Omniscio

OmniscioComparePaseo alternative

Paseo alternatives for Mac, Windows and Linux

Paseo is not short of platforms. It ships a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, an iPhone app on the App Store, an Android build and a web client, and it is free under Apache-2.0. So the platform is rarely the reason someone searches for a Paseo alternative. The reasons sit elsewhere: it is one person's project with no company behind it, and the only paid plan its own pages name is Paseo Hub, its hosted service, at $15 per seat per month, with no support contract to sign; its desktop app bundles a daemon and reaching it from outside your network runs through a relay or a tunnel of your own; and the git isolation that other tools build in is a setting you switch on per launch. This page sets out what Paseo does today, who tends to look past it, and six alternatives with the trade-offs of each, ours included.

  • Claude CodeNeeds You
  • CodexRunning
  • Gemini CLIRunning
  • CursorError

Last checked October 2026. By the Omniscio team. Updated .

What does Paseo do today?

Paseo calls itself the agentic development environment, and its own headline is "Run many coding agents at once, on any machine. From your desk and from your phone." You install a desktop app and point it at a project. The most recent release is v0.13.2, published on October 26, 2026, and it carries an Apple silicon and an Intel Mac build, a Windows installer for both architectures, an AppImage, a .deb and an .rpm for Linux, and an Android package.

It runs the agent command lines you already have installed, with your own credentials. Paseo's own FAQ says it runs the providers installed on your machine as you would normally run them. Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity and Muse Code have implementations of their own, and more arrive over ACP. Agents keep their own subscriptions and configuration, so nothing about your Claude or Codex setup changes.

Two things about its shape are worth knowing before you commit, because they are the things people react to. The desktop app bundles a daemon, and Paseo's FAQ says the app can also run headless on a machine with any client connecting to it. And reaching that daemon from outside your own network goes through one of three doors: Paseo's hosted relay, which it says is end-to-end encrypted and that Paseo cannot read your traffic; a tunnel you run yourself, such as Tailscale or a Cloudflare tunnel; or the daemon port exposed directly.

On git, Paseo is deliberately permissive. Its FAQ answers "Do I need git or GitHub?" with a no, saying that worktrees are optional and only relevant if you use git. When you do launch an agent with the worktree option, Paseo creates a git worktree and runs that agent inside it, on its own branch, away from your working directory. The isolation is there. It is a choice you make at launch rather than the shape of the tool.

There is more: plugins that add panels, sidebar items, slash commands and themes; automation through an MCP server, a command line and a TypeScript SDK; sharing access with a team and starting work from GitHub, Slack or Discord; and voice input that runs on your device unless you configure a cloud speech provider. Paseo also states plainly who makes it. Its own page says it is maintained by one person, full time, with no investors and no company behind it, self-funded through sponsorship and Paseo Hub.

Everything here about Paseo comes from its own site and its public repository, read on October 27, 2026. Products change, and the vendor's own documentation is always the better source.

Who looks for a Paseo alternative, and why?

Five reasons come up, and the first one is about the company rather than the code.

  • There is no company to buy from. Paseo's own page says it is maintained by one person, full time, that there are no investors and no company behind it, and that funding has been turned down on purpose to keep the tool neutral. That independence is a real virtue and also the first thing a team notices: the only paid plan its own pages name is Paseo Hub, its hosted service, at $15 per seat per month, and they carry no support contract, no data processing agreement and no security attestation to hand to whoever signs off on tooling.
  • The daemon and the relay. The desktop app bundles a daemon, and remote access runs through a hosted relay, your own tunnel or an exposed port. All three are reasonable, and all three are a conversation with an IT department. A plain desktop app that opens a window and runs agents as ordinary processes on the machine has less to explain.
  • Isolation is an option, not the design. Paseo works in any directory and treats a worktree as something you ask for at launch. If two agents on the same project is the whole reason you want a tool, a product whose default is one worktree per agent removes a step and a class of mistake.
  • You want the machine someone else runs. Paseo's agents run on a machine you control: your laptop, or a headless daemon on a server you reach through the relay or a tunnel of your own. If you would rather not run the machine at all, that is a different product: CloudCLI's containers, or Conductor's paid cloud workspaces.
  • The phone is not the point for you. Paseo's mobile client is one of its best features, and its own page says the mobile app has full feature parity with desktop. If you work at a desk and will never open it from a phone, you are paying attention to a strength you will not use, and other tools put that weight elsewhere.

