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Alternatives to Vitals
Vitals: Mac activity monitor that shows resource use per app rather than per process, keeps twelve months of data and alerts on problem apps. Here are 24 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 23 have a free plan, 2 sell for a one-off price.
- Desktop Commander
Lets ChatGPT, Claude and other AI chat apps read files and run commands on your own machine or server.
Since 2025
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Opposable
Lets Claude, Codex or other AI agents tap, type and read the screen on your iPhone or Android phone, or on a rented cloud phone.
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- CodexBar
A Mac menu bar app that shows usage limits, credits, costs and reset times for the AI coding tools a developer pays for.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- Notchly
Turns the MacBook notch into a space for music controls and alerts from Codex, Cursor and Claude Code.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Spokenly
A dictation app for Mac, Windows, Linux and iPhone that types your speech into any app, offline or with cloud models.
Free plan · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- The Vibe Hosting
Lets your coding agent spin up a sandboxed Linux box with a public HTTPS address and ship your app there, no account needed.
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Tofu
Puts an app you built with an AI coding agent online at its own link, with a database, sign-in, custom domain and user emails.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Voicely
Offline voice typing, call recording with speaker labels and audio file transcription on a Mac, ready to paste into AI coding tools.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Dyad
Free desktop app that builds web apps from plain descriptions using any AI model, leaving you with code you own.
Since 2025
Free · Website builders · Individuals and families
- HN Companion
A browser extension that summarises Hacker News comment threads and adds keyboard shortcuts for reading them.
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- Nginx Proxy Manager
A Docker app with a web interface for setting up Nginx reverse proxies and auto-renewing SSL certificates.
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Nodea
Chat with Claude on a canvas where any reply can be forked into its own branch and compared side by side.
Since 2026
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- 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
- Runtipi
Tool for running a home server that installs and updates hundreds of self-hosted apps from a dashboard.
Free · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Vessel
A desktop browser that lets AI assistants click, fill forms and browse websites while you watch and step in.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Individuals and families
- Wordmate
Free voice typing for Mac that turns speech into text in any app, using local models so audio stays on your computer.
Since 2026
Free · Focus and productivity · Individuals and families
- 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
- back2vibing
Mac app for developers using several terminal coding assistants: talk to each in one window and return to any running session.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers
- bb
Open source desktop workspace for running several coding agents side by side, extended with plugins and prompts.
Developer tools · Developers
- Castforge
A Windows app that runs several AI coding agents as planner, coders, tester and reviewer on a shared board you control.
Since 2026
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
- Codync
A free app for messaging Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents on your own computer from your phone or desktop.
Free · Developer tools · Developers
- CoIsland
Mac app that pulls builds, deploys, pull requests and errors into one small inbox and hands fixes to a coding agent.
Since 2026
Free plan · Uptime and monitoring · Developers
- Concord
Lets coding agents across a team claim files, message each other and hand off work so they stop clashing.
Since 2026
Free plan · Developer tools · Developers