Mobile-Harness vs nimbalyst
nimbalyst is much bigger: 2.0k stars against 766. Over the days we have tracked them Mobile-Harness moved +68% and nimbalyst +44%, so Mobile-Harness is growing faster right now.
nimbalyst leads on noise control. Mobile-Harness does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Runs a full Ubuntu userspace and integrated AI agents directly on ARM64 Android devices, enabling on-device builds, terminal access, and live web previews in a single mobile app.
- Stars
- 766
- Tracked growth
- +68%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 40m ago
- Language
- Kotlin
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Requires cloud model API keys
A visual WYSIWYG workspace that runs multiple coding agents in parallel and lets you review and approve their edits as red/green diffs while managing sessions and tasks.
- Stars
- 2.0k
- Tracked growth
- +44%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 15h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free desktop app; external model API costs may apply
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | Mobile-Harness | nimbalyst |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Project workspace | ●●●●● Multi-file workspace |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● None mentioned | ●●●●● Approve/reject review |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Provider & toolchain configs | ●●●●● Extensible plugins |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Cloud APIs (local keys) | ●●●●● Cloud-connected desktop |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Anthropic-compatible & gateways | ●●●●● Multiple providers |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Guided setup | ●●●●● Desktop installer |
Which one to pick
Pick Mobile-Harness if…
Mobile-first — choose Mobile Harness when you want a self-contained, privacy-minded development workspace on your phone with integrated agent workflows, local builds, and encrypted API key storage.
Pick nimbalyst if…
Visual workflow — choose Nimbalyst when you want a local desktop WYSIWYG workspace to run, review, and iterate with multiple coding agents in parallel, with integrated session and task management.
- Noise control: Approve/reject review (4/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
techjarves/Mobile-Harness
nimbalyst/nimbalyst
Hacker News: Show HN: Nimbalyst open-source visual workspace for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode drew 8 points and 4 comments.
Questions people ask
Is Mobile-Harness better than nimbalyst?
nimbalyst leads on noise control. Mobile-Harness does not take any axis by a clear margin. Mobile-Harness is worth picking when mobile-first — choose Mobile Harness when you want a self-contained, privacy-minded development workspace on your phone with integrated agent workflows, local builds, and encrypted API key storage.
Which of Mobile-Harness and nimbalyst keeps my code private?
Mobile-Harness: Cloud APIs (local keys) (3/5). nimbalyst: Cloud-connected desktop (2/5).
What does each one cost to run?
Mobile-Harness: Requires cloud model API keys. nimbalyst: Free desktop app; external model API costs may apply.
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