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Alternatives to BlackFlare
BlackFlare: A Mac menu bar app that stops your laptop sleeping while Claude Code or Codex runs and alerts you when a task finishes. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 18 have a free plan.
- Claude God
Mac menu bar app that shows how much of your Claude and Claude Code quota and spend you have used.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- CodeBurn
Tracks token use and spend across AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor, broken down by model, project and pull request.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- CodexIsland
Shows your Claude Code and Codex usage limits and reset countdowns in the MacBook notch, with local cost estimates.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- mcpock
A Mac menu bar app that tests the MCP servers your AI agents rely on and flags ones that are broken, slow or need sign-in.
Free · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Muster
Mac menu bar app that alerts you when a Cursor, Codex or Claude Code session wants input, so you can reply or switch to it.
Since 2026
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Notch So Good
A Mac app that shows Claude Code and Codex sessions in the notch so you can approve commands and reply without the terminal.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Parley
Lets a team's AI coding agents pass work to each other over MCP and pings a person in Slack when stuck.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- AQ
A shared workspace where teams run Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents on tasks, scheduled bots and reviewed pull requests.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- boxes.dev
Gives each AI coding agent its own cloud Linux machine, started from Slack, Linear or an API and managed from any device.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Chatcode
Lets developers reach Claude Code or Codex sessions running on their own server from a browser tab or Telegram.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- CloudCLI
Cloud containers where developers run Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI and pick up sessions from phone, browser or VS Code.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Dorothy
Mac app for developers to run, watch and coordinate several AI coding agents side by side with a task board.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Inquir Compute
Hosting for developers that deploys Dockerfiles or images as apps, workers, cron jobs and databases on a private network.
Since 2024
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Kilo
AI agent that writes code inside VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal or browser, open source, with hundreds of models at no markup.
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Nimbalyst
A desktop workspace and agent-written wiki for people using Claude Code or Codex, keeping tasks, docs and decisions in one place.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Nori
Runs coding agents like Claude Code or Codex in the cloud on your own keys or subscription, started from Slack or the web.
Since 2025
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- SigmaShake
Checks each tool call from AI coding agents against your rules and blocks or rewrites risky ones before they run.
Since 2026
Subscription · Security and passwords · Developers
- Toolport
Desktop app where you set up MCP servers once and every AI coding agent on your machine can use them.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Twill
Lets developers move Claude Code or Codex tasks from their Mac to cloud sandboxes and get pull requests back.
Since 2026
Subscription · Developer tools · Developers
- Velane
Hosts agents, small APIs and internal tools with sandboxes, secrets, environments and many app connections, run from your editor.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- Vinktar
Error tracking and product analytics that works with your current Sentry SDK and lets coding agents read issues to fix them.
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Yokka
A kanban board that shows what each AI coding agent is doing and alerts you when one needs your input.
Since 2026
Free plan · Projects and tasks · Developers
- 0sql
Model your data warehouse in YAML, then send business-term queries and get back one deterministic SQL statement.
Since 2026
Developer tools · Developers
- AgentCash
A single prepaid balance that lets AI coding agents find and pay for third-party APIs per call, with no keys or subscriptions.
Since 2026
Pay as you go · Payments and checkout · Developers