Grid
2×2real PTY
Up to four real, PTY-backed terminals side by side across different projects — all visible at once. A grid, not a tab switcher.
macOSWindowsterminal-native
A pane for every agent.
PaneCrew puts your parallel CLI sessions — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, plain shells — into one grid of real terminals, with a single file explorer that follows your focus around.
In development for macOS and Windows. Dogfooded daily.
meet the crew
One app. Six crew members.
These aren't plugins bolted on later — they're what PaneCrew is. Every card below is one facet of the same window.
Sidekick
follows focus
One file explorer for the whole grid. Click a pane — the tree is already showing that project. View, edit, move on.
Flip
terminal ⇄ file
Mini-tabs flip a pane between its terminal and the file you just opened — no window juggling, no second editor.
Recall
session restore
Quit, restart, continue. Projects, layout and sessions come back exactly the way you left them.
Wardrobe
themesextensions
Bring your VS Code theme — imported straight from Open VSX. Underneath: a sandboxed extension system with rights you confirm once, at install.
Launch
CLI
Straight from your shell into a working grid. The project picker is there when you want it — optional when you don't.
crew-agnostic
Any CLI is crew.
No adapters, no integrations, no favourites — every pane is a real terminal.
Claude CodecodexGemini CLIzshbashfishPowerShellnushellsshvimgithtopcargopnpm
$ if it runs in a terminal, it runs in PaneCrew
look closer
Don't take our word for it.
Try the follow.
This one's live. Point at any pane — or tap it — and watch the explorer keep up. In the app it works exactly like this, except the terminals are real.
That's the whole trick: focus a pane, and the files you need are already in front of you. No tool we tried gets this right — so we built it.
↖ hover or tap a pane
Built inside itself.
PaneCrew is developed in PaneCrew — a grid of agents building the app they run in, every day. Rough edges don't survive that arrangement for long.
No git magic, either: panes just cd into folders you already have checked out. Your repos stay yours.
mit licensed
We ♥ open source.
PaneCrew is MIT-licensed — the grid, the explorer, the extension host, all of it. No open-core split, no asterisks.
MIT
one license
One permissive license for the whole app. Fork it, ship it, build on it — the license won't get in your way.
On GitHub
extensions
The extension registry is a JSON file in a repo. Getting listed is a pull request; builds ship from authors' own releases. No marketplace middleman.
In the open
public now
The source is public today, pre-release. No star counts to show off yet — just an app that's dogfooded daily and decisions kept on the record.
shipping
v0.1 is assembling.
macOS first — notarized direct download and Homebrew. Windows next. Built in the open, dogfooded daily.
$ brew install panecrewsoon