ChatGPT Desktop App (Codex): The Best Open-Source Alternatives
The ChatGPT desktop app provides a graphical workspace for parallel projects, working with files, and longer-running tasks. In the app, you can select Codex and use it with the context of an open project folder.
In the directory, Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app is listed as a proprietary offering in the «AI Coding Agents» category. This entry describes the desktop app, not the separately available open-source application Codex CLI.
Here you can find open-source alternatives, and separately marked source-available alternatives, to «ChatGPT Desktop App (Codex)» (external link) in the category «AI Coding Agents».