The best Muse Code GUI in 2026: 7 apps for using it without a terminal

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs Muse Code. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages and code on November 12, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, the terminal included.

Muse Code GUIs compared

Muse Code is “Meta’s coding agent for the terminal and CI, built for Muse Spark,” say its docs. Run muse and it “opens a terminal UI for a back-and-forth session”; run muse exec and it “runs one prompt to completion for scripts and CI.” There’s a third way, for other programs: “you can drive a Muse Code session from your own program over a stable, versioned session protocol,” with an MIT-licensed SDK. Meta’s product page is headed “Muse Code in your CLI” and lists no desktop app or editor extension. So the apps below drive the same Muse Code, on your own Meta account. What differs is everything around it.

App	Best for	Price, checked November 12, 2026	Runs on	Agents
Helicon	A free, open-source app built only for Muse Code	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux (x86_64); a browser; VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity	Muse Code
AFK Pilot	Muse Code in VS Code or Cursor, or its own window, with your phone as a remote	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, Muse Code, Codex, Claude Code, Antigravity, DeepSeek
Zed or JetBrains, through muse-acp	The editor you already use	Free; Zed free; no JetBrains AI subscription needed	Zed on Mac, Windows, Linux; JetBrains IDEs, not in WSL	Muse Code beside the editor’s other agents
Enjoy	Muse Code beside every other lab’s agent	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and one computer (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Muse Code, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, OpenCode
T3 Code	A free, open-source app for several agents, with phone apps	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux; iPhone, Android and web apps	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Antigravity, Pi, Muse Code
Paseo	Muse Code on any machine, steered from your phone	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux; iPhone, Android and web apps	Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, Muse Code, and ACP agents
Orca	Muse Code in a fleet of agents, free	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux; iOS and Android companion	41 in its docs, Muse Code among them, and any command-line agent

Prices are as each maker lists them in the US, before tax. Every app here runs Muse Code on your own plan or Meta API key, and Meta says a subscription “works only through the Muse Code CLI while signed in with your Meta Model API account.” Its subscription guide lists four plans: Everyday at $5 a month, to “Send 10-50 prompts every 5 hours”; High at $15, with “5x more usage”; Power at $50, with 20 times and Muse Wonder Full; and Maximum at $200, with 80 times. It lists no free plan, and “Muse Code subscriptions default to Contributor mode,” which lets Meta “use your content to train future Meta models” until you turn it off.

Other apps that run several agents may list Muse Code too; our coding agent orchestrators guide compares that kind of app.

Which fits how you use Muse Code

• You want a window just for Muse Code. Helicon, or AFK Pilot’s Grok Build Desktop. Helicon’s interface also runs in a browser.
• You live in an editor. Helicon’s or AFK Pilot’s extension in VS Code or Cursor, or muse-acp in Zed or a JetBrains IDE.
• You use more than Meta. Enjoy, T3 Code, Paseo, Orca and AFK Pilot run other labs’ agents beside Muse Code, so Claude Code or Codex can take over when your Muse Code limit runs out. Enjoy and T3 Code can hand the same conversation over.
• You want it on your phone. Paseo, T3 Code and Orca have phone apps, AFK Pilot pairs your phone’s browser, and Enjoy includes phone and web apps.

Helicon

Best for: a free, open-source app built only for Muse Code, as a desktop app, in a browser or in VS Code.

Helicon is “A free, MIT-licensed desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) and VS Code extension for Meta’s Muse Code CLI,” per its README, “in the spirit of the Claude Code desktop app and the Codex / ChatGPT desktop app.” Its sidebar has “all projects grouped by working directory, each with its tasks and sessions - resume anything, including sessions started from the muse terminal TUI.” Threads show their diffs, with “A file viewer beside the thread,” approvals are “surfaced honestly,” and “Your real plan meter” shows “the 5-hour window and weekly cap as Muse Code reports them.” On Windows it “runs Muse Code for Windows natively (no WSL), or Muse inside WSL2 with path translation.” The same interface runs in a browser against a Helicon server on a machine you choose, and its extension installs from the VS Code Marketplace, or from Open VSX in Cursor, Windsurf and Antigravity.

