Your website, its database and everything else it needs start with one click. Rig shows you what is running, tells you what broke and why, and restarts it for you. Your AI assistant can see it all too.
Free forever for local. Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 13+) and Windows 11.
To build a website or app you run several programs at once: the site itself, a database, a few background jobs. Today you start and watch each one yourself. Rig does that job for you.
You start the website, the database and the background jobs by hand, each in its own terminal window. One quietly stops and nothing tells you. You find out when the page breaks, then spend an hour digging.
Open Rig, press start, and the whole project comes up in the right order. Every message lands in one place. If something crashes, Rig restarts it and shows you the line that explains why.
Claude, Cursor and other assistants can check what is running and read the errors themselves, so they fix the real problem instead of guessing. You stop copying and pasting error messages.
Made for freelancers, agencies and anyone who builds websites or apps on a Mac or a Windows PC.
One window, every process. Sound on for the full story.
Every part of your project in one list: what is running, which port it is on, and what just fell over. Start and stop the lot from one place. When something crashes, Rig restarts it and tells you why.
AI assistants like Claude and Cursor usually guess what is happening on your computer. Rig lets them look instead, through MCP, the standard way assistants plug into tools. They can read, but nothing changes until you say yes, and your code never leaves your computer.
Your assistant asks. Rig answers from the live machine, not a guess.
01Every process streamed together, with the line that matters pointed at. Wrong port, by the look of it.
02Which service grabbed which port, and since when. No more lsof at midnight.
03Every change your assistant proposes waits for a yes. No exceptions, however nicely it asks.
04Claude wants to point it at :5432 and restart it. Nothing happens until you confirm.
Mesh links your own computers privately. Wake up the Mac at home from your laptop, see its screen, and pick up the project exactly where you left it. Nobody else is on the network, us included.
Bring a sleeping Mac back online from anywhere, then get straight to the project you left running.
You only pay for relay, because relay is the bit that costs money to run.
0pControl that machine’s environment from another device.
Hand a live project from one machine to another mid task, and carry on where you were.
Everything that runs on your own computer is free, forever. The paid plans add Mesh, teams and agencies.
Start the site, the database and the background jobs with one click, in the right order. See every log in one window.
Claude, Cursor and others can check what is running and read the errors, through the free Rig plugin.
Share the site running on your computer as a Live Link, so a client or a colleague can open it in their browser.
The iPhone app shows what is running, alerts you when something crashes, and lets you restart it with a tap.
Mesh links your own machines privately, so you can wake the Mac at home and pick up where you left off.
One board of every machine in the studio, shared projects, seats and roles, and client previews on your own domain.
An optional account keeps your settings and an encrypted backup of your setup in sync. Never your code.
Your client clicks the thing they want changed on the site running on your computer, and you get the screenshot, device and logs.
Anything that costs nothing to run stays free forever. You pay for Mesh, because the network costs money.
Everything local, free on your computer.
For developers working across computers.
For dev teams sharing machines.
For studios shipping client sites.
Your source code never leaves your computer · Peer to peer Mesh is never metered · Extra machines $3/mo, extra relay $0.25/GB
Works with Mac, Windows and iPhone. Compare every plan and read the pricing FAQ
Keep the why in your docs and the what-is-running on the board. A setup page that tries to be both goes stale by Friday.
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Free while in beta means every feature you can use today. Pro lands later; we will not soft-paywall surprise you mid-sprint.
Read the post →Running is a process Rig started and is still watching — not a vibes-based green light.
Read the post →Rig is a process manager for local development on Mac and Windows. One window starts, stops, and watches the processes in a project — scripts, Procfiles, logs, and ports — on a Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel) or a Windows PC.
No. Rig never uploads or stores your repository. Optional Rig Cloud syncs preferences, project groups, and encrypted Continuity backups. A Live Link relays the pages your dev server serves to the people you share it with, and a support ticket includes any logs you attach.
Rig is free on your computer forever on the Hobby plan. Mesh is the paid line: Pro is $15 a month, Team is $25 a seat, and Agency is $149 a month with 3 seats. Yearly billing saves 20%. Full plans are at the pricing page.
Install Rig, open a project, connect your assistant. The local bit is free, and your code stays exactly where it is.
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