Welcome to IFTTT.ai: everything you need to get started

Most people's first automation starts with a small annoyance. Maybe you got caught in the rain twice this week. Maybe your camera roll has 400 screeshots mixed in with photos of your dog. Or you spent Friday afternoon rebuilding for your work hours from memory for an invoice.

IFTTT.ai is the easiest way to automate anything, starting with small stuff like that. Type what's bugging you into IFTTT Chat, something like "mute my phone every night at 10:30." IFTTT.ai builds an automation that does it, using the apps and devices you already have.

What IFTTT.ai does

IFTTT.ai connects more than 1,000 apps and devices, from Google Sheets and Spotify to smart locks and garage doors. The name comes from "If This Then That," that rule every automation follows. If something happens in one place, then something happens somewhere else. When Weather Underground forecasts rain for tomorrow, your phone gets a notification. When you walk into the office, a new row with the time shows up in Google Sheets.

Each of those automations is an Applet, and people have created and turned on billions since 2010. Making one used to mean choosing a service, a trigger, and an action yourself, one step at a time. IFTTT Chat handles that part for you. You describe the result you want, and it works out which services to connect and how they fit together.

Words you’ll see on IFTTT.ai

Applet: an automation that connects two or more services.

Service: an app or device that works with IFTTT.ai, like RSS Feed, Gmail, or Ring.

Trigger: the event that starts an Applet, like New public video uploaded by you on YouTube.

Action: what happens once the trigger fires, like Post a tweet on X.

Query: a step that pulls in extra information before the action runs. For example, Tweet tailor rewrites a post to fit X’s style before it goes out.

Ingredient: a piece of information a trigger passes along, like a photo’s link or the time you arrived somewhere. Ingredients are how a Google Sheets row ends up with the exact minute you walked into the office.

For the full list, see the Glossary.

Your first conversation with IFTTT Chat

Open IFTTT Chat and type the way you'd text a friend who's good with tech. For example: "Mute my Android phone every night at 10:30."

IFTTT Chat reads that as a trigger and an action. The trigger is a set time each day, and the action is muting your ringtone through the Android Device service. It shows you the Applet it built so you can check the deails, like whether 10:30 should be PM. If you haven't connected your phone yet, it will ask you to. Once you turn it on, your ringtone goes silent at 10:30 every night, and those late group-chat buzzes stop waking you up.

A few habits help IFTTT Chat get it right the first time. Name the actual app, so "Google Sheets" instead of "a spreadsheet." Ask for one automation per message, so each Applet stays easy to check.

Here’s what to ask for first, plus a few ready-made Applets for each if you’d rather turn one on right away.

1. Get the forecast before you get dressed

You walked your dog in sneakers, and the sidewalk was one big puddle.

Try asking: Every morning at 7, send me the weather forecast.

2. Get your camera roll under control

You scrolled past 60 screenshots of group chats to find one photo from your cousin’s wedding.

Try asking: “Put my iPhone screenshots in their own album.”

3. Share it once and you’re done

Your mom only checks Facebook, your friends only check Instagram, and you’re tired of posting the same photo twice.

Try asking: "When I post on Instagram, share it to my Facebook Page too.”

4. Know exactly where your week went

You stayed late twice this week and can’t remember which two days.

Try asking: “Log when I arrive at and leave the office in Google Sheets.”

5. Let AI take a few things off your plate

You've ordered from the same Thai place three times this week because nobody planned anything.

Try asking: "Every Sunday at 5PM, have ChatGPT email me a meal plan for the week."

Or a coworker replied-all with “a few quick follow-ups,” and it took you three reads to find them.

Try asking: “When I forward an email to IFTTT, have Gemini pull out the tasks and add them to Todoist.”

Prefer to build it yourself?

The Applet builder is still there if you want to choose every piece by hand. Go to Create and select the Classic tab. Pick your trigger, the “If This” part. Then pick your action, the “Then That” part. Name your Applet and select Finish.

Applets you build are private by default. If you make one your friends would like, publish it from the Applet’s settings, and anyone with the link can turn it on in one tap.

All the ways to use AI on IFTTT

IFTTT Chat is usually the first AI you’ll meet on IFTTT, but you can also add AI to the Applets themselves. Use AI Agent and AI Action assist, IFTTT's own AI services, connect AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, or bring IFTTT into the AI assistant you already use.

