honestly a bit torn here and curious if anyone has cracked this. I really like the Codex desktop app. the UI is clean, the live preview, the diff panel, the whole thing just feels polished and genuinely nice to use. but I’m not a fan of the model side. for actual coding I strongly prefer Claude Code’s engine, it plans better and the output quality is just higher for the work I do. the problem is the Claude Code Mac app feels rough next to it. buggy, way less thought put into the UX, and I keep wishing it looked and behaved like Codex. so my question is basically: is there any way to get the Codex app experience but running Claude underneath? either
- some trick to point the official Codex app at a Claude model (I’m assuming this is a no because of how the auth/backend is wired, but tell me if I’m wrong), or
- an open source repo, Electron or Tauri style app, that more or less clones the Codex UX but uses Claude Code as the backend I’ve come across CloudCLI (siteboon/claudecodeui) and Nimbalyst, which both wrap Claude Code in a nicer GUI, but neither really nails that Codex level of polish for me. if there’s something out there that scratches this exact itch I’d love to hear it. thanks submitted by /u/B3N0U
Originally posted by u/B3N0U on r/ClaudeCode
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