Openbase Coder¶

Openbase Coder is a voice-first AI coding product. You talk to coding agents from your iPhone, Android phone, or Mac while a local runtime on your computer runs the actual coding sessions against your repositories.

These docs cover the whole product, not just the CLI:

Desktop app — the macOS Electron app. Guided setup, and the main dashboard for projects, threads, reports, approvals, routines, skills, settings, and screen sharing.
iOS app — voice calls with the dispatcher and Super Agents, thread management, approvals, reports, and diffs from your phone.
Android app — the same phone client for Android (Kotlin/Compose), mirroring the iOS workflow: voice calls, threads, approvals, reports, and diffs. Get the APK from Downloads.
Web console & Openbase Cloud — the same dashboard in a browser, plus your account at https://app.openbase.cloud. Openbase Cloud's own Heroku-style CLI (openbase) is documented separately at docs-cloud.openbase.cloud.
openbase-coder CLI — the local runtime underneath all of the above: a Django API + WebSocket server, LiveKit voice services, and launchd/systemd service management. See Commands.

Which Page Do I Need?¶

Installing for the first time → Getting Started: download the Mac app, use the developer setup, or run it in Docker (including on Windows).
What can I do in the Mac app? → Desktop App
What can I do on my phone? → iOS App (the Android app mirrors it)
What is app.openbase.cloud for? → Web Console & Cloud
Talking to agents by voice, transferring calls → Voice Routing
Something is broken → Troubleshooting
CLI flags and behavior → Commands

Quick Start¶

The easiest path is the desktop app: download the Mac app, open it, and follow the guided setup. It installs the bundled CLI, walks you through the Openbase Cloud managed setup path, signs you in on the free plan, and pairs your iPhone over Tailscale.

Prefer to drive the terminal yourself? Install and open the desktop app — it activates the bundled CLI runtime automatically — then follow Manual Setup for the Desktop App to run the same setup, login, and service steps by hand.

For source development, clone the workspace repo and run its setup script:

git clone --branch main --single-branch \
  https://github.com/openbase-community/openbase-coder-workspace
cd openbase-coder-workspace
./scripts/setup

Documentation¶

Using the apps:

Setup and operations:

Reference: