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A Superset alternative for Windows, Mac and Linux

Superset is a desktop workspace for running coding agents in parallel, and it does that job well. It is also macOS-first: as of October 2026 its Linux build is labelled experimental and Windows is not available at all. This page is for anyone whose work machine is a PC, and for anyone deciding between the two.

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Last checked October 2026.

What Superset does, fairly stated

Superset, made by a team in San Francisco, is a local-first desktop app for orchestrating command-line coding agents. Its central idea holds up. Give each task its own git worktree and its own branch, put a real terminal beside it, then show every task in one place. Superset is careful about what that isolation does and does not buy: its own words are that worktrees separate working files, but do not sandbox processes or prevent merge conflicts.

The breadth is real. Superset lists 22 CLI agents it can launch, among them Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Cursor Agent, Grok Build, Kimi Code, Devin and Amp, and it works with any CLI agent because each one runs in a terminal. That terminal is the centre of the app, backed by a background daemon, so running processes and scrollback survive a restart or an update.

Around it comes a Changes pane that commits, pushes and opens pull requests, a pull request pane with CI checks, review threads and merge, a file editor, and an in-app browser whose Design Mode sends a clicked element to an agent. Agents publish Pages that teammates comment on, one agent can coordinate others through the Superset CLI or the hosted MCP server, and there is a TypeScript SDK with an OpenAPI description behind it. Superset has also completed a SOC 2 Type II audit, and its source is public under the Elastic License 2.0, which is source-available rather than OSI-approved open source. The company says so itself, and that kind of plain talk is worth crediting.

None of that is a reason to leave. If Superset fits how you work, keep it. The rest of this page covers the cases where it does not, and the questions worth asking of any tool in this category, ours included.

Everything here about Superset comes from its own site, its documentation and its public repository as of October 2026, and it is quoted rather than paraphrased wherever the wording matters. Products change, and the competitor's own documentation is always the better source.

Where Superset stops fitting

The platform

This is the decisive one for most people reading. Superset's own documentation names macOS on Apple Silicon or Intel as the supported target, calls the Linux x64 AppImage that ships with each release "experimental and untested", and says Windows is "planned with no date". Release 1.36.0, published on 6 October 2026, carries .dmg, .zip, .AppImage and .deb files and no .exe. If your work machine is a PC, there is nothing to install. Running a Mac in a virtual machine to get at an agent manager is possible, and almost nobody should.

The plan gates

Free covers one user with local workspaces, the desktop app and the CLI. Remote access to your other machines, scheduled automations, the iPhone app, and the Linear and Slack integrations are all Pro, at $20 per user per month or $15 billed yearly. If the schedule and the phone were what brought you here, that difference shows up on the invoice rather than in the feature list.

Finding out which agent needs you

Running twenty agents is only useful if you can tell which one is waiting. Superset's answer is an activity strip on each workspace in the sidebar, a flag on workspaces that need attention, and a dock badge on macOS for unread activity. That is status, and it is well done. A triage queue built from what needs a person, ordered so the blocked ones are first, is a different object, and it is worth knowing which of the two you are buying.

Where Superset is further ahead

A comparison that lists only our own advantages is not worth the read, so here is the other column.

Its agent list is longer. Superset documents 22 named CLI agents, and several of them, including Amp, Copilot, Droid, Kiro, Mistral Vibe and Polygraph, are not engines Omniscio offers.
Worktrees are the default there. Superset gives every task its own worktree and branch with no setting to find. Omniscio's worktree isolation is off by default and you turn it on per session, per project or app-wide.
A terminal that outlives the window. Superset is terminal-first and says so, with a daemon behind it so a long run keeps going and its scrollback is still there after an update.
The in-app browser and Design Mode. Click an element in a previewed page and send it, with a note, to an agent that receives the element, its styles and a cropped screenshot. Omniscio's equivalent browser is still in development.
Pull requests without leaving the app. Superset's pull request pane lists every CI check with its status and offers squash, merge commit or rebase. Omniscio's PR panel is off by default and shaped around triage rather than merge buttons.
Pages, with comments that become updates. An agent publishes a self-contained report as a Page, teammates pin comments on it, and an agent picks the feedback up again.
A hosted MCP server and a published SDK. Superset exposes a Model Context Protocol server so another agent can drive it, plus a TypeScript SDK and an OpenAPI description. Omniscio has no hosted MCP server, and its control plane is a local HTTP API instead.
A native iPhone app. Superset's App Store app needs iOS 26 or later and a Pro plan, and it reaches agents running on a machine you left at home. Native iPad support and push notifications are still to come there, and Android is not out yet.
Public source and an audit. The code is public under the Elastic License 2.0, and Superset has completed a SOC 2 Type II audit with an independent auditor. For some teams, either one settles the question on its own.
Comparison depth. Superset publishes 92 pages of its own under /compare, all of them listed on its own hub, as of October 2026. Whatever you are weighing, there is probably already a page on it.

