Juggler vs OpenCode Superapp: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)
A side-by-side comparison of Juggler and OpenCode Superapp — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.
Juggler
Julian Storer
A native desktop workbench for AI coding agents with branching conversation trees, inspectable tool calls and editable context.
Key features
- Branching Conversation Trees: Fork the session at any point, recursively, so competing approaches and tangents run side by side without polluting the main context.
- Miller Column Navigation: A Finder-style column layout lays out tool calls, item properties and nested sub-threads for long reading and editing sessions.
- Transaction Inspector: Open any model transaction to see the assembled system prompt, messages, tool definitions, output, token use, timing and stop reason.
- The Context Surgeon: Fold history into a new thread, move or copy items between branches, expand a branch back into its parent, and undo structural changes.
- Local or Remote Sessions: Run the desktop app locally or the headless binary on the machine holding the code, then attach from the app, a browser or a phone.
- Durable Sessions: Sessions are stored on disk as live-synced Yjs documents, so quits, relaunches and dropped connections do not lose the conversation.
- Automatic Context Sizing: Juggler measures the full request before each call, reserves room for the answer and compacts older history before limits become an error.
- Inspectable MCP Tools: Follow an MCP handoff end to end - schema offered, arguments generated, approval, result and errors - with server status, logs and per-tool filtering.
- JavaScript Extension SDK: Context items, LLM loop strategies, slash commands, viewers and Pinboard tabs are extensions you can fork or replace, under a permissive Apache-2.0 SDK.
Best for
- Exploring Competing Fixes: Branch a thread into two sub-threads to try different approaches to the same bug and compare results before committing.
- Auditing Agent Behavior: Inspect exactly what the model received and returned when an agent makes a surprising edit to the codebase.
- Remote Development: Run the server on a dev box or GPU machine where the repository lives and drive the same live session from a laptop or browser.
- Long Refactors: Keep a multi-hour session alive across quits and reconnects, with the agent paused awaiting approval for its next step.
- Provider Comparison: Drive Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini and local Ollama models through one interface to compare behavior on the same task.
- Custom Tooling: Write JavaScript extensions that add slash commands, file viewers or new LLM loop strategies to the workbench.
OpenCode Superapp
MedHue Labs
OpenCode Superapp is a native, local-first Mac workspace that gives the OpenCode runtime browser, computer-use, voice, and extensible widgets.
Key features
- Any OpenCode Provider: Use every model and provider OpenCode supports with your own credentials and billing, from OpenAI and Anthropic to xAI and Ollama.
- Integrated Local Ollama: Install the app-managed Ollama engine and discover models already stored in your local library over a private loopback endpoint.
- Native Desktop Workflows: Projects, parallel sessions, Files, Git, worktrees, terminals, search, and configuration stay in one workspace instead of scattered tools.
- In-app Browser Automation: A Superpower that lets OpenCode inspect and operate the exact web experience in an embedded Browser under permission-gated actions.
- Guarded Native Computer Use: A Superpower that operates native macOS applications through guarded tools with consequential actions kept visible.
- Supe Realtime Voice + Local Dictation: Speak to Supe to create, message, monitor, and open OpenCode tasks, or compose prompts with private multilingual dictation.
- Extensible with Widgets, Skills, and MCP: Add commands, right-panel apps, Skills, MCP services, and local packages, or ask the agent to build, preview, and publish Home widgets with isolated storage.
Best for
- Private local coding: Route sessions to on-device Qwen or other Ollama models when working on sensitive code that cannot leave the Mac.
- Voice-driven task control: Use Supe Realtime Voice to open, monitor, and message OpenCode tasks hands-free while multitasking.
- Web-flow automation: Have OpenCode inspect and drive the in-app Browser to complete a real web task and hand the result back into the workspace.
- Native app manipulation: Grant Computer Use to a workflow that needs to move files, click through a macOS app, or coordinate two desktop tools.
- Remote control from mobile: Continue a real OpenCode session from a paired phone or browser via the encrypted relay while the Mac stays home.
- Custom project dashboards: Ask the agent to draft a Home widget for ship status or test counts, preview it live, and publish once it feels right.
- MCP-connected knowledge: Attach MCP services and local resource packages so the workspace pulls in project context instead of re-crawling every session.