Warp alternatives in 2026: 7 terminals and agent apps to use instead

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on November 6, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, Warp included.

Warp alternatives compared

Warp started as a terminal. Its docs now call it “an open-source Agentic Development Environment”: a terminal, its own Warp Agent, cloud agents, and Warp Factories, which “Run fleets of coding agents across your SDLC.” The alternatives fall into two groups: terminals that leave the AI to the agents you run in them, and apps built around the agents themselves. Here they are side by side.

App	Best for	Price, checked November 6, 2026	Runs on	AI
Warp	Its own agent, and 16 command-line agents, in one terminal	Free; Build $20 a month; Max $200; Business $50 a user	Mac, Windows, Linux	The Warp Agent, and 16 command-line agents it recognizes
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent as conversations, across all your projects	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and other computers (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode
Ghostty	A fast, free terminal on a Mac or Linux	Free	Mac, Linux	Any command-line agent you run in it
Windows Terminal	A free terminal on Windows	Free	Windows	Any command-line agent you run in it
Wave	AI built into a free, open-source terminal	Free; Wave AI in beta with included credits	Mac, Windows, Linux	Wave AI, your own keys or local models, and any command-line agent
Orca	The most agents, free and open source	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	41 in its docs, and any command-line agent
Claude Code Desktop	Only Claude, with a terminal beside it	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max ($100) and Ultra ($200)	Mac, Windows; Linux in beta	Claude Code
The ChatGPT desktop app	Only Codex, with a terminal beside it	Included in every ChatGPT plan, from Free	Mac, Windows; Linux in preview	Codex

Prices are per month as each maker lists them. Command-line agents such as Claude Code and Codex sign in to your own Claude, ChatGPT or other accounts wherever you run them, and those companies bill for them separately. Claude Code Desktop and the ChatGPT app come with those plans.

Why people look for a Warp alternative

Warp is well made, and free to start. Four things send people looking, mostly in Warp’s own words:

• The October breach. On October 23, Warp found what its CEO, Zach Lloyd, called “an active and narrow-banded exploitation of a vendor in Warp’s infrastructure.” Agent traces and telemetry were identified as potentially affected, and Lloyd estimates that “roughly 1% of Warp users may have been impacted,” BleepingComputer reported. Warp hasn’t said whether that included source code, prompts or credentials, and it notified the users it identified. Our memo has it beside October’s other breaches.
• Its AI is metered. Build includes “$20 of agent usage included each month at API rates,” and “The cost of an action depends on the model, the size of the task, the context and codebase involved, and whether the agent runs locally or in the cloud,” says its pricing FAQ. The comparison table on the same page still lists Max’s included usage as “$240 (18,000 credits),” against $200 on its plan card.
• The Free plan’s AI needs telemetry. “Telemetry must be enabled to use AI features on the Free plan, while paid plans can opt out at any time and continue using Warp, including AI,” says its privacy page.
• Claude Code and Codex are panes, not threads. Warp supports other labs’ agents well, but they “run inside a terminal pane,” and “Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and other third-party CLI agents do not appear” in its Conversation Panel, its docs say.

Enjoy

Best for: running Claude Code, Codex and other labs’ agents as conversations instead of terminal panes, across all your projects.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, each on its own lab’s plan. It installs them for you, “without typing commands in a terminal,” and a conversation can work in a worktree, a separate copy of your project on its own branch. What it adds:

• Bring your history. If you ran Claude Code or Codex in Warp, “those conversations are saved on your computer,” and Enjoy can find the ones that belong to a project and add them to its conversation list.
• Switch agents mid-conversation. When one agent is stuck or out of usage, hand the task to another: “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.”
• 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.
• Your work stays on your computer. “Your project files, conversations, docs, and workflows stay on your computer,” and your phone and other devices reach them over a connection that’s encrypted end to end.

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 your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy isn’t a terminal. It can run the shell commands an agent writes, but “Commands can’t ask you anything while they run,” so keep a terminal for your own work. It doesn’t run Warp’s agent, and it runs six agents where Warp recognizes 16. Your phone and other computers connect to the computer that runs the work, which needs to be on, online, and running Enjoy, and scheduled workflows run only while it’s awake with Enjoy open. Enjoy isn’t open source, and it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends.

