Got a job stuck inside a tool with no API — an iPhone app, a logged-in portal, a pile of web pages? Answer four quick questions and get one straight recommendation: Pomerado, Ghosthand, Lexmount, or a general computer-use model. Nothing is sent anywhere; the picker runs in your browser.
One honest note before you start: all of these tools launched within the last week of October 2026, so they are new, they will change fast, and pricing will move. The prices quoted here were checked on October 28, 2026 — confirm on the tool's own site before you budget around them.
When a service has an API, automation is easy: you call an endpoint and get structured data back. When it doesn't, an agent has to drive the real interface — open the app or page, log in, click, type, read what changed — which is slower, more fragile, and exactly why these four tools exist. A job inside an iPhone app needs a tool that can drive a real phone. A daily portal job rewards building one solid integration and re-running it. Broad web research rewards cheap, disposable cloud browsers. And a task you'll only ever do once, differently each time, is often best handed to a general screen-driving model rather than a specialist tool.
A no-API job is a task inside a tool, website or app that offers no API or integration to automate it — so an agent has to drive the actual interface, clicking and typing like a person, instead of calling an endpoint.
Ghosthand. It is the pick here built for driving a real iPhone. It needs a Mac running macOS 14 or later and a real iPhone, and it is free for 7 days, then $99/month — there is no free tier beyond that trial. Prices checked October 28, 2026.
Pomerado. You build the integration once and then run it on a schedule, which is exactly the shape of a daily logged-in portal job. It is open source under MIT, free for 100 calls a day, with Premium at $50/month. Prices checked October 28, 2026.
Start with the free tier of the tool that matches your job: Pomerado's free 100 calls a day for website and portal work, or Lexmount's free 10 hours a month for browser and research work. For iPhone work there is honestly no free Ghosthand beyond the 7-day trial, so plan the trial around a real job.
For one-off, varied desktop tasks that never repeat the same way twice, a general screen-driving model like GPT-6.1 Terra (API pricing $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, checked October 28, 2026) is often the simpler fit — there is no integration to build, you just describe the task each time.