Overview
Toone is a macOS desktop app for composing and running teams of AI agents as if they were a small company. Rather than managing one chat thread, you define an organization: agents are grouped into departments with roles, context, and routines, and they route tasks to each other and hand off state. A Spotlight-style launcher lets you trigger agents, run routines, and inspect each step, while a Markdown-based calendar, built-in browser panel, and dual-audio meeting capture give agents something to act on. The maker, Matheus Paranhos, built it after repeatedly rebuilding the same automations by hand and wanting more predictable, observable runs before trusting them in production.
The appeal is structure. Most consumer AI tools present work as a single conversation; Toone models an org with delegation, planning, and progress tracking, plus mobile relay so you can chat with agents from an iPhone. Prebuilt templates — a Media org with Instagram hook analysis, a Minimal starter, and a HomeKit personal-ops template — lower the setup cost. It is free to use and asks you to bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI account; the planned business model is a marketplace where creators sell prebuilt routines while the core app stays free. Our evaluation finds the organizational abstraction more useful than yet another agent shell, but cautions that the product is early, Mac-only, and that a free-plus-marketplace model can quietly starve custom-build support. For solopreneurs and small ops teams it is a compelling place to experiment with agent orchestration.
Key Features
- Departments of agents — Group specialized agents with roles and shared context that route tasks to each other.
- Natural-language workflows — Describe complex routines in plain English; inspect and debug each step with visibility and control.
- Edit-and-resume runs — Stop, fix a step, and continue from where you left off rather than restarting.
- Meeting capture — Dual audio (mic + system) with live transcription fed straight into chat.
- Markdown calendar + built-in browser — Agents read schedules, propose events, and act on any website.
- Templates and mobile relay — Start from Media/Minimal/HomeKit orphans; drive agents from iOS over local or cloud relay.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| Free early access | $0 | Individuals; bring your own Anthropic/OpenAI key |
| Routine marketplace | TBA | Prebuilt workflows sold by creators; core app planned to stay free |
Toone is free to use in early access and relies on your own model API account. The maker states the app will remain free while a marketplace of routines becomes the revenue source, but concrete paid tiers are not yet published. Treat pricing as subject to change and confirm on the official site.
Comparison
vs. Manus: Manus is a cloud autonomous agent that takes a goal and works toward it end-to-end, while Toone is a local Mac shell you use to organize and run your own agent teams with routines. Choose Manus for hands-off task completion; choose Toone when you want to structure and observe multiple agents yourself.
vs. OpenClaw: OpenClaw is an open-source personal agent that connects to messaging apps and runs locally, whereas Toone centers on a desktop org of departments with calendars and meeting capture. OpenClaw wins on openness and chat integration; Toone wins on workflow structure and debugging.
vs. Magicrew: Magicrew is an enterprise multi-agent platform with approvals and sandboxes, while Toone is a lightweight personal Mac app. For team-scale governance pick Magicrew; for solo orchestration Toone is faster to start.