The best Grok Build GUI in 2026: 8 apps for using it without a terminal

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs Grok Build. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages and code on November 9, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, the terminal included.

Grok Build GUIs compared

Grok Build is SpaceXSI’s coding agent, and it lives in the terminal. Its docs offer three ways to use it: “via an interactive TUI, headlessly in scripts or bots, or through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) in other apps.” SpaceXSI doesn’t make a window for it, and its Build page says “Try it in your terminal.” The third way is how most of the apps below work: run as grok agent stdio, Grok Build takes its instructions from another app, and the docs say “Use ACP when you want IDE or tool integration rather than a terminal session.” So the agent doing the work is the same Grok Build, on your own Grok account. What differs is everything around it.

App	Best for	Price, checked November 9, 2026	Runs on	Agents
Grok App	A free, open-source desktop app built only for Grok Build	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Grok Build
AFK Pilot	Grok Build in VS Code or Cursor, or its own window	Free; remote control free for 100 messages a week, or $5 a month	VS Code, Cursor; a desktop app for Mac, Windows, Linux	Grok Build, Codex, Claude Code, Muse Code; Antigravity and DeepSeek experimental
Zed and JetBrains IDEs	An editor that installs Grok Build for you	Zed free; no JetBrains AI subscription needed	Zed on Mac, Windows, Linux; JetBrains IDEs, not in WSL	Grok Build and the rest of the ACP Registry
Enjoy	Grok Build beside every other lab’s agent, through its weekly limit	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and one computer (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Grok Build, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode
T3 Code	A free, open-source app for several agents, with phone apps	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux; iPhone, Android and web apps	Grok Build, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity, fx
Orca	Grok Build in a fleet of agents, free	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux; iOS and Android companion	41 in its docs, Grok among them, and any command-line agent
Grok UI	A dashboard for every Grok Build session, in your browser	Free	A browser, served by Node.js 22 or later	Grok Build
Cursor	SpaceXSI’s own coding app, on the same plan	Included from Free, with limited usage; Plus $8 a month, Grok models only	Mac, Windows, Linux	Cursor’s own agent, not Grok Build

Prices are as each maker lists them in the US, before tax. Every app but Cursor runs Grok Build itself, on your own Grok account, and SpaceXSI’s pricing sets what each plan reaches: Free lists Grok Build as “Limited,” Plus, at $8 a month, includes “Grok Chat, Voice, Imagine, and Build,” and Premium ($30), Super ($100) and Ultra ($200) have 4, 15 and 50 times Plus’s usage. That usage is “a pool of AI usage shared across Grok and Cursor,” and “Your allowance refreshes weekly.”

Other apps that run several agents list Grok Build too, among them Paseo, through ACP, and HAPI; our coding agent orchestrators guide compares that kind of app.

Which fits how you use Grok Build

• You want a window just for Grok Build. Grok App, or AFK Pilot’s Grok Build Desktop. Grok UI puts the same sessions in a browser tab.
• You live in an editor. AFK Pilot in VS Code or Cursor, or Zed or a JetBrains IDE, which install Grok Build from the ACP Registry.
• You use more than SpaceXSI. Enjoy, T3 Code, Orca and AFK Pilot run other labs’ agents beside Grok Build, so you can turn to Claude Code or Codex when your week runs out. Enjoy and T3 Code can hand the same conversation over.
• You want SpaceXSI’s own app. Cursor comes with every Grok plan, but its agent isn’t Grok Build.

Grok App

Best for: a free, open-source desktop app built only for Grok Build.

Grok App is “an open-source desktop client and workbench for the local Grok Build CLI (grok agent stdio),” per its README. It has “Isolated project workspaces, agent status Kanban, one-click Git Worktree switching, session forking from any assistant reply,” a code editor with “visual Git Diff review,” an “Instant account switcher” with a quota bar, and scheduled tasks. Bridges to Telegram, Discord, Slack and other chat apps let you steer it from your phone. It’s under the MIT license, with more than 1,500 stars on GitHub, downloads for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, Windows and Linux, and version 0.2.50 came out on October 28.

Price: free.

Watch for: “It is not an official xAI product,” and “Full agent capabilities require an installed and signed-in Grok Build CLI.” Its Mac builds are signed and notarized, but on Windows, “For unsigned community packages, Windows SmartScreen may display a warning on initial launch.”

AFK Pilot, in your editor or its own window

Best for: Grok Build beside your code in VS Code or Cursor, or in a desktop window, with your phone as a remote.

AFK Pilot, from The Product Compass, was previously called Grok Build for VS Code. Its extension “runs each vendor’s own agent inside VS Code, Cursor and other VS Code-based editors (VS Code 1.106 or newer),” and its standalone app, Grok Build Desktop (Community), “runs Grok Build, Muse Code, Codex and Claude Code as a free app for Windows, macOS and Linux,” says its site. Both “speak JSON-RPC to grok agent stdio.” Its README lists “diff preview on every proposed edit,” parallel sessions, and messages that queue or steer Grok in the middle of a task, and you can “pair your phone at afkpilot.com once and watch, approve, and steer from your phone or any browser.”

Price: “Both hosts are free and their messages are never limited.” Remote messages, sent from your phone or a browser, are free up to “100 a week on 1 linked device,” and Remote Max, at $5 a month, removes the limit.

Watch for: its license, FSL-1.1-MIT, lets you “use, modify, and redistribute freely for any purpose except offering a competing commercial product or service,” so it isn’t open source in the usual sense. “Windows is not signed yet, so Microsoft Defender SmartScreen may show ‘Windows protected your PC.’” And it’s “not affiliated with or endorsed by SpaceXAI (formerly xAI).”

Grok Build in Zed or a JetBrains IDE

Best for: an editor that installs Grok Build for you, from the ACP Registry.

The ACP Registry, the list of agents that editors install from, includes Grok Build as “xAI’s coding agent and CLI.” In Zed, “The ACP Registry is the primary way to install common External Agents”: run zed: acp registry, install Grok Build, and it “appears in the new-thread menu in the Agent Panel and Threads Sidebar.” Zed runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. JetBrains IDEs read the same registry through AI Assistant: open the chat’s mode selector and choose Install From ACP Registry.

Price: Zed’s Personal plan is “Free forever,” and “Zed does not charge for External Agents,” says its pricing and docs. In JetBrains IDEs, “You can connect and use ACP-compatible agents without a JetBrains AI service subscription.”

Watch for: “External Agents run as separate processes that communicate with Zed over ACP,” which “creates a boundary between Zed configuration and agent-native configuration”: Zed’s own skills “Do not apply,” and its agent profiles don’t either “unless the integration says otherwise.” In JetBrains IDEs, “ACP-compatible agents are not supported in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).”

Enjoy

Best for: Grok Build beside every other lab’s agent, across all your projects, through its weekly limit.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that installs Grok Build for you, “without typing commands in a terminal,” and signs it in to your Grok or X account through your browser. Then it gives every agent “the same message box, so you don’t need to learn each one’s commands.” For Grok Build, that means:

• Its settings, in a menu. Pick an effort level, from Low to Extra high, and one of its three permission modes, Plan, Auto or Always approve, and answer each request on a card.
• Its weekly limit in view. The agent settings show one bar, named Weekly when your limit resets each week, with when it fills back up.
• Several accounts, signed in. Keep more than one Grok or X account signed in and give each project its own. When one runs out, Enjoy moves to another or waits for the reset, then carries on.
• More than Grok Build. Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Muse Code and local models through OpenCode run in the same app, and you can switch agents mid-conversation, so another lab’s agent can pick up when Grok’s week runs out, or review what Grok Build just did.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and one computer; each other computer is $9.99 a month, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy isn’t open source. Grok Build “doesn’t tell Enjoy which account is which,” so its accounts are numbered, such as Account 2. A message you send while Grok Build is working “waits until the current work ends,” where AFK Pilot and Grok App can steer it mid-task. Enjoy imports past Claude Code and Codex conversations, not Grok Build’s. It’s a monthly subscription on top of your Grok plan once the free week ends, and scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open.

T3 Code

Best for: a free, open-source app for Grok Build and other agents, at your desk or from your phone.

T3 Code is an “agent harness control surface,” with phone apps, a web app and a desktop app, per its README. It “Works with your subscriptions on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Google Antigravity, and fx”: for Grok Build, you “install Grok Build CLI and run grok login.” Its FAQ says “We worked directly with SpaceXAI to collaborate on the Grok Build and Cursor integrations,” and that it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, “Desktop app, CLI, the works.” It’s under the MIT license, with more than 53,000 stars on GitHub, and version 0.1.7 came out on November 4.

