Starkomand vs CNVS.
The closest pair on this site. Both run real terminals on a Mac canvas, both listen, and both charge once, by seat. CNVS is native Swift with voice first, a fleet briefing and alerts on your iPhone. Starkomand runs every CLI you have, keeps dictation on the Mac, and puts briefs, diagrams and issue notes beside the windows, free for 3 days first.
v1.0.4 · Apple silicon · free for 3 days · no account
Where they differ.
Starkomand next to CNVS, from both products’ public pages on 28 September 2026.
| Criterion |  Starkomand |
CNVS |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Your CLIs in real terminal windows on one canvas, with the tools around them. | Agent terminals on a native Mac canvas, directed by voice, with a fleet briefing and iPhone alerts. |
| The CLI you know | The real TUI in a real pty. Flags, slash commands, keybindings and config, untouched. | Terminals. |
| Agents | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Amp, Pi, Aider, Goose, and any CLI you configure.Several sessions of the same provider, each signed in as you. | Claude, Codex, Cursor and Gemini on the homepage; Kimi, Qwen, Grok and OpenCode in the release notes. |
| Where your code runs | Your Mac. No account. The local server listens on 127.0.0.1 only. | Your Mac. iPhone alerts pass through their relay, end-to-end encrypted. |
| Price | $49 to $169 once, per Mac, with a year of updates. Free for 3 days.Launch prices, set by seats sold. See the ladder. | Founder seats $99 once, then $129 and $169 by seat number. All 1.x updates. No trial advertised. |
| Hand work to another agent | A saved brief with the objective and criteria, bounded review rounds, then Ready for human review. | — |
| Catch up on every window | Hold Space. Every window flips to a recap of what it did and where it is. | A one-line headline per agent, written on-device, in a fleet briefing. |
| Diagrams | An agent draws the architecture beside its terminal. Editable. | Sketches on the canvas. |
| Issues and pull requests | Drop a GitHub issue on a window. The Flight board shows pull requests by stage. | — |
| Voice and hands | Hold ⌥ and speak to an agent by name. Pinch, pan, clap to tidy. On-device, and optional. | Voice first: speak a goal to the fleet, through Grok Voice. |
| Workspaces | Unlimited. Each keeps its crew, folder, layout and backdrop, your own image included. | Several canvases, one per project. |
| Platform | macOS on Apple silicon. | macOS, native Swift. |
Same on both. Browser previews on the canvas.
A dash means the product’s own site does not advertise it. Prices and features are from each product’s public pages on 28 September 2026 and may have changed since; product names belong to their owners. Spotted a change? Tell us.
Which one.
Pick CNVS if
you want to talk to your agents all day, want a push to your iPhone when one needs you, or a native Swift app matters more than the rest of this table.
Pick Starkomand if
you run more than Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, want on-device dictation, want briefs, diagrams and issue notes beside the terminals, or want to try before you pay.
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Try it against your own setup.
Every feature, every provider, free for 3 days. Your CLIs are already installed; the canvas takes a minute.
v1.0.4 · Apple silicon · no account