20 Cua alternatives
Cua: Open-source computer-use infrastructure: a desktop driver, cloud desktop fleets, local macOS VMs and a benchmark for agents that click. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Open Source, Sandbox and macOS, ranked by how much they have in common with Cua.
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Osaurus, Inc.
Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.
Also: macOS, Open Source, Sandbox
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Microsoft
Microsoft's open-source, policy-driven sandbox SDK for running agents, model-generated code, tools and plugins with only the files and network access you grant.
Also: Agents, Open Source, Sandbox
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Aisle Technologies, Inc.
An open-source layer that lets your customers describe a feature and get a working micro-app inside your product — sandboxed to their own permissions.
Also: Agents, Open Source, Sandbox
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Manus AI
A general autonomous AI agent that executes multi-step tasks end to end in its own cloud environment.
Also: Computer Use, Sandbox
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Anthropic
Anthropic's desktop agent for non-coding knowledge work: point it at a folder, describe the outcome, and it does the multi-step work itself.
Also: Agents, Computer Use
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The open-source library that lets AI agents actually use websites — clicking, typing, and reading like a person.
Also: Computer Use, Open Source
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Gives agents secure, authenticated access to 1,500+ SaaS apps — managed OAuth, a tool router that filters the catalogue, and sandboxed execution.
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An agent-native cloud computer that pairs 20+ frontier models with skills, connectors, email and scheduled automations in one sandbox.
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Digger
Write an agent as a TypeScript function and deploy it in seconds onto KVM-isolated Linux microVMs, with the loop, sessions, streaming and versioning managed for you.
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Open-source, sandboxed AI agents for every employee, fronted by a gateway that injects scoped credentials so the agent never holds a password.
Also: Open Source, Sandbox
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Cloudflare
Open-source AI workspace you deploy into your own Cloudflare account: agent chat wired to company context, sandboxed app building, and policy guardrails.
Also: Open Source, Sandbox
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All Hands AI
OpenHands — the leading open-source coding agent platform, self-hostable or run in the cloud.
Also: Open Source, Sandbox
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Secure cloud sandboxes where AI agents can run untrusted code safely, starting in milliseconds.
Also: Open Source, Sandbox
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The Plow Collective PBC
Mac app that exposes your browser, CLI, files and saved logins to Claude, Codex or any MCP agent — with an approval gate on every request.
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: macOS, Open Source
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pungme
An open-source Mac app that gives Claude Code a real browser, a live iOS Simulator and its own git worktree per chat.
Also: macOS, Open Source
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herval
Free, open-source Mac app that lets you chat with, approve and schedule Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and Hermes agents like contacts.
Also: macOS, Open Source
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Free, open-source Mac dictation: hold a shortcut, speak, and clean text lands in any app. Local speech models, no account.
Also: macOS, Open Source
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Ariso
Free MIT-licensed menu-bar meeting notetaker for Mac that can transcribe and summarise fully on-device, with no bot joining the call.
Also: macOS, Open Source
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Native, open-source Mac database client for 29 engines, with a Claude-powered SQL assistant and its own MCP server.
Also: macOS, Open Source