Best Aside alternatives

1. Gumloop

Free trialFrom $37/mo

Gumloop is a platform for building AI agents that carry out tasks across business applications. Teams configure agents with instructions, connected accounts, and reusable skills, then interact with them through web chat, Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, or text messages. Agents can also respond to app events or run…

• Shared agent builder
• Connectors and scheduled tasks
• Browser actions and handoffs

Best for Sales and marketing teams, Customer success and support teams, Operations teams, IT and enterprise administrators

2. Eigent

Open sourceFrom $19.99/mo

Eigent is an open-source desktop workspace for delegating work to AI agents. Users describe a task, connect relevant tools and context, and review the resulting files and actions. Agents can operate browsers and desktop applications for tasks such as market research, document preparation, file organization, and…

• Browser and desktop automation
• Reusable Spaces
• Memory and scheduled work

Best for Business operations teams, Developers, Research teams

3. Floatboat

FreemiumFrom $59.98/mo

Floatboat is a desktop AI workspace that uses calendar events to trigger work. It connects to Google Calendar, Notion Calendar, Lark, Outlook, iCloud, and ICS feeds, then uses meetings, deadlines, and routines to schedule preparation, execution, and follow-up. It is aimed at solo operators, creators, small…

• Calendar-triggered agents
• Persistent event workspaces
• Installable skills and workflows

Best for Solopreneurs, Creators, Small businesses and studios

4. OpenWork

Open sourceFrom $10/mo

OpenWork is an open-source desktop AI agent app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with an optional cloud workspace. Built on OpenCode, it lets users chat about their files, work with connected tools, automate browser tasks, and reuse skills. It supports models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, as…

• Work with files and tools
• Multiple model providers
• Shared skills and MCP tools

Best for Knowledge workers, Teams, Enterprise IT teams

5. Quaso

FreemiumFrom $20/mo

Quaso is an AI automation agent that turns plain-English instructions into workflows across websites and connected apps. It can browse live websites, run scheduled Functions, and carry out business tasks using an agent-controlled browser built on Notte's browser platform. Users can start with a written request or…

• Plain-English automation
• Live browser actions
• Scheduled Functions

Best for Business operations teams, Sales and growth teams, Product and engineering teams, Legal teams

6. NoteGPT

FreemiumFrom $9.99/mo

NoteGPT combines an AI task agent with tools for summarizing, researching, writing, and creating media. Users describe a goal, and the agent breaks it into steps, selects tools, searches the web, and produces editable files. It routes tasks across models from GPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, and supports follow-up…

• Multi-step task agent
• Summaries and transcription
• Research with sources

Best for Educators and students, Researchers, Professionals, Content creators

7. Elicit

Freemium

Elicit is an AI research tool for finding scientific literature, comparing evidence, and producing cited reports. Researchers can start with a question, search more than 138 million academic papers and 545,000 clinical trials, and organize relevant findings into interactive tables. Semantic search helps locate papers…

• Scientific literature search
• Customizable cited reports
• Systematic review workflows

Best for Academic researchers, Pharmaceutical and medtech teams, Policy researchers, Industrial R&D teams

8. n8n

Freemium

n8n is a workflow automation platform for technical teams building AI agents and business processes. Its visual editor connects application actions, AI models, and custom logic in workflows that users can inspect step by step. It supports more than 500 native integrations, HTTP requests to other APIs, and JavaScript…

• Visual workflows with code
• AI agents with human approval
• App and API integrations

Best for Developers and technical teams, IT and operations teams, Enterprise platform teams

9. AutoGPT

Open sourceFrom $50/mo

AutoGPT brings together AI specialists called Experts to handle content, research, sales, and operational tasks. Its coordinating assistant, Otto, takes a plain-English brief, assigns work to relevant Experts, and reports progress. Users can also talk directly with a specialist or create one around their own working…

• Coordinated AI specialists
• Scheduled routines
• Visual workflow builder

Best for Content and marketing teams, Sales professionals, Operations professionals, Developers and self-hosters

10. ClawTeams

ClawTeams is an AI team platform that coordinates specialist agents through workplace messaging tools. Users give a task to a team lead, which breaks it into steps, assigns specialists to work in parallel, tracks progress, and reviews their output before returning deliverables to the conversation. Its roster includes…

• Multi-agent task coordination
• Chat-based task delivery
• Specialist role roster

Best for Ecommerce operators, Content marketing teams, Sales teams, Indie developers