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title: "Omnara vs Fredrin"
description: "Omnara is a control plane for steering coding agents from your phone. Fredrin is the alternative when that work needs a board, worktrees and PRs."
url: "https://fredrin.com/compare/omnara"
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# Omnara vs Fredrin

Omnara lets you watch and answer your agents from anywhere, including your phone. Fredrin gives that work a board, an isolated worktree per ticket, and a pull request. Here's the honest comparison, and where a desktop board of parallel agents pulls ahead.

## What each tool is for

### Omnara (agent control plane)

Omnara lets you watch and answer your agents from anywhere, including your phone.

### Fredrin (desktop agent board)

Fredrin gives that work a board, an isolated worktree per ticket, and a pull request.

## Fredrin vs Omnara, side by side

Omnara earns partial credit where it legitimately covers a row. Nothing here is stacked against it.

| Capability | Omnara | Fredrin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Runs many coding agents in parallel | Yes | Yes |
| Agents run on your own machine | Yes | Yes |
| Watch and steer from your phone | Yes | No |
| Open source | Partial — repo archived Feb 26 | No |
| Self-hostable | Partial — from the archived repo | No |
| Each task in its own git worktree | No | Yes |
| Kanban board from backlog to review | No | Yes |
| GitHub PR + CI status on the card | Partial — via a workflow | Yes |
| Free to use | Yes | Partial — free tier, then $20 |

## Why teams move from Omnara to Fredrin

### A board, not a feed

Omnara's surface is a dashboard of sessions you can answer from anywhere. Fredrin's is a kanban of tickets that move backlog → planning → building → review, so the question it answers is 'what should ship next', not only 'what is my agent asking me'.

### Isolation is the default

Fredrin gives every ticket its own branch and git worktree, so several agents work the same repository at once without stepping on each other's files. That isolation is the reason a whole board can run in parallel rather than one session at a time.

### Work lands as a pull request

A Fredrin ticket ends in a PR with its CI status on the card, and merging it closes the ticket. The unit of work is a reviewable change against your repo rather than a conversation you steered to a good place.

## An honest read

### Choose Omnara

You want a phone app in the app-store sense — installed, able to reach you when nothing is open — so a long agent run can pull you back while you are on the train. Fredrin's whole surface now runs on a phone: the board, a ticket and its plan, the terminal with a touch bar for answering an agent's prompts, chat, Notes and Settings. But it runs in your mobile browser, and there is no iOS or Android client to install. If an installed phone app is the point, Omnara is the better fit.

### Choose Fredrin

Your bottleneck isn't reachability, it's throughput: you want many tickets in flight in isolated worktrees, a review column, and a PR per ticket, all from one desktop surface.

## Omnara vs Fredrin: FAQ

### Is Fredrin an Omnara alternative?

They solve adjacent problems. Omnara is a control plane: it gives you visibility into agents running on your machine and lets you answer them from web or mobile. Fredrin is the board those agents run on: a ticket per task, each with its own branch and worktree, ending in a pull request. If you want remote access to one agent, Omnara; if you want many tasks moving at once with a review step, Fredrin.

### Does Fredrin have a mobile app?

Not in the app-store sense, and yes in the sense that matters day to day. There is no iOS or Android client to install. What there is, since the 0.35 release, is Fredrin's full surface running in your phone's browser — the board, a ticket and its plan, the terminal with a touch bar for answering an agent's prompts, chat, Notes and Settings — not a cut-down companion view. Omnara still wins if you specifically want an installed app; Fredrin's bet is that a browser tab is enough to answer an agent from the train, and that reviewing a diff and shipping a PR is still desk work.

### Is Fredrin open source like Omnara?

Neither is a clean yes today. Fredrin is not open source and has no self-host option. Omnara's web and mobile apps were published under Apache-2.0 and that code is still there to fork and self-host, but the omnara-ai/omnara repository was archived in February 2026 with users pointed at the hosted product, so self-hosting means adopting a codebase its authors have stopped maintaining. Worth checking their current position before you count on it (as of July 2026).

### How does pricing compare?

Both have a free tier, and Omnara publishes a $9 Pro plan and an Enterprise tier; Fredrin is $0 free, $20/mo Pro, and Team is $29/seat/mo, from $58 for 2 seats, with Enterprise on custom terms. Neither meters your agent usage: you bring your own AI subscription either way (figures as of July 2026; illustrative, not a quote).