Price: “Nothing. There’s no way to pay us to use T3 Code.” T3 Connect, which reaches your computer from your phone, “is free too, for now,” for up to three machines.

Watch for: its README says “We are very very early in this project. Expect bugs.” If you keep several Grok accounts, its FAQ says “I don’t think T3 Code is the right place to manage a pile of accounts.”

Orca

Best for: Grok Build in a fleet of agents, each in its own worktree, 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 supported agents include Grok, with “Auto-setup; structured native chat,” and its homepage says “See how much of your Claude, Codex, and Grok limits you’ve used and when they reset, and switch accounts without logging out.” It’s “Free and open source,” under the MIT license, with more than 120,000 stars on GitHub, downloads for Mac, Windows and Linux, and a mobile companion for iOS and Android.

Price: free.

Watch for: “Orca pre-fills each supported CLI’s permission-bypass flag for new launches,” so terminal agents start without asking until you switch them to Manual under Settings → Agents → Agent Permissions. Claude Code and Codex get what its docs call “Deep integration”; Grok’s entry lists setup and chat.

Grok UI

Best for: watching and steering every Grok Build session from your browser.

Grok UI is “An unofficial, local-first dashboard for Grok Build: watch active agents, control sessions over ACP, inspect Git changes, and move through your complete local history without leaving the browser,” per its README. Run npx --yes grok-ui with Node.js 22 or newer and a working Grok Build, and it opens the dashboard. “Permission choices are rendered exactly as Grok provides them—never guessed or auto-approved.” It’s under the MIT license, with about 140 stars on GitHub, and version 0.14.0 came out on October 12.

Price: free.

Watch for: it’s “an independent community project,” and its README says “Packed releases are installed and launched in isolation on macOS and Linux CI,” without mentioning Windows. “Grok Build, ACP, and the fleet protocol can evolve, so compatibility fixes may be needed for future releases.”

Cursor, on the same plan

Best for: SpaceXSI’s own coding app, if what you want is Grok’s models in a window rather than Grok Build itself.

“The X Subscription is one subscription that brings Grok, Cursor, and X together,” says Cursor’s help. Cursor’s pricing lists its own Agent on every plan, on a separate line from Grok Build, and “The Cursor desktop app is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux,” per its downloads. So if you pay for Grok, you already have an editor with an agent built in.

Price: included in every plan: Free, with limited usage, Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100 and Ultra at $200. On Plus, “Only Grok models are available on this plan.”

Watch for: it isn’t Grok Build: Cursor’s pricing lists the two separately. “Grok and Cursor usage draw from the same included pool,” so coding in Cursor spends the same weekly allowance as your Grok chats. And “third-party models in Cursor, like Claude or GPT, aren’t included in your plan,” billed “at API list prices from the first use.”

When to stay in the terminal

Grok Build’s own interface is more than a prompt. Its TUI is “a rich, mouse-interactive, fullscreen experience,” and its Agent Dashboard is “a fullscreen overview of every session: which agents need input, which are working, and which are done,” where you reply to agents, answer their permission prompts and start new ones, each in a Git worktree if you like. Scripting is one thing no GUI here does: “Headless usage is ideal for scripts, automations, or integration into other apps,” with grok -p. If you live in tmux or over SSH, or script Grok Build, stay where you are.

SpaceXSI may make a window of its own. TestingCatalog reported on May 7, 2026 that a Grok Build desktop app was being prepared “for macOS, Linux, and Windows,” but as of November 9, SpaceXSI’s Build page and docs offer only the terminal, headless use and ACP, and its changelog is about the terminal app. Trying a GUI in the meantime costs little: Grok App, AFK Pilot and Grok UI drive the Grok Build you already have installed and signed in, so you can go back and forth.

How we compared

We read SpaceXSI’s Grok Build page, docs, changelog and pricing; Cursor’s pricing and help; the ACP Registry; Zed’s and JetBrains’ pages on ACP agents; each independent maker’s homepage, pricing and docs; and the GitHub repositories of the open-source apps, on November 9, 2026, and every one is linked below. Licenses, star counts and release dates come from GitHub that day. We quote each maker’s own words for its limits, don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented, and didn’t test the independent apps ourselves. These apps change 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.