Equerry vs Del

Both are AI personal assistants. The difference is the approach: Del connects to your accounts and works broadly for everyone; Equerry is built for senior, client-facing professionals and remembers only the context you choose to share.

The short version: Del is a text-message assistant for everyday life — it runs on the accounts you connect and acts on its own, from chasing a reply to completing a checkout. Equerry is a personal assistant for client-facing work — it only ever sees the threads you forward or CC, shows you every fact it kept, and briefs you before the call. Both are real assistants; they answer different worries.

What Del is

Del describes itself as "your digital handyman" — "a proactive assistant that lives in your messages" (withdel.com, verified 2026-09-04). There is no app to install: "No app, no login, just a text." You reach it from the messaging apps you already use — its site lists "iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, and SMS" — and, in its words, it "proactively takes the next step" on the things that need you. Setup is "5 minutes." It connects to your accounts to do that work: its founders page says "Del connects to Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Google Drive, and more," and its updates feed adds bank accounts (June 25, 2026) with a Plaid connection (June 29, 2026), Venmo (September 1, 2026) and a "Vault" of saved logins, payment cards and phone numbers so Del can fill in checkouts and make purchases for you (August 23–25, 2026). The examples on its homepage are chores — selling clothes on a marketplace, monitoring flights and hotels, filing a warranty claim, splitting a trip's expenses — and its use-cases page is written for founders, small business owners, real estate agents, busy parents and "anyone managing a full, busy life." Del is operated by Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in California (privacy policy, last updated August 5, 2026). The model is still connect-everything: give it access and let it work — and since June the "let it work" half has grown considerably (see what changed, below).

What Equerry is

Equerry is a personal assistant built on the opposite bet: it sees only what you hand it. You forward or CC it the emails that matter, dictate a quick voice memo, drop in a PDF or a screenshot, or save a note — and it remembers. Before your next client call it briefs you from what you've shared, and when you ask it something it answers with the source attached, so you can trust the answer. It's built for the person managing several client relationships at once, where the cost of forgetting a detail is real.

Equerry vs Del at a glance

Factual comparison. Del column verified 2026-09-04 against withdel.com — homepage, use-case pages, product updates feed, privacy policy and terms.

Del column verified 2026-09-04 against withdel.com (homepage, use-case pages, product updates feed, privacy policy, terms). Del's updates feed changes almost daily — check its site for the latest.

Sharing what matters vs connecting everything

The clearest difference is how each assistant gets your context. Del's model is to connect your accounts so it can act across them; for email, that means a Gmail connection. Its privacy policy is specific about the scope: it requests "read and write access to your Gmail," reads "recent messages (by default those from the last 7 days)" to brief you and give the assistant context, and will "draft, send, reply to, label, and archive email on your behalf when you ask it to" — while the messages themselves are "fetched on demand and are not persisted to our database" (last updated August 5, 2026). That is a reasonable design, and it is scoped to the whole mailbox. Equerry's model is deliberate: you forward or CC the threads that matter to your Equerry address, and those are the messages it remembers — it reads the thread, not your inbox. For a partner or advisor whose inbox holds confidential client material, sharing specific threads rather than connecting the mailbox is often the deciding factor.

What changed at Del since June 2026

This page first went up on 10 June 2026. Reading Del's public updates feed on 2026-09-04, these are the changes that bear on the comparison (dates are Del's own):

• Positioning. The homepage's title is now "Del — your digital handyman," and the use-cases page with "Who Del is for" — founders, small business owners, real estate agents, busy parents, people who text themselves reminders. Its founders page still compares Del to "hiring an EA."
• Channels. iMessage (June 9), then WhatsApp and Telegram (June 12); both removed on June 23 to "focus entirely on SMS and iMessage"; Telegram back on July 23 and WhatsApp on August 23. Sign-in to the web app by phone number arrived July 23.
• Email. Gmail integration (June 13) "to let Del search and read your emails directly from your inbox"; you can start an email thread with Del from a connected Google address (June 4); sending from your connected Gmail address, "requiring your explicit approval before anything is sent" (August 6).
• Acting for you. Bank accounts (June 25) and a Plaid connection (June 29); web browsing (July 1); a Vault for saved logins, payment cards and phone numbers so Del can complete checkouts (August 23–25); Venmo (September 1). Web-browsing tasks require the Pro plan once the trial ends (September 2).
• Memory. A "People Book" of the contacts you mention (June 5); "memory source tracing" — Del "can now look up and tell you exactly when and how it learned a specific fact" (June 20); long-term memory for texted photos (August 24).
• Briefings. A setting to "receive pre-meeting briefings" (June 12); the automated morning briefing was removed (August 23).
• Pricing. A 14-day free trial (June 21), card-free from June 27; the monthly price cut "from $20 to $14.99" (June 25); a new subscription page "featuring Standard and Pro options with an annual discount" (July 8). Its use-case pages still quote "$20/month" — check its sign-up for the current price.

None of that changes the shape of the decision. Del has become considerably more capable at doing things on your behalf across connected accounts. Equerry has stayed deliberately narrow: it holds only what you handed it, shows you every fact it kept, and briefs you before the call.

When each makes sense

If you want an assistant you can text that connects to your accounts, runs everyday errands and chases follow-ups for you, Del fits that shape. If your work runs on email threads and meetings — and you want an assistant that remembers the specifics of several client relationships, shows you exactly what it remembers, hands you a briefing before each call, and only sees what you choose to share — Equerry is built for that. See how it works for management consultants and client-facing executives.

Last updated 2026-09-04.

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