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wisp vs Multica
Multica is an issue board where agents are teammates. wisp is one person’s task list and crew. The closest ideas on this list, from opposite ends. From their own docs.
Multica is the better pick for a team that wants humans and agents on one issue board, with squads and shared workspaces. wisp is built for one person: every turn ends in a report you read by default, a crew of named agents keeps working, Auto picks the harness, and wisp Cloud runs them on a server with nothing to install.
Side by side
| Multica | wisp | |
|---|---|---|
| In its own words | “a source-available workspace where you assign work to AI coding agents the way you’d assign it to a teammate” | Launch agents in the background and read what they hand back |
| Long-lived agents | Named agents on the board, and squads with a leader. Agent memory is for Hermes agents only, per machine; Codex’s native memory is an opt-in | Crew: named agents with a role, a schedule, a notebook and an org chart |
| Scheduled work | Autopilots, on a schedule or from a webhook | Crew schedules and triggers |
| Made for | A team sharing a workspace | One person. Each person has their own wisp; a team can run its own Grid |
| Agents | More than 20 coding tools | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, opencode, Antigravity, Grok, Copilot |
| Desktop | Web, plus macOS, Windows and Linux | macOS, Windows, Linux. Builds aren’t signed yet |
| Phone | Not on the App Store yet: build from source on a Mac. No Android client yet | 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 |
| Hosted | A hosted workspace, but cloud runtimes aren’t live yet, so agents run on your own machine | wisp Cloud: sign in and the agents run on a server. Free during the preview |
| Licence | Source-available: Apache 2.0 plus conditions. Free inside your own organization; hosting it for others needs a commercial licence | MIT, server included |
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.
Where wisp is different
- You read a report. Multica shows an execution log. By default every wisp turn ends with a one-screen report of what changed, with the diff and the tests, built to read in a minute.
- The crew is yours. Crew members answer to one person. They keep a notebook, have their own skills and take jobs by @mention, with no board to keep up.
- Auto. wisp picks the harness, model and thinking level per task from what worked before, and shows the pick before you send.
- Agents on a server today. wisp Cloud runs them with nothing to install and your laptop shut. It’s a preview on one small server.
Where Multica is better
- Teams. Humans and agents share a board, with roles, squads and access scopes. wisp has no shared workspace: work moves through branches and PRs.
- Where work comes from. An issue board with comments and @mentions is the whole product, and several agents can take one comment. wisp’s Issue button reads GitHub and Linear issues, and doesn’t try to be a tracker.
- Agents. More of them than wisp’s seven.
- Self-hosting a team. Docker Compose or Helm, for a board everyone shares. wisp’s Grid gives each person a sandboxed wisp.
- Community. Far larger than wisp’s, which is one owner and a crew. wisp’s desktop builds also aren’t signed yet.
Pick Multica if
- You’re a team, and want agents assigned work the way people are.
- Your work already lives as issues, and you want it all on one board.
- You want to self-host for one organization, and its licence fits.
Pick wisp if
- You work alone or in a small group, and want agents working for you personally.
- You want a report every turn, not a board to keep up.
- You want agents hosted today, or a plain MIT licence.
Questions
Is Multica open source?
It calls itself source-available. Its licence is Apache 2.0 with conditions on top: you can use it inside your own organization, but a hosted service for others or embedding it in a commercial product needs a commercial licence. wisp is MIT.
Can my team share a wisp?
No. Everyone has their own wisp, and work is shared through branches and PRs. A team can run its own Grid, so each person gets a sandboxed wisp on the same server, and can share crew members.
Does Multica run agents in its cloud?
Its download page says cloud runtimes aren’t live yet, so agents run on your machine through its daemon. wisp Cloud runs them on a server, as a preview.
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
macOS · Linux and Windows in beta · Node 20+ · MIT
Runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, opencode, Antigravity CLI, Grok Build and Copilot CLI