Beside vs Epiphany vs Quin

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So which one?

Notis aside, Quin covers the most ground: 52% across all 33 capabilities, ahead of Beside at 38% and Epiphany at 18%.

They are not really after the same job, though: Quin for remembering context between conversations, Beside for scheduled and event-triggered work and Epiphany for rolling a shared assistant out to a team.

Cheapest way in is Notis at Free–$149/mo, though its free plan only does part of the job.

Nothing here publishes anything on Bring your own API key, Open source and Run it on your own server.

Only Notis publishes anything on WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram and 8 more rows.

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Capability comparison between Notis and the selected assistants
Capability	View pricing	BesideVisit site	EpiphanyVisit site	QuinVisit site
Where you can use it
WhatsApp		—Not in integrations or channels	—	—Not a documented channel
iMessage		—Messaging is SMS, not iMessage	—Not documented; capture is in-app only	—Not a documented channel
Telegram		—Not among the named integrations	—Not on the integrations directory	—Not a documented channel
Slack		—Outbound notifications only	—Outbound only; no inbound Slack app	Slack app: DM, @mention, or icon
Email		—Drafts your replies; no inbound address	—	Email or cc quin@heyquin.io
SMS or a phone number	PartialInbound calls only, no SMS	PartialInbound line only, not a command channel	—No phone number is provisioned	SMS to (662) 439-7846
Voice messages	Voice notes + live calls	Recorded voice notes, mobile only		Recorded voice notes only
Web or desktop app	Web and desktop app	Web app; macOS client deprecated	—	Web app only, no desktop client
Its own iPhone or Android app	—	First-party iOS/Android/iPad app	First-party iPhone/Watch app	iOS only, no Android
Bring your own AI
Runs on your own Claude plan		—No Anthropic account connection	—No Claude sign-in; uses OpenAI only	—MCP inbound only, no Claude sign-in
Runs on your own ChatGPT plan		—No OpenAI account connection	—	—MCP inbound only, no ChatGPT sign-in
Bring your own API key	—	—No key entry; not programmable	—No key field; usage is bundled	—Only Quin's own API keys
Works inside your own coding agent		—No MCP server, API, or SDK published	—No MCP server or agent plugin published	Remote MCP server for Claude/ChatGPT
You choose which model runs your work		—One fixed pipeline, no model picker	—One fixed chain: Whisper + GPT	—Metered in credits, no model picker
What it can do
Ready-made app integrations	1,000+ apps	Partial17 named apps, Zapier for the rest	Partial10 named apps + Webhooks, under 100	Partial74 named apps directory
Creates and edits documents		Auto-creates Notion pages per call		Fills Word/PDF merge-tag templates
Save your own reusable instructions			Partial	Named, reusable, triggerable workflows
Browses the web for you		—Fetches your own site; no live browsing	—No browsing capability described	—Retrieval only, no clicking or forms
Posts to social media for you		—Reviews Manager replies to reviews only	—	—No social network in the directory
Joins and records your meetings	—	Manual in-person recorder, mobile only	—No meeting bot or call recorder	Vendor bot joins Zoom/Meet/Teams
Memory
Remembers you between conversations		Ask Beside AI searches all history	—	User-authored Guidelines persist
Reads your existing files and apps	Notion, Gmail, Drive, Granola, web	Gmail/Outlook connected for drafting	—Integrations are one-way sends only	Searches connected Drive, CRM, mailbox
Runs without you
Runs on a schedule or a trigger			—Every action starts with your recording	Scheduled or Quin-triggered workflows
Reminds and nudges you		Daily Recap plus configurable Pulses	—Creates tasks, doesn't message you later	Unprompted Daily Brief email
Computers it can use
Gives it a cloud computer of its own	1h/mo (Pro) to uncapped (Ultra)	—Hosted phone/AI backend only	—Transcription API calls only, no machine	—No provisioned machine documented
Controls your own computer	Shell and apps, via the desktop app	—	—	—Web app and iPhone app only
Connects to MCP servers on your computer		—No MCP of any kind	—No local MCP client documented	—Only Quin's own remote MCP server
Trust & control
Open source	—	—No repository linked anywhere	—Closed product; no repo anywhere on site	—
Run it on your own server	—	—	—Hosted subscription only	—AWS-only, no install path
Says it will not train on your data	Covers Notis and its LLM providers	Partial	PartialCovers OpenAI, not Epiphany itself	PartialVendor covers itself, not providers
Published security certification	PartialSub-processors certified; Notis is not	—	—Self-written security prose only	SOC 2 Type II only
Plans & support
Free plan does the product's main job	Partial	—Trial only, no free tier	Partial	—14-day trial, no $0 plan
Shared team workspace			Shared licensing, billing and admin
Price	FREEPRO$13/moyr (rate on a yearly commitment)+2 more	Beside plan (per seat, App Store/Google Play)$16.67/user/moyr (rate on a yearly commitment)Baseline$29.99/mo+1 more	FreeEpiphany for Teams$6.67/user/mo+1 more	1,000 credits$49/user/mo2,500 credits$99/user/mo+4 more

