Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side
Moontors is a free agentic development environment (ADE) for macOS, Windows and Linux: run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side, keep them working in the background, and answer them from your Android phone, the iPhone’s coming soon. No Moontors account needed.
- What is an agentic development environment (ADE)?: What an agentic development environment is, what Moontors does as one, and how it differs from an IDE plugin or a single agent’s own app.
Guides
- First launch: Opening Moontors the first time on macOS, Windows and Linux: no build is signed yet, and macOS and Windows ask before the first open.
- Configuration: How Moontors uses each agent’s own configuration, and what you can switch on and off for its sessions without touching your files.
- Conversation commands: The / commands in a session: which each agent’s built-in commands Moontors supports, and what each one does.
- Git and Files: The Git and Files views: a session’s repository, its branches, history and working changes, and its files to read and edit.
- Insight and code workflows: Seeing a session’s changes, context, usage and status, naming files with @, exporting the transcript and rewinding.
- Known limits: What Moontors can’t do yet, or does differently, by platform, sign-in, folder, session, configuration, file, attachment and the phone.
- Menus and your data: Moontors’ menus on macOS, Windows and Linux, removing Moontors’ data, and moving it to Applications on macOS.
- Permission modes: The five permission modes, and what an agent asks you about before it edits files or runs commands.
- The phone: The phone app: pairing it with your computer, its demo, and working on your sessions from your phone’s board, transcript and composer.
- Questions and plans: The agent’s questions, an MCP server’s forms and links, and plans to approve: how each one waits for you, and how you answer it, in the transcript and the Plan view.
- Sessions and the board: Creating sessions, the board that shows them, and how they keep working in the background.
- Signing in: Installing each agent and signing in to it in Moontors, once per agent, from one sign-in screen.
- The terminal: Each session’s own terminals: shells in the session’s folder, in tabs, that keep running with the session.
- Worktrees: Running a session in a git worktree, on a branch and in a folder of its own.
How-to
- How to use Claude Code and Codex on Linux with a desktop app: Running Claude Code and Codex, with Gemini CLI, in a desktop app on Linux: installing it, signing in, and what differs on Linux.
- How to use Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI together: Running Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI side by side on the same projects, each with its own sign-in and settings, and comparing their work.
- How to use git worktrees for AI coding agents: Giving each coding agent its own git worktree and branch, so several can work in one repository at once, by hand or with Moontors.
- How to keep coding agents running when the window closes: Keeping Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI working with the app window closed, and what still stops them.
- How to run several Claude Code sessions in parallel: Running several Claude Code sessions at once, each on its own task, without their changes colliding or losing track of which one needs you.
Compare
- A Codex app alternative with Claude Code and Gemini CLI: How Moontors and Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app compare: the agents they run, platforms, worktrees, cloud tasks, plans and data, from each one’s own pages.
- A Claude Code Desktop alternative with Codex and Gemini CLI: How Moontors and Anthropic’s Claude Code Desktop compare: the agents they run, platforms, worktrees, cloud sessions and price, from each one’s own pages.
- A Conductor alternative for Windows and Linux: How Moontors and Conductor compare: the agents they run, platforms, worktrees, cloud workspaces, data and price, from each one’s own pages.
- An Emdash alternative with Gemini CLI and a background service: How Moontors and Emdash compare: the agents they run, platforms, worktrees, background work, integrations, licence and data, from each one’s own pages.
- An Orca alternative with Gemini CLI in structured views: How Moontors and Orca compare: the agents they run, platforms, worktrees, remote work, licence and data, from each one’s own pages.
Commands
- Claude Code’s commands in Moontors: Every command Claude Code 2.1.296 has, and what Moontors does with it.
- Codex’s commands in Moontors: Every command Codex 0.162.1 has, and what Moontors does with it.
- Gemini CLI’s commands in Moontors: Every command Gemini CLI 0.63.0 has, and what Moontors does with it.
Release notes
- Release notes: What each version of Moontors changed, newest first, with its downloads.