FAQ
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Rhymes with "free." It's how I pronounce BYOUI (Build Your Own UI).
Build Your Own UI. Instead of conforming to a fixed interface, you describe what you need and Claude Code or Codex builds it. Every tool is shaped around your workflow, not the other way around.
People with opinions about their tools. If you've ever wished an app worked a little differently, you can have Claude Code or Codex build the version you want.
If you don't, Bwee is still a good place to run Claude Code and Codex: tasks that persist, a markdown editor, and shortcuts for everything.
Anything you'd ask Claude Code or Codex to do, now with a UI. I've built expense trackers, trip planners, an inbox triage board, an airline status tracker and code review tools. Describe what you want in plain language and it gets built. See the examples.
Ask Claude Code or Codex for a UI and it opens next to the chat. These are called views: interactive interfaces that sit beside your conversation. A view might be a chart of your spending, a map of your trip, or a diff of your code changes.
Views persist with the task. Close and reopen it next week, and the view is still there, exactly as you left it. Press Cmd+P to find any view you've built.
Yes, one of them. Bwee runs Claude Code and Codex; it doesn't replace them.
You don't need to install either one yourself. On first launch, Bwee asks which one you use and walks you through setting it up. All you need is a Claude plan for Claude Code, or a ChatGPT plan or OpenAI API key for Codex.
Yes. Install both and pick one per task at the top of the model menu, before your first message. Tasks of both kinds sit in the same sidebar, and both can build views.
Bwee itself is free to download and use. You pay Anthropic or OpenAI for Claude Code or Codex through your existing plan. Bwee doesn't add any fees on top.
An Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) running macOS 13 Ventura or newer, and Claude Code or Codex: a Claude plan for Claude Code, or a ChatGPT plan or OpenAI API key for Codex. Bwee walks you through installing the one you pick.
No. Bwee runs on Apple silicon Macs (M1 or later).
Not right now. Bwee is Mac-only.
Bwee is local-first. Your tasks, chats, and views live on your Mac. Claude Code talks to Anthropic and Codex talks to OpenAI, the same as in your terminal. Bwee reads your chats on your Mac only to show them.
It sends three things itself: each new task's first message to Anthropic through Claude Code, to name the task; anonymous usage events with no prompts, files, or chat text, which you can turn off in Settings; and a check for updates. The privacy page has the details.
Yes, for Claude Code and Codex alike. Every task keeps its session and the views it built. Close the app, reopen it days later, click the task, and you're back where you left off, view included. Tasks are stored locally in a SQLite database on your Mac.
Both are excellent. The Claude desktop app has Cowork, Artifacts and app views from partners like Figma and Slack. The Codex app runs coding threads in parallel, each in its own worktree. Bwee is narrower and more yours: describe any view and it renders beside the task and stays with it, with Claude Code or Codex in the same app. The compare page goes through each one.
They install automatically the next time you quit the app. The changelog lists every release.
Partially. The app launches fine offline, and you can browse your existing tasks and views. But starting or continuing a conversation needs a connection, since Claude Code and Codex need the internet to think.