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Description

Backgrind is a versatile overlay window designed for AI coding agents, tailored for both vibe coders and professional developers on macOS and Windows platforms. It allows for AI tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or its proprietary Grindy model to remain in an always-visible window that hovers above your active tasks, enabling you to initiate a task, engage in coding or leisure activities, and only receive notifications when the AI requires your input. This innovative solution serves as a lightweight interface for the command-line tools you already utilize, preserving your login credentials, history, hooks, and overall workflow while seamlessly integrating with your editor, web browser, documentation, or even during immersive full-screen gaming sessions. The window is highly customizable; you can drag it around, resize it, change its colors, adjust its transparency, summon it using a hotkey, or activate a click-through mode that allows your clicks and keystrokes to interact directly with the applications beneath it. Notifications are subtle, with the window only flashing or chiming when your AI agent requests approval, poses a question, or completes a task. Additionally, Backgrind functions like a compact integrated development environment (IDE), featuring a file tree, syntax-highlighted previews, rendered Markdown content, and clickable links to files, making it an invaluable tool for developers. This unique blend of functionality and accessibility ensures that you stay focused on your projects without being overwhelmed by interruptions.

Description

Pi is a streamlined terminal coding environment designed to seamlessly integrate with developer workflows rather than requiring developers to conform to its structure. It comes equipped with robust default settings while maintaining a compact size and extensive customization options, allowing users to enhance Pi through various extensions, skills, prompt templates, themes, and shareable packages sourced from npm or git. When a team requires a specific command, tool, provider, workflow, or UI modification, they can simply instruct Pi to create it, make adjustments on the fly, reload, and continue their work without interruption. Pi is versatile, offering support for interactive, print/JSON, RPC, and SDK modes, which enables it to function as a comprehensive terminal UI, a scriptable command interface, a JSON event stream, or an easily embeddable agent harness. It is compatible with over 15 providers and numerous models, including options like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock, Mistral, Groq, Cerebras, xAI, Hugging Face, Kimi For Coding, MiniMax, OpenRouter, Ollama, and other services, facilitating mid-session model switching to enhance flexibility and user experience. This adaptability makes Pi an invaluable tool for developers looking to tailor their coding environment to meet their specific needs.

API Access

Has API No 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

Anthropic No 
Cerebras No 
Claude Opus 4.6 No 
Claude Opus 4.7 No 
Claude Opus 5.5 No 
Claude Sonnet 5.5 No 
Cursor Yes 
GLM-5.3-Flash No 
GPT-5.5 No 
GPT-5.6 Sol No 
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast No 
GPT-6.1 Sol No 
Grok No 
HOL Guard No 
Kimi No 
Microsoft Azure No 
MiniMax M2.7 No 
MiniMax M3 No 
Ollama No 

Integrations

Anthropic Yes 
Cerebras Yes 
Claude Opus 4.6 Yes 
Claude Opus 4.7 Yes 
Claude Opus 5.5 Yes 
Claude Sonnet 5.5 Yes 
Cursor No 
GLM-5.3-Flash Yes 
GPT-5.5 Yes 
GPT-5.6 Sol Yes 
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast Yes 
GPT-6.1 Sol Yes 
Grok Yes 
HOL Guard Yes 
Kimi Yes 
Microsoft Azure Yes 
MiniMax M2.7 Yes 
MiniMax M3 Yes 
Ollama Yes 

Pricing Details

$7.50 per month
Free Trial Yes 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

Free
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Backgrind

Founded

2026

Country

United States

Website

backgrind.com

Vendor Details

Company Name

Pi

Country

United States

Website

pi.dev/

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