A goal turning into a plan and finished errands
Independent guide · as of October 2026

Make Sense of Meta Muse

Meta's personal AI agent: give it a goal and it plans, browses and finishes the errand across your email, calendar and wallet. This guide covers getting in, picking a tier, and building trust first.

Start: download & sign up →iOS, Android, Mac and web — five minutes.

The guide, by question

What is Muse?Meta's task-running agent: what it is, what it connects to, why it is not a chatbot.Download & sign upiOS, Android, Mac, muse.ai — including the card-on-file surprise.Free vs $20 vs $100Same features at every tier; the ceiling test picks yours.9 things to try firstLow-stakes errands that show off the agent — ordered by trust-building.Muse vs ChatGPTErrands versus knowledge work — and why people keep both.Muse vs Claude & GeminiThe honest scorecard against the frontier assistants.Muse Spark, untangledThe coding model vs the agent — which one you are actually buying.First-week tipsTwelve settings and habits that separate useful agents from noisy ones.
Muse connecting six parts of a digital life
The six surfaces Muse executes across — the map for everything this guide covers.
Why trust this guide? Every number here (tiers, allowances, dates) is sourced from launch reporting and Meta's own help documentation, dated October 2026, and re-checked when the product moves. Where Muse has a real weakness — a card on file for the free tier, an unfinished ecosystem — we print it in plain words.

The one-minute version

QuestionAnswer
What is it?An agent that executes errands across six parts of your digital life — see what Muse is
How much?Free (~100M tokens/week) → $20 → $100, all the same features — see pricing
Where does it run?iOS, Android, muse.ai, Mac (since Sep 17), WhatsApp
What do I delegate first?Scheduling, inbox triage, research — see use cases
How is it different from ChatGPT?Execution vs conversation — see the comparison
What about Claude or Gemini?Frontier thinkers vs a doer — see the honest scorecard
Anything to know before signing up?A payment card is required even for the free tier — details in the download guide

How we cover a fast-moving product

Muse changes monthly, and a guide that pretends otherwise is either lucky or stale. So this site works like a changelog with opinions: every page carries an as-of date; every number (prices, allowances, release dates) traces to launch reporting or Meta's own help documentation rather than to vibes; and when two sources disagree, the page says so instead of picking the friendlier one. When Meta ships something material — a new tier, a new market, a renamed feature — the affected pages get updated and re-dated within days, and comparisons are re-scored rather than quietly left to rot.

The bias underneath the whole guide is simple: an agent wired into your email and your money deserves sharper questions than a chatbot does. What does it connect to, what can it do without asking, what happens when it gets something wrong, and who pays when it does? Those questions shape every page here — from the signup walkthrough to the first-week tips — and they are the ones we would want answered before handing any assistant the keys to an inbox.