{"name":"Clinch","tagline":"Local-first macOS fork of Warp that keeps Claude Code and Codex sessions alive across restarts.","url":"https://clinch.sh/","category":"coding","pricing":"free","price_note":"AGPL-3.0 open source; no account, no telemetry","free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"api":false,"self_host":true,"verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"An unofficial Warp fork tuned for AI coding agents: project tabs, durable workspaces, and session capture so Claude Code and Codex conversations survive app restarts. Remote Control lets you answer a waiting agent from your phone over your own Tailscale network. macOS 14+ only and not notarized, so expect a Gatekeeper prompt.","limitations":["macOS 14+ only; no Linux or Windows build.","Public preview is ad-hoc signed, not notarized.","Session recovery is best-effort; provider transcripts and process state can still be lost."],"strengths":["Unofficial Warp fork built to keep Claude Code and Codex sessions alive across restarts.","Project tabs, durable workspaces, and session capture for agent workflows.","Remote Control answers a waiting agent from your phone over your own Tailscale network."],"use_for":["macOS developers running Claude Code or Codex who keep losing session state.","Teams that want agent sessions on a self-hosted, AGPL terminal without telemetry."],"skip_when":["You are on Linux or Windows; macOS 14+ is the only supported platform.","You cannot accept an ad-hoc signed, non-notarized Gatekeeper prompt.","Session recovery must be guaranteed rather than best-effort."],"receipts":["https://clinch.sh/","https://github.com/elliot-ylambda/clinch-terminal"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"data_sensitivity":{"trains_on_inputs":"unknown","local_processing":true},"last_verified":"2026-08-19","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"clinch","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/clinch/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}