Conan vs Waver AI: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

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

Conan

Paid

Conan is a native macOS app that wraps Claude Code in a live HUD, surfacing every prompt, tool call, skill, and token in real time.

Live Timeline: Every command, edit, and tool call streams onto a living timeline as it happens.
Context Window Meter: Watch the context window fill across system, tools, memory, skills, and messages while tokens burn in real time.
Session Pulse: A live throughput pulse that spikes when Claude works and calms when it waits.
Skills & MCP Visibility: See every skill and MCP server in play, surfaced and observable as they fire.
Native macOS App: A native HUD for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 13+, with no subscription required.
Claude Radio: Built-in curated audio stations to score your coding sessions.

Monitoring Claude Code Sessions: Watch every prompt, tool call, and skill execution in real time without scrolling logs.
Token Budget Management: Track context window usage and token burn to avoid context rot and surprise costs.
Debugging Agent Behavior: Observe which skills and MCP servers fire to understand and debug agentic workflows.
Staying In Flow: Keep a glanceable HUD of session activity while focusing on the work itself.

Freemium

Text-to-video and image-to-video generator producing cinematic 1080p videos with advanced motion modeling.

Text-to-Video Generation: Converts written prompts into full-motion videos, enabling users to produce narrated or scene-driven clips directly from text inputs.
Image-to-Video Transformation: Animates static images to create video sequences, adding motion and temporal continuity while preserving visual detail.
1080p Cinematic Output: Produces videos at cinematic 1080p resolution suitable for publishing, marketing, and presentation use cases.
Advanced Motion Modeling: Uses superior motion synthesis to generate smoother, more realistic movement and camera-like motion across scenes.
Prompt-Driven Creativity: Allows creative control via textual prompts (and image inputs) so users can iterate on scenes, style, and content without manual animation.
Text-to-video generation: create videos from textual prompts
Image-to-video generation: animate or extend still images into video
Cinematic 1080p output quality
Advanced motion modeling for realistic motion and camera-like movement