Conductor vs Morphy: which should you use to run parallel coding agents?

I build Morphy, so read this with that in mind. Conductor is one of the best tools in this space, and for a lot of Mac users it's the better pick. Here's where, and where it isn't.

What are they?

Conductor is a Mac app by Melty Labs (a Y Combinator company) for running coding agents in parallel. You create a workspace per task. Each workspace is a git worktree on its own branch, prepared by your setup script and given its own range of ports, and you run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode in it. When the agent is done, you review the diff, open a pull request, merge and archive the workspace. A sidebar lists your workspaces with their status, and the main window shows the one you've selected, with its chats in tabs. Pro adds Conductor Cloud: the same workspaces in sandboxes Conductor runs for you (on Vercel), routines, an API, and an iPhone app for them.

Morphy is a desktop app for Windows, Mac and Linux with a canvas: every chat is an agent, and you can put as many of them as you like next to each other, on Claude, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity, Grok, OpenRouter, Ollama or (on Pro) any service with OpenAI's Responses API. Each project is a group on the canvas with its own folder and terminals, focus mode tiles the agents you're working with, and Morphy's own assistant can start and check on the others for you.

How do they compare?

And feature by feature:

Where is Conductor better?

• Agents in separate workspaces can't overwrite each other. Every workspace is its own git worktree on its own branch, with a range of 10 ports of its own, so two agents can each run a dev server, and it can copy gitignored files like .env into each one. In Morphy, agents in one project share its folder: two agents editing the same files can collide unless you give each its own folder.
• Review and merge, built in. The diff viewer lets you comment on changed lines and send those comments back to the agent. The Checks tab shows git status, CI, deployments and GitHub comments, and you create the pull request and merge without leaving the app. Morphy has none of that: you review in your editor or with git.
• Undo and tidy up. Checkpoints roll a chat back to an earlier turn, and archiving a workspace saves its git state, uncommitted files included, so you can restore it later.
• Work that starts from your tracker. Create a workspace from a GitHub or Linear issue, have agents build stacks of pull requests, and see your Vercel deployments.
• A more generous free plan. Conductor states no limit on how many agents or workspaces run at once locally. Morphy's free plan runs 3 agents at a time in 2 projects.
• It can keep going without you, on Pro. Cloud workspaces keep working with your laptop closed, and from the iPhone app you can chat with their agents and merge their pull requests. Routines run agents on a schedule or when something happens on GitHub, for reports or a daily stand-up. Morphy's agents only run while Morphy is open, and it can only schedule a single message.

Where is Morphy better?

• It runs on Windows and Linux. Conductor's install page says: "Conductor is not available for Windows or Linux yet." There's no date. Morphy is the same app on Windows, Mac and Linux (in beta). On a PC, see the Windows alternatives to Conductor.
• More AIs, set up in the app. Conductor's chats run four agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor (which also brings Grok) and OpenCode. Other models come through Claude Code's or OpenCode's own provider settings, and other agents, like Copilot or Gemini, run in the workspace terminal. In Morphy, Copilot, Antigravity, Grok, OpenRouter (hundreds of models, some free) and local models through Ollama are ordinary chats: sign in or add a key in Settings, then pick the AI from any chat's title bar.
• Every agent in view. Conductor shows the workspace you've selected, with the rest in its sidebar. Morphy puts every chat on one canvas, grouped by project, each with its status (working, or waiting for you), and focus views tile the ones you're working with. If you think in space rather than in a list, that's the main reason to pick Morphy.
• An assistant that runs the others. Ask Morphy to "start three Codex chats in my website folder and have them review the checkout" and it does, on any AI and in any folder; ask it later which are done and it checks every chat. Conductor Pro has something similar for cloud workspaces: its MCP server and API (in beta) let another agent create workspaces, hand them tasks and follow their progress.
• More than code. Live cards (a dashboard, a tracker, a small tool) sit on the canvas next to your agents, voice typing turns speech into text on your own computer, and on Pro, Automations (beta) turn a job you repeat into a board of steps.
• No GitHub needed, and no analytics. Conductor needs a GitHub account, and sends usage analytics to PostHog (like which model you picked, when you send a message, and errors). It may also send a chat's first message to a third-party AI to write its title, which you can turn off in its privacy settings. Morphy needs a Google sign-in, sends a once-a-day "opened" note and checks which plan you're on, and has no third-party analytics. In both, your messages go straight from your computer to the AI you picked (in Conductor, for local workspaces; cloud workspaces keep their chats on Conductor's servers).
• Cheaper Pro. Morphy Pro is $5 a month (an early price that stays for as long as you keep it). That isn't a fair match for Conductor's $50, though: Conductor's Pro pays for cloud computers, routines, multiplayer, an API and the iPhone app. If you don't need those, Conductor is free.

What does each cost?

Conductor

• Free: local workspaces on your Mac, with no stated limit on agents.
• Pro, $50 a month: Conductor Cloud with "a bunch of cloud workspace hours", routines, multiplayer with up to 5 Pro users, the Conductor API and the iPhone app. Conductor says it plans to add usage-based pricing for cloud computing later.
• Teams, $60 per user a month, and a custom Enterprise plan.

Morphy

• Freemium, free: the canvas, every built-in AI and Morphy itself, with 3 agents working at a time and 2 projects.
• Pro, $5 a month (an early price; it stays for as long as you keep Pro): no limits, plus swarms, Morphy Remote on your phone, split view, chats as terminals, custom providers and Automations (beta).

On top of either, your agents run on your own AI plans: neither app resells model usage. Free OpenRouter models or local models let you run agents without paying anyone in either app; in Morphy they're built-in chats, in Conductor you set them up through OpenCode.

Do they share the same limits?

Yes. Both run Claude Code and Codex on your own Claude and ChatGPT plans, so five agents use your plan five times as fast in either app. Both let the next agent run somewhere else when a plan runs out: in Conductor, on Cursor or on OpenCode with another provider; in Morphy, on Copilot, Antigravity, Grok, a free OpenRouter model or a local one, picked from the chat's title bar.

Can you use both?

Yes, on a Mac. Both work in your own folders with your own sign-ins, and Morphy can point a chat at any folder, including one of Conductor's workspaces (they live in ~/conductor/workspaces). A setup that works well:

1. Use Conductor for tasks that should end in a pull request: one workspace each, then review and merge.
2. Use Morphy for everything you'd rather see at once: several AIs comparing approaches, quick questions, a dashboard of your project, or agents on Copilot, Antigravity or a local model.

Which should you pick?

• On a Mac, and your work ends in pull requests: Conductor.
• You want agents fully isolated, each with its own branch and ports: Conductor (or, on Windows and Linux, one of the worktree tools in our roundup).
• You want agents to keep going with your laptop closed: Conductor Pro.
• On Windows or Linux: Morphy, or see the Windows alternatives.
• You want Copilot, Antigravity, Grok, OpenRouter or local models one click away: Morphy.
• You want to see every agent at once on a canvas: Morphy. See Connect your AI to get started.

References

• Conductor: homepage, pricing, installation ("not available for Windows or Linux yet"), changelog
• Conductor docs: git worktrees, diff viewer, providers, Big Terminal Mode, MCP server, cloud, privacy, FAQ
• Conductor's iPhone app on the App Store
• Morphy: Chats and agents, Freemium and Pro, Your files and privacy, Connect your AI