It talks to Muse Code through “the official @muse-code/sdk (MIT)”: “No TUI scraping.” It has more than 100 stars on GitHub, and version 0.23.1 came out on October 29.

Price: free. “Helicon uses the login you already have and never stores credentials of its own.”

Watch for: it’s “Unofficial, not affiliated with Meta.” On Windows, “It is not code signed yet, so SmartScreen may show ‘Windows protected your PC’,” and on a Mac, “The builds are not Apple-notarized yet,” so macOS asks you to approve its first launch. The Linux build is an x86_64 AppImage. And there’s no phone app yet: “mobile relay to steer running sessions from a phone” is still unchecked on its roadmap.

AFK Pilot, in your editor or its own window

Best for: Muse Code 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, is built around Grok Build, “the default and the one everything is tuned against,” and runs Muse Code too. 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” on Windows, macOS and Linux, says its site. “Muse Code speaks Meta’s own protocol instead, and reaches the same UI through a small adapter this extension ships,” its README says, and if Muse Code isn’t installed, the extension and the app “offer Install Muse Code, with a confirmation before Meta’s installer runs in a visible terminal.” You can “pair your phone at afkpilot.com once and watch, approve, and steer from your phone or any browser.”

Price: the extension and the app are free, with unlimited messages at your desk. Remote messages, from your phone or a browser, are free up to 100 a week on one linked device, and Remote Max, at $5 a month, removes the limit.

Watch for: Muse Code gets less than Grok Build here: “Steering, compaction, history deletion and host-managed connectors are unavailable for it,” so a message you send while it works waits for the next turn. “On Windows, Muse’s shell sandbox is unavailable, so every mode runs without it,” and “A new AFK Pilot install starts Muse in Allow all,” its mode with no prompts. 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. And “Windows is not signed yet, so Microsoft Defender SmartScreen may show ‘Windows protected your PC.’”

Muse Code in Zed or a JetBrains IDE

Best for: Muse Code in an editor that speaks the Agent Client Protocol, through a free community bridge.

Editors such as Zed and JetBrains IDEs install agents from the ACP Registry, and Muse Code isn’t in it: it speaks Meta’s own protocol rather than ACP. muse-acp, from Brokk, bridges the two: “Use your existing Muse Code subscription in Zed, JetBrains IDEs, and any other ACP client.” It “talks to Muse over its native Muse Session Protocol (MSP), so your subscription keeps Muse’s own session engine, tools, authentication, and approval flow.” With Muse Code installed and signed in, run npm install -g @brokkai/muse-acp, then muse-acp install for Zed or muse-acp install-intellij for JetBrains IDEs. Zed then lists it as a custom agent, its way to “run an agent that is not in the registry”; in a JetBrains IDE, “open AI Chat and select muse-acp.” It’s under Apache 2.0, and version 0.21.0 came out on November 4.

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

Watch for: muse-acp “is an independent community project,” “not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Meta,” with about 24 stars on GitHub. Mind the name when you install it: “The unscoped muse-acp package on npm is a different, unrelated project.” And in JetBrains IDEs, “ACP-compatible agents are not supported in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).”

Enjoy

Best for: Muse Code beside every other lab’s agent, across all your projects, through its limits.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that installs Muse Code for you, “without typing commands in a terminal,” and signs it in to your Meta 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 Muse Code, that means:

• Its settings, in a menu. Pick a model, an effort level from Minimal to Ultra, and one of its four permission profiles: Auto-review, Ask me, Read only or Unrestricted. Its approval cards offer Muse Code’s own choices, such as Allow once or Reject, ask about a command with several parts one stage at a time, and say Muse’s reviewer asked you to decide. when its reviewer passes a request to you.
• Steering while it works. A message you send mid-task reaches it then: “Claude Code, Codex, and Muse Code can take a sent message in during their current work,” says Enjoy’s guide.
• Its skills and limits in view. Type / to run one of its skills, and the agent settings show its 5 hours and Weekly limits, with when each resets.
• More than Muse Code. Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity and local models through OpenCode run in the same app, and you can switch agents mid-conversation: “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.” When Muse Code runs out, Enjoy waits for the reset and carries on, or another lab’s agent can pick up now.

