A home for your Claude Code sessions.

Name: Workbench
Author: Birchtree Productions, LLC

Run Claude in tabs across every project, watch each change as it lands, hand work to agents on their own branches, and keep tabs on all of it from your iPhone.

Download for Mac

Beta Free, with no account. For Macs with Apple silicon running macOS 26 or later, with Claude Code installed. Read why I made it.

Active

Recipes Needs you

Website 0s Thinking

Trail Log Done

Podcast Studio main

Shell Claude pricing.html

› Add a pricing page with three plans, and link it from the nav.

I'll look at the nav first so the new page matches.

Write(site/pricing.html)
└ Wrote 84 lines

Update(site/nav.html)
└ Added 1 line

The pricing page is up with Free, Pro and Team plans, and it's linked from the nav.

✻ Worked for 46s

On the Mac

Every project, every session, one window.

Workbench gives Claude Code a proper place to live: tabs for each project, a sidebar that tells you what needs you, and the changes in plain view.

Claude Shell RecipeStore.swift

main

Claude wants to run: swift test

AllowDeny

Waiting on you for 1m 12s

Claude Preview pricing.html

pricing-page

Write(site/pricing.html)

Linking it from the nav…

Working for 2m 03s

Click a project to switch to it.

Every project gets its own workspace.

Add a folder and it gets its own tabs: Claude Code, shells, files, diffs and previews. The sidebar shows whether Claude is working, waiting on you, or done, and answers permission prompts right there. Projects sort themselves into Active, Recent and Inactive as you use them.

See the changes as Claude makes them.

Every file Claude touches shows up live, with its additions and deletions. Click one for the full diff, and leave comments on lines to send back to Claude.

Terminal or chat, same session.

Claude Code runs in a real terminal built on Ghostty, so it uses your font, theme and keybindings. Press ⌥⌘T and the same session turns into a chat: edits show as diffs, commands fold their output away, and questions become cards with real buttons. It's still Claude Code underneath, so you can flip back any time.

Claude

› Add a "Clear checked items" button to the shopping list.

Update(Recipes/ShoppingListView.swift)
└ Added 6 lines

Bash(swift test)
└ Test Suite 'All tests' passed. Executed 14 tests…
(+38 lines)

Should it ask before clearing, or clear right away?
❯ 1. Ask first
2. Clear right away

Add a "Clear checked items" button to the shopping list.

Edited ShoppingListView.swift +6

+ Button("Clear Checked Items") {
+ store.shoppingList.clearChecked()

swift test 14 passed

Should it ask before clearing, or clear right away?

Ask firstClear right away

Message ClaudeOpus 5.5 · 48k / 1M

Switch views with the buttons in the tab bar.

R Recipes F Field Notes W Website

Show how many items are left to buy.

- List(store.items) { item in

+ List {

+ Text("3 items left to buy")

Added a count at the top of the list.

Looks like your terminal.

Workbench takes on your Ghostty theme's colors for its sidebars, chat and diffs, and switches between light and dark with your Mac. Pick a theme to try it.

Your plan's limits, at a glance.

Rings show your 5-hour, weekly and per-model limits next to your Mac's CPU and memory. They stay grey until they need your attention.

Your other Macs, in the same sidebar.

Pair a second Mac, like a Mac mini on a shelf that does your iOS builds, and work in its projects from the one in front of you. Read and answer its sessions, start Claude tabs and agents, look at its changes, and run its shortcuts.

Recipes 4m 05s Adding items from a recipe

Website Added the pricing page

Switch between Macs at the top of the sidebar.

Agents

Hand off the work. Keep your branch.

Every agent gets its own git worktree and branch, so a few of them can work at once without stepping on you or each other.

Brain Dump: say it all at once.

Press ⌥⌘N and talk through everything you want done, across all your projects. Claude splits it into one task per project, each with a branch and a prompt you can edit or move to another project. Nothing starts until you click Start, and then they all run side by side.

Brain Dump Started 3 agents

“Okay, the recipes app needs a button to clear checked items. On the website the footer link to the press kit is broken. And Field Notes should export an empty notebook as a blank PDF instead of failing.”

R Add a Clear Checked Items button clear-checked-items

W Fix the press kit link in the footer fix-press-kit-link

F Export empty notebooks as a blank PDF empty-notebook-export

Start 3 Agents

From prompt to merged pull request.

Start an agent with a prompt and Workbench gives it a fresh worktree on its own branch. Each one shows its status, its pull request, and whether checks passed. After the PR merges, Workbench follows the deploy on hosts like Vercel and Railway, and can clean up the worktree for you.

New Agent on a Branch

Support dark mode on every screen.

Recipes main · you're working here

agent/dark-mode #42

On the iPhone

Step away. Claude doesn't have to wait.

The Workbench iPhone app connects to your Mac so you can follow along from the couch. It's in beta on TestFlight, needs iOS 27, and runs as a full iPad app too.

Allow or deny from anywhere.

See every session at a glance, read along as Claude works, and tap Allow or Deny when it asks permission. Reply with a message or a photo, and review diffs without getting up. Try it.

W Website pricing-page

Add a pricing page with three plans, and link it from the nav.

The page and nav link are done. I'd like to run the build to make sure nothing broke.

Claude wants to run: npm run build

Message Claude

Workbench

1 needs you, 1 working, 2 done

R Recipes6m 03s Adding items from a recipe

W WebsiteClaude wants to run: npm run build

T Trail LogFixed: the map now remembers your zoom.

Every session at a glance.

Sessions that need you sit at the top, then the ones Claude is working on, then the ones that are done. Get notified for the projects you choose, or put every session on your Lock Screen at once.

Your code goes from your Mac to your phone.

The iPhone app talks to your Mac over your own Tailscale network, so your code never passes through our servers. Notifications are encrypted on your Mac so only your phone can read them.

And the rest

And a lot of small things.

Overview.

Every Claude session across every project in one grid, with the ones that need you first. ⌘J jumps to the next one.

Go anywhere.

⌘K opens a command bar for any project or action: switch projects, start an agent, or begin a Brain Dump.

Usage and costs.

See what your sessions would cost at API prices, by day, model and project.

One-click shortcuts.

Add tab shortcuts for commands you run all the time. JavaScript projects get a dev server button and a preview tab.

Pick up where you left off.

Resume past conversations in one click, and your tabs come back when Workbench relaunches.

Your draft stays put.

Text in the message box is still there when you switch projects and come back.

Menu bar status.

See what's working and what needs you without switching apps.

A welcome that sets you up.

It checks for the tools it needs, signs you in to Claude Code, suggests projects, and pairs your iPhone.

Updates itself.

New versions download in the background and install when you quit.

Download

Free. No account, no catch.

Workbench is in beta and costs nothing. Your code and conversations never come to us. It shares anonymous usage counts to help improve it, which you can turn off in Settings.

Price

Free

Every feature, on every Mac you own

No account or subscription
Signed and notarized by Apple
Updates itself in the background

Download for Mac

You'll need

macOS 26

On a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later)

Claude Code, signed in with a Claude plan
git (Workbench offers to install it)
GitHub CLI for PR, check and deploy status (optional)
Tailscale for iPhone and other Macs (optional)
iOS 27 for the iPhone app (TestFlight beta)

Step up to the bench.

Download the zip, drag Workbench into Applications, and add a project folder.

Download for Mac

Workbench is an independent app, not made by or affiliated with Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic.