The fastest agent-fleet IDEfor macOS.
Run a fleet of coding agents side by side in a native terminal, with your subscriptions, memory and builds looked after. Free and MIT, built on Orca, by the outofplace studio.
Why Pod
Agents got fast.The tools around them didn't.
A fleet of agents works a Mac hard: terminals flood, subscriptions run dry, dev servers eat memory and builds pile up. Pod is made for that load.
- In the first release, 0.1
Native where it counts
The terminal runs Ghostty's engine and draws with Metal, in a native view inside the window, not in a web page.
- In the first release, 0.1
The machine, looked after
claude-acc is built in. It rotates subscriptions, guards dev-server memory, schedules builds by free memory, cleans up, keeps the Mac awake and runs the fans.
- Coming
Search made for agents
A native index answers an agent's grep in under a millisecond, so two dozen agents searching at once don't queue on the disk.
Measured
Numbers, not adjectives.Measured on an M4 Max.
Indexed grep
Coming0.5 ms
against ripgrep's 220–510 ms, on a monorepo of 18K files
24 agents searching at once
Coming0.12 s
against 7.9 s without the index
Terminal flood, wall time
In the first release, 0.1−66%
against the native view without pausing
Key to screen
In the first release, 0.12.1 ms
from a keypress to its glyph in the native terminal
Measured on an M4 Max. The search figures come from the index in development, which ships after the first release.
Inside Pod
Everything a fleet needs.In one native window.
Native terminal
Each pane is a native Metal view running Ghostty's engine, so floods, scrollback and resizes stay smooth while agents print.
claude-acc, built in
In the first release, 0.1The studio's toolkit for running many Claude Code agents on one Mac, now part of the IDE.
Subscription rotation
Moves to the next Claude subscription before one hits its limit.
Dev-server memory guard
Keeps the agents' dev servers from eating your memory.
Memory-aware builds
Holds heavy builds until there is memory free for them.
Cleanup
Clears what builds and installs leave behind, while nobody is using it.
Stay awake
Keeps the Mac awake until you say so, lid closed included.
Fan control
Spins the fans up before the chip gets hot.
Indexed code search
A native index that agents query instead of walking the disk: a grep answers in 0.5 ms on a monorepo of 18K files.
No telemetry
Pod sends nothing home. Orca's telemetry, relay, push, share and feedback services are switched off.
Pod Workspace
A managed ~/pod root for your repositories, with git tuned for many worktrees and the worktrees kept tidy.
OrbStack VM environments
Give an agent a clean Linux machine in OrbStack when a task should not touch your Mac.
0.1 marks what the first release brings; coming, what follows it. Per-worktree setup through orca.yaml is inherited from Orca.
Built on Orca
Built on Orca.Credited, not affiliated.
Pod is a downstream distribution of Orca, the open-source agent IDE by Stably AI, under the MIT license. We follow upstream closely and send everything generic back to Orca as a pull request. Pod adds the macOS-native parts and claude-acc.
Pod is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stably AI or Lovecast Inc. Orca is their product and their name.
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 Lovecast Inc.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction…
Install
Get Pod.Free, for macOS.
Homebrew
Comingbrew install --cask outof-place/tap/pod
Coming with the first release.
Notarized DMGComing
A signed, notarized download with automatic updates, with the first release.