Codync vs Muse
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent for goals and errands such as email, travel and shopping, running on a cloud VM with Meta's own model. Codync gives you a team of bots on your own computer, for code and everything else: they run the agents you choose, use your connected apps, browse and use the computer, and work on a schedule, for free.
- Price
- $0, every feature included. MIT licensed.
- Free with a usage limit. Power is $20/mo and Maximum $100/mo.
- Where bots run
- On your own computer: a Mac, a Windows PC, a Linux desktop or a headless server.
- On Muse Secure VM, a cloud Linux VM run by Meta.
- Agents and models
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, OpenCode and about 40 more over ACP, on the plans and logins you already have.
- Meta's Muse Spark model only.
- Apps
- iPhone, Mac, Windows and Linux apps, plus a terminal UI over SSH.
- iPhone, Android, web, a Mac app and WhatsApp.
- Your data
- Stays on your computer. The phone connects directly, or through an end-to-end encrypted relay.
- On the cloud VM, not shared with Meta's ad systems, with a training opt-out.
- Source
- Open source, MIT.
- Not published as open source.
- Account
- Not required: pair by scanning a code. Signing in is optional.
- Required: a Meta, Facebook or Instagram account, 18 or older.
- Approvals
- Edits and commands come to your phone: allow once, always allow or deny.
- Yes, before sensitive actions, with a full audit trail.
- Group chats and threads
- Group chats where every bot answers in its own session, and threads on any message.
- Not documented.
- Memory and routines
- Memory per bot, and routines that run on a schedule or from a webhook.
- Memory you can tell to forget, and scheduled or event-driven background work.
- Connected apps and tools
- Any connector from the MCP registry, your apps through Composio, and skills. Bots can also see and use the computer.
- Email, travel and shopping; it uses a browser and terminal on its VM and can write its own tools.
- Voice and screen
- Voice calls with a bot, and remote screen to watch and control the computer from the phone.
- Not documented. The agent has a browser and terminal on its own VM.
Pick Codync if
you want your agents on your own computer with your files, the model and agent of your choice instead of one vendor's, and a team of named bots you can put in a room and message from your phone.
Download for MacPick Muse if
you want a personal assistant for email, travel and shopping inside Meta's apps, running in Meta's cloud with nothing to install.
Sources, checked October 6, 2026
Museis a product of its owner. Codync is an independent project and isn't affiliated with it. Something out of date? Tell us on GitHub and we'll fix it.