1In short
Morion is a desktop app with a notebook and a board that any agent reads over MCP. Tickets carry their context, Mo answers with the source note and a status, and Auto-code runs a ticket through a workflow with a gate that asks you in chat when the agent has a question.
Atlas calls itself source control for coding agents: an open-source desktop app, in alpha, first published in May 2026, where each agent run leaves checkpoints, each commit links back to the session with its prompts and tool calls, and Claude Code, Codex and Atlas’s own agent share one memory. It keeps a clean record of every run, with secrets scrubbed.
Atlas answers “what did the agents do, and why did this commit happen”. Morion answers “what did we decide, and what is next”.
2Where they differ
- Repository or project. Atlas centres on one codebase, its sessions and its commits. Morion centres on the project: specs, decisions and tickets, which may span repositories or not involve code at all.
- Work. Atlas has no board or ticket queue. In Morion agents claim tickets atomically, get a work packet, and write their progress back.
- Answers you can check. Atlas feeds memory into the next prompt. Mo answers with the note each claim came from and whether it is decided, provisional or superseded.
- Control. Morion lets you set what agents may see and change per folder and per note, and runs workflows where one agent writes, another reviews, and a gate asks you in chat when the agent has a question.
- Maturity and reach. Atlas is alpha software on macOS and Windows; Morion ships on macOS, Windows and Linux.
3Side by side
| Atlas | Morion | |
|---|---|---|
| Memory shared by Claude Code and Codex | ||
| Runs locally | ||
| Markdown notes as agent context | ||
| Every session recorded, commits linked to sessions | — | |
| Its own coding agent | — | |
| Task board with atomic claims | — | |
| Answers that cite the note, with a status | — | |
| Workflow across vendors with a human gate | — | |
| Folder and per-note permissions for agents | — | |
| Any MCP client works with the same data | ||
| macOS, Windows and Linux | ||
| Open source and free |
has it, has part of it, — does not. As of September 2026, Atlas alpha. Atlas runs Claude Code, Codex and agents from the ACP registry inside its app rather than serving its memory to any outside client. Atlas supports macOS and Windows; Linux is untested. Atlas is free during the alpha; Morion’s plans are on the pricing page. For Morion, 2.0 has a Free plan and is not open source; the earlier 1.5 line, Morion Community, is open source and free but frozen.
4Which one fits you
if you want a full history of what your agents did in a repository, commit by commit, and one place to run Claude Code and Codex side by side.
if you want the plan, the decisions and the tickets in one place every agent reads, answers you can check, and a reviewed loop that stops to ask you when an agent has a question.
if you want the record of runs and the plan of work. They answer different questions: Atlas keeps the record of each run, and Morion keeps the plan, the decisions and the tickets those runs work on.
Related: Codex vs Claude Code and claude-mem alternative.
5Questions
An open-source desktop app, in alpha, that records every agent run, links commits to the session that made them, and runs Claude Code, Codex and its own agent side by side with one shared memory.
Atlas is Apache 2.0 and free during the alpha. It runs on your own keys or your existing Claude Code and Codex subscriptions.
No. Atlas is organised around the repository, sessions and commits, not a board of tickets.
Atlas supports macOS and Windows; Linux is untested. Morion runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Morion has a Free plan with notes, the board and MCP access for your agents. Every new account starts with 7 days of Pro, no card, and then moves to the Free plan.
Sources: tryatlas.cc and the Atlas GitHub repository (README, releases), checked on 25 September 2026. More comparisons: all comparisons.