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Quilt and Hark Pro
Hark Pro is a proactive assistant that reads your connected email and calendar and can work websites for you on a cloud computer. Quilt is a personal agent that keeps its data on your devices. They differ most in where memory and sign-ins are kept.
| Topic | Quilt | Hark Pro |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A personal AI agent for your mail, messages, calendar and meeting notes. You talk to it as Q. Invite-only. | A proactive AI assistant from Hark Labs, Inc., according to its terms. News coverage says it launched on 6 October 2026, comes from Brett Adcock, who founded Figure AI, and that devices are planned for 2027.36 |
| Where it runs | A Windows desktop app and an iPhone app. Q is on all three of its screens: Q, Inbox and Calendar. How it works | Web, iPhone and Android.156 |
| What it connects to | Gmail and Outlook email and calendars, plus Slack and WhatsApp chats, kept together in one Inbox and one Calendar. | Its terms say it can remember context across conversations and reach connected email, calendars, documents and messaging services.3 |
| Where your data is processed and stored | Your calendar, meeting notes and Q's memory are stored on your devices, with an index of your mail. When Hey Q uses a cloud model, the request goes from your device straight to Anthropic, using your own Claude key. Email text never goes to Quilt's own AI. Privacy Max turns off all cloud help, including Hey Q. Exactly what goes where | Its Handoff feature runs a task on a cloud computer operated by Hark, with its own browser, and signs into the websites the task needs. Hark says card details and website logins are kept in a vault called Secured by Hark that Hark cannot view. Its privacy policy says it keeps information for the lifetime of your account, and some data longer for legal or safety reasons.124 |
| Training on your data | Quilt never trains on your data. During the alpha, Q uses your own Claude key, so Anthropic's terms for API keys apply to requests made with it. Quilt's servers are not in that path. Details | Its privacy policy says inputs, outputs, memory, connected account data and sandbox data are not used to train AI models, with no opt-out needed. It also says it uses inputs and outputs to provide and improve the service, and uses data for security and to investigate violations.2 |
| Acting for you | A cloud model only suggests steps. Q can draft and propose, and cannot send, pay, post or delete. You press send. Inbox changes show a preview, apply when you tap, and can be undone. | Handoff signs into websites and takes actions such as buying things and filling in forms. Hark says it checks in with you before actions that need your approval, and its terms say it asks you to confirm spending unless you tell it otherwise.134 |
| Meeting notes | Yes, on Windows. Q listens on your computer and nothing joins the call. It asks before each meeting, and gives you summary, decisions and to-dos afterward. How it works | We did not find a meeting notes or recording feature on the home, using or pricing pages of Hark. It does offer scheduled tasks.47 |
| Availability | Invite-only for now, on Windows and iPhone. Free during the alpha. | A free plan with all features, plus paid plans that raise usage limits. Its pricing page says upgrades raise usage, not features.67 |
Where Hark Pro fits well
- You want an assistant that reads your email and calendar and offers actions, such as one-tap Action Buttons and scheduled tasks.
- You want it to do tasks on websites for you, such as booking trips or ordering food.
- You want it on the web, iPhone and Android.
- You want a free plan to try it.
Where Quilt fits well
- You want your data and Q's memory kept on your own devices, not in a company's cloud.
- You want email text kept away from Quilt's own AI, by how the app is built.
- You want one switch that turns off all cloud AI.
- You want every send or change to wait for your OK.
What Quilt cannot do yet. It is new, invite-only and runs on Windows and iPhone only, with no Mac, Android or web app. It has no team or shared-inbox features and it connects to fewer outside services than most products on these pages. During the alpha, bring your own Claude key.
Sources
Every claim about Hark Pro above links to one of these pages.
- Hark home page. https://hark.com/ (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Hark privacy policy. https://hark.com/privacy-policy (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Hark terms of service. https://hark.com/terms (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Using Hark Pro. https://hark.com/using-hark (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Hark Pro on the Apple App Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hark-pro/id6772362941 (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- The Rundown: Brett Adcock's Hark launches an AI assistant with devices planned for 2027. https://www.therundown.ai/news/hark-pro-ai-assistant-2027-hardware (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)
- Hark pricing. https://hark.com/pricing (read and confirmed 2026-10-11)