Howie finds times across two calendars and time zones
AI scheduling assistant you copy into email, SMS or iMessage to book meetings and manage your Google Calendar
Prices in US dollars as Howie's pricing page showed them on 11 October 2026.
Howie is an AI scheduling assistant you copy into email threads, or message by SMS and iMessage, to find times, send calendar invites, follow up and keep your Google Calendar in order. It suits founders, investors and small teams who arrange lots of external meetings in Gmail. The Team plan starts at $25 a month for 1,250 shared credits, with unlimited teammates and $25 of free credits to start.
Once copied into an email thread, or messaged by SMS or iMessage, Howie reads the conversation, checks availability, offers times and sends the calendar invite. It handles group threads and waits for everyone before booking.
When someone goes quiet, Howie chases them on a schedule you set, such as twice 48 hours apart, and then checks back with you.
Howie finds blocks for focus time, adds holds, buffers, commutes and travel time, and watches for conflicts and overloaded days.
Rules you give it in plain English, such as meeting lengths, preferred video tool or a limit on back-to-back meetings, are applied to every booking.
One message can clear a day and move every meeting to new times. Howie also creates booking links and can click other people's scheduling links for you.
Howie tracks reminders, to-dos and who you are waiting on, sends a daily briefing and connects to tools such as Granola, Notion, Linear and Todoist.
For $20 a month extra the assistant can carry a name you choose, a matching signature and an email address at your company's domain.
Works with
$25a month per workspace
1,250 credits a month; tiers up to 150,000 credits for $2,500
Contact sales
Custom credit pool and support package
Prices in US dollars, billed monthly; VAT is not mentioned. New workspaces get $25 of free credits. Credits per meeting or task are not published. Prices in US dollars, from Howie's pricing page on 11 October 2026. Howie may charge VAT on top, and prices can change.
For people whose week is full of meetings with outsiders, the public feedback suggests it often is: users posting about Howie mostly praise how naturally it writes and how reliably it chases people for a reply. Its limits are just as clear, since it works only with Gmail and Google Calendar and the maker does not say how many credits each meeting uses.
Howie works like a human assistant with an email address. You copy it into a thread, it reads the conversation, checks your calendars, offers times across time zones, handles the replies and sends the invite. It also creates booking links, adds holds, buffers and travel time, flags conflicts and overloaded days, and sends a daily briefing. Standing preferences, such as following up twice 48 hours apart or never booking more than three hours back to back, are remembered and applied every time.
Howie has no ratings on G2, Capterra, Trustpilot or Product Hunt yet, so most of what is known about its accuracy comes from its own site, social posts and a handful of third-party write-ups.
Howie charges in US dollars only, from $25 a month for the Team plan with 1,250 shared credits. Your bank converts the charge to pounds, and the site does not mention VAT or a UK price.
Only monthly prices are shown. The pricing does not say how many credits a scheduled meeting, a follow-up or a briefing costs, so the $25 of free credits each new workspace receives is the way to gauge your own usage before paying.
Howie and Cal.com solve the same problem in different ways: Cal.com gives people a booking page to pick a slot themselves, while Howie negotiates times in the email thread the way a human assistant would. Howie can also click other people's booking links for you, which a booking page cannot.
Jace is a broader AI email assistant that drafts replies to all your mail and can suggest meeting times in its drafts, but you still send them. Howie focuses on scheduling and acts on its own once you have copied it in. Lindy and Fyxer are other assistants that cover scheduling as part of wider email help, and both work with Outlook as well as Gmail.
No. Howie's site lists Gmail and Google Calendar as its email and calendar connections, and third-party reviews from 2026 confirm there is no Outlook or Microsoft 365 support.
That rules it out for most businesses running on Microsoft 365. Users on Google Workspace can connect more than one Google calendar, and the assistant checks all of them before offering times.
Howie shows a SOC 2 Type II badge and a CASA badge, the security assessment Google requires of apps that read Gmail, and links to a trust centre run on Vanta. Its privacy policy says the service is hosted on US servers and covers UK and EU users under GDPR, with transfers made under standard data protection clauses.
The terms say Howie has access to all email and calendar data you share with it. Earlier descriptions of the service said a team of trained scheduling staff reviewed tasks when the AI was unsure, and the current policy neither confirms nor rules out human review, so it is sensible to assume scheduling threads may be read by staff.
The maker states no yearly billing, student or non-profit discount. The main ways to keep costs down are to start on the lowest credit tier, share one workspace across a team rather than paying per person, and skip the $20 custom email add-on unless clients need to see your company's domain.
The terms say fees already paid are not refunded and there are no prorated refunds after cancelling, so moving up a credit tier only once the free credits show you need it avoids paying for unused months.
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A Calendly alternative is any app that turns your free time into a booking link. If you pay for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 you may already have one; otherwise Cal.com is the closest free swap, Zoho Bookings the cheapest for teams and Zcal the fullest free plan.
We don't currently list a confirmed discount code. That doesn't mean the store has no promotions; check its website for current prices.
There is no free-forever plan or trial period. New workspaces get $25 of free credits to start, which covers the cost of the lowest monthly tier.
You can cancel by contacting [email protected] and keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. The terms say fees already paid are not refunded and there are no prorated refunds.
Howie has a web app for settings and sign-up, but you talk to it by email, SMS or iMessage, so there is nothing to install on your phone.
Yes, for $20 a month extra. The custom assistant email lets you choose the assistant's name, signature and an address at your own domain.
No. The Team plan shares one pool of monthly credits across a workspace with unlimited teammates, so cost depends on usage rather than headcount.
