A polished native Mac app for running many agents in parallel, now with Conductor Cloud to offload them. If your agents only need what is already on that Mac, it does the job well.
intentic puts the fleet in a container with an image you approve and credentials kept inside, then isolates each agent's files in a worktree. All of it is free and MIT.
Head to head
2 of 12 rows go to Conductor: ▸ marks them
Where you agree · agents run in parallel, each on its own branch and your own model subscription, with nothing merged until you have read the diff.
| Dimension | intentic | Conductor |
|---|---|---|
| Where the agent runs | a Docker sandbox | your Mac, or Conductor Cloud on a paid plan |
| Host operating system | macOS, Linux, Windows | macOS |
| Reach it from elsewhere | any browser over a private tunnel, phone included | the Mac, or Conductor Cloud (mobile app coming) |
| What you can change about the environment | the image, the capabilities, the context loaded each turn | your local machine, as it already is |
| Where credentials live | inside the sandbox, injected per turn | your local shell |
| Runs without you at the keyboard | automations on cron, webhook, push, alert, email, chat | background tasks in early access; you start each session |
| Isolation | one git worktree per agent | one workspace and branch per task |
| Price | free, including the sandbox, platform and sharing | free tier; cloud, multiplayer and teams from $50–60/seat |
| A machine you do not have to provide | you bring the hardware | ▸Conductor Cloud, nothing to host |
| Native desktop app | native on Windows and Linux, browser elsewhere, plus desktop sync | ▸a refined native macOS app |
| Source you can read | all of it, MIT on GitHub with the platform included | not published |
| Review workflow | the diff in the Changes panel, approved before it lands | review the diff, open a pull request, merge, archive the workspace |
What it comes down to
A container, not your Mac as it is
Conductor runs agents in your existing environment, so their reach is whatever you happen to have installed. An intentic sandbox runs the whole fleet in an image you approve, with capabilities handing it GitHub, Postgres or any MCP server and keeping the credential inside.
Free and MIT, not a seat you rent
Conductor is free to start, but cloud, multiplayer and teams sit behind $50–60/seat plans, and its source is not published. All of intentic is MIT and free, sharing included.
Pick Conductor when
You work on one Mac, want a native app over a browser, your agents only need what is already installed, and you would rather click Conductor Cloud than provide a machine.
How this was checked
Every claim about Conductor on this page is drawn from its own documentation, last read on . These products move fast. Spot something out of date? Open an issue and it is fixed in the next build.