Norma vs ChatGPT / Updated September 2026
ChatGPT left WhatsApp. Norma moved in.
ChatGPT is the best place to think. It is not a personal assistant living in your messages. Its WhatsApp number shut down in January 2026 when Meta banned general assistants from the platform, and its scheduled tasks live inside the ChatGPT app. Norma is a contact in iMessage and WhatsApp who remembers your open loops and texts you when they close.
- No invite code
- Works in iMessage & WhatsApp
- Data stays in the EU
- Free to join
Norma at a glance
- What it is
- A personal assistant you text like a friend
- Where it works
- iMessage and WhatsApp (no app to install)
- Invite code
- Not needed — one public line, a new batch every Friday
- Price
- Free to join the list; pricing announced before anyone pays
- Where data lives
- European Union
- Model training
- Never on your conversations
- Memory
- Remembers your details and open tasks over weeks
- Acting on your behalf
- Always asks before sending, booking or paying
- Built in
- Stockholm, Sweden (2026)
What ChatGPT does well
The strongest general model for questions, writing and thinking things through. Nothing here changes that.
Memory across conversations, agent mode for browsing tasks, and a huge ecosystem of integrations.
It is available everywhere, right now, with a generous free tier.
Where Norma is different
She lives in your messages. ChatGPT is an app you open. Norma is a contact you text, in the thread you already use all day.
She texts you first. ChatGPT waits. Norma messages you when the reminder is due, the reply arrives or the thing you asked about happens.
Open loops stay open. ChatGPT does not carry “chase the landlord” across days. Norma does, until it is done or you cancel it.
Memory that knows what it knows. ChatGPT stores memories flat. Norma separates what you said from what she observed and what she guessed. Guesses are never stored as facts.
Forget means forget. Delete a ChatGPT memory and the summaries built on it stay. Norma removes the fact and everything derived from it, and blocks it from coming back.
| Feature | Norma | ChatGPT |
|---|---|---|
| Lives in | iMessage and WhatsApp | Its own app and web |
| Messages you first | Yes | Only inside the app |
| Follows up over days | Yes | No |
| Forgets everything derived from a fact | Yes | Partly |
| Trains on your data | No | Opt-out |
Getting in
Keep ChatGPT for thinking. Put your number in below and Norma handles the rest.
The assistant that texts you back, and first. Get in line.