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Waku

Waku is a fast, native desktop app for working with local coding agents. It is built in Rust with GPUI and keeps projects, sessions, transcripts on your machine.

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  • Mac
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  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  AI-Powered

Features

  1.  Dark Mode
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  No registration required
  5.  Ad-free
  6.  Local AI
  7.  Apple Silicon support

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What is Waku?

Waku is a fast, native desktop app for working with local coding agents. It is built in Rust with GPUI and keeps projects, sessions, transcripts on your machine.

Highlights:

  • Keep projects and independent agent sessions in one native app.
  • Switch models, reasoning effort, and access modes from a shared interface.
  • Queue or steer follow-up messages while an agent is working.
  • Rewind Git-backed tasks with conversation-aware checkpoints.
  • Store app state locally, with no Waku account or remote service required.

Waku works with:

  • Amp
  • Claude Code
  • Codex CLI
  • Cursor CLI
  • Grok Build
  • OpenCode
  • Pi

Install and authenticate at least one supported agent CLI before starting Waku. Waku detects available CLIs automatically and uses each provider's native structured protocol and session continuity.