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Planning a trip with your family inside one chat: Wabi's multiplayer threads, explained

I'm the author of Wabi Wiki, an unofficial guide to the Wabi AI assistant — not affiliated with Wabi.

Most group trips don't fail because nobody cares. They fail because the plan lives in five places at once: one person screenshots flight prices, another drops an Airbnb link, a third asks "wait, which dates are we doing again?" three days later. By departure day, nobody is quite sure what's booked.

Wabi — the free personal AI assistant from Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, publicly launched on October 19, 2026 — tries a different shape. Instead of everyone running a private chat with their own assistant, you share a thread with your partner, your family, or your friends, and everyone in it talks to the same assistant and uses the same tools. The company calls this "multiplayer," and it's the feature Kuyda talks about most.

Here's what that looks like for a family trip.

You open one shared thread and say you're planning a long weekend away. Wabi can build the planning tools right inside the conversation — no app store, no separate download. Ask for an itinerary and it builds a small itinerary app in the thread. Need a decision? Ask for a poll on dates or destinations and everyone votes where they already are. A budget tracker keeps the running total visible to the whole group, a shared packing list stops the "did anyone bring the charger?" thread, and a countdown can sit on your home screen as a widget so the trip stays visible without opening the app.

The part that makes it different from a shared doc is that the assistant is in the room. In Wabi 2.0 the agent doesn't only build what you ask for — it also decides on its own which apps to create, starting from the moment you connect your email. And because the thread is shared, the questions Wabi asks get answered by whoever knows: your partner confirms the hotel dates, your sister picks the restaurant, and the answers land in the same place.

Three things worth knowing before you try it.

First, Wabi is English-first and runs on iOS, Android and Mac. There is no Windows app and no web version, so if part of the group lives on a PC, they'll be joining from their phone.

Second, privacy is scoped per chat. A family thread doesn't automatically see what your finance thread sees, and people in a chat can see when personal information is requested inside it. Wabi also says it checks with you before important actions that need your approval — worth remembering before you let it handle a booking or a refund.

Third, Wabi is free for now and the company hasn't settled on a business model. That's a good reason to try it, and a good reason not to build a critical workflow on it yet.

The honest test is a small one: pick one real plan — a weekend away, a birthday dinner, a household chore rota — put it in one shared thread, and see whether the group actually stays in that thread instead of drifting back to screenshots. If it works, the mini-apps are doing their job. If it doesn't, you've lost an evening, not a system.

If you want the full picture — threads, mini-apps, widgets, errands, and the health and connections features — the full features guide on Wabi Wiki walks through each one in plain language.

Wabi Wiki is an unofficial guide to the Wabi AI assistant, not affiliated with Wabi.

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