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About

Backgrind is an overlay window for AI coding agents, built for vibe coders and pro developers on macOS and Windows. It puts Claude Code, Cursor, or its hosted Grindy model in an always-on-top window that floats over whatever you are doing, so you can fire off a task, go build or play, and only get tapped when the agent actually needs you. Backgrind works as a thin frontend over the CLI you already use, keeping your login, history, hooks, and workflow intact while floating over your editor, browser, docs, or even a borderless full-screen game. The window can be dragged, stretched, recolored, faded through, summoned with a hotkey, or switched into click-through glance mode so your clicks and keystrokes pass straight to what is underneath. It flashes and chimes only when your agent needs approval, asks a question, or finishes. Backgrind also acts like a real mini-IDE, with a file tree, syntax-highlighted previews, rendered Markdown, and clickable file links.

About

Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness built to adapt to developer workflows instead of forcing developers to adapt to it. It ships with powerful defaults, but stays intentionally small and aggressively extensible, letting users customize Pi with extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, and shareable packages from npm or git. If a team needs a command, tool, provider, workflow, or UI tweak, they can ask Pi to build it, manipulate it in place, reload, and keep going. Pi supports interactive, print/JSON, RPC, and SDK modes, making it usable as a full terminal UI, a scriptable command, a JSON event stream, or an embeddable agent harness. It works with 15+ providers and hundreds of models, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, Groq, Cerebras, xAI, Hugging Face, Kimi For Coding, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Ollama, and more, with mid-session model switching.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Context-switching developers who want their AI coding agents to keep working in the background while they stay focused elsewhere

Audience

Developers and AI tool builders who want a minimal, extensible terminal coding agent they can customize, script, embed, and adapt to their own workflows

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$7.50 per month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

Free
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Backgrind
Founded: 2026
United States
backgrind.com

Company Information

Pi
United States
pi.dev/

Alternatives

Alternatives

Amp

Amp

Amp Code
Claude Code

Claude Code

Anthropic
Snipaste

Snipaste

DigitalOcean
OpenClaw

OpenClaw

Molty
Cline

Cline

Cline AI Coding Agent

Categories

Categories

Integrations

Cerebras
Claude
Claude Code
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Terra
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Groq
JSON
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.7 Code
Microsoft Azure
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7
OpenAI
OpenRouter

Integrations

Cerebras
Claude
Claude Code
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.7
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Terra
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Groq
JSON
Kimi K2.5
Kimi K2.7 Code
Microsoft Azure
MiniMax
MiniMax M2.7
OpenAI
OpenRouter
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