the agent may act without checking with you — is described as a setting but the page shows no mechanism for conditional branching logic (e.g., 'escalate if the order value exceeds X'). Teams that need rule-based approval workflows find the control surface too coarse and switch to an agent platform that exposes explicit branching configuration.
- No API and no self-hosted option means any team with data-residency requirements, HIPAA obligations, or a need to embed the agent inside an existing product cannot use Zinley at all — the hosted-only architecture is a hard stop, not a workaround.
- Mobile client is listed as coming soon, which means any workflow that requires the agent to be accessible and responsive from a phone — the primary device for many of the call and scheduling use cases Zinley targets — depends on the web client until mobile ships.
- The free tier includes usage credits and limits that the page does not specify in detail. Teams that discover their actual call and task volume exceeds those limits mid-workflow face an unplanned upgrade decision, with no self-serve way to extend capacity programmatically.
About
- Platforms
- Web, Desktop, Mobile
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-08-16T09:16:46.511Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Users needing a persistent personal AI assistant
- Managing calls, texts, and emails in one place
- Research tasks requiring sources and memory
- Scheduling and cross-platform workflows
What it does well
- Handling missed calls and daily scheduling
- Cross-device research and file management
- Multi-channel communication including phone and text
- Connecting with productivity tools like Gmail and Notion
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Sign Up to ContributeFrequently Asked Questions
- Is Zinley free?
- Zinley has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Zinley open source?
- No — Zinley is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Zinley support?
- Zinley is available on: Web, Desktop, Mobile.
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Still stuck handling every call and follow-up yourself
Most AI tools speed up parts of your work but leave you to take the calls, send the replies, and track every open thread. Zinley gives the agent its own phone number, email address, and cloud computer so it can act on your behalf across calls, texts, and email while you are elsewhere.
How it works
The agent carries its own identity and keeps a contact-centric memory that updates after every interaction. It tracks who matters to you and what remains unresolved with each person. It can screen candidates, compare suppliers, book demos, and file documents by running tasks inside your apps. Supported platforms include Web, Desktop, and Mobile, with connections to Gmail, Calendar, Notion, and Figma.
Control and limits
The vendor states the agent operates under a disclosed identity so callers know they are speaking with an AI. Pricing is subscription-based, with a free tier that includes 2,000 monthly credits, 10 daily credits, 3 scheduled tasks, and limited history. The decision boundary for autonomous actions is set at a high level, and the service offers no API or self-hosted option.
Who it is for / who should skip it
Best for users who need a persistent personal assistant to manage calls, texts, emails, scheduling, and cross-device research in one place. Teams that require granular rule-based approvals, data-residency controls, or API access should skip it.