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24 alternatives to FLYBOX

Explore a fruit-fly connectome inside a living sandbox

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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Fly.exe – An EON systems like virtual fruit fly uploaded to computer▲23
Runs the complete released Drosophila male CNS connectome (165,122 neurons, 25.5M edges) inside a physical fly body, in closed loop, on one GPU. - Ibtisam-Mohammad/Fly.exe
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Proto-Mindfree▲60
A floating AI workspace for your Mac
Sep 2026 · virencore.com · its alternatives →
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Desert Ant Labs▲134
Small specialized AI models for speech, text, vision
Sep 2026 · desertant.com · its alternatives →
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EyeWire▲57
A crowdsourced game to map the 3D structure of the brain
2015 · eyewire.org · its alternatives →
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EyeWire▲59
A crowdsourced game to map the 3D structure of the brain
2015 · eyewire.org · its alternatives →
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Sourclip 2.0▲99
The research workspace built around Gemini Notebook
Aug 2026 · sourclip.com · its alternatives →
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OpenScience▲75
The open-source AI workbench for scientific research
25d ago · openscience.sh · its alternatives →
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Flux▲70
Design and generate iOS transitions
2014 · nthstate.com · its alternatives →
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Avocado▲69
A new toolbox for interaction designers
2014 · ideo.com · its alternatives →
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Blinkist - 1: Is That Even a Thing?▲68
A digest of four books about brains
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode▲20
It is a fork of https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly, but with an important update. Now the fly can pick up the scent of the codebase with its neurons and fly straight to the source code of your B2B AI SaaS startup. It has learned to scan its surroundings for agent markers: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, .kiro/steering, and forty others. Anything on the screen that points to these markers becomes a source of the scent - an editor window with an open project, a line in Finder, or a desktop icon. An open project reeks the strongest, while a closed…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Infinite Sugar – a fruit fly emulation given a pleasant life▲10
A fruit fly simulation receiving continuous sugar stimulation.
Sep 2026 · infinitesugar.cnqso.com · its alternatives →
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A Living Neural Web in HTML5 Canvas▲7
Jun 2026 · techoreon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Golgi: Google Maps for the brain and connectome▲6
2014 · usegolgi.com · its alternatives →
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MindBound Labs▲19
Accelerating ASI through the power of communities
2024 · its alternatives →
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Patterns – Subliminal Messages with ControlNet▲8
2023 · krea.ai · its alternatives →
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livinfarms▲12
A desktop-friendly hive of edible insects
2015 · livinfarms.com · its alternatives →
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MediSim – A 3D simulation of emergent Behavior in little civilizations▲8
2016 · stewart-taylor.github.io · its alternatives →
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FlyElephant V1▲10
The Home of High Performance Computing
2016 · its alternatives →
20MA
Modus, a Datalog dialect for building Docker/OCI container images▲9
2022 · modus-continens.com · its alternatives →
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Fly▲6
A generator & coroutine-based task runner.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VineRoulette - Vine Search and Full Screen Visualization▲7
2013 · vineroulette.com · its alternatives →
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Aspara▲7
The smart indoor garden
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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The Web Synthetizer from Space▲8
2017 · synthfrom.space · its alternatives →

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