Parallax
See, talk to and control every coding-agent session from your Mac and your phone.
Desktop
Paste this in Terminal. It installs Parallax.app in Applications and starts it with nothing to approve, and from then on it opens with a normal double-click.
curl -fsSL https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-desktop-releases/releases/latest/download/install.sh | shFirst open from the .dmg
- Open the .dmg and drag Parallax to Applications.
- Open Parallax. macOS blocks it because Parallax is not notarized during the beta: click Done.
- Within the hour, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway beside “Parallax was blocked to protect your Mac”.
- macOS asks once more: click Open Anyway, then enter your login password.
On macOS 14 and earlier, right-click Parallax in Applications → Open → Open instead.
One app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs, macOS 12 or later.
On Linux (x86-64)
The same line installs the parallax command in ~/.local/bin and starts its daemon. Open http://127.0.0.1:7878 in a browser to use it. There is no native window on Linux yet. Without systemd, start the daemon again after a restart with ~/.local/bin/parallax daemon.
Or unpack parallax-linux-amd64.tar.gz and run ./parallax daemon in that folder, again after every restart.
64-bit Intel and AMD only; there is no ARM build yet.
Phone
An APK: open it on the phone and allow the install. It updates itself.
On iPhone
Open Parallax in Safari: the same app, in the browser. To keep it on the Home Screen, add it there first (Share → Add to Home Screen), then pair from the icon.
Alerts on the lock screen need the Android app.
Pair your phone
With Parallax open on your Mac, run this in a new Terminal window, then scan the code with the phone or paste the link it prints:
parallax pairInstalled from the .dmg? Run /Applications/Parallax.app/Contents/MacOS/parallax pair instead.
After installing
- Open Parallax.app.
- Get started, at the foot of the sidebar, walks you through connecting your agents, Conifer, GitHub and capture.
- Every step can be skipped.
- On Linux, open
http://127.0.0.1:7878in a browser and choose Setup in its sidebar.
Starter credit
Every new account gets 5 free Parallax episodes and $50 of Conifer API credit.
No Claude or ChatGPT plan? Sign in to Conifer in Parallax with GitHub or Google and your agents run on the $50 credit.
After the free episodes, each new episode is $15: buy episode credits in Setup.
Cloud machines
Billed by the hour while a machine runs, at Fly's own rate with no markup:
| Small | 2 shared CPUs, 2 GB | $0.0184 an hour |
|---|---|---|
| Medium | 2 CPUs, 4 GB | $0.0917 an hour |
| Large | 4 CPUs, 8 GB | $0.1833 an hour |
| XLarge | 8 CPUs, 16 GB | $0.3667 an hour |
| 2XLarge | 8 CPUs, 32 GB | $0.4982 an hour |
| 4XLarge | 16 CPUs, 64 GB | $0.9964 an hour |
Each machine's disk is $0.15 per GB a month, running or not. A Parallax Cloud session is $0.0559 an hour while it is held awake. Starting or waking one needs a card on file.
Voice agents
Voice calls run on GPT-Realtime-2.1 through the Conifer API at OpenAI's list price: audio $32 in and $64 out, text $4 in and $24 out, per million tokens. Live transcription (GPT-Realtime-Whisper) is $0.017 a minute.