Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to spymux – Spy on your tmux panes
I had motivation for writing this after I kept switching back and forth between agents to see if they've finished what they were working on (and I couldn't find a similar tool out there). I'd imagine it can be useful for other scenarios as well, e.g. tracking multiple build/test jobs over multiple windows. Still a work in progress, but I thought I'd share :)
Spymux is a tool that monitors tmux panes without requiring manual switching between them. It allows users to track the progress of multiple tasks running in parallel, such as agent processes, build jobs, or test runs… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey, HN! With all recent agentic workflows being primarily terminal- and tmux-based, I wanted to share a little project I created about decade ago. I've continued to use this as my primary terminal "window manager" and wanted to share in case others might find it useful. I would love to hear about other's terminal-based workflows and any other tools you may use with similar functionality.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · cockpit.27ae60.com · its alternatives →
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ClawTab▲76Desktop app to manage 20+ AI coding agents at once
Apr 2026 · clawtab.cc · its alternatives →
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Typed Python API for tmux. Control servers, sessions, windows, and panes as Python objects. Quickstart Install and make your first API call in 5 minutes. Quickstart Topics Architecture, traversal, ...
2016 · libtmux.git-pull.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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Persists tmux environment across system restarts. Contribute to tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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neovim plugin for turning neovim into terminal multiplexer - spywhere/tmux.nvim
2022 · 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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Ditch Burp Suite’s bloat for zxc, a Rust-built, terminal-based proxy that uses tmux and Vim to intercept HTTP/S and WebSocket traffic. It captures requests for debugging, security testing, or tweaking—fast and lean. # Key Features - Disk Wizardry: Stashes massive datasets on disk-100k+ entries without breaking a sweat. - Addons: Boost your workflow with default support for ffuf and sqlmap, or craft your own addons for extra fun. - Buffer Tweaks: Edit variables in a popup (e.g., b:host, b:scheme) in Interceptor/Repeater to twist requests. - Config Control: TOML files for global…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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agent-manager▲102The fastest workflow for developing with AI
Aug 2026 · agent-manager.dev · its alternatives →
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The top-like text-based user interface for Austin. Contribute to P403n1x87/austin-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics - csdvrx/sixel-tmux
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tmux Plugin Manager. Contribute to tmux-plugins/tpm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I was feeling incredibly frustrated with my struggles in context-switching and writing documentation, so I decided to take action and find a solution. I wrote a simple tool for Alfred and Raycast that helps me be more mindful when switching between tasks, which can even prevent some of those switches. Plus, I can jot down quick notes on each task as I go, making it easier to document everything once I’m finished. This tool is really simple with only 5 commands - tsr, tsn, tsl, tsv, tse tsr writes a new record tsn writes a new note tsl shows you the current task tsv builds a static…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:cat2: Render full tmux windows or individual panes as HTML - tweekmonster/tmux2html
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been a tmux user for years. When I started running 5-10 Claude Code sessions in parallel, I tried the tools that are out there: Conductor, cmux, the GUI orchestrators. None of them felt right. They either wanted me to leave tmux entirely for a 100MB+ Electron app with its own editor and Git workflow, or they were thin wrappers that didn't solve the actual problem: I need to parallelize my entire development environment, agents, editors, servers, logs, and keep track of all of it. So I built jmux. It turns tmux into a parallel development environment. Every session, every agent, every…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A native iOS client for remote tmux workspaces, designed to feel natural on iPhone. - h3nock/remux
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Session manager for tmux. Load, freeze, and convert tmux sessions through YAML/JSON configuration files. Powered by libtmux. Quickstart Install and run your first command. Quickstart CLI Reference ...
2017 · tmuxp.git-pull.com · its alternatives →
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tmux.sh▲24A simple script to allow defaulting to grouped sessions - bsandrow/tmux.sh
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, There’s been a lot of interest recently in meta-harnesses, loops, and multi-agent orchestration. Obviously, there are already a lot of good tools: Conductor, cmux, the native Codex / Claude Code apps, etc. For my own use cases, I’ve felt that the orchestration layer tends to feel overengineered. I mostly wanted a simple local harness (i.e Pi) for running and tracking CLI agents with the ability to hop in (via tmux). Relaymux is my opinionated attempt at that. A few design principles: - The frontend is just Telegram / iMessage / CLI. If I want more visibility, I hop…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Session manager and task runner for tmux. Start your development environment within one command. - ivaaaan/smug
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This project (Agents Observe) started as an exploration into building automation harnesses around claude code. I needed a way to see exactly what teams of agents were doing in realtime and to filter and search their output. A few interesting learnings from building and using this: - Claude code hooks are blocking - performance degrades rapidly if you have a lot of plugins that use hooks - Hooks provide a lot more useful info than OTEL data - Claude's jsonl files provide the full picture - Lifecycle management of MCP processes started by plugins is a bit kludgy at best The biggest takeaway is…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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