One reason that is not on the list: Paseo being weak. It is not. It is free, open source under Apache-2.0, genuinely cross-platform, unusually open about how it works, and its own page says the native phone app has full feature parity with desktop rather than a cut-down view. The comparison table carries it on the same row as everything else.

Which Paseo alternatives are worth your time?

Everything below was read on each project's own site, repository or release list on the date in the table's note, never on a review site. Where a rival is documented as strong, it says so. We did not install them, and the last section says what that means.

ToolRuns onHow it keeps sessions apartWhat it costs
OmniscioWindows, macOS and LinuxA git worktree and branch per session when you switch isolation on, per session, per project or for the whole app. It is off by default.Free to use, with Pro at $20/month or $192/year. No AI allowance is included, so the provider bills the model calls.
BatonmacOS, Windows and LinuxEvery workspace runs in an isolated git worktree, and each agent runs its own command line with the login it already has.Free for unlimited agents in up to four simultaneous workspaces; $19 a month, $79 a year or $99 once while early-access licenses last to lift that limit.
ConductormacOS only. Its own installation page says Windows and Linux are not available yet.A git worktree and a branch per workspace, and Conductor calls that development isolation rather than a security boundary. Its paid cloud workspaces run in a managed sandbox instead.Free at $0, Pro at $50 a month, Teams at $60 per user a month, Enterprise at a custom price.
SupersetmacOS, plus an experimental Linux build. No Windows app.Not covered on the pages we read. Check Superset's own documentation.Free for one user on local workspaces. Pro is $20 a user a month, or $16 a user a month billed yearly.
TermicmacOS first, with Linux and an experimental Windows build in every release.A real git worktree per task, plus a per-task sandbox: a macOS Seatbelt cage and a network allowlist.Free and open source, AGPL-3.0. It runs on the subscription you already pay for.
CloudCLI, formerly Claude Code UIAny browser or phone, self-hosted or hostedThe agents run inside a cloud container, which is the isolation. It is a remote development environment rather than a local worktree manager.The AGPL-3.0 interface is free to self-host. Hosted plans start at €7 a month.

Three more that come up under this query and are not in the table. Claude Squad is the terminal one, AGPL-3.0 and free, and it carries the caveat its own issue tracker documents: the Windows build cannot start a session, and the report is still open. Vibe Kanban still ships for all three systems, but its maker shut down in April 2026 and the project continues community maintained. And Anthropic's own agent view, opened in Claude Code with claude agents, lists background sessions with a state, a group and a model-written summary, runs Claude only, and needs an interactive terminal. The Claude Code desktop page covers it in full.

Every figure in that table is the vendor's own wording. Paseo was read on paseo.sh, paseo.sh/hub and its release list, and Baton on getbaton.dev, both on October 27, 2026. Conductor, Superset, Termic and CloudCLI were read on their own pages on October 22, 2026. Platform support moves faster than anything else here, so check the download page before you commit.

Which one fits your case?

  • Your team needs something to sign. Conductor holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation and lists SAML SSO and SCIM on Enterprise, and Superset lists a SOC 2 Type II report on its top plan. That is the shortest path from "we like this" to "we are allowed to use it".
  • Isolation should be the default. Baton, Termic and Conductor all put every workspace or task in its own git worktree as the ordinary way to work. Omniscio does the same once you switch isolation on, and it is off by default.
  • You want it free and open source. Termic and Claude Squad run locally under AGPL-3.0, CloudCLI's AGPL-3.0 interface is free to self-host, and Termic and Claude Squad are the two the table lists. Baton is free for up to four simultaneous workspaces, and its site names no open-source licence, so check before you rely on that.
  • You would rather not run the machine at all. CloudCLI is built around a cloud container. Conductor's paid plans run a workspace in a managed sandbox that keeps going after you close the app. Omniscio runs agents on your own machine or on a server of yours over SSH.
  • You want a window, not a service. Baton and Termic are desktop apps in the ordinary sense, and Omniscio is a desktop app whose sessions are real processes on your computer. Nothing to reach from outside unless you ask for it.

How does Omniscio compare with Paseo?

Omniscio is the alternative we make, so read this section with that in mind. It is a desktop app for running many coding-agent sessions at once, built around one list of sessions whichever engine runs them.

