Catenary vs Foley: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Catenary and Foley — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Catenary

Freemium

Local-first spatial IDE that orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents on an infinite canvas with visual context wires.

Infinite Canvas: Terminals, Monaco editors, browsers, and git worktrees float on one pannable, zoomable surface so every agent stays visible at once.
Context Wires: Drag a directed wire between panels to pass context to another agent, set to relay automatically or act as a standing permission.
One-Click Worktrees: The New Task button creates an isolated branch, working directory, and agent, colour-coded across sidebar, dock, and canvas.
Monaco Diffs: VS Code's editor inside the canvas with git-aware file tree and side-by-side diffs of everything an agent touched.
Maestro Mode: One agent recruits, briefs, and wires a team of up to ten helpers, with an editable approval card before every action.
Multi-Project Parallelism: Run several projects at once, each with its own canvas and multiple isolated branches, with state preserved on switch.
Local-First Privacy: No account, no telemetry, and zero bytes of source code, prompts, or keys sent anywhere; only two outbound hosts total.
Bring Your Own Keys: Agent CLIs talk directly to Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google with your own keys, or to Ollama and LM Studio on localhost.

A developer runs three coding agents on separate branches simultaneously and watches all of them without losing track of any.
An engineer delegates a specific subtask from one agent to another by dragging a wire instead of copy-pasting context between windows.
A team working under strict data policies needs an agent IDE that provably never uploads source code.
A solo builder ships several experiments in parallel isolated worktrees without polluting the main working tree.
A reviewer wants side-by-side diffs of agent-authored changes before deciding what to keep.
A user orchestrates a self-organizing squad of agents while keeping human approval on every structural change.

Hanamori Labs, LLC

Freemium

A voice-first to-do list that turns what you say into organized tasks, asks when unsure, and plans your day.

Voice Capture: Say one or several tasks with a shortcut and review what Foley understood before the tasks are added.
Clarifying Questions: When a request could match more than one task, Foley asks which you mean rather than making a bad guess.
Daily Desk and Calendar: See tasks from every project in one place and move times or details by simply saying so.
AI Day Planning: Ask Foley to plan your day around existing tasks and follow the plan back to the work.
Projects and Folders: Group work and life into folders and projects that hold tasks and context.
Task Context: Attach notes and files and model dependencies such as one task blocking another.
Capture History with Undo: Keep the original words beside what Foley changed and undo any capture.
Bring Your Own AI Key: Choose Foley-managed AI or connect a personal key and control which projects AI can use as context.

Hands-free Task Entry: Dictate several to-dos in one sentence instead of typing each.
Rescheduling by Voice: Say 'change the review to 4 PM' to update a task without opening it.
Daily Planning: Have Foley build a plan from the day's tasks.
Project Dependencies: Track what blocks what, e.g. an invoice waiting on a board deck.
Shared Projects: Share a project with teammates so tasks and comments stay together.
Shopping and Packing Lists: Keep simple checklists and add items by voice.