Conductor and Talyn are both "mission control" apps and they are watching different things. Conductor watches agents. Talyn watches pull requests.
That sounds like a distinction without a difference until you notice where each one's timeline starts and ends. Conductor's begins when you start an agent and ends when you merge its work into your branch. Talyn's begins when a pull request exists and ends when it is merged into main.
What Conductor does
As of September 2026, from its own site and pricing page:
- Runs parallel Claude Code, Codex and Cursor agents in isolated workspaces on your Mac, so several can work at once without treading on each other.
- Gives you one interface to watch their progress and then review and merge their changes.
- macOS, with cloud workspaces on the paid tiers.
- Bring your own subscriptions and keys — Conductor does not sell you inference.
- Pricing: Free with local workspaces on your Mac, Pro at $50/month adding cloud workspace hours, multiplayer, an API and a mobile app, Teams at $60/month per user, and custom Enterprise.
It is a genuinely nice piece of software and it is one of the reasons Talyn's desktop app is as polished as it is.
Where Talyn is different
Nothing runs on your machine. Every Talyn task runs in a Firecracker microVM on our hardware, with your Claude or ChatGPT credential attached by a proxy outside the machine. Nothing is cloned locally, no worktree is created, your laptop can be shut. That is the point of the merge queue and of keep-mergeable: the work happens at 3am with nobody awake.
The unit is a pull request that already exists. Talyn's list is every open pull request across every repository you connect, including ones you did not open, sorted by what is blocking each one. You do not start from an agent; you start from the thing that is not merged.
It closes the loop after the pull request opens. Fix the failing check. Resolve the conflict when main moves. Address the review comments. Then land it — a merge queue takes the ready ones in order and fixes the ones that break on the way in.
Work that starts without you. Workflows fire on pull request events, with the app closed, on every pull request in a connected repository. Loops run a prompt on a schedule. Neither has an analogue in an app whose agents you launch by hand.
It runs everywhere. macOS, Windows and Linux desktop builds, plus a browser app at app.talyn.dev with the same account and the same queue. Conductor is Mac only.
Price. Talyn is $15/month, or free with three concurrent tasks, three queued pull requests, three workflows and three loops. Conductor's free tier is real and generous if you are happy running everything locally.
What Talyn does not do
- No local agents and no local worktrees. If you want the agent's working tree on your own disk so you can poke at it, Talyn is the wrong shape — everything happens in a sandbox you do not have a shell on.
- No parallel-workspace view of several agents on one machine.
- No Cursor as an agent. Claude, Codex and PostHog Code.
- No multiplayer, no mobile app, no public API.
- GitHub only.
- Finite hardware. Talyn Fleet is our own machines; it paces itself and spills to a fall-back provider when it is full.
What Conductor does not do
- Track pull requests you did not create. Its list is agents you started.
- Merge. There is no queue that lands a ready pull request in order and rebases it on the way in.
- React to a pull request going red a day later, on its own.
- Run scheduled work.
The honest overlap
The thing both apps have is a well-made desktop surface for watching agents work. If you have one of them you have that.
What decides between them is whether your bottleneck is producing changes or landing them. Conductor is very good at the first — several agents going at once, on your machine, on your subscription. Talyn is built for the second, and in particular for the part that happens when you are not there.
Running both is coherent: Conductor to produce the pull requests, Talyn to keep them green and merge them. Talyn does not care which tool opened a pull request.
Which one
Use Conductor if you want to parallelise your own agent work on a Mac and review it before it becomes a pull request.
Use Talyn if the pull requests exist already and the problem is the two days they spend going stale — and you would like that fixed while you are asleep.