QuestionPaseoOmniscio
What does it cost, and is there anything to buy?Free and open source under Apache-2.0. The only paid plan its pages name is Paseo Hub, its hosted service: Free at $0, Pro at $15 per seat per month. Its pages name no support contract.Free to use, with Pro at $20/month or $192/year, and no AI allowance on either plan.
Does it need a background service or a relay?The desktop app bundles a daemon, and remote access runs through a hosted relay, a tunnel you run, or an exposed port.A desktop app, with sessions as processes on your machine. A phone view over the web exists, off by default and reached through your own Tailscale network. Reaching a server of your own over SSH is supported.
Is each session isolated by default?Worktrees are optional and only relevant if you use git. With the worktree option, an agent gets a git worktree and an isolated branch.Worktree isolation per session, per project or for the whole app, each session on its own branch. Off by default.
What happens when an agent stops for you?Not covered on the pages we read. Check Paseo's own site.Statuses including Running, Needs You, Ready, Error and Stalled. Ones waiting on you go to the top of the list and into a single attention inbox, and errored or stalled ones collect in an Interrupted section.
Can you choose the engine?Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, OMP, Antigravity and Muse Code have implementations of their own, with more over ACP, and Paseo runs the providers you have installed.Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Devin, Pi and Hermes, plus Cursor, with Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM and MiniMax among the engines behind them. Switch on the ones you use in Settings.
Is there a phone app?Yes, and Paseo's own page says the mobile client is native with full feature parity with desktop, alongside a web client.A phone view over the web, off by default and switched on in Settings, reached through your own Tailscale network.

What Paseo does that we do not

Paseo ships several things with no Omniscio equivalent today, and they are the honest reasons to stay. It is free and open source under Apache-2.0, so you can read it and fork it. Its desktop app and its mobile client are one product, with the native app carrying full parity rather than a cut-down view. Paseo's MCP server, its command line and its TypeScript SDK mean another agent or a script can drive Paseo itself. Its plugin system adds panels, sidebar items, slash commands and themes without a fork. And its hosted relay makes a machine on your home network reachable from anywhere without you running a tunnel. Omniscio's nearest answer is the local API, more than 2,500 routes any script can call, and a diff viewer. That is not the same as shipping an MCP server and an SDK, and we would rather say so.

What Omniscio adds

  • One place that says what needs you. Needs You sessions sort to the top and into one Inbox, and Plain Speak turns a finished reply into a card you can read at a glance.
  • Isolation with a merge path. Turn on a worktree per session, per project or for the whole app. A finished session's work comes back with Retry Merge, or on its own when the automatic merge is on, and the diff viewer shows the uncommitted changes with an AI summary before you keep them.
  • Any engine, per session. A provider picker means one session can be Claude Code while the next is Codex, in the same window and the same inbox. Planning on a frontier model and grinding the mechanical work out on a cheaper one becomes an ordinary choice.
  • Guards on the spend. A hard cap per session stops a runaway on metered model keys, and an agent that was running when the app crashed resumes on the next launch.
  • No GitHub requirement. A project is a folder on disk or a clone, and the app does not need GitHub sign-in to start a session.
  • Nothing between you and your machine. Sessions run as processes on your computer, and a server of your own over SSH if you have one. There is no relay in the path.

What changes if you switch from Paseo?

A move is less disruptive than it looks, because the underlying agents do not change. Claude Code is still Claude Code, and Codex is still Codex. What changes is the window you drive them from, and what you give up along with it.

  • You lose the phone client. Paseo's native mobile app is a real feature and Omniscio's answer is a browser view you switch on in Settings. If working from a phone is how you work, weigh that first.
  • You lose the plugin system and the SDK. If you have built on Paseo's plugins, MCP server or TypeScript SDK, moving means rebuilding that on a local API instead.
  • Your code stays where it is. Repositories do not move. You sign in to each provider once in Settings, and the rest of your setup carries over.
  • Start with one real project, not an import of everything. Launch a couple of sessions on work you already have and watch how the inbox behaves on a real task before you move the rest.
  • Keep Paseo if it fits. It is free, open source and good at what it does. A working setup is worth more than a marginally better one.

