Zest alternatives

Zest alternatives in Code Generation & Review. Mac app. Hold Option-Space in a project, flick a slice, and Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or a shell

Summary

Zest alternatives in Code Generation & Review. Mac app. Hold Option-Space in a project, flick a slice, and Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or a shell command takes the task. A slice can run in its own git worktree. You look at the diff, then merge it or discard it. Code stays on the Mac, on the logins you already have. Needs macOS 26. The trial is 14 days, no account and no card. The launch price is $19 once, down from $29, for a lifetime license on up to 3 Macs, with a 14-day refund. 12 other catalog listings are linked below.

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• asklog — Chief takes one job, splits it across Claude Code or Codex workers, each on its own copy of the repo, and you answer from your phone
• PulseDev — Mac app. You click an element on a site running on your machine, say what is wrong, and Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or OpenCode edits
• VibeiDE — Desktop app that queues Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode tasks across projects and runs them in parallel. Each task keeps its own session
• ManyAgents — Mac app that runs a team of Claude Code and Codex agents in one window. An orchestrator splits a request into tasks. Workers build each task
• One Roof — A Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kimi, and Antigravity as real terminals on the same job. Questions from every session
• Yardlet — Free Mac app, MIT license. It starts the coding-agent CLIs already on the machine, including Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and
• buddylist — Free desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode sit in one chat, can share a project folder, and can
• QualityLayer — A local app that runs a coding agent you already pay for, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Pi, OpenCode, Grok, or GitHub
• SKI — A Mac harness that runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity, and pi at the same time and lets you talk to them. You bring the
• AI Bridge — Mac app that runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok, and OpenCode as the real CLIs, each in its own terminal, grouped by project and workspace
• Codync — Open-source app that runs coding agents you are already signed into, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, and Copilot, as bots on
• Flockbay — A desktop Godot editor with an agent that writes the game, runs it, and fixes what breaks. The project stays a normal Godot 4 project on