AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MoltShell
Home for your CLI Agents, managed from your phone
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 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier.
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Moshi▲38I built an iOS app to interact with coding agents from my phone. Most remote solutions I've seen require installing a server or relay on your machine. Moshi is just an app — SSH/Mosh into your Mac/PC/Sandbox and you're done. The use case isn't really "I need to get back to my computer." It's more like: - I'm curious how the agent is doing on that refactor - I want Claude Code to research something for me (it knows my codebase, unlike a fresh chatbot) - I have an idea and want to tell the agent before I forget I just type what I want — or speak it. Whisper transcribes locally,…
Jan 2026 · getmoshi.app · its alternatives →
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Epho▲156Hey folks, Burak here. Epho is an API that allows running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode in a sandbox in the cloud. It abstracts away sandboxes, and allows running coding agents with a single HTTP request. Epho came out of our own struggles with building our own AI analyst: - Sandboxes give you bare machines; you need to configure them for agentic workloads. - Each agent behaves differently, and you need to build integrations with each of them. - Sandbox providers are not very reliable, which means you need to figure out a multi-provider strategy to avoid failures. - Logging, artifacts,…
Aug 2026 · epho.io · its alternatives →
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Replicas▲239Hey HN! I'm Connor, creator of Replicas. I'm a heavy Codex/Claude Code user, and I wanted to hand off tasks to agents like I would to an engineer - kick something off before work, let it scaffold while I'm at lunch, even come back to a ready PR. The problem: existing alternatives use workspace VMs that are black boxes. I have no access to any of them - they can't run tests, read logs, or use tools like the Playwright MCP (which I use to verify agents actually fixed what they claim to fix). Replicas gives agents real cloud workspaces where they can: - Run your test suite and read the…
Jun 2026 · replicas.dev · its alternatives →
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Aether▲26Since coding agents like Claude Code and Codex came out, I've been pretty obsessed with them. It's hard not to when you're getting a 20x discount on inference. I've also been frustrated by them a lot. I hated walking around with my laptop lid open while connected to a hotspot on my phone, having to tediously accept commands so I don't lose my root directory, and running out of RAM when running multiple agents that were spinning up dev servers in different worktrees at once. A lot of people would say existing cloud agents are the solution to this, as none of the above problems apply to any…
Jul 2026 · runaether.dev · its alternatives →
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agents-cli▲145The CLI your coding agent uses to ship agents
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cosyra▲203Cosyra is a mobile coding terminal for iPhone and Android. Run Claude Code or Codex CLI on phone from a cloud Ubuntu terminal without managing your own VPS.
Apr 2026 · cosyra.com · its alternatives →
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Vibe Pocket▲135Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile
Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →
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Moltcraft▲100Visualize your AI agents work in a pixel world
Feb 2026 · moltcraft.xyz · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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A native macOS terminal app for AI coding tools. Run Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex, Aider, and more in a tabbed, persistent terminal.
Mar 2026 · moltty.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN. I'm Fabien, principal engineer, 25 years shipping production systems (Ruby, Swift, now Rust). I built Moltis because I wanted an AI assistant I could run myself, trust end to end, and make extensible in the Rust way using traits and the type system. It shares some ideas with OpenClaw (same memory approach, Pi-inspired self-extension) but is Rust-native from the ground up. The agent can create its own skills at runtime. Moltis is one Rust binary, 150k lines, ~60MB, web UI included. No Node, no Python, no runtime deps. Multi-provider LLM routing (OpenAI, local GGUF/MLX, Hugging…
Feb 2026 · moltis.org · its alternatives →
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CodeMote▲144Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent. Driven from your iPhone
Jul 2026 · codemote.caste.work · its alternatives →
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LinkShell▲74Control your AI terminal sessions from your phone.
Apr 2026 · liutianjie.github.io · its alternatives →
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Clink lets you use the coding agents you already pay for (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Z.ai GLM) to build → live-preview → ship apps in an isolated container. No token purchases, no extra cost for coding. Just link your existing Claude/OpenAI/Gemini account and start building and deploying instantly. Why we built this: Claude Code is our go-to for coding, but it lacked preview + deploy capabilities. We didn't want to pay Lovable again just for that. Different agents excel at different tasks - Claude Code for versatility, Codex for complex work, GLM for speed. We needed one…
2025 · clink.new · its alternatives →
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AI powered cli coding agent that monitors your dev/test server and fixes errors and adds features - vysakh0/dravid
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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13,000+ MCP servers, skills & plugins for AI coding agents
Jul 2026 · codexmarketplaces.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I’m Nathan: an ML Engineer at Mozilla.ai: I built agent-of-empires (aoe): a CLI application to help you manage all of your running Claude Code/Opencode sessions and know when they are waiting for you. - Written in rust and relies on tmux for security and reliability - Monitors state of cli sessions to tell you when an agent is running vs idle vs waiting for your input - Manage sessions by naming them, grouping them, configuring profiles for various settings I'm passionate about getting self-hosted open-weight LLMs to be valid options to compete with proprietary closed models. One…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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agentbrowse▲89Give your AI coding agent the web as a command line
Jun 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode on mobile and write code from your phone. Shellular gives you secure remote access to your dev machine: a real agent UI, terminal, files, Git, ports, and browser DevTools, all from your phone.
Jul 2026 · shellular.dev · its alternatives →
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PaperPodfree tier, from $0.0001/mo▲85Hi HN, I’ve been working on PaperPod, an experiment in making compute native to AI agents. PaperPod is a sandbox runtime where coding agents like Claude Code can autonomously execute code, write files, run background processes, expose ports (preview URLs) etc. and pay per ms of usage via the agent native x402 payment protocol. No API keys or complex setup needed. This is early (alpha), but fully usable today with free compute included, no wallets needed, just use your email as X-User-Id in the request! A sample prompt to get started: To use PaperPod compute: 1. Get session: POST…
Mar 2026 · paperpod.dev · its alternatives →
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