How to Get Started With Muse: A Practical Setup Guide

To get started with Muse, install the Muse app on iOS or Android (or open muse.ai), sign in with a US account if you're 18 or older, name your agent, and connect the apps you want it to use. Then turn on WhatsApp messaging, write a few goals and give it one small, real errand. The free tier is enough to learn how it behaves before you pay for anything.

This guide covers the personal agent. If you're a developer after Muse Code or the API, skip to Muse Spark for developers.

Before you start: who can use Muse

Muse launched on September 8, 2026, in the US only, for people 18 and older (or the local age of majority). Meta's help center says Muse and its subscriptions are in "limited testing and aren't available in all locations yet" (source).

It runs on iOS, Android, the web at muse.ai and inside WhatsApp. A Mac app followed on September 17–18.

Step 1: Install Muse and name your agent

Download the Muse app from the App Store or Google Play, or sign in at muse.ai. Onboarding asks you to name the agent first. The name shows up when it messages you, and some people lean into it: one user runs an agent called Nova inside Instagram DMs that signs its messages.

Step 2: Import memory and connect apps

Mika Reyes' 30-minute setup guide walks through Meta's onboarding in order, and it's a good sequence to follow:

1. Import memory. Meta lets you send a prompt in Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp or Threads so those apps can pass along what they already know about you. It saves re-explaining yourself.
2. Connect Meta apps. Facebook, Instagram and Threads connect automatically if they share your Accounts Center (Meta help). Instagram insights and Marketplace features only work once these are linked.
3. Connect the rest. Launch connectors included Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Outlook, Plaid, Stripe Link, OpenTable, Ticketmaster and more (full list).

Be selective. Meta notes that many connectors can be set to read-only, so Muse can look but not act. That's a sensible default for email and bank data while you learn the tool. You can disconnect any connector later under Settings, then Connectors.

Step 3: Turn on WhatsApp

This is the setting most people end up using daily. Once linked, you message Muse like any other contact and don't need to keep the Muse app open. It's covered in detail in using Muse inside WhatsApp.

Step 4: Set a daily feed and goals

The feed is a personalized briefing. Tap the feed icon, then the top right, and write a prompt for what should show up: calendar, news on topics you follow, price changes. One user had Muse read their email to infer interests and portfolio holdings for the feed.

Goals are longer-running intentions ("get my car insurance down", "plan a December trip"). They give later conversations context. A Codex user wrote up how Goals work and where they fall short.

Step 5: Decide on payments and approvals

Payments are optional. If you connect Stripe Link, Muse can check out for you. You approve the total in chat each time, and at merchants that don't take Link it gets a single-use virtual card scoped to that purchase (Stripe). Test with a small amount first. Details in how Muse pays for things.

Muse also asks before sensitive actions like sending email. Under the hood, approvals are handled by a separate component called Sentinel, and you can grant them one-time, per session, per task, for a time window or permanently (Meta). Start with one-time approvals. Loosen them only for actions you've seen it do correctly.

A saved-logins vault is also available for sites without connectors. It's the highest-trust thing you can hand over, so it can wait.

Good first tasks to try

Pick something small, real and verifiable. These all come from people in the catalog:

• Audit subscriptions. Have Muse read a few months of email receipts. One user found a forgotten $100/month charge.
• Search for unclaimed money. One prompt had Muse check every state's unclaimed property database; it found $88.92.
• Claim a refund or credit. A delayed flight turned into a $250 credit in five minutes.
• Wrangle schedules. A parent connected school and sports feeds in about 30 minutes.
• Clean up a library. Re-sorting 18 Spotify playlists by decade worked; 40,000 Google Photos did not.

Save bill negotiation for once you trust it. When you do, give a clear ceiling, the way one user authorized any AT&T offer under $70.

How much you can do on the free tier

The free plan is usage-limited and resets weekly. The Batch reports it at up to 100M tokens a week. Power is $20 a month for 500M tokens a week, and Max is $100 a month for 3B. Meta doesn't publish how many tokens a typical task uses, so watch your meter for the first week before upgrading. See Muse pricing.

Common first-week problems

• Amazon won't work. Amazon blocked Muse purchases from September 20.
• Verification codes. When a site texts a code to your phone, Muse may need you. In one Xfinity call, it patched the user into the live call to handle it.
• Screen readers. A VoiceOver review found non-standard text fields and missing heading structure.
• Very large jobs. Big bulk tasks can stall. Break them into batches, as one user did with a resumable prompt that saved state every 10 pages.

For more inspiration, browse agents and browsers and triage and routing in the catalog, or read what people actually build with Muse.

Frequently asked questions

How do I sign up for Muse?

Download the Muse app on iOS or Android or go to muse.ai, then sign in. You need to be in the US and at least 18 years old, and Meta says access is still in limited testing.

Is Muse free to use?

Yes, there's a usage-limited free tier that refreshes weekly. Paid plans are Power at $20 a month and Max at $100 a month, with larger weekly token allowances.

What should I connect to Muse first?

Start with your Meta accounts, email and calendar, set to read-only where possible. Add payments and saved logins later, once you've watched how Muse handles approvals.

Can I use Muse without the app?

Yes. You can use it on the web at muse.ai or message it directly in WhatsApp after linking your account. There is also a Mac app.