Folk 替代品
folk vs Perplexity
Perplexity is great at finding answers. Folk is great at taking action. Folk goes beyond search to book restaurants, track flights, run scheduled tasks, and remember everything about your life.
why people switch from Perplexity to folk
folk acts on what it finds
Perplexity gives you search results with sources. Folk goes further. Ask it to find a restaurant for Thursday and it will search, check availability on Resy, book the table, and send you confirmation. The step from finding to doing is what sets folk apart.
folk lives in your messaging apps
Perplexity is a search engine you visit in a browser. Folk lives in your iMessage and Telegram. You text it questions and requests throughout the day. It responds and takes action without you ever leaving your messaging app.
folk remembers everything
Perplexity treats every search as independent. Folk builds persistent memory across every interaction. When you ask folk to find flights, it already knows your preferred airlines, seat preferences, and budget from past conversations. This context makes every interaction better.
folk runs tasks on a schedule
Perplexity answers when you ask. Folk works when you do not. Set up daily news briefings, hourly flight price monitoring, or weekly competitive research summaries. Folk runs these tasks autonomously and sends results to your iMessage or Telegram.
功能对比
| 功能 | Folk | Perplexity |
|---|---|---|
| Lives in iMessage | 是 | 否 |
| Lives in Telegram | 是 | 否 |
| Its own cloud computer | 是 | 否 |
| Persistent memory | 是 | 否 |
| Books tables (Resy) | 是 | 否 |
| Watches flights | 是 | 否 |
| Runs scheduled tasks | 是 | 否 |
| Connects to all your apps | 是 | 否 |
| Bring your own API keys | 是 | 否 |
| Web browsing | 是 | 是 |
| Code generation | 是 | 否 |
| Data privacy (no training) | 是 | 否 |
价格比较
Folk Pro
$20/mo
- 无限消息与任务
- iMessage + Telegram
- 持久记忆
- 自己的电脑，支持网页浏览和代码执行
- 连接你的所有应用
Folk Max
$100/mo
- 包含 Pro 的全部功能
- 可用的顶级 AI 模型
- 零排队，优先访问
- 每日容量翻倍
- 优先体验新功能
常见问题
How is Folk different from Perplexity?
Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine. Folk is a personal AI assistant that lives in your texts. Perplexity finds and summarizes information. Folk finds information and then takes action on it: booking restaurants, tracking flights, managing email, and running scheduled tasks. They serve complementary purposes.
Can Folk search the web like Perplexity?
Yes. Folk has its own cloud computer with full web browsing capabilities. It can search the web, read articles, compare prices, and gather information from any website. The difference is that folk also acts on what it finds.
Is Folk more expensive than Perplexity Pro?
Perplexity Pro is $20/month for unlimited searches. Folk Pro is also $20/month and includes web browsing, plus its own cloud computer, persistent memory, iMessage and Telegram integration, restaurant booking, flight tracking, and autonomous task scheduling.
Can I use both Folk and Perplexity?
Yes. Many people use Perplexity for deep research and folk for taking action on that research. They complement each other well. Folk can even browse Perplexity's results as part of a multi-step task.