Ghostty

Best for: a fast, free terminal on a Mac or Linux, to run Claude Code, Codex or any other agent in.

Ghostty “is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.” It’s free and open source under the MIT license, from Mitchell Hashimoto, who calls it “a passion project,” and version 1.4.0 is on its download page. It has native tabs and splits, and a drop-down terminal on macOS. You run your agents in it, on their own plans, as you would in any terminal.

Watch for: there’s no Windows version. “Ghostty is a native application for macOS and Linux,” its about page says.

Windows Terminal

Best for: a free terminal on Windows, with WSL a tab away.

Microsoft’s Windows Terminal is free and open source under the MIT license, and installs from the Microsoft Store. It opens PowerShell by default, and it “will automatically create profiles for you if you have WSL distributions or multiple versions of PowerShell installed,” so an agent you run in Ubuntu is a tab away.

Watch for: “If you install from GitHub, Windows Terminal doesn’t automatically update with new versions,” its installation page says.

Wave

Best for: AI built into a free, open-source terminal, the closest thing here to Warp’s terminal.

Wave “is an open-source terminal that combines traditional terminal features with graphical capabilities like file previews, web browsing, and AI assistance. It runs on MacOS, Linux, and Windows.” It’s under the Apache 2.0 license. Wave AI, a panel beside your terminals, can “read terminal output, capture widget screenshots, access files/directories (with approval),” and you can point it at local models through Ollama or LM Studio, or at your own OpenAI, OpenRouter or Google AI key. By default, “Messages are proxied through the Wave Cloud AI service (powered by OpenAI’s APIs).” Claude Code and Codex run in its terminals like anywhere else.

Watch for: “Wave AI is in active beta with included AI credits while we refine the experience,” its docs say, without saying how many. Its latest release, 0.14.5, came out on April 16, 2026.

Orca

Best for: the widest choice of agents in one free app, with terminals, diffs and a browser beside them.

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. Chat or terminal, on your laptop or in the cloud, with diffs, a browser, and a CLI in one app.” Its homepage says it’s “Free and open source,” under the MIT license, with desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux and a companion app for iOS and Android. Its docs list 41 agents that “ship preconfigured in the built-in agent picker,” and it runs any other command-line agent too.

Watch for: it skips your agents’ permission prompts unless you change it. “Orca pre-fills each supported CLI’s permission-bypass flag for new launches,” such as --dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude, because “worktrees are disposable,” its docs say. Switch launches to Manual under Settings → Agents → Agent Permissions.

Claude Code Desktop

Best for: people who only use Claude, and want a terminal beside it.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app, with panes for “chat, diff, browser, terminal, file, plan, tasks, and subagent.” Its integrated terminal “opens in your session’s working directory and shares the same environment as Claude,” and you can “work on multiple tasks in parallel” in separate sessions. It runs on Mac and Windows, with Linux in beta, and “Claude Code is included in all paid plans,” says Anthropic’s pricing: Pro is $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max $100 and Ultra $200.

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.” And “Each chat in the ChatGPT desktop app includes a terminal scoped to its current project or worktree.” It’s for macOS and Windows, with Linux “available in preview,” and Codex’s pricing puts it on every ChatGPT plan from Free.

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 Warp

If you like Warp’s terminal, it’s still a strong pick. It’s open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and recognizes 16 command-line agents, Claude Code and Codex among them, adding “a rich input editor, agent notifications, inline code review, Remote Control, and more,” though “Not every feature is available for every agent.” Its own agent takes models from several labs, and individuals and organizations of up to 10 people can bring their own inference: an OpenAI, Anthropic or Google API key, a SuperGrok subscription, or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

If the breach is why you’re leaving, two things are worth knowing first. Paid plans can turn telemetry off, and “With telemetry disabled, no console interactions are ever persisted on Warp’s servers.” And Remote Control, for steering an agent from your phone, works by publishing the session: “Warp uploads the session state to the cloud,” so leave it off if that’s what worries you.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, download and docs pages on November 6, 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. We found no incident report on Warp’s own site, so the breach comes from BleepingComputer’s report of Lloyd’s statement. 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.