AI Agent and AI Action assist

AI Agent keeps an eye on web pages and handles small jobs across your apps. With the New item on a page trigger, it lets you know when something new shows up, like a beagle mix on your local shelter’s adoptable pets list. With Number on a page changes, it watches one number, like tonight’s low, and lets you know when it crosses a line you set. And with Run actions across your services, it can read an email or a quick note and act on it. A bill lands in Gmail, and AI Agent adds a “Pay” event to your Google Calendar on the due date.

AI Action assist is a separate switch in the Applet builder. Turn it on for an Applet’s action, add an instruction, and AI writes that action’s message fresh each time the Applet runs. Instead of the same headline and link every time, you get a two-line summary of the story, and anything off-topic gets skipped.

For the full rundown on how both features work, read Getting started with AI Agent and AI Action assist. Or start with one of these Applets.

IFTTT AI services

These are built by IFTTT and work with any of the 1,000+ services, so you can add an AI step to almost any Applet.

• Summarizer: turns long content into a short summary. Use it to get action items from meeting notes or a quick recap of every new RSS post.

• Prompt Agent: runs any prompt you write, using details from your trigger. Use it for a daily Slack update or a reply to a new Google review.

• Social Creator Agent: writes social posts from your content. Use it to share each new blog post to LinkedIn and Facebook, or to get post ideas from a quick note.

• Content Creator Agent: drafts written content from a prompt, like a morning intention email that lands in your inbox every day.

• Twitter Agent: rewrites a post to fit X’s style and audience before it goes out.

• LinkedIn Agent and Facebook Agent: shape your posts for each platform.

• YouTube Agent: turns a video idea from a note into a title, hashtags, a description, and an outline.

• Translation Agent: email IFTTT.ai a message and get back a translated draft.

• Grammar Agent: checks your writing for grammar before it gets sent.

• AI Label Checker: checks whether a photo carries a label saying it was made or edited with AI. Use it to log the labels on your new photos to Google Sheets.

Bring your favorite AI tools along

Connect the AI tools you already use, and IFTTT can pass their answers, images, videos, and transcripts to the rest of your apps.

• ChatGPT: turns events from your other apps into prompts. Use it for a weekly meal plan or a caption for every new Instagram photo.

• Claude: sends a message to Claude and passes the response along. Use it to proofread an email, summarize a new Google Doc, or get a recipe from a list of ingredients.

• Gemini: summarizes and analyzes text. Use it to pull the tasks out of an email and add them to Todoist.

• Perplexity: researches the web and cites its sources. Use it to save answers straight to a Google Doc from an iOS Shortcut.

• Grok: answers questions and summarizes, like a Grok summary of every new item in an RSS feed.

• DeepSeek: a reasoning model you can route anywhere. Use it to text back a reply or post its answer to Slack.

• Leonardo AI: generates images from a prompt and saves them to Dropbox, Google Drive, or Discord.

• HeyGen: turns text into a finished video with an AI avatar. Send a tagged email with your brief, and the video comes back to you.

• AssemblyAI: transcribes audio. A new recording in Dropbox can become a transcript in Google Docs or Slack.

• Castmagic: turns a recording into ready-to-use content, starting with a transcript of every new Vimeo upload.

• Hugging Face: tracks open-source models and datasets, and lets your team know when new ones are added.

• Cursor: brings Cursor’s coding agents into your automations, like posting an agent summary to Slack when a new GitHub pull request opens.

Use IFTTT from the AI assistant you already use

If you already ask Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to draft a message or plan your week, you probably end up doing the last step yourself. That means opening Slack to send the message or adding the plan to your calendar. IFTTT MCP lets your assistant handle that step for you.

MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to outside tools. IFTTT MCP connects your assistant to IFTTT.ai and its 1,000+ services, so it can do two kinds of things. It can build Applets that keep running on their own. It can also take one-off actions right in the conversation, like “send a message to my team’s Slack channel saying the deck is ready.”

Setup takes less than 10 minutes. Add IFTTT as a connector in your assistant’s settings, then sign in to IFTTT.ai to approve the connection. Once you’re connected, try asking “What can I do with IFTTT?” to see which of your services it can reach.

Start with What is IFTTT MCP?, or follow the step-by-step guide in How to use IFTTT MCP with Claude.

Discover more

Here are a few more Applets to try once you’ve got the hang of it.

Connect your tools

These are some of the most popular services on IFTTT.ai. Connect the ones you use, and IFTTT Chat can build Applets around them.

Make your first Applet today

Think back to the last thing you did on your phone that you’ve done a hundred times before. Type it into IFTTT Chat, and it can be running before you finish your coffee.

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