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Octuo and five Mac tools for running Claude Code and Codex: an honest comparison

6분 분량작성: The Octuo team

If you use Claude Code or Codex every day, you know the sprawl: a terminal per repo, a login per plan, and no single place that tells you which session is waiting on you. A wave of small Mac apps has grown up to tidy exactly that, and most of them are free and open source.

People ask us how Octuo fits next to them. The short version: these are focused tools for running coding agents. Octuo is a personal assistant on your Mac that hands work to coding agents as one step of a bigger job, alongside your browser, your screen, scheduled routines and small apps it builds for you. That is why we sometimes call it a personal operating system.

Everything we say below about the other projects comes from their own README or website, read on 6 October 2026. Where a project's documentation is silent, we write "not documented" rather than guess.

What these tools do well

agent-manager (marinsokol5/agent-manager). In its own words, "a macOS app for juggling multiple Claude Code and Codex accounts on the same machine." Each account runs in its own isolated config home but shares your settings and session history, so you can pick a session back up under another account. Per-account usage sits in the menu bar or in am usage, and a scheduler can open each account's usage window at a time you choose. It is local only, with no backend and no analytics, and it "never relays or stores a token". MIT licence, macOS 14 or later. Several projects share this name; this is the one built for Claude Code and Codex accounts on a Mac.

AgTower (harflabs/AgTower, agtower.ai). "A triage queue, not a launcher." It discovers Claude Code and Codex sessions started anywhere, including Terminal and tmux, with no setup, and lifts the ones that need you to the top. You get a Kanban board, live terminals, 25+ keyboard shortcuts, sessions saved to SQLite across restarts, and notifications when an agent finishes or needs input. No telemetry, MIT licence, macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon. Worth knowing: the GitHub repository was archived (read-only) on 22 July 2026.

Claudete (claudete.co). A control panel for a whole fleet: Claude Code, Codex, Grok and OpenCode sessions tiled in one window with real shells beside them, one prompt broadcast to every instance, a shared chat room with @mentions, live 5-hour and 7-day usage meters, a file editor, per-instance CPU and memory, and provider status alerts. It runs on the CLI logins you already have, with no API keys. Every feature is free for up to 3 instances; Pro is a one-time $39 that removes the cap. macOS 13 or later (Apple Silicon and Intel), plus a Linux server edition you drive from a browser. We could not find a public source repository, so we don't describe it as open source.

Claudexor (razzant/claudexor, claudexor.ai). "A local-first control plane for the AI coding agents you already pay for." It runs Codex CLI, Claude Code, Cursor CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI and raw API adapters behind one interface. Write turns land as inspectable patches, best-of-N races add cross-family review, and named credential profiles sit side by side with live quota tracking where the vendor exposes it. It also offers Remote SSH plus MCP and ACP integrations, collects no telemetry, and leaves native logins with the vendor ("Claudexor never sees or copies vendor tokens"). MIT licence; a signed and notarized macOS app, with the CLI and daemon also running on Linux.

OpenClawdex (alekseyrozh/openclawdex). A "lightweight desktop UI for orchestrating Claude Code and OpenAI Codex coding agents through their CLIs, with a native Mac feel." It uses your existing claude and codex logins, runs as many parallel threads as you want, groups them by project, keeps history across restarts, and shows inline cards for tool and plan approvals, with a permission mode per thread. MIT licence, distributed as a macOS .dmg.

Side by side

agent-manager AgTower Claudete Claudexor OpenClawdex Octuo
Price / licence Free, MIT Free, MIT (repo archived) Free up to 3 instances; Pro $39 once; source not published Free, MIT Free, MIT Paid, credit-based
Platforms macOS 14+ macOS 13+, Apple Silicon macOS 13+; Linux server edition via browser macOS app; CLI and daemon on Linux macOS macOS
Coding agents supported Claude Code, Codex Claude Code, Codex Claude Code, Codex, Grok, OpenCode Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity, raw APIs Claude Code, Codex Coding agents installed on your computer, such as Claude Code and Codex
Multiple accounts Yes, the core feature Not documented Not documented Yes, named credential profiles Not documented Runs the Claude Code and Codex CLIs signed in on your Mac, under your own accounts and each service's terms
Non-coding work (browser, files, schedules) Scheduled usage-window pings only Not documented Built-in shells and a project file editor Web context in ask mode; opt-in Browser MCP Not documented Browser control, screen perception, scheduled routines
Long-running tasks that report back Not documented Alerts when an agent finishes or needs input Updates as jobs finish Daemon runs and repair loops Not documented Keeps going after the chat closes; reports back when done
Memory Shared session history Session metadata saved locally Not documented Persistent threads with shared context Persistent thread history Account-level memory you can view and manage
Credentials handling Reads what the official CLIs write; never relays or stores tokens Uses your signed-in CLIs; data stays local Uses your CLI logins; no API keys Logins stay vendor-owned; API keys in a local secret store Uses your CLI logins; no API keys Encrypted Secrets Vault; the language model never sees raw credentials
Mini-apps / Canvas Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented Not documented Builds interactive apps on a Canvas it can also see and operate

When to choose which

Pick one of these tools if you only want to juggle coding-agent sessions. If your work starts and ends in a repo, and you'd rather pay nothing for the manager itself, one of them is the better fit. We'd tell a friend the same:

  • Several Claude Code or Codex accounts on one Mac, with usage at a glance: agent-manager.
  • A dozen sessions and you need to know which one is waiting on you: AgTower (check its archived status first) or Claudete's grid and feed.
  • A clean chat window over Claude Code and Codex: OpenClawdex.
  • Auditable patches, best-of-N races, many harnesses, Linux or SSH hosts: Claudexor.
  • Strictly local: agent-manager, AgTower and Claudexor describe local-only or local-first operation. Octuo needs an internet connection and uses cloud-hosted models for most calls.

Pick Octuo when coding is one step of a larger job. Say you want pages read through in your browser, a fix handed to the Claude Code CLI already signed in on your Mac, a scheduled routine that runs a check later, and, when you come back, a summary plus a small tracker app on the Canvas. That is the shape of work Octuo is built for. It carries the context each task needs, tracks progress, gathers results, and keeps going after the chat closes.

Memory lives where you can see and manage it. Credentials stay in the encrypted Secrets Vault. Cost is previewed before and reported after every turn. Claude Code and Codex run under your own accounts and each service's terms, and those subscriptions are billed separately from your Octuo usage.

You can also use both. Nothing stops you from keeping one of these managers for day-to-day sessions and bringing Octuo in for the work around them.

Where Octuo stands today

Octuo is available now for macOS, as a signed and notarized download. It is paid and credit-based, and it is moving fast: every release widens what it can reach. If the larger-job column looks like your week, take a look at Octuo.

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