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. Muse Code “uses one account in every project,” where Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build can keep several signed in, and Enjoy shows its limits only “once Muse Code has replied to a message in the project.” Enjoy imports past Claude Code and Codex conversations, not Muse Code’s, where Helicon lists sessions you started in the terminal. Contributor mode stays on in Enjoy until you turn it off in Muse Code’s settings. Waiting for a reset needs “Your computer must be on, with Enjoy open, when the usage resets,” and scheduled workflows also run only while it’s awake with Enjoy open. And it’s a monthly subscription on top of your Muse Code plan once the free week ends.

T3 Code

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

T3 Code’s FAQ says “Bring your own: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Google Antigravity, Pi, or Muse Code.” It has a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, phone apps for iOS and Android, and a web app, per its README. Its Muse Code guide says “Muse Code is disabled by default”: install it on your computer, run muse login, then turn it on in Settings → Providers. Muse Code gets two modes there, “Supervised asks before commands and edits, and Full access runs them without asking,” and “Switching providers can pass conversation context as a handoff.” It’s under the MIT license, with more than 57,000 stars on GitHub, and version 0.1.9 came out on November 11.

Price: “Nothing. There’s no way to pay us to use T3 Code.”

Watch for: for Muse Code, “in-app installation and sign-in are not available,” “Muse skills do not appear in the composer’s $ menu,” and “Conversation rewind is unavailable.” Its README says “We are very very early in this project. Expect bugs.”

Paseo

Best for: Muse Code on any machine, steered from your phone.

Paseo’s Muse Code page says “Run Meta’s Muse Code on your machine, drive it from your phone or desktop. Choose models, review tool calls, and answer approvals from anywhere.” It has “custom implementations for Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity, and Muse Code, and supports many more via ACP.” Its downloads cover Mac, Windows and Linux, iPhone and Android, and a web app at app.paseo.sh, and to reach your computer from elsewhere “you can use the optional end-to-end encrypted relay, connect directly over your local network, or use your own tunnel.” “Paseo is Apache 2.0,” with about 23,900 stars on GitHub.

Price: “Yes. Paseo is free and open source.”

Watch for: its Muse Code setup says “Paseo launches Muse with the sandbox disabled (--disable-sandbox) and workspace trust on (--trust-workspace),” and “With sandbox disabled, Muse allows full network access.” That page lists limits it found with Muse 1.4.1, among them “Paseo MCP tools are unavailable.”

Orca

Best for: Muse Code in a fleet of agents, each in its own worktree, free.

Orca, from Stably AI, is “the agent IDE”: “Run Claude Code, Codex, and any other coding agent in parallel, each in its own worktree,” says its homepage. Its supported agents page lists 41 “Orca ships with out of the box,” and gives Muse Code “Deep integration: hooks, status, usage, session history.” It’s “Free and open source,” under the MIT license, with more than 122,000 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 agents start without asking until you choose Manual under Settings → Agents → Agent Permissions. And its docs disagree about Windows: the same page in Orca’s GitHub repository lists Muse for “macOS/Linux,” so try it before you count on it on a PC.

When to stay in the terminal

Muse Code’s own interface does more than take prompts. While a turn runs, “Enter (steer): submit text to inject into the turn in progress,” and “Alt+Enter (queue)” holds it for the next one. /side opens “a short parallel conversation without a change to the main thread,” /fork branches a session, and “/rewind or press Esc twice” goes back to an earlier message, per its guide. Session messaging sends “a bounded piece of context from one live Muse Code session to another,” on macOS and Linux. And muse exec scripts it, which no app here replaces. If you live in tmux or over SSH, or script Muse Code, stay where you are.

The terminal has gaps, too. “To keep independent sessions active at the same time, start Muse Code in separate terminals,” and on Windows, “Voice input is unavailable” and “Session messaging is unavailable,” say its docs. Trying a GUI costs little: Helicon, AFK Pilot, muse-acp, T3 Code, Paseo and Orca drive the Muse Code you already have installed and signed in, and Helicon picks up the sessions you started in the terminal, so you can go back and forth.

How we compared

We read Meta’s Muse Code page, docs, subscription guide and changelog; the ACP Registry; Zed’s and JetBrains’ pages on ACP agents and Zed’s pricing; each independent maker’s homepage, pricing and docs; and the GitHub repositories of the open-source apps, on November 12, 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.