What's new: AI Agent and AI Label Checker, plus 6 more services

It’s the last week of October, so a photo of a pumpkin the size of a hatchback is going around your family group chat, and someone has already replied “wait, is this real?” This round of updates helps answer that. It also helps with the questions you ask a browser tab at 11PM, like whether the price dropped yet or whether the school posted anything about tomorrow.

IFTTT connects the apps and devices you use every day, so something happening in one can set off an action in another. This month brings five new AI tools and one new AI feature, from an agent that watches web pages to three services that check images and text for signs of AI. Here’s how each one works, plus three more services at the end.

Want to build your own? Tell our AI chat what you want to happen, and it sets up the Applet.

AI Agent: watch any page and act on what changes

Everyone has a few pages they refresh out of habit. Your school district posts closures on a news page. The Consumer Product Safety Commission adds recalls to a list. The bike you’ve been eyeing sits at $640 on a product page, waiting for you to check again.

AI Agent’s two triggers do the checking for you. New item on a page fires when something new shows up in a list on a page you choose. It hands your Applet the item’s title and link, plus the page it came from. Number on a page changes fires when a number you pick rises above or drops below a threshold you set, or changes at all. Point it at that bike, set the threshold at $550, and your phone buzzes the day the price crosses it.

The Run actions across your services action works in the other direction. You write a prompt in plain language, and AI Agent decides which of your connected services to use. In one of the Applets below, an email in Gmail says a free trial is ending. AI Agent then adds a reminder to your Google Calendar for the day before, with the price, so you get a night to decide whether that streaming service stays.

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AI Action assist: let AI fill in the details

Most actions have fields to fill in, like the message in a notification, the body of an email, or the text of a post. Usually you build those from ingredients. That’s how you end up with a notification that reads “New email from Dana: Re: Re: Fwd: Q4 plan” and tells you nothing about whether you need to open it.

AI Action assist writes those fields for you. Describe what you want, such as “summarize this email in one sentence and say whether it needs a reply today.” Each time the Applet runs, it fills in the field using whatever the trigger sent. It can also filter. Tell it which runs to skip, like newsletters or anything from a no-reply address, and the action only goes through when the trigger matches what you described.

AI Action assist lives in the Applet builder, so you can add it to Applets you already have. Our launch blog walks through how to set it up.

AI Label Checker: read the AI labels inside an image

When OpenAI, Google, or Adobe generates an image, it writes a small label into the file saying so. These labels follow standards called Content Credentials (C2PA) and IPTC. Most people never see them, because they sit in the file’s metadata.

AI Label Checker reads those labels for you with its Check an image for AI labels query. Give it an image link, and it returns a Verdict (like aigenerated or aiedited), along with the Generator, Source, and Detector behind it. It’s free and doesn’t need an account.

Here’s how that plays out. Say a flyer at the coffee shop looks a little too polished. Snap it with the Camera widget, and a notification with the verdict reaches your phone before your latte does. If you moderate a community, have members send photos to the @IFTTT bot on Telegram. Each photo becomes a page in Notion with the verdict, the generator, the caption, and a link to the photo.

One tip: check the original file when you can. Screenshots and re-uploads often strip labels, so the first copy carries the most information.

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Sightengine: score how likely an image is AI-made

Sightengine works differently from AI Label Checker. Its Check if an image is AI-generated query analyzes the image itself and scores how likely it is that AI made or edited it. That means it can check images that never carried a label, or that lost one somewhere between the first post and your feed. You connect your own Sightengine account, and its free plan covers about 400 checks a month.

Picture a photography club on Discord with a “photo of the month” contest. Members email their submissions to IFTTT, and each image’s score posts to the channel before anyone hands out the ribbon. If you follow a subreddit that’s been flooded with suspiciously perfect sunsets, you can get an email with the score for each new Reddit post.

Use the score as a strong hint and a reason to look closer. A high number is a good cue to check where the image came from.

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Sapling: check if text was likely written by AI

Sapling does for text what Sightengine does for images. Its Check if text is AI-written query estimates how likely it is that a piece of writing came from AI. You connect your own Sapling API key, and the free tier works.

Sapling is most reliable on longer passages, so it fits essays, applications, and articles better than one-line replies. Say you run a scholarship program that collects essays through Typeform. Each response arrives in Google Chat with Sapling’s verdict next to it, so you know which ones to read twice. If your reading list lives in Inoreader, you can get a Sapling score in Telegram for every new article.

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Browse AI: let your web robots set off Applets

Browse AI lets you train robots that pull data from websites without writing code. It’s a good fit for structured data, like a table of apartment listings or a competitor’s pricing grid. On IFTTT, Monitor detected a change fires when a robot captures data that’s different from its last run.

Robot finished a task fires whenever a robot finishes a task, whether a monitor, the dashboard, or the API started it. You can choose successful tasks, failed tasks, or both. Picking “failed” is a smart move: if a site redesign breaks your robot, a task lands in Todoist the same day.

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3 more services to pair with your Applets

Three more services joined IFTTT this month, for scheduling social posts, running your lights and curtains, and hearing what people say about your product online.

For posting

MBX Flow helps brands, creators, and artists plan, draft, and schedule social posts from one workspace. Other apps can save drafts to it with the Create a draft action. For example, when you upload a YouTube video, a draft is waiting in MBX Flow, ready for you to pick accounts and schedule. The New published post trigger fires when a post goes live, so you can keep a running log of everything you’ve published in Google Sheets.

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For home

Plexilent makes smart lights, wall switches, fans, and curtain motors. Your Applets can switch, dim, and color the lights, and the Set curtain position action opens or closes the curtains. The Light turned on and Light turned off triggers fire whether someone used the app, the wall switch, or a voice assistant. Opening the curtains at 7AM is a gentler alarm than your phone.

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For people building a product

Rumoro finds posts about your product, or your competitors, on Reddit, X, Hacker News, GitHub, and other sites. Along with the New mention trigger, it has a New negative mention trigger just for complaints. That means a bug report someone posts publicly at 9AM can reach your phone before lunch.

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Start with one page you check too often

Pick the tab you refresh the most, whether that’s the school news page, a price, or a subreddit, and turn on an Applet for it. You can add the rest once the first one is running.

If the Applet you want isn’t here, describe it in chat, and it builds the Applet for you.