Codecast vs Paradev (formerly Superset)
Paradev, the desktop app formerly called Superset, runs CLI coding agents in parallel, one git worktree per task, with terminals, diffs, pull requests and a browser in the same window. Codecast records every agent session you run, wherever you start it, and lets you read, search and steer them from web, desktop or phone.
Codecast is a workspace for your coding agents. A daemon reads the history files your agents already write, so every session on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, pi, Grok or Muse Spark syncs live from every machine you use, whichever terminal, IDE or app started it. You read, search, message and steer those sessions from web, desktop or phone, and cast blame names the session behind each line of code. It works for one person; a team layer is there when you share a project.
Paradev (formerly Superset) is a source available desktop app, under the Elastic License 2.0, for running CLI coding agents in parallel. Each task gets a workspace: its own git worktree, branch and persistent terminals. Around the agents it adds a Changes pane, pull requests with checks and review threads, an in-app browser, a file editor, automations that start agents on a schedule or an event, and Pages for sharing agent reports with a team. It runs on macOS, with an experimental Linux build, and has an iPhone and iPad app on its Pro plan. Paradev (formerly Superset)’s site.
Bottom line
If you want one app to launch many agents at once, keep each on its own branch, and review, preview and merge their work in the same window, Paradev is built for that. If you want every session recorded no matter which tool or machine started it, kept and searchable afterward, traced from a line of code back to its conversation, and steerable from a browser or a phone, that is Codecast. They compose: sessions Paradev starts are real Claude Code or Codex sessions, and Codecast records them.
Side by side
| Codecast | Paradev (formerly Superset) | |
|---|---|---|
| Core model | Records and steers every agent session you run, wherever you start it, from the history the agent already writes; a team layer is there when you want one | Launches agents itself, one workspace (git worktree and branch) per task, and wraps their launch commands to track status |
| Agents supported | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, pi, Grok and Muse Spark, plus Cursor and Codex cloud agents | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Cursor Agent, Amp and others listed on its site, plus any CLI agent and a built in chat |
| Where it runs | A daemon on each machine where agents run; clients on web, macOS desktop and iOS | A macOS desktop app (Linux AppImage experimental, Windows not yet available), plus remote hosts and cloud workspaces |
| Parallel work | Forks and workers started from a session (cast fork, cast spawn), each optionally in its own git worktree, on this machine or a cloud host | The core job: a worktree per task, diffs and pull requests in the app, and recipes for racing agents or fanning out a refactor |
| Team visibility | Every teammate's sessions in one feed and inbox, with per-directory privacy controls | Organizations, Pages that teammates comment on, and a Tasks view over Linear and GitHub issues |
| Search & memory | Full-text search across all past sessions; agents query team history themselves (cast search / cast ask) | Sessions resume after a crash and can be forked or handed to another agent; search across past sessions is not stated |
| Line-level attribution | cast blame traces any line of code to the conversation that wrote it | Not stated |
| Remote steering | Web, macOS desktop and iOS apps; send messages into a live terminal session and answer permission prompts from any device | iPhone and iPad app on Paradev Pro (iOS 26 or later) reaching cloud workspaces or a connected computer; no web dashboard, Android on a waitlist |
| Pricing | Free for one person, per seat for teams | A free tier; remote access, mobile and automations need Pro |
| Open source | MIT, with a backend you can host yourself | Source available under the Elastic License 2.0, which its site notes is not OSI approved |
Choose Paradev (formerly Superset) when
- You want to run many agents at once on one repository and do the whole loop (prompt, review, preview, pull request, merge) inside one desktop app.
- You want automations that start an agent in a fresh workspace on a schedule or when a review is requested, a Sentry issue opens or a Slack message arrives.
Choose Codecast when
- Your sessions start in many places (a terminal, an IDE, another app, another machine) and you want all of them in one record without changing how you start them.
- You want sessions kept after they end: searchable months later, readable by your agents, and traceable from a line of code back to the conversation that wrote it.
- You want to steer sessions from a browser or a phone without a paid plan, including answering their permission prompts.
They compose: Paradev runs agents like Claude Code and Codex in ordinary terminals inside its worktrees, so a Codecast daemon on the same machine records those sessions like any other. Paradev runs the parallel work; Codecast keeps the record across every tool you use.
Paradev (formerly Superset) facts read from its public docs on 2026-11-03. Tell us if something changed.