Juggler vs Rivault: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

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

Juggler

Julian Storer

Free

A native desktop workbench for AI coding agents with branching conversation trees, inspectable tool calls and editable context.

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.

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.

Freemium

A zero-knowledge vault that lets AI agents request sensitive data on demand, unlocked by Face ID or passkey and redacted after each task.

Zero-knowledge Vault: Sensitive data is encrypted client-side so Rivault never has access to the underlying values by default.
Per-request Auth: Every agent access triggers a fresh authorization request that you approve with Face ID or a passkey.
Deterministic Redaction: Data is scoped to a single task and redacted from the agent's context after completion.
Agent-agnostic Integration: Works with chat-based AI agents and Computer Use Agents that automate browser or desktop flows.
Ownership of PII: Store SSN, payment info, phone numbers, and emails once and reuse without leaving copies in session logs or memory.
Biometric Unlock: Face ID or passkey approval keeps the human in the loop for every sensitive field release.

Agent-driven Bookings: Approve passport and card details on-demand when an agent books flights or hotels.
Automated Form Fill: Let CUAs complete government or insurance forms without leaving PII in browser logs.
Customer Support Delegation: Grant scoped access to account numbers when an agent handles a service call for you.
Recurring Task Automation: Reuse stored credentials across many agent workflows without pasting them each time.
Enterprise Agent Deployments: Add a consent + audit layer for teams deploying agents that touch sensitive employee or customer data.