AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to UI-TARS Desktop
Control your computer using natural language
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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Dia Browser▲629The AI browser where you can chat with your tabs
2025 · diabrowser.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to corbt/agent.exe development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ComputerX▲560Introducing the first-ever desktop AI agent that gets your computer tasks done for you. Like having your own AI operator that seamlessly integrates with every app on your computer!
2025 · computerx.ai · its alternatives →
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C1 by Thesys▲629Make AI apps respond with interactive UI in real-time
2025 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →
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Hermes Desktop▲215An open source terminal agent that builds its own skills
Jun 2026 · hermes-agent.nousresearch.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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Generate no-code agents in natural language
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A modern GUI frontend for libinput-gestures
2018 · gitlab.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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Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Francesco from Cua here. I hacked this project together last weekend, inspired by the Codex Computer-Use release and lessons learned from deploying GUI-operating agents for our customers. The main problem: when a UI automation process controls a desktop app today, it usually takes over the human’s session. Your cursor moves, keyboard focus gets stolen, windows jump to the front, and you have to stop working until the agent is done. That is why we have historically avoided encouraging users to run these processes directly on their host machine, instead relying on VMs or GUI containers…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open Interpreter▲182Control your computer with natural language
2023 · openinterpreter.com · its alternatives →
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GESTOOS▲115Control your computer like a Jedi with simple air gestures.
2019 · 888freespins.org · its alternatives →
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ShioriCode▲119Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code
May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →
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Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM. Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduction. We spent a year building and maintaining browser automations for EHR and payer portal…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tui-use lets agents interact with programs that expect a human at the keyboard — REPLs, debuggers, TUI apps, and anything else bash can't reach. - onesuper/tui-use
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Output▲97Hey HN, After months of building, we're excited to share Output — the first AI agent that can truly control your computer. You can speak or type instructions like: “Fill out this job application using the info in this PDF” “Edit this video in DaVinci Resolve” “Schedule a Zoom call and send the invite” Output understands your intent and directly clicks, types, and navigates apps across your system — without relying on scripts, plugins, or integrations. It's like giving your computer a brain. Works on both Mac and Windows No setup or scripting required Handles real apps like Chrome, Excel,…
2025 · theoutput.co · its alternatives →
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A local command room for AI coding agents.
Jun 2026 · luckeysystems.com · its alternatives →
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This started off as a project to understand how to get LLMs to interface with more traditional desktop softwares. We were especially interested in tools related to schematic drafting and molecular simulation. Decided to explore COM automation for more traditional Windows softwares as a starting point! Been using it to help some friends automate simple excel workflows. Thought we'd share!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We just open-sourced Computer, a Computer-Use Interface (CUI) framework that enables AI agents to interact with isolated macOS and Linux sandboxes, with near-native performance on Apple Silicon. Computer provides a PyAutoGUI-compatible interface that can be plugged into any AI agent system (OpenAI Agents SDK , Langchain, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.). Why Computer? As CUA AI agents become more capable, they need secure environments to operate in. Computer solves this with: • Isolation: Run agents in sandboxes completely separate from your host system. • Reliability: Create reproducible environments…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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