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