How we checked this

Every claim about another tool was read on that tool's own site, documentation, repository or release list, and the date beside each one in the sources below is the day we read it. Paseo and Baton were read on October 27, 2026. Conductor, Superset, Termic, Vibe Kanban and CloudCLI were read on October 22, 2026, and Claude Squad on October 16, 2026.

We did not install any of these apps. Nothing on this page describes a rival's window, menu or keystroke we saw, and every statement about one rests on that project's own words. Where a number would be easy to get wrong we quote their wording rather than paraphrase it.

The figures this page states about Omniscio come from the app itself: the features page and the pricing page.

Sources

  • Paseo: paseo.sh for the headline, the Apache-2.0 licence and "Paseo is free and open source", the agents it runs, the daemon and the relay options, the worktree FAQ and the note that the project is maintained by one person with no investors and is "self-funded through sponsorship and Paseo Hub"; paseo.sh/hub for the only paid plan, Hub Pro at $15 per seat per month alongside a Free tier at $0; and its releases for the macOS, Windows, Linux and Android builds in v0.13.2 of October 26, 2026. Read October 27, 2026.
  • Baton: getbaton.dev for the headline, the three platforms, the agents and presets, the worktree per workspace, the free tier of four simultaneous workspaces, the prices of $19 a month, $79 a year or $99 once while early-access licenses last, and its Remote Control feature still listed as coming soon. Read October 27, 2026.
  • Conductor: its own site and its pricing page for the plans, the cloud workspaces, SOC 2 Type II and SAML SSO and SCIM. Read October 22, 2026.
  • Superset: superset.sh for the plans, the macOS and experimental Linux builds, the SOC 2 Type II report and the mobile app. Read October 22, 2026.
  • Termic: its documentation for the platforms and the experimental Windows build, the per-task worktree and sandbox, and AGPL-3.0. Read October 22, 2026.
  • CloudCLI, formerly Claude Code UI: cloudcli.ai for the cloud container, the AGPL-3.0 interface and the hosted plans. Read October 22, 2026.
  • Vibe Kanban: its site, including the notice that it is sunsetting and continuing as open source, community maintained, and bloop's shutdown notice of April 10, 2026. Read October 22, 2026.
  • Claude Squad: its README and issue #275, whose report that the Windows binary cannot start a session was still open when we read it. Read October 16, 2026.
  • Claude Code's agent view: Anthropic's documentation for the screen, the states, the groups and the research-preview label, and the CLI reference for claude agents. Read October 22, 2026.
  • Omniscio: the features page, the pricing page and the download page. Read October 23, 2026.

Common questions

What is the best Paseo alternative?

It depends on what made you look. If you want a company and a support contract behind the tool, Conductor and Superset sell one. If you want each agent in its own git worktree as the ordinary way to work, Baton, Conductor and Termic do that out of the box, and Omniscio does it once you switch isolation on. If you would rather not run the machine at all, CloudCLI's containers and Conductor's paid cloud workspaces go that way. Paseo itself is a good tool and free under Apache-2.0, so if its shape suits you there is no reason to leave.

Is there a free Paseo alternative?

Yes. Termic is AGPL-3.0 and free, and Claude Squad is AGPL-3.0 and free. Baton is free for unlimited agents in up to four simultaneous workspaces. Omniscio is free to use, with Pro at $20/month or $192/year, and no AI allowance is included on either plan. Paseo is the one that is free and open source with a phone app as well, so check what you would be giving up before you move.

Does Paseo need a git repository?

No. Paseo's own FAQ says it works in any directory and that worktrees are optional and only relevant if you use git. If you want isolation as the default rather than an option, that is a reason to look at the tools on this page that build a worktree per agent.

Why would someone leave Paseo if it is free?

Support, procurement and shape, usually. Paseo is maintained by one person with no company and no investors. The only paid plan its own pages name is Paseo Hub, its hosted service, at $15 per seat per month, and they name no support contract and no security attestation to hand a team. Its desktop app bundles a daemon, and reaching it from outside your network goes through a relay or a tunnel of your own. Neither is a fault. Both are things a team has to decide it is comfortable with.

Can I keep using Claude Code if I switch?

Yes. Every tool on this page runs the agent command lines you already have, with your own sign-in or key. Claude Code stays Claude Code and Codex stays Codex. What changes is the window you drive them from.

Try it against your own work

A feature list will not tell you whether running eight sessions at once suits how you work. Ten minutes on a real repository will.

Download Omniscio See the features