Work/Mac app
Philote
⌘-Tab and the Dock were made before AI. Philote is made for working with AI on your Mac.
Philote is the Mac interface for the AI era that ZEROPLUSONE designed, built and sells itself. Three VS Code windows, five terminal tabs: it opens every app up into one card per project, shows which agent just finished and which is waiting for your input, and one click takes you to that exact window.
Overview
Fine with two windows. With twelve, every time?
Swipe through desktops (⌃→), spread them out (⌃↑), pick the app (⌘⇥), flip through its windows. Every time an agent finishes, you walk that path again. ⌘-Tab and the Dock were made before AI: they can’t tell you which agent just finished or which one is waiting for your input.
Approach
I got tired of chasing AI agents with ⌘-Tab and the Dock.
“I run several AI agents at once, every day. I’d hand one a task, switch to another window, and then have no idea which one had finished, so I’d cycle through ⌘-Tab and the Dock, opening windows one by one. I was spending longer finding the right window than answering the agent inside it. So I built this board, for myself.”Jongseok Kim · CEO of ZEROPLUSONE, maker of Philote
01/04
Every time an agent finishes: 2 keys, not 12
Finding one window by hand takes twelve key presses and 9.6 seconds. With Philote it’s one shortcut and one click, and you’re at that window in 1.1 seconds.
02/04
Three readouts. Every project.
This is the real board, the one Philote opens over whatever you’re doing: every Claude Code and Codex session on your Mac, one card per project.
03/04
One shortcut summons the whole board
Press ⌃⇧Space over whatever you’re doing. The board appears where you left it, then gets out of the way when you’ve jumped. Pin it to keep it on screen.
04/04
Agents stay linked, your work stays on this Mac
Agents working in the same folder know what the others did and pick up from there. The work passing between them never goes to our servers.
- Claude Code
- Codex
- VS Code
- Cursor
- Terminal
- iTerm2
- ChatGPT app
Name
A particle tied to every other particle
The name comes from the philote, a particle in the “Ender’s Game” novels. In the books it’s the smallest particle there is, linked to every other, so a signal crosses any distance at once. Philote is the thread through the agents scattered across your Mac’s folders and windows.
φ = 0 + 1
The ring is 0, the empty field between your agents. The thread is 1, the link that runs through it. Say it FY-loht.
Philote is made by 0+1 · ZERO PLUS ONE Inc.
Highlights
- 01A native Mac app
We rewrote the first Electron version in Rust and Slint, so it stays light enough to keep running all day.
- 02No server, just this Mac
Your work never goes to a server, so Philote runs on this Mac alone the moment it’s installed, with no sign-up.
- 03Launched in five languages
The landing and store pages opened in Korean, English, Japanese, German and French at once.
- Rust
- Slint
- macOS AppKit
- Next.js
- Cloudflare
Last signal
Stop checking. Just answer.
Philote for Mac
$19once
- 14-day trial, no sign-up
- A year of updates, then keep your version
- Full refund within 14 days
Philote Cloud Later
$10per seat / month
- Your board on your phone
- Sync across Macs
- See your team’s agents
- Includes the Mac app
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