A Conductor alternative for Windows, Mac and Linux

What Conductor does, fairly stated

Conductor, made by Melty Labs, is one of the tools that made running several coding agents at once feel normal. Its central idea works. Give each agent its own workspace so two of them cannot fight over the same files, then show you all of them together. It runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode agents in those parallel workspaces. Each local workspace gets its own git worktree; a cloud workspace runs in its own sandbox instead.

If that is the shape of your problem, Conductor solves it well, and you should not switch for its own sake. The rest of this page covers the cases where it does not fit, and the questions worth asking of any tool in this category, ours included.

Everything here about Conductor comes from its own site and public pages as of October 2026. Products change, and the competitor's own documentation is always the better source.

Where Conductor stops fitting

The platform

This is the decisive one for most people reading. Conductor is a macOS application, with no Windows build and no Linux build. If your work machine is Windows, or your servers and CI run Linux, the tool is not available to you at all. Running a Mac in a virtual machine to use an agent manager is technically possible and almost never a good trade.

Finding out when an agent needs you

Running ten agents is only useful if you can tell which one is waiting. A view that shows every session the same way makes you read all of them to find the two that need a decision. Look for whether blocked, failed and finished sessions are separated from the ones still working, or whether that triage is left to you.

Using more than one AI provider

Conductor runs four engines as sessions: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode. Its Big Terminal Mode also opens a terminal tab in the centre panel, with presets for other agent CLIs such as Gemini, Amp, Pi and Copilot. That covers a wide range of engines. Whether the one you want is in there is the question worth asking before you commit.

Checking on the fleet from your phone

Agent work runs long, so the question that matters is often whether it finished while you were out. If nothing reaches you away from the machine, you come back to a queue you could have cleared earlier. Conductor's cloud workspaces, on its Pro plan and above, keep running with the app closed, and its mobile app is listed as coming soon. The sessions on your own machine are the harder case, so ask whether a tool reaches those.

How Omniscio answers those four

Omniscio is a desktop app for running many coding-agent sessions at once, and it is the alternative we make, so read this section with that in mind.

1. It runs where you work

Omniscio has native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux. That is the whole reason this page exists. If you are on Windows or Linux, that is the end of the comparison.

2. Sessions can each get their own directory

Turn on worktree isolation per session, per project or for the whole app. Each session then runs on its own git branch and worktree, so two agents editing the same repository cannot overwrite each other's work. When you archive or stop an isolated session, its branch is merged back, and Omniscio creates and cleans up the worktrees for you. It is off by default.

Reviewing what comes back is part of the same job. The diff viewer shows the uncommitted changes with an AI summary before you keep them.

3. You are told, not left to look

Sessions carry statuses, including Running, Needs You, Ready, Error and Stalled, and the ones that need a person float above the ones that do not. Everything lands in a single attention inbox. Plain Speak turns a finished reply into a card you can read at a glance. The app has a phone view over the web as well, so a run that finishes while you are away can reach your phone. It is off by default, and you switch it on in Settings.

4. You choose the engine, per session

There is a provider picker, so a session's harness can be Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Devin, Pi or Hermes, one session each, side by side. The model providers behind them are in the same list: Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Cursor and more. Every one is there from day one; switch on the ones you use in Settings and add the key or sign-in. That makes it practical to plan on a frontier model and grind through the mechanical work on a cheaper one, in the same app, with the same inbox.

Two more things worth knowing. An agent that was running when the app crashed resumes on the next launch, and a daily spend cap on each pay-as-you-go API-key account stops a runaway bill.