Comparisons
Arlo vs. Catch
Arlo and Catch are both AI assistants that work across chat and phone calls. Catch focuses on admin — email, scheduling, and outbound calls across Slack, WhatsApp, and iMessage. Arlo adds Microsoft Teams, 3,000+ integrations including apps with no API, and deeper governance: an approval gate plus a full audit trail on every action, not just a consent prompt.
Catch is one of the few assistants that, like Arlo, refuses to live in a single channel — it works over chat and it makes phone calls. So if you've found both, you're comparing two products in the same rare category rather than a text-bot against a workflow tool. The differences are real, but they're about reach and governance, not about which one is "an AI assistant."
Everything below reflects each product's public description as of 2026. Short version: Catch is a polished admin assistant for execs; Arlo is a governed AI colleague built to span a whole team's tools, including Microsoft Teams and the long tail of apps that don't have an API.
At a glance
| Catch | Arlo | |
|---|---|---|
| Email (Gmail / Outlook) | Yes | Yes |
| Slack | Yes | Yes |
| iMessage / SMS | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | No | |
| Microsoft Teams | No | Yes |
| Phone calls | Outbound | Outbound and inbound |
| Integrations | 25+ | 3,000+ (incl. no-API via browser) |
| Asks before acting | Yes | Yes |
| Full audit trail | Not stated | Yes |
| Pricing (as of 2026) | $99/mo | $50/mo, 7-day trial |
What Catch is good at
Catch pitches itself as an admin assistant for busy leaders — "your admin savior." As of 2026 it handles inbox zero, drafts email in your voice, schedules and reschedules meetings, fills out forms, and sends a morning brief, and it can place outbound calls to sort out logistics ("I'll call and try to arrange early check-in"). It works across Slack, WhatsApp, iMessage, Gmail/Outlook, and your calendar, and connects to 25+ tools like HubSpot, Notion, and Asana. It's consent-based: by its own description it "acts only with the right context and permission" and asks when unsure. If your need is one person's admin load and you want WhatsApp, Catch is a strong, focused pick.
Where Arlo goes further
Arlo is an AI colleague built for a team, not just an individual inbox, and that shows up in three places:
- Microsoft Teams. Catch covers Slack and consumer messengers; Arlo also works inside Microsoft Teams, which is where a lot of companies actually run. One colleague across Slack, Teams, iMessage, and calls.
- Reach across your stack. 25+ integrations covers the common tools; Arlo connects to 3,000+, and for the internal systems that never shipped an API, it logs in once through a secure browser session and operates them by hand. The work that used to fall outside an assistant's reach comes back in.
- Governance you can audit. Both assistants ask before acting, which is the right default. Arlo goes a step past the consent prompt: every connection resolves through policy before a run, and every tool call, source, and approval lands in a full audit trail you can read back. "It asked me" is good; "here's the logged record of exactly what it did and who approved it" is what an org needs before it lets an assistant act on its behalf.
Both can make phone calls; Arlo also takes them at its own number, and summarizes each call back into your records.
How to choose
Pick Catch if you want a sharp personal admin assistant for one executive and you live in WhatsApp. Pick Arlo if you want one governed colleague across a whole team — including Microsoft Teams — with wide tool reach and an audit trail on everything it does. If you're weighing other options too, see Arlo vs. Martin and the full comparisons.
Try Arlo
Arlo is the multi-channel assistant for teams that need Microsoft Teams, deep integrations, and a governed audit trail — not just a consent prompt. Try Arlo and connect the first tool you'd hand off.
Last updated July 4, 2026