Switch · Martin → Nova · July 2026
Switching from Martin to Nova
An honest ten-minute path across — including the parts Martin still does better. Facts checked against Martin's public pages, July 2026.
Keep Martin running while you look. Nova has no importer — the path below is manual and takes about ten minutes.
What Martin does well
Martin is a polished, native iOS assistant with a wide reach — you can get to it by voice, SMS or WhatsApp, and it feels at home on an iPhone in a way a web app doesn't. If you live inside iOS and want something that answers when you talk to it, Martin's focus shows.
- Martin pricing
- US$35–49 per month billed monthly; US$21–30 billed annually
- Way in
- 7-day free trial
Read from martin-ai.com/, July 2026.
What people bump into · as of 2026
As of 2026 the two limits people run into are the platform and the ceiling: it's iOS-only with Android on a waitlist, and the entry Basic tier caps concurrent tasks at two. Pricing is listed in US dollars only, which is its own kind of friction outside the US.
Paraphrased from Martin’s own public pages and the behaviour it documents. No individual is quoted and no review is invented.
What actually changes.
Any phone, no app store. Nova installs from the browser onto Android or iOS — Add to Home Screen and it's there.
No concurrent-task cap on paid tiers. Nova watches everything you've pointed it at; the limit is what it can reach, not a counter.
Roughly a quarter of the entry price, charged in rands.
Martin still wins on voice. Nova's approval surface is a tap in the app or a WhatsApp reply — there's no phone call to Nova.
The last card is the honest one: where Martin still wins.
The ten-minute path across.
Everything below works today. There is no data importer for Martin — this is the manual route, written out honestly.
- Minute 1Sign up — no card
The free preview gives you 10 AI actions. Keep your current tool running; nothing about it changes while you look.
- Minutes 2–4Forward the last week of real mail
Nova gives you a private forwarding address. Send the renewals, invoices and threads you actually care about. This is how Nova learns your life — there is no importer that can pull your history out of Martin, and we won't pretend there is.
- Minutes 5–7Bring your dates across
Export an .ics from whatever calendar you use and import it, or type the three dates you'd hate to miss — a licence, an insurance renewal, a filing deadline. Typing them takes about a minute.
- Minutes 8–10Prime one worry, then stop
Tell Nova the single thing you're most afraid of forgetting. That becomes your first watcher, and the first card usually lands the same day. Connect a mailbox or WhatsApp broker later, on Plus, once Nova has earned it.
Questions people actually ask.
- Can I import my data from Martin into Nova?
- No — Nova has no importer for Martin, and we'd rather say so than sell you a migration button that doesn't exist. What works today is manual and takes about ten minutes: forward your recent mail to your private Nova address, import an .ics of your calendar or type your key dates, and tell Nova the one thing you're most worried about forgetting.
- Do I have to cancel Martin first?
- No. Nova's free preview needs no card, so run both for a week and compare what each one catches. If Nova doesn't earn its place, you've lost nothing and Martin carried on untouched. Nova itself cancels in the app — no email, no retention call.
- What will Nova do differently from Martin?
- The core difference is approval. Nova prepares the reply, the reminder or the follow-up and then waits for your tap — nothing is sent, paid or moved on your behalf. It also prices in rands at R149/month for one person, works on any phone from the browser, and catches things that live outside a calendar or a mailbox.