Norma vs Manus
Manus starts from zero every time. Norma remembers.
Manus is an autonomous agent in a sandboxed computer. Give it a research goal and it browses, reads and writes a report on its own. It is useful for one-off deep work. It has no memory between sessions, no scheduled tasks, and reliability drops sharply past five steps. Norma is the opposite shape: a contact who remembers you and follows up over days.
What Manus does well
Autonomous research. Describe a goal and it plans and executes without you watching.
A full sandboxed computer with browser, terminal and files.
A free tier with 300 credits a day.
Where Norma is different
She remembers. Every Manus session starts from zero. Norma knows what you said, what she observed, and keeps the two apart.
She texts you. Manus is a web app. Norma is a contact in iMessage and WhatsApp.
Open loops stay open. Manus has no scheduled tasks. Norma follows up over days until it is done.
Done means done. Manus fails on hallucinated clicks in a quarter of its failures. Norma verifies before reporting.
Stable ownership. Manus's acquisition by Meta was unwound by Chinese regulators in April 2026 and ownership is unresolved. Norma is a small company in Stockholm you can email.
| Feature | Norma | Manus |
|---|---|---|
| Memory between sessions | Yes | None |
| Lives in | iMessage and WhatsApp | Web app |
| Scheduled and recurring tasks | Yes | No |
| Says done only when verified | Yes | No |
| Price | Free while in the line | Free tier, $20 to $200 a month in credits |
Getting in
Use Manus for the one big research task. Put your number in below for everything that happens after.
The assistant who remembers what you asked last week. Get in line.