native macOS · Claude Code + Codex
you're five agents deep. #2 has been waiting on you for twenty minutes.
Running one AI coding agent is easy. Running five is a different job. They don't finish on a schedule — they finish when they finish, and they stop dead the second they hit a permission prompt or a question. The work isn't the typing anymore. It's keeping track of which session needs you, right now, before it sits idle for half an hour. vord is a Mac app that watches all of them for you. It hosts every session itself, reads every byte, and tells you at a glance who's working, who's waiting, and who's done — then pings you the moment something needs a decision.
// No account. No server. Your code never leaves your Mac.
the problem
parallel agents break the way you pay attention
The forgotten idle session
You kicked off a refactor twenty minutes ago. It finished in four. The other sixteen minutes? Dead air, because nothing told you it was done.
No status at a glance
Five tabs, all showing scrolling output. Which one is actually blocked on a permission prompt and which one is just thinking? You find out by clicking through all of them.
Window juggling
Two terminals, an IDE, a browser for the preview, your phone for the one running at home. The agents are fine. Your attention is the thing that's overloaded.
how it works
run them. vord watches. you get pinged.
Run your sessions inside vord
Start a Claude Code session, a Codex session, a plain shell, an SSH connection — vord hosts each one as a real terminal and keeps it running, foreground or background. Clone a repo into a new project without leaving the app.
vord reads the status of every session
It owns the terminal, so it sees everything. Claude Code reports status straight to vord over hooks; Codex is tracked by tailing its session file. Each one lands in one place: working, waiting on you, idle. Sorted so the ones waiting on you sit at the top.
You get pulled in at the exact moment it matters
When an agent hits a permission prompt or asks a question, your Mac tells you: a system notification, a Dock badge, a sound. No sound when nothing needs you. You go back to the one session that's blocked, answer it, and the rest keep running.
the cockpit
one grid for every agent, across every project
The grid is the part you'll keep open. Every session you're running shows up as a card with its real-time status, sorted so anything waiting on you is first. You stop hunting for the blocked session. It's already at the top. Three states cover almost everything: working, waiting on you, idle. Two more handle the edges — "limited" when an agent hits its usage cap, "exited" when it's done. When an agent is waiting, vord tells you why: a permission request, a question, a plan to approve, or just finished. And it doesn't stop at the top-level session: when your agent spins up subagents, teams or workflows, vord shows that work too — you see what your fleet is actually doing, not just that it's busy. Pick the density that fits the moment:
- Compact — status cards only. Scan thirty sessions in one look.
- Normal — the grid with a live slice of each terminal, so you see what's actually happening.
- Focus — one session, full size, fully typeable. Drop in, answer, drop out.
notifications
your Mac is the one place that always knows
vord routes every status change through one director that builds the message, localizes it (English, German, French, Spanish), and hands it to all the right places at once: a Mac banner, a Dock badge with the waiting count, an optional sound, and — if you're on Pro — a push to your phone. Permission prompts and direct questions come through as time-sensitive, so they cut through Do Not Disturb when they should. The sound is on by default (yes, it's the ICQ "uh-oh" — change it or mute it). And there's a presence gate: if you're sitting at your Mac, vord doesn't bother pushing to your phone. You only get the alert in the place you actually are. There's a privacy switch too: hide session and project names in push notifications, in case your lock screen isn't private.
the differentiator
a terminal can run six agents. it can't show you a diff.
When an agent says it's done, you have to check what it actually did. vord slides a panel in from the right and gives you the tools to read the work without leaving the cockpit. You can make the occasional correction here — bracket matching, multi-cursor, find and replace — but that's the point: occasional. This is for understanding what the agent built, not for writing code yourself. Open it in VS Code or Finder when you want the real editor. See your branch, switch it, create one. Worktrees are read-only on purpose — vord shows them, it never creates them.
- Diff tab — green and red, tree-sitter syntax highlighting, inline or side-by-side.
- File tab — the whole file, with search and a symbol outline so you can see the shape of what changed.
