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Development · Free: USD 0, with no tiers, no paid plan, no seat count and no account for the local app. Licensed FSL-1.1-MIT (copyright 2026 Amir Fish), which is source-available rather than OSI open source: you may use, copy, modify and redistribute it for any Permitted Purpose, a Competing Use is barred, and each version converts to the MIT license on its second anniversary. Downloads are a 3.6 MB notarized and Apple-signed DMG, a Homebrew tap (amirfish1/tap/ccc), a curl installer for macOS/Linux and a PowerShell installer for Windows. The optional CCC Cloud phone relay is account-based; no price appears for it on any fetched page either. No page on the site carries a price token other than $0.

CCC (Claude Command Center)

CCC (Claude Command Center) is a local dashboard for people running several coding agents at once. Instead of owning execution, it reads each engine's on-disk state as the source of truth, so a session you started in a terminal, resumed by hand or launched headless outside the dashboard still shows up on the board - that is the difference between a dashboard and a second place you have to remember to work from. On top of the board it adds a needs-attention lane that flags sessions ending on a real question, a per-session context meter, plan-usage and rate-limit projections, a Kanban with a project tree and an infinite Flow canvas, group chats between agents, a work queue with verify-to-close receipts, git worktrees per task, and an optional fallback that keeps a limit-hit session running on a $0 model. The stack is deliberately plain: a stdlib-only Python server bound to 127.0.0.1 and a no-build vanilla-JS UI, with readable JSON state under ~/.claude/command-center/. Claude Code is first-class; Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Kilo Code, Kimi Code, OpenCode and Devin spawn and ingest with documented gaps. Version 5.39.0 shipped 2026-10-18 and the repository was pushed the same day this review was written.

Best for: Developers who already run several coding agents and keep losing track of them in terminal tabs. CCC is worth a look if you launch Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and friends from a terminal and want one local board that shows every session, which one is waiting on you, and which has quietly run out of context - without routing your work through someone else's cloud. It is not a fit for a single-session user (a terminal is enough), for anyone who wants a hosted team product with accounts and permissions, for a Windows or Linux shop expecting parity with the macOS app, or for a buyer who needs a company entity and a governing-law clause before installing software.

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Productivity · Free (5 trial checks) + Pro $10/mo billed annually ($120/yr) - Pro Plus $24.17/mo ($290/yr) - Business $65.83/mo ($790/yr)

AIDetector.cx

Multi-modal AI-content detection covering text, images, video and voice, with sentence-level explanations, a plagiarism checker, an SEO assistant and a humanizer. Credit-based plans; the free entry is five one-time introductory checks.

Best for: Screening text, images, video and voice for AI-generation signals before publication or submission

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Productivity · Paid plan availability varies

Airtable AI

AI capabilities inside Airtable for summarizing records, categorizing data, drafting text, and powering operational workflows.

Best for: Adding AI to structured business databases and operational apps

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Automation · Free + paid plans

Browse AI

A visual web automation platform that turns site monitoring and extraction into repeatable robots.

Best for: Visual web scraping and no-code browser automation

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