# Conversational UI

## Apps and bots

### Standalone

- MedWhat. Virtual medical assistant.
- Quartz. Chat with the news.
- Operator. Buy anything, mainly from Amazon.
- First Opinion. Chat with a doctor.
- Luka. Restaurant recommendations in San Francisco
- Lark. Fitness coach.
- Hyper. Flights and hotels.
- Pana. Flights, hotels, recommendations.
- Lola. Flights, hotels, recommendations.
- Hound
- Fin. General meetings
- Penny. Personal finance coach
- Little Bing Microsoft
- Riley. Apartment hunting.
- Night Owl. Homework help.
- Mezi. Shopping assistant.
- Josh. Home automation assistant.
- Evia. Insurance assistant.
- MagicTiger. Order anything.
- Suto. Expert product recommendations.
- Bradley. Travel booking and recommendations.
- PadPolish. Housekeeping.
- HelloShopper. Gift ideas.
- Ava. Find experts.
- TalkSpace. Talk to a therapist.
- Alice. An artificial intelligence partner.

### Bots on Telegram, Slack, WeChat and SMS

- [Telegram bot store] (https://storebot.me/)
- DiggBot. News bot on Slack.
- Forbes on Telegram. Chat with the news.
- Skyscanner on Telegram. Flights.
- Taylor on Telegram. Travel recommendations.
- Meekan on Slack. Calendar booking.
- Meekan on HipChat. Calendar booking.
- Magic on SMS. Do anything over.
- Cloe on SMS. Calendar booking.
- Peter on email
- Assist on SMS, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram. Daily tasks like ordering flowers or a taxi.
- Birdly on Slack. Expenses.
- Digit. Personal finance optimization
- Prompt on SMS. Command line for the real world.
- Nestor on Slack.
- Howdy on Slack.
- Gobutler. General assistant.
- Unload. Sell stuff with a text.
- Awesome PA. Personal assistant for startups.
- Drinkeasy. Alcohol recommendations and delivery.
- Pro. Home projects.
- Hello Hipmunk. Travel booking.
- Sensei. Help with anything.
- WeChat secretary.
- Julia. Bitcoin teller.
- Dispatch. Order anything from London stores.

### Calendar bots

- Clara
- x.ai
- Meekan
- Julie Desk.

### Bots from The Big Four

- Microsoft Tay
- Google Now and Search
- Amazon Alexa on Echo, Tap and Dot
- Microsoft Cortana
- Facebook M

### Keyboards

- Wonder Keybaord
- Slash Keybaord
- Meet. Sunrise
- WordsU. Write with different personas.
- Homer. Conversation keyboard.

## Physical products

- Amazon Echo

## Books

- Wired for Speech
- The Jack Principles
- The Media Equation. How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places.

## Often-referred-to articles

- Conversational UIs by Matt Webb.
- Futures of text by Jonathan Libov
- 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce by Chris Messina
- On Bots, Conversation Apps, and Fin by Sam Lessin
- Making a chat bot by Rob Ellis
- Design is a conversation by Emmet Connoly
- When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China by Connie Chan
- Messaging and mobile platforms by Benedict Evans

## News

- Messaging Weekly. From the Smooch team.
- Medium: Conversational UI, Conversational Commerce 2, Chat, Messaging

## Movies

- Her. 2013.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. 1968.

## For developers

### Natural language processing

- Wit.ai
- API.ai

### Full service APIs and packages

- [Microsoft Botbuilder] (https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder).
- Motion.ai
- Lobby Boy.
- Smooch.
- Rhombus.

### Hosting

Beep Boop. Hosting for Slack robots.

### APIs

- Botkit for Slack
- Telegram Bot API
- Amazon Alexa Skills Kit.

### Examples

- Monica. Food ordering command line.

### UI Kits

- Atlas. Conversation list, chat, input. For iOS and Android.
- Chats. Full open source iOS native chat app.
- ParseChat.

## Misc

- Ongoing Product Hunt Collection by Chris Messina