Inventory vs Worktrunk: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

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

Inventory

Paid

Private, local-first search across every AI coding conversation in Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex, Kiro, and Antigravity.

Unified Conversation Index: Reads local stores from Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex, Kiro, and Antigravity and merges them into one searchable timeline.
Instant Global Search: A ⌘⇧Space shortcut opens a search bar with ~0 ms latency across every past AI chat on your machine.
Local-Only and Read-Only: Data stays on-device and is snapshotted first, so your original chat stores are never modified and nothing is uploaded.
Zero-Setup Install: One macOS download auto-discovers the local stores of supported tools — no account, no configuration.
Unlimited History: Keeps the full history of every conversation instead of the tool-specific rolling windows.
Scratchpad and Sources View: A companion Scratchpad and per-source view let you browse conversations by tool and pinned notes.

Recovering Past Fixes: Find the exact bug fix or config you already talked through with an agent weeks ago instead of re-prompting.
Cross-Tool Research: Search a topic across Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex, Kiro, and Antigravity at once when you have used more than one.
Auditing Agent Work: Review what an AI tool actually did on a branch or task by browsing the merged conversation timeline.
Private Knowledge Base: Build a searchable, on-device knowledge base of your AI chats without sending anything to a cloud service.
Onboarding a New Machine: Point Inventory at existing chat stores to bring years of AI conversation history into one searchable place.

max-sixty

Free

A Rust CLI that makes git worktrees as easy as branches, built for running several AI coding agents in parallel without collisions.

Branch-Addressed Worktrees: wt switch, wt remove, and wt list refer to worktrees by branch name with paths computed from a configurable template, replacing multi-step git worktree incantations.
Agent Launch in One Command: wt switch -c -x claude <branch> creates the worktree, enters it, and starts the agent in a single invocation.
Lifecycle Hooks: Run commands automatically on create, pre-merge, and post-merge to automate setup and teardown for every new worktree.
LLM Commit Messages: Generates commit messages from the diff so parallel agent branches stay legible without hand-writing every message.
One-Command Merge Workflow: Squash, rebase, merge, and clean up the worktree and branch in a single step rather than a sequence of git commands.
Interactive Picker: Browse worktrees with streaming CI status alongside diff, log, PR, and comment previews before switching.
Shared Build Caches: wt step copy-ignored gives ten worktrees their own target/ and node_modules/ without rebuilding or copying, using reflinks on APFS, btrfs, and XFS.
Per-Worktree Dev Servers: A hash-port template filter assigns each worktree a unique port so parallel dev servers do not conflict.

Parallel Agent Runs: Give each of five to ten concurrently running AI coding agents its own worktree so their edits never collide.
Fast Branch Context Switching: Jump between in-flight changes by branch name instead of navigating sibling directories by path.
Pull Request Review: wt switch pr:123 checks out a pull request's branch directly for local inspection or testing.
Monorepo Iteration: Share heavy build artifacts across many worktrees so each new branch is usable immediately instead of after a full rebuild.
Automated Branch Setup: Use create hooks to install dependencies, copy env files, or start services whenever a worktree is made.
Multi-Branch Status Review: wt list --full shows CI status and AI-generated summaries for every active branch in one view.