Proto-Mind vs Toki: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Proto-Mind and Toki — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Proto-Mind

VIRENCORE

Free

A native macOS floating workspace that keeps AI conversations, project memory, files and live voice together on your Mac.

Floating Cube Workspace: Hover the cube to reveal the workspace and click to pin it, or move away to hide it while tasks keep running in the background.
Per-Conversation Model Routing: Each chat picks its own model and account — ChatGPT with Codex access, supported model APIs, or a local Ollama model.
Editable Project Memory: Notes, decisions and preferences stay attached to a project and carry into later conversations, and you can review, change or remove any of them.
Live Voice Control: Speak to open a project, steer a running task or send new work, and add a correction while the task is still going.
Detachable Companion Windows: Pull out and resize a browser, a file or a second conversation so reference material sits beside the work.
Explicit Mac Access: Codex can work with files and run commands only after you turn Mac access on; screen control additionally requires Codex Desktop's signed Computer Use helper.
Local Data Storage: Conversation history and saved memory live on your Mac, and cloud processing happens only when you choose a cloud model or voice.
Open Source Beta: The macOS installer and the Apache 2.0 source are both published, so the workspace can be inspected and built from source.

Long-Running Project Work: Keep a website or client project's decisions in project memory so each session resumes instead of re-explaining the brief.
Brief to Deliverable: Have the agent read a client brief and save a proposal document, then open it in a companion window next to the conversation.
Parallel Task Execution: Start several tasks across different models at once and check back on them without blocking the conversation you are in.
Hands-Free Steering: Dictate a correction or open a project by voice while your hands are busy elsewhere on the Mac.
Privacy-Sensitive Drafting: Run a local Ollama model so conversation content never leaves the machine.
Model Comparison: Put the same question to a Codex route and a local model in adjacent windows to compare the answers side by side.

Orion Arm

Freemium

AI executive assistant that reaches out to attendees to book meetings, architects your day, and tracks tasks across synced calendars.

Attendee Coordination: Toki contacts meeting attendees itself to find a time that works for everyone, removing the availability back-and-forth entirely.
Scheduling Links: Calendly-style booking links for cases where a shareable link is simpler than having Toki negotiate a time.
Proactive Day Architecture: Toki plans the day ahead of time, balancing protected deep-work blocks against urgent demands rather than just recording events.
Natural Multimodal Input: Voice notes, screenshots, quick texts, and half-formed requests are all accepted and connected into the right events, reminders, and tasks.
Personal Preference Memory: Toki learns how you work, how you plan, and what you prefer, improving its scheduling decisions the longer you use it.
Triggers: Tell Toki a condition to watch — a price, a deadline, a release date — and it monitors and pings you when the condition is met.
Conflict Resolution: Smart scheduling detects and resolves calendar conflicts across synced calendars instead of double-booking.
Call Me Alerts: For things you truly cannot miss, Toki escalates from a notification to an actual phone call.

External Meeting Booking: Getting a meeting with several outside attendees on the calendar without a chain of availability emails.
Deep Work Protection: Having an assistant proactively reserve focus blocks and defend them against incoming requests.
Multi-Calendar Consolidation: Keeping personal iCloud, work Google, and Outlook calendars coherent in one view without manual duplication.
Capture on the Move: Sending a voice note or a screenshot of a flyer and having it become a dated event or reminder.
Deadline Monitoring: Setting a trigger on a stock price, a product release, or an application deadline and being pinged when it fires.
Critical Reminder Escalation: Receiving a phone call rather than a dismissable notification for appointments that cannot be missed.