Run your agents from anywhere: an open-source Nimbalyst iOS alternative

Where the work runs

Nimbalyst Mobile is a companion app. It links to the Nimbalyst desktop app over a QR code, and the writing, running, and committing happen on your desktop machine. Code files, images, diagrams, and mockups stay there, and the phone can read and edit only the markdown it syncs, which is in alpha (Nimbalyst, checked October 2026). That design suits a desktop-first tool, and it makes the phone a window onto work a Mac is already doing.

Kortix runs the session on its own computer

Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System, and every session runs on its own isolated cloud computer instead of your laptop. The session boots a machine, clones your project, cuts a branch named after the session, and works there. A phone only needs a browser or a chat app to reach it, because the compute is already somewhere else (Kortix).

Start, watch, and steer from any surface

You reach the same session from the web app, the desktop app, a phone browser, the CLI, Slack, Microsoft Teams, or email, where email is experimental and per project. The Kortix app in Slack and Teams starts a session when someone mentions the bot with a task, and the reply lands in the same thread. Open a session from a phone at lunch and read the result on a laptop later, because it is the same session on every screen.

Approvals reach you wherever you are

A tool call set to Ask holds until a person approves it, and the request reaches you in the web app or in the channel. You set three connector actions, Allow, Ask, or Block, and Ask pauses the agent mid-turn and resumes it when you answer. Approval gates are off until you set them, so you decide how much the agent does on its own. For the wider choice, see Kortix vs Nimbalyst.