- Commit tab — stage by file or by individual hunk, get a commit message drafted by claude -p, edit it, commit. Done.
vord Pro
answer the permission prompt from the train
Your agents run on your Mac. With vord Pro, you drive them from your iPhone — anywhere. See the live terminal, type, answer permission and plan boxes with native buttons or a typed answer of your own, send images from your photo library, switch the agent's permission mode, start and switch sessions. The waiting agent doesn't have to wait until you're home. The connection is end-to-end encrypted through a blind relay. Your Mac and your phone both connect outward (so it works behind NAT), and the relay only ever moves ciphertext — it can't read a thing. Under the hood it's Apple CryptoKit: X25519 key exchange at pairing, ChaCha20-Poly1305 for every frame, replay protection built in. Pairing is a QR scan or paste with a six-digit fingerprint you confirm on both ends, so a man-in-the-middle can't slip between them. Approval boxes are sent over as structured data, not scraped from raw output — so the Approve / Reject buttons on your phone mean exactly what they say. Only terminal streams go over the wire. Never your files.
- Native buttons — or your own typed answer — for every permission, plan and question box
- Send images, switch permission modes, start sessions from your phone
- End-to-end encrypted through a blind relay — terminal streams only, never your files
vord Pro · session sharing · beta
hand a live session to another person
An agent is mid-task and you want a second pair of eyes on it. Send a share link. The other person opens it in vord on their Mac — or on an iPhone with vord mobile — and watches the same terminal, live. They start read-only; let them type when you're ready, take it back whenever. Ending the share is one click, and the link was single-use anyway. None of the tools we compare against can do that today — we checked.
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Read-only first
A share starts as watch-only. Grant typing when you actually want a hand, and take it back live. The guest never has more access than you handed them.
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One link, one session
Share by link or QR code. It opens exactly one session — not your Mac, not your files. Links are single-use and expire on their own.
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Sealed end to end
Each share gets its own one-time keys. Host and guest can read the stream. The relay in the middle can't — it only routes ciphertext.
vendor-agnostic
Claude Code and Codex, in the same grid
vord doesn't care whose agent you're running. Claude Code and OpenAI Codex both live in the cockpit, each with its own detector, both reporting into the same status grid. Run three of one and two of the other in a single project and treat them as one fleet. It manages their MCP servers too — Claude's and Codex's, side by side, with live health checks, all through the official CLIs (no poking at config files behind their backs). vord ships its own MCP server as well, with a show_to_user tool that puts an image or a webpage in front of you wherever you happen to be working.
// local & native
a real Mac app, and your code stays on your Mac
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Native, not Electron
Written in Swift — SwiftUI and AppKit, no web view pretending to be an app. Runs on macOS 15 and up, Apple Silicon and Intel.
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Your code never leaves
The agents run locally. The git inspector reads your local repo. Even the iPhone remote only streams terminal output — files stay put.
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Signed & notarized
Developer-ID signed (Tiamat UG) and notarized by Apple. It updates itself through Sparkle with EdDSA-signed releases.
where it fits
between your terminal and your IDE there was nothing. now there's vord.
A terminal multiplexer gives you panes. It can split tmux six ways, but it can't tell you which agent is blocked, and it definitely can't show you a diff. An IDE gives you everything for writing code — and most of it is dead weight when the agent is the one writing. vord is the layer in between. It owns the sessions like a multiplexer, reads them like a supervisor, and shows you the work like a lightweight reviewer. Built for the actual job: running several agents at once and spending your attention only where it's needed.
// pricing
two plans, one yearly seat
Both are per-seat annual subscriptions with a 14-day free trial. Prices are net, plus VAT. And if you ever stop paying, the desktop app keeps working — you just stop getting updates and the connected features. You never lose the thing you were using.
- The full desktop app on macOS
- Status detection + notifications
- Inspector, diff, hunk-level commits
- Everything except the iPhone remote and session sharing
- App keeps working if you stop paying
- Everything in Basic
- The encrypted iPhone remote — drive your agents from anywhere
- Live session sharing — read-only or typing (beta)
- End-to-end encrypted through a blind relay
More than one seat? Every extra seat is 20% off — €63.20 Basic / €119.20 Pro per seat, yearly.
the honest answers
the honest answers
Is this an IDE?
Does it support both Claude Code and Codex?
Does my code go to your servers?
Can someone else watch or drive one of my sessions?
How does the status detection actually work?
What about the git side — full version control?
What does it cost, and what happens when my subscription ends?
What do I need to run it?
stop tabbing through terminals to find the one that needs you
vord is in soft launch. Join the waitlist, and when your invite is ready you get in and try it free for 14 days.