20 Grove alternatives
Grove: A macOS script runner where you and your coding agent drive the same terminal processes — menu bar, CLI and a built-in MCP server over one local socket. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, Terminal and CLI, ranked by how much they have in common with Grove.
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Anthropic
Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a terminal-native agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens PRs.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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Meta
Meta's terminal coding agent for long-horizon work in large repositories, running the Muse Spark 1.2 model with parallel subagents and a replayable event log.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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Mario Zechner
Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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Vercel Labs
Vercel Labs' tiny open-source coding agent: a ~6MB Zig binary that cold-starts in microseconds and embeds anywhere.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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SST
An open-source terminal coding agent that works with any model and shares sessions across devices.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph's frontier coding agent for the terminal and editor, built to use the strongest models without limits.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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AI pair programming in your terminal, with git-aware edits and a sensible commit for every change.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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An agentic terminal and development environment where you drive coding and DevOps tasks in natural language.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Terminal
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Local-first converter that turns PDFs, Office files, scans and web pages into clean Markdown and JSON.
Also: CLI, Local-First, macOS
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Abhishek Iyer
A local, keyboard-driven diff viewer built for the huge changes coding agents produce - and it remembers what you have already seen.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent, Local-First
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SSH terminal for iPhone and iPad that alerts you when a coding agent is blocked or done, so you can answer it from anywhere.
Also: Coding Agent, Terminal
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Turns backlog tickets into reviewed pull requests — background triage, a task board wired to live agent sessions, and MCP control from your own terminal.
Also: Coding Agent, Terminal
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Harsha Chaganti
Watch and approve Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode sessions running on your Mac from an iPhone, with live transcripts and push notifications.
Also: Coding Agent, Terminal
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Google
Google's agent-first development platform, where you manage a fleet of coding agents across editor, terminal, and browser.
Also: Coding Agent, Terminal
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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: Local-First, macOS
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Raycast
Build real native Mac apps by describing them to an AI agent — local-first, offline, and yours to keep.
Also: Local-First, macOS
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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.
Also: Local-First, macOS
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A Mac budgeting app whose AI chat runs entirely on your machine, so your ledger and your questions never leave your disk.
Also: Local-First, macOS
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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: Local-First, macOS
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coconutStudio
A native macOS notes app that parks notes along your screen edge and keeps an AI agent inside them, encrypted on-device.
Also: Local-First, macOS