CarryOn

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A free app that shows every AI coding session on your computer (Claude Code, Codex, Aside and Gemini CLI) and how full each one's context is. When one is almost full, one button backs it up and compacts it, so you keep working where you left off. Free on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android.

New: CarryOn for iPhone is on the App Store.

Download: Mac · Windows (Microsoft Store) · iPhone (App Store) · Android (beta testers wanted) · Website

• Mac: macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon and Intel
• Windows: Windows 10 1903 or later, x64. From the Microsoft Store
• iPhone: iOS 15 or later. The phone app needs CarryOn on your computer
• Android (closed beta on Google Play): Android 7 or later. To join, join the Google Group with your Gmail account, then join the test here. The beta APK is also here

• One list of what needs you. Waiting for your answer, needs compacting (context 60% or more in yellow, orange from 85%) and running, each session once, on cards. The selected session's card shows its group as rings: a session that handed out work and the sessions it handed work to, named after the first. The group's name is a menu of every group, the fullest first. A notification comes when one gets almost full.

• Back up & compact. Backs the conversation up, then compacts it in place so its % drops. The app runs it in a panel and shows each step and how long it took. An Aside or Gemini CLI session goes on in a fresh one. CarryOn never closes a running session or opens it again in a new window. Turn on Tidy up automatically when full in Settings and Claude Code and Codex compact a session themselves at the red line, right where it runs: CarryOn writes that one value into their own settings and puts back what was there when you turn it off. A session that is working gets Tidy up when done: it is compacted once it stops, with a notification.

• One press, right where it runs. On a running Claude Code session, Back up & compact types /compact into its terminal (Terminal, tmux, WezTerm, kitty with remote control on, Orca). The session stays open and keeps its memory. Press it while the session is at work and it is compacted the moment it stops.

• Memory Guard. Turn it on and, also when Claude Code compacts by itself, the conversation from just before is kept for 14 days, and your role, open to-dos and “Keep in mind” notes are put back right after.

• One tap on the phone. [Compact] in the phone's alert has your computer compact that session right away.

• Start fresh in Orca. On Claude Code (or Codex) running in an Orca pane, Back up & start fresh backs it up and types /clear (Codex: /new) and then the go-on message there, so it goes on in a fresh session in the same pane. CarryOn types into a running session only then: when you press it, while the session is idle with an empty input line.

• Clean Up Sessions. Closes the Claude Code sessions left idle in a terminal, with the memory they hold, after you confirm (the conversation stays and can be resumed), and lists the sessions that read the most tokens in 24 hours, each ready to compact right in its row.

• Your to-dos come along. Keep a to-do list per session; the open ones follow it after a compaction.

• Rename a session. Right-click it and choose Rename…; the name is kept in CarryOn only.

• Roles and teams. Set Role… gives a session a role that goes along in the go-on message and the Resume brief; Name Team… names a group, and Teams… shows every team with its members' roles. Kept in CarryOn only.

• In the menu bar. Click CarryOn there to open the window. Right-click it for the three fullest sessions, Settings and Check for Updates, which opens the releases page in your browser.

• In English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese (Brazil).

Install

The quickest way is one line in Terminal. It downloads the newest release, checks its SHA-256 against the release, quits a running CarryOn and puts the app into Applications (read it first):

curl -fsSL https://carryon-app.pages.dev/install.sh | sh

Or download the .dmg. CarryOn is notarized by Apple:

1. Open the .dmg and drag CarryOn into Applications.
2. Open the app. The first time, macOS asks once: click Open.

There is no Dock icon: CarryOn lives in the menu bar.

Privacy

• CarryOn reads the session logs already on your Mac and, by default, makes no network connections itself.
• If you turn on Phone link, it talks, encrypted, only to phones you paired on the same network, and sends only session names, how full they are and their state, never your conversations.
• Message bodies are never shown in full, stored or sent anywhere.
• Only Back up & compact (or Back up & start fresh) copies that one session's log to ~/.carryon/backups/ and runs the tool's own /compact (claude or codex): as when you type /compact yourself, the summary is added to that session's log and the conversation goes to your model provider.
• In an Orca pane, Back up & start fresh reads that pane's screen through Orca's own CLI, to see that the session is idle with an empty input line, before it types anything there.

License

CarryOn is free to use, but it is not open source. You may not copy, redistribute, modify or sell it; see LICENSE. "CarryOn" and the otter icon are trademarks of morningverse.