Zapier alternatives for scheduled AI tasks

Open the notch's Routines tab, write what you want in your own words, like “the 5 biggest stories in my country, two lines each”, and pick once, every day, weekdays or chosen days. At that time Koi searches the web for real, reads a page you name, your calendar or this week's notes if the task needs them, and the notch says it's ready. There's nothing to wire up.

Where Zapier is better, plainly: it acts in thousands of apps, runs with your Mac off, and does many steps in a row. Koi's tasks run only while your Mac is awake and online, and give you an answer rather than doing things in other apps. Koi is $20 a month or Lifetime, paid once, and each run uses your plan's Koi.

Lindy's routines run daily, weekly or monthly, or on events like a new email, written in plain English like “every weekday at 9”. It can search the web and act in Gmail, Slack and Google Calendar. Free with $50 of credits for 7 days; Team from $49.99 a month. More in our Lindy alternatives.

Mac macros with a Time of Day trigger on the days you pick, and many actions for menus, windows, keys and files. No AI built in. $36 once, macOS 10.13 or later. More in our Keyboard Maestro alternatives.

Since macOS 26 Tahoe, Shortcuts on the Mac runs personal automations by itself, like “at 8:00 AM, weekdays”, and its Use Model action can call Apple Intelligence. Free, with nothing to install.