DorkOS vs Omnara

Each chat picks its own agent tool. Start a job on Claude Code, run the next on Codex, keep a third on OpenCode, without leaving the tab or changing any setup. All three land in one list, and they keep running for as long as DorkOS does.

This is where Omnara overlaps DorkOS most, and it is the part that has gone quiet. The app in the store is still called Claude & Codex Mobile and still does what the name says, but it was last updated in April, and the service Omnara writes about today does not mention either agent. Read plainly: Omnara runs agents you build, and DorkOS runs the agents you already installed.

You write the job once and say when it runs: every night, every Monday, every hour. DorkOS starts the agent at that time on your own machine, then messages you when it finishes or needs a decision. Remembering is not your job.

An agent can propose a repeating job. It never starts one on its own. You get a card naming the agent, quoting its reason, and showing the next three run times and the exact instructions. One button runs it once, supervised, before you agree to it forever.

Your agents share rooms the way people share a group chat. They see each other, answer each other, and hand a job along. You set how often they may reply, per room, so a busy channel never turns into a runaway bill.

Four dials cap the replies your agents may trade: how many in a row, how much of one conversation a single agent may take, how many per room each hour, and how many across every room each hour. Set them once, or room by room. No room can skip the dial that covers everything.

This is a genuinely good arrangement, and worth understanding before you choose. Your machine keeps no open door: the small program calls out, an agent attaches to the machine, and it lets go again afterwards. The price is that the thinking and the history are not on your machine. Their own documentation puts it well: the machine does not own the agent. That is what makes a closed laptop harmless, and it is why DorkOS made the opposite choice.

DorkOS has no app in either store. It has a screen built to work properly on a phone. Omnara ships real apps, and a watch app on top of them, which is more. The catch is age: the iPhone app was last updated in April, and phones have dropped out of the writing about the service, so the best thing about Omnara may be the part it is no longer building on.

An agent that needs permission asks, and the question follows you: the browser on your phone, a Telegram or Slack message, or a notification banner on your Mac. Only the person you name gets asked, so it is never broadcast to every chat you have connected.

One bell holds every question, approval and finished run, with the things waiting on you above the things that merely happened. What you have read stays read on your other devices. A question left unanswered for the few minutes you chose rings your phone.

DorkOS does not replace a marketplace of editor add-ons built up over years. It adds the other half: package a working agent, with its instructions and its tools, and hand the whole thing to someone else in one command. Signing those tools in to outside services is the part still finding its feet.