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The catch with each one

Numbered by support score across vetted capability rows, with incomplete evidence shown on every card. Unknown rows never count as a no, and this is not a score against your answers.

1. Notis

Personal AI assistant

Notis is a personal AI assistant you message from WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack or email, and reach from your own coding agent through its MCP server.

Best for: running long jobs on a machine of its own

Documented strengths

Where you can use it: WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, Email, Voice messages and Web or desktop app
What it can do: Ready-made app integrations, Creates and edits documents, Save your own reusable instructions, Browses the web for you and Posts to social media for you
Bring your own AI: Runs on your own Claude plan, Runs on your own ChatGPT plan, Works inside your own coding agent and You choose which model runs your work

The catch

Official evidence records a gap in published guarantees about your data: no published support for Open source and Run it on your own server.

Pricing

FREEPRO$13/moyrPRO+$39/moyrULTRA$99/moyr

Free–$149/mo · help.notis.ai

Who should pick it

Pick Notis if running long jobs on a machine of its own is what decides it for you. Walk away if you need open source, self-hosting or a named certification.

See what those rows cost80% across 33 vetted rows (all 33)

2. Quin

AI admin assistant for meetings, CRM, and inbox follow-up

Quin joins your meetings, drafts the follow-ups, and updates your CRM and connected tools automatically.

Best for: remembering context between conversations

Documented strengths

Where you can use it: Slack, Email, SMS or a phone number, Voice messages, Web or desktop app and Its own iPhone or Android app
What it can do: Creates and edits documents, Save your own reusable instructions and Joins and records your meetings
Memory: Remembers you between conversations and Reads your existing files and apps

The catch

The checked gap is team and plan options. Nothing published on Free plan does the product's main job.

Pricing

1,000 credits$49/user/mo2,500 credits$99/user/mo5,000 credits$149/user/mo10,000 credits$299/user/mo25,000 credits$649/user/moEnterpriseCustom pricing

$49–$649/member/month per team (1,000–25,000 credits, unlimited users), annual billing saves 14%; Enterprise custom; 14-day free trial, no free plan · no free tier · heyquin.io

Who should pick it

Quin is the one to take when remembering context between conversations is the deciding factor. Walk away if you need a usable free plan or team seats.

Our take on how it differs from Notis: Quin goes deep on post-meeting notetaking and CRM administration for client-facing teams; Notis reaches WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, email and voice, and adds an execution layer across model providers.

Visit Quin52% across 33 vetted rows (all 33)

3. Beside

AI business phone and receptionist for local businesses

A business phone line whose AI receptionist answers the calls and texts you miss, books the job, writes the summary, and pushes it into your CRM.

Best for: scheduled and event-triggered work

Documented strengths

What it can do: Creates and edits documents, Save your own reusable instructions and Joins and records your meetings
Where you can use it: Voice messages, Web or desktop app and Its own iPhone or Android app
Memory: Remembers you between conversations and Reads your existing files and apps

The catch

The documented gap is messaging channels. We found no published support for WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack and Email.

Pricing

Beside plan (per seat, App Store/Google Play)$16.67/user/moyrBaseline$29.99/moUnlimited$99.99/mo

$29.99-$99.99/mo flat per business, up to 20 seats (extra lines $4.99/mo each); no trial on Baseline, 7-day trial on Unlimited; a separate per-seat 'Beside plan' via App Store/Google Play is $29.99/mo or $199.99/yr (~$16.67/mo) · no free tier · help.beside.com

Who should pick it

Worth it for scheduled and event-triggered work: that is what Beside is built around. Walk away if you need it in the other apps you message from.

