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24 alternatives to Codex Micro

Tactile controls for your Codex agents

Codex Micro is a compact keyboard designed to control Codex agents through physical tactile inputs. Built in collaboration with Work Louder, it features dedicated keys for common agent skills, a rotary dial for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Parallel custom agents for complex tasks

    Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAI's smartest and most intuitive to use model yet

    2021 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Our application security agent

    Mar 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Live Codex task status in your macOS menu bar

    Aug 2026 · agentmicro.cc · its alternatives →

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    A web code editor with AI & multi-language support

    2025 · x-codex.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    CodeX▲124

    Build webapps in minutes for completely free

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Acti▲809

    Agentic keyboard for mobile commands and search

    Jul 2026 · openacti.com · its alternatives →

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    Agents Capable of Self-Editing Their Prompts / Python Code - aymenfurter/microagents

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let Codex navigate and automate tasks in your browser

    May 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    Codex now runs natively on Windows with secure sandbox

    Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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    bb▲200

    The IDE that builds itself

    Aug 2026 · getbb.app · its alternatives →

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    Vellum▲413

    Build AI agents using plain English to do your boring tasks

    Jan 2026 · vellum.ai · its alternatives →

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    The power of Codex with local, self-hosted models and voice

    Jul 2026 · opencodesuper.app · its alternatives →

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    Discuss and understand your code base from within your IDE

    2022 · usecodex.com · its alternatives →

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    Keystroke▲154

    Build powerful AI agents & workflows

    Aug 2026 · keystroke.ai · its alternatives →

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    A keyboard for your Figma shortcuts

    2023 · store.figma.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Give your AI agent physical control over any screen

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vizhi▲68

    Mission control for Codex CLI on a Logitech MX keypad

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    relaydfree tier, from $5/mo▲101

    I kept missing when my Codex agents finished, so I built relayd — a mobile dashboard that sends push notifications and lets me continue agents from my phone. Free tier available. Would love feedback.

    Jan 2026 · relayd.dev · its alternatives →

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    Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Remote control for Codex, handled from your phone

    Mar 2026 · superturtle.dev · its alternatives →

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    Enterprise developer security control plane around evidence

    Jul 2026 · astartis-x-codex-56avwgpnr-astartis.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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