# Ship Studio

A free desktop studio that puts your coding agent, live preview, GitHub, and one-click deploys in a single window.

HTML: https://softbests.com/software/ship-studio
Markdown: https://softbests.com/software/ship-studio.md
Website: https://www.ship.studio

- Category: [Coding agents](https://softbests.com/category/coding-agents)
- Pricing: Open source
- Platforms: macOS, Windows
- Underrated

## Best for

Freelancers and small teams who want to go from prompt to deployed site without switching tools.

## Why it deserves attention

Ship Studio wraps agentic development in one desktop app: run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or another agent, watch a live preview, push to GitHub, and deploy to Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, or elsewhere without leaving the window. It is free, MIT-licensed, local-first, and available for macOS and Windows, with about 300 GitHub stars and daily commits. It is young and best at web projects, so complex monorepos and non-web stacks may still need your usual toolchain.

## Can replace

- Conductor

## Related and alternatives

- [Claude Code](https://softbests.com/software/claude-code)
- [Codex CLI](https://softbests.com/software/codex-cli)
- [Cursor](https://softbests.com/software/cursor)