Our take on how it differs from Notis: Beside answers and books your customers' inbound calls and texts; Notis is a general assistant for the buyer's own personal work and cross-tool execution, reachable on channels like WhatsApp, iMessage, and Slack that Beside does not offer.

Visit Beside38% across 33 vetted rows (all 33)

4. Epiphany

Voice-capture app that routes ideas into your other tools

An iPhone and Apple Watch app that turns a spoken thought into a formatted note or task and sends it straight into Notion, Slack, Todoist or an email.

Best for: rolling a shared assistant out to a team

Documented strengths

Where you can use it: Voice messages and Its own iPhone or Android app
Plans & support: Shared team workspace
What it can do: Creates and edits documents

The catch

Official evidence records a gap in messaging channels: no published support for WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, Email and SMS or a phone number, and 1 more rows.

Pricing

FreeEpiphany for Teams$6.67/user/moPersonal$7/moyr

$7/mo billed annually ($84/yr); $14/mo month-to-month; Teams $80/user/yr (annual only); 7-day free trial · free tier available · epiphanyvoice.io

Who should pick it

Pick Epiphany if rolling a shared assistant out to a team is what decides it for you. Walk away if you need it in the other apps you message from.

Our take on how it differs from Notis: Epiphany is optimized for fast one-tap voice capture and routing into your existing tools; Notis continues from capture into conversations, memory, research, and complex execution across channels.

Visit Epiphany18% across 33 vetted rows (all 33)

Where none of them wins

Nothing on this page publishes anything on Bring your own API key, Open source and Run it on your own server. If one of them is the thing you actually need, none of these is your answer.

One more thing, because a table like this can be read for more than it is worth. It counts what each product documents. It says nothing about how reliable any of them is, how fast it replies, how good its writing is, or what it does when an integration breaks on a Friday night. A lower support score can still be the better daily driver. The only way to know is to put a real week of work through both.

A dash means the capability was not documented on the official pages we checked. Not checked means the evidence is still incomplete.

Questions people ask

Which of Quin, Beside or Epiphany covers the most features?

Quin, at 52% across all 33 capabilities, ahead of Beside at 38% and Epiphany at 18%. That counts documented support, not how well any of it works.

How much do they cost?

Quin: $49–$649/member/month per team (1,000–25,000 credits, unlimited users), annual billing saves 14%; Enterprise custom; 14-day free trial, no free plan; Beside: $29.99-$99.99/mo flat per business, up to 20 seats (extra lines $4.99/mo each); no trial on Baseline, 7-day trial on Unlimited; a separate per-seat 'Beside plan' via App Store/Google Play is $29.99/mo or $199.99/yr (~$16.67/mo); Epiphany: $7/mo billed annually ($84/yr); $14/mo month-to-month; Teams $80/user/yr (annual only); 7-day free trial. Notis is the cheapest way in at Free–$149/mo, though its free plan only does part of the job.

Which of them can I try for free?

Epiphany has a free tier and Quin and Beside do not.

Which of them work in Web or desktop app?

Quin and Beside do. Epiphany does not.

What can none of them do?

Not one of them publishes anything on Bring your own API key, Open source and Run it on your own server. A dash means the capability was not documented on the official pages we checked. Not checked means the evidence is still incomplete.

How was this comparison put together?

We read whatever each product publishes (107 first-party sources across 4 products) and scored all of them on the same 33 rows. Last checked 21 August 2026. A dash means the capability was not documented on the official pages we checked. Not checked means the evidence is still incomplete.

Where does Notis fit in?

At number 1, scored by the same code on the same 33 rows as everything else. Against Quin specifically: Quin goes deep on post-meeting notetaking and CRM administration for client-facing teams; Notis reaches WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, Slack, email and voice, and adds an execution layer across model providers.

How we checked all this

We read what every product on this page publishes (docs and pricing pages where there are any, the homepage where that is all there is) and checked it against the same 33 buyer-focused rows. A support score uses only rows with an explicit vetted state; every unchecked row remains visible and never becomes a no. Notis chose the questions and is scored by the same rule. Count the links below before you weigh a result; some vendors give us three pages and some give us one. Last checked 21 August 2026. No vendor briefings, no affiliate links, no press releases.

Sources

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