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Conductor alternatives
Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November 2026. Orca, Paradev, Paseo, T3 Code, cmux, Multica and wisp side by side, and who should pick which.
Conductor Cloud goes read-only on 13 November 2026 and shuts down on 20 November. If you want the closest thing to Conductor with a guided move, look at Orca or Paradev first. If you’d rather stop watching agents and read what they did, with a crew that keeps working and a cloud wisp with nothing to install, try wisp.
Before you choose
Get your work out first. Conductor’s announcement says Cloud stops taking messages on 13 November and that deletion of Cloud data begins on 20 November. The Mac app keeps getting new models and critical fixes until early 2027, so local users have more time. Moving off Conductor lists what to export, whichever app you pick next.
Seven options side by side
| What it is | Phone | Where agents run | Help leaving Conductor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orca | Desktop app for a fleet of agents in worktrees | iOS app and Android APK, in beta, read-mostly | Machines and cloud accounts you control | Migration guide, opens workspaces in place |
| Paradev | Mac app for CLI agents in parallel | iPhone and iPad on Pro, iOS 26 or later | Your Mac, your server, or its cloud on Team and Ultra | Local and Cloud guides, imports worktrees |
| Paseo | One app for many agents on desktop, mobile, web and CLI | iOS and Android apps | Your own machines | A comparison page |
| T3 Code | A control surface for agent harnesses, free | iOS and Android apps, as a remote | Your desktop, a server or a VPS | No guide found |
| cmux | Native macOS terminal for agents | iOS beta on TestFlight, paid | Your Mac. Cloud machines are paid, in early access | A comparison page |
| Multica | Issue board where agents are teammates | No App Store app or Android client yet | Your own machine, through its daemon | No guide found |
| wisp | Tasks you send off, a report every turn by default, and a long-lived crew | Any phone browser, a Home Screen web app on iPhone with wisp Cloud, and an Android prototype you build from the repo. No native iPhone app | Your computers, your other machines, or wisp Cloud | Migration guide, and Bring in makes its worktrees tasks |
From each project’s own README and docs on 7 November 2026. We read them; we didn’t run them. They move fast: check before you choose.
Which one fits
- Orca if you want Conductor’s shape with more of everything: worktrees, a browser per worktree, a long list of agents, and a guide that covers Conductor Cloud.
- Paradev if you’re on a Mac, want a guided import, and will pay for mobile, automations or a managed cloud.
- Paseo if you want full phone apps on your own machines, and a project whose privacy policy says it sends no analytics.
- T3 Code if you want a free app with phone apps in both stores, and your computer stays on.
- cmux if what you liked most was terminals, and you’d rather manage them yourself on a native Mac app.
- Multica if your team wants humans and agents on one issue board.
Anthropic’s Claude Code Projects is another way out if you use Claude only and your code is on github.com: one conversation starts cloud threads for you. wisp vs Claude Code Projects says where each is better.
Where wisp fits
wisp asks you to work differently from Conductor, so it’s worth saying how:
- You read what the agents did. Each task runs in its own worktree, and by default every turn ends with a one-screen report: what changed, the diff, the test run. You don’t sit with the transcript, and a question waits in Needs you.
- The crew keeps working. Crew members are named agents with a role, a schedule and a notebook. They check CI, read new PRs and report when something changed.
- Auto picks the harness. It chooses the harness, model and thinking level per task from what worked before, and shows you the pick before you send.
- Cloud needs no install. Sign in at grid.trywisp.dev and you get your own wisp on a server, where the agents run with your laptop shut. You still bring your own agent plans.
wisp is behind on trust at install. There’s no native iPhone app, the desktop builds aren’t signed yet, and the community is far smaller than any of these six: it’s one owner and a crew. Bring in, which turns the worktrees Conductor left in a repo into tasks, hasn’t been tried on a real Conductor install yet.
Questions
What is the closest app to Conductor?
Orca and Paradev, by shape: desktop apps with agents in worktrees, and both have Conductor migration guides. Paradev is mainly for Mac; Orca also runs on Windows and Linux.
Do I have to leave Conductor now?
Only if you use Cloud, which goes read-only on 13 November 2026. The Mac app keeps working and gets new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027.
Which alternative runs agents with no install at all?
wisp Cloud runs them on a server after you sign in, free during the preview, on one small server that suits one person better than a team’s heavy builds. Paradev’s cloud is on its paid Team and Ultra plans, and cmux Cloud is paid and in early access.
Can I try several?
Yes. They all drive the agent CLIs you already use, so you can try them on one repo as long as two agents don’t edit the same folder.
Try it with the lid shut
Sign in with GitHub and give your own cloud wisp a task. Or run wisp on your own computers: same app, MIT.
or run it on your own computers
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