More Codex-like Apps - Maximus Indicus

Yesterday (Feb 2, 2026), OpenAI announced their Codex App for managing multiple coding agents.

This space (desktop agents) has seen a lot of entrants. So far:

Conductor - Run a team of coding agents on your Mac — “Run a team of coding agents on your Mac. Create parallel Codex + Claude Code agents in isolated workspaces. See at a glance what they’re working on, then review and merge their changes.”
Emdash — “Open-source agentic development environment. Code purely by orchestrating agents. Run multiple in parallel, each isolated in their own Git worktree.”
Codex Monitor - Orchestrate Codex agents across your workspaces — “Monitor your Codex situation. Orchestrate any number of Codex agents across any number of projects in a beautifully crafted command center for threads, reviews, and worktrees.”
Commander - Native Mac AI Coding Assistant for Claude Code & Codex — “A native macOS interface for Claude Code and Codex with built-in diffs, git workflow, and worktrees—prompt, review, and commit without context switching.”

Of these two, I’ve only installed Codex and Commander. Still using CLIs as the primary agentic interface.

Commander is a native MacOS application. Rest of them are Electron apps, with codex Monitor being a Tauri app (less bloating).