Conductor alternatives in 2026: 7 apps for running coding agents in parallel

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on October 26, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, Conductor included.

Conductor alternatives compared

Conductor, from Melty Labs, says what it does on its homepage: “Run parallel coding agents on your Mac.” Each agent works in its own workspace, and you review and merge what it did. These are the apps people move to, side by side.

App	Best for	Price, checked October 26, 2026	Runs on	Agents
Conductor	Mac users who only need its four agents	Free; Pro $50 a month; Teams $60 a user a month	Mac	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent, across all your projects	Free; Enjoy Cloud adds your phone, other computers and teammates (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode
Orca	The most agents, free and open source	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	41 in its docs, and any command-line agent
T3 Code	A free, open-source control plane	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity
Paseo	Agents on any machine, from your phone	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, Muse Code, and ACP agents
Paradev, formerly Superset	Teams on Macs	Free; Pro $20 a user a month; Team $60; Ultra $200	Mac; Linux experimental	Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and any command-line agent
Claude Code Desktop	Only Claude	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max (from $100), Team and Enterprise	Mac, Windows; Linux in beta	Claude Code
The ChatGPT desktop app	Only Codex	Included in every ChatGPT plan, from Free; Plus is $20 a month	Mac, Windows, Linux	Codex

Prices are per month as each maker lists them, before tax. Conductor and the independent apps run your agents on your own Claude, ChatGPT or other plans and API keys, which those companies bill for separately. Claude Code Desktop and the ChatGPT app come with those plans.

Why people look for a Conductor alternative

Conductor is well made and ships often, but three things send people looking, each in Conductor’s own words:

• It’s Mac only. Its installation page says “Conductor is not available for Windows or Linux yet.”
• It runs four agents. “Conductor can run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode sessions in isolated workspaces,” says its harnesses page. Antigravity, Grok Build and Muse Code aren’t on the list.
• The phone and the cloud are on Pro. Its pricing lists “Conductor Cloud and a bunch of cloud workspace hours” and the “Conductor mobile app” under Pro, at $50 a month. Remote control, which drives your Mac’s workspaces from the iOS app, “is experimental,” and “Conductor must be open on your Mac, and your Mac must be awake and online.”

Enjoy

Best for: running every lab’s agent across all your projects, on any computer, without stopping when one plan runs out.

Enjoy runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Mac, Windows and Linux, on the AI plans you already have. Each conversation runs its own agent, and an agent can work in a worktree, a separate copy of your project on its own branch, as it would in Conductor. What it adds:

• Switch agents mid-conversation. When one lab’s agent is the wrong fit or out of usage, another picks up the same conversation.
• Keep going through limits. When an agent runs out of usage, Enjoy switches to another of your accounts that still has usage, or waits for the limit to reset, then continues.
• A superagent over everything. JOY keeps an eye on all your projects: ask it what needs you, catch up on what your agents did, or start work in any project.
• More than code. Projects don’t have to be Git repositories, and workflows can run on a schedule.

Price: Enjoy is free on your computer, with no account. Enjoy Cloud, a monthly subscription, adds your phone and any browser, your other computers and teammates. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy isn’t open source. The phone, other computers and teammates need Enjoy Cloud. Scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open. And it runs six agents, where Orca lists 41.

Orca

Best for: the widest choice of agents, free.

Orca, from Stably AI, is “the agent development environment”: “Run Claude Code, Codex, and any other coding agent in parallel, each in its own worktree.” Its homepage says it’s “Free and open source,” under the MIT license, on macOS, including Intel Macs, Windows and Linux. Its docs list 41 agents “Orca ships with out of the box,” from Claude Code and Codex to Aider, Goose and Kiro.

Its mobile companion for iOS and Android lets you “watch live agent status, check usage, switch accounts.” For agents that keep running when your laptop sleeps, a Remote Orca Server runs on “an old laptop, Mac mini, home server, cloud VPS, or team box,” and your laptop, browser or phone pairs with it.

Watch for: the always-on server is a machine you run yourself. Its ways to run page says “Cloud VMs do not give you an Orca-hosted VPS,” and that option is still “labeled Cloud VM under Settings → Experimental.”

T3 Code

Best for: a free, open-source app that does one thing, running agents side by side.

T3 Code calls itself “the open-source control plane for coding agents.” It’s free and MIT-licensed, and it “works with your subscriptions on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and Google Antigravity.” It installs on Windows, macOS and Linux, has phone apps for iOS and Android, and “every agent thread writes to its own branch.”

Watch for: its README says “We are very very early in this project. Expect bugs.”

Paseo

Best for: running agents on several machines and steering them from your phone.

Paseo’s pitch is “Run many coding agents at once, on any machine.” It’s free and open source under Apache 2.0, with desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, phone apps, and a web app at app.paseo.sh. It has “custom implementations for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, and Muse Code,” and runs more through ACP. Agents can each work “in its own worktree, on one machine or several,” and its hosted relay is end-to-end encrypted: “Paseo can’t read your traffic.”

Watch for: Paseo Hub, its option for teams and triggers, has no price on its homepage.

Paradev, formerly Superset

Best for: teams on Macs who want Conductor’s shape with more agents.

“Superset is now Paradev,” its homepage says. Its pitch is “Run an Army of Coding Agents,” each task in its own Git worktree, and “Paradev works with any CLI-based coding agent, including Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenAI Codex, and more.” An app for iPhone and iPad “lets you check on agents and review their diffs away from your desk.”

Its pricing has a free plan for one user, with local workspaces, the desktop app and its command line. Pro is $20 a user a month, or $16 billed yearly; Team is $60, or $54 yearly; Ultra is $200; and Enterprise is priced on request. Its code is public under the Elastic License 2.0, which it calls “source-available” and “not OSI-approved open source.”

Watch for: “The desktop app runs on macOS, with an experimental Linux AppImage; Windows is not yet available.”

Claude Code Desktop

Best for: people who only use Claude.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app. You can “work on multiple tasks in parallel” in separate sessions, and in a Git project you can “turn on Worktree before you start a session to run it in its own Git worktree.” It runs on Mac and Windows, with Linux in beta, and Anthropic’s pricing says “Claude Code is included in all paid plans”: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max from $100, Team and Enterprise. Cloud sessions keep going after you close the app, and you can follow them in the Claude mobile app.

Watch for: it runs only Claude, and “by default, Worktree is off and Claude works in the project folder itself,” so parallel sessions share one folder unless you turn it on.

The ChatGPT desktop app, for Codex

Best for: people who only use OpenAI.

OpenAI’s desktop app is where Codex runs on your computer: “Run projects in parallel, work with files, use your computer, and keep long-running work moving from one desktop workspace.” It’s for “macOS, Windows, or Linux,” and “ChatGPT Work and Codex are included in your ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu, or Enterprise plan.” Go is $8 a month, Plus $20 and Pro from $100.

Watch for: it runs only Codex, and Free and Go get “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout,” not OpenAI’s top models.

When to stay with Conductor

If you work on a Mac, its four agents cover you, and you like how it reviews and merges each workspace, none of this is a reason to move. Its free plan already runs “multiple coding agents in parallel” with your own subscriptions and keys, and it keeps improving: version 0.90.0 brought Conductor to iOS on October 2, and 0.92.0 added remote control on October 23.

Move when the Mac is the problem, when you want agents it doesn’t run, or when you want your phone without paying for Pro.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, installation and docs pages on October 26, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. This category changes weekly, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.