Conductor vs Crush
A side-by-side comparison of Conductor and Crush, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Conductor
A native Mac control plane that runs several coding agents at once, each sandboxed in its own git worktree so parallel work never collides.
- Runs many coding agents in parallel
- Each agent isolated in a git worktree
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor
- App is free; bring your own agent plan
- Real-time progress + easy merge review
- macOS (Apple Silicon) only
- Not open source
- Useful only with paid agent subscriptions
- Young, fast-changing product
Crush
Charm's signature TUI polish over a model-agnostic terminal agent: switch providers mid-session and keep code, keys, and data on your own machine.
- Polished, keyboard-driven terminal UI
- BYO keys for many providers
- LSP-aware code context
- Runs locally; you control keys and data
- Requires your own model API keys
- Beta — some features still missing
- FSL license is not OSI open-source yet