AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Smux – Terminal Multiplexer built for AI agents
A simple macOS terminal with split tabs and notifications for AI coding agents - gergomiklos/smux
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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Author here. RMUX started from a frustration: I've used tmux for years and got tired of scraping output with grep and sleeps to automate anything. So I rebuilt the multiplexer from scratch in Rust, with a programmable layer on top. Two surfaces: a tmux-compatible CLI (~90 commands, your keybindings just work), and a typed async Rust SDK on the same daemon — stable pane IDs, structured snapshots, locator-style waits. The idea is Playwright-style automation, but for terminals. Native on Linux, macOS, Windows (real ConPTY, no WSL). Demos and docs at rmux.io. Happy to answer questions about the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Superset▲541Hey HN, we’re Avi, Kiet, and Satya. We’re building Superset, an open-source terminal made for managing a bunch of coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc) in parallel. - Superset makes it easy to spin up git worktrees and automatically setup your environment - Agents and terminal tabs are isolated to worktrees, preventing conflicts - Built-in hooks [0] to notify when your coding agents are done/needs attention, - A diff viewer to review the changes and make PRs quickly We’re three engineers who’ve built and maintained large codebases, and kept wanting to work on as many features in…
Feb 2026 · superset.sh · its alternatives →
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Grovefree tier, from $5/mo▲101One terminal for you and your AI agent
Sep 2026 · grove.publishstudio.one · its alternatives →
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Spin up secure sandboxes in ~100 ms
Nov 2025 · hopx.ai · its alternatives →
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I run a lot of Claude Code and Codex sessions in parallel. I was using Ghostty with a bunch of split panes, and relying on native macOS notifications to know when an agent needed me. But Claude Code's notification body is always just "Claude is waiting for your input" with no context, and with enough tabs open, I couldn't even read the titles anymore. I tried a few coding orchestrators but most of them were Electron/Tauri apps and the performance bugged me. I also just prefer the terminal since GUI orchestrators lock you into their workflow. So I built cmux as a native macOS app in…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MiniMax CLI▲145Give your AI agents native multimodal capabilities
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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APX Terminal▲99Encrypted terminal and SSH client with built‑in AI assistant
Jan 2026 · apxterminal.com · its alternatives →
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1DevTool▲94Multi-project IDE with persistent terminals and 9 dev tools
Mar 2026 · 1devtool.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Small OSS project that i created for myself and want to share with the community. It's a declarative, scriptable, terminal-based IDE focussed on agentic engineering. That's a lot of jargon, but essentially its a multi-agent IDE that you start in your terminal. Why is that relevant? Thanks to tmux and SSH, it means that you have a really simple and efficient way to create your own always-on coding setup. Boot into your IDE through ssh, give a prompt to claude and close off your machine. In tmux-ide claude will keep working. The tool is intentionally really lightweight, because I think…
Mar 2026 · tmux.thijsverreck.com · its alternatives →
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HN, I'm stoked to share this product I've been working on non-stop for the past few weeks. It's an immersive GUI experience for working with many coding agents in parallel. The UX should be familiar to Claude Code users, but we took advantage of the GUI nature to add in a bunch more. cmux is early but certainly usable—almost all of our internal cmux development rolls through cmux itself. Please let me know your thoughts and feedback!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal multiplexer inspired by i3. Contribute to aaronjanse/3mux development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clide ▲93Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.
Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →
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Open-source control plane for AI coding agents. Run an AI engineering team: parallel Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini workers with a shared board, atomic tasks, schedules, loops, origin-stamped messaging, model switching, and self-healing recovery. One dashboard, or your phone. MIT, single Rust binary
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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⚡ Ultra-fast terminal AI coding agent & vibe-coding assistant built for Android (Termux), Windows, macOS & Linux. Features dual Plan/Agent modes, multimodal vision, live web server, diagnostics & rollback. - apvcode/Termux-Dev
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Farol▲65The macOS terminal that shows which coding agent needs you
13d ago · farol.sh · its alternatives →
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One terminal. Every agent. Total clarity.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PrettyMux▲73I built PrettyMux as a native Linux terminal workspace for multitask workflows and keeping track of my agents. It’s a GTK4 app built on Ghostty/libghostty, with split panes, workspaces, vertical tabs, notifications, project-aware tabs (shows favicons/logo automatically), and an in-app browser so terminals and docs/tools can live side by side. I started it because I wanted something tmux-like for modern GUI workflows on Linux, but native and not Electron, there is cmux but only available on macos (prettymux compiles on windows and macos too but not tested for now there) It’s…
Apr 2026 · prettymux.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Ethan. I built amux because I was spending more time switching between terminal tabs than actually building things. amux is an open-source agent multiplexer that lets you run, monitor, and control multiple headless Claude Code sessions from a single dashboard — in your browser, on your phone, or from the terminal. The problem: I run 5-10 Claude Code agents at a time across different repos. Keeping track of which one is waiting for input, which one is working, and which one broke something was chaos. I needed a control tower. What it does: - Spin up any number of Claude Code…
Jul 2026 · amux.io · its alternatives →
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Open-source desktop shell for agentic coding
Jun 2026 · aios.adleticagency.com · its alternatives →
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Multiplayer for AI agents. Open a room, share an invite code, ship together — each of you with your own Claude, Codex, or Gemini. Free and open source.
Apr 2026 · syncvibe.online · its alternatives →
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Run Claude Code, Codex & Gemini in parallel on Windows & macOS — git worktree fan-out with atomic hunk adoption, approval gates, reboot-surviving sessions - openwong2kim/wmux
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We're the engineering team at Peakflo (B2B fintech). We built 20x internally because we kept copy-pasting Linear tickets into Claude, manually setting up branches, and babysitting agent output across terminals. Eventually we just built the infrastructure to connect task systems to agents directly — and decided to open source it. 20x is an open-source desktop app (macOS only — Linux and Windows on the roadmap) that orchestrates AI coding agents against your existing task systems. In practice: a Linear ticket gets pulled in → the triage agent assigns Claude Code + relevant skills → a…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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