How Omniscio approaches the same job

Omniscio is a desktop app for running many coding-agent sessions at once, and it is the one we make, so read this half with that in mind. It is a different shape from Superset. Where Superset puts a terminal beside every agent, Omniscio is built around the session list: what is running, what is waiting on you, and what has just finished.

It runs on the machine you already have

Omniscio ships separate Windows (.exe), macOS (.dmg) and Linux (.AppImage) builds. That is the whole reason this page exists. On Windows the comparison ends there, because Superset has nothing to install on a PC today.

A session list rather than a terminal grid

Every session carries one of 11 color-coded statuses, and the ones that need a person float above the ones that do not. One attention inbox collects them. Plain Speak rewrites a finished reply into a card you can read at a glance, so clearing a queue of finished agents takes seconds rather than a read-through.

Worktree isolation, when you ask for it

Turn it on per session, per project or for the whole app, and each session runs on its own branch and worktree, merged back when you archive it. It is off by default. The diff viewer shows the uncommitted changes with an AI summary, and you can accept or discard them a hunk at a time, then commit and push without opening a terminal.

A picker that holds models, not only harnesses

Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi and Hermes sit in the same picker as model providers such as DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen and Meta. Every one appears there out of the box; switch on the ones you use in Settings and add the key or the 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.

Spend you can see, and work that outlives a crash

A daily spend cap on each pay-as-you-go API-key account stops a runaway bill, and per-session cost and context sit beside the session itself. An agent that was mid-turn when the app crashed resumes on the next launch. Scheduled jobs run on a cron with run history and a watchdog, and a job that keeps failing can spawn a session loaded with the failure so it can be diagnosed rather than re-run.

The phone, and other machines

The app mirrors itself to a phone browser, which is off by default and you switch on in Settings. It is an installable web app, so it works on an Android phone today as well as an iPhone, and push notifications carry a content-free privacy mode. Sessions can also be launched on your own servers over SSH, so a job that runs for hours does not have to sit on the laptop you are carrying.

What it costs

Omniscio is free to use during early access, with Pro at $20/month or $192/year, and model calls are billed by whichever provider you point a session at. The pricing page sets out both plans.

Five questions to ask before you switch

Does it install on the machine you actually use? Open the download page and look for a file you can run. Everything else is moot if there is not one.
Are worktrees on by default, or a switch to find? Neither answer is wrong. Knowing which one you are buying saves you a week of wondering why two agents are editing the same file.
What happens when an agent stops for you? Let one block on a question and walk away. If you find out by coming back and reading, the tool has not solved the problem you bought it for.
Do you want a terminal, or a list? Superset is built for people who want a real shell beside every agent. Omniscio is built for people who want to see which session is waiting and answer it.
What does the plan actually include? Check the phone, the schedule and the remote hosts before you commit, because those are the three lines that move between a free tier and a paid one.

Common questions

Does Superset run on Windows?

No, not yet. Superset's own documentation says macOS for Apple Silicon and Intel is the supported target, that its Linux AppImage is experimental and untested, and that Windows is planned with no date. Check their site for the current state, because platform support is exactly the kind of thing that changes.

What should I use on Windows instead?

Omniscio, which is ours. It ships separate Windows, macOS and Linux builds, covers the same ground, and is free during early access. Several agents run at once, each optionally in its own git worktree, with one attention inbox on top.

Is Superset free?

There is a free tier for one user with local workspaces, the desktop app and the CLI. Remote access to your other machines, automations, the iPhone app, and the Linear and Slack integrations need Pro, which is $20 per user per month, or $15 per user per month billed yearly. Those figures are Superset's published prices as of October 2026.

Can I run DeepSeek, GLM or Kimi with either tool?

Omniscio lists DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen and Meta as session providers that appear in the picker out of the box. Superset's provider pages cover Vercel AI Gateway, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex, and its CLI agents can be pointed at others through environment variables, so the difference is one of shape rather than whether it is possible.

Do the two tools run the same agents?

Both run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent and OpenCode. Superset's own supported list runs to 22 named CLI agents and adds Amp, Copilot, Droid, Kiro, Mistral Vibe and Polygraph. Omniscio adds model providers rather than harnesses, with Claude Code as the default engine.

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. The features page lists what is in the app today.

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