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Emdash

Cross-platform users who want issue-tracker-driven worktrees.

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Weighted feature assessment74.5range 72.0 to 77.0doc coverage 95% / Launchedmeasured: Launch probe
Maker
General Action (YC W26)
License
Apache-2.0
Pricing
Free (sec)
Stars
6028
Open issues+PRs
94
Latest release
v1.2.8 2026-10-10
Scores by category

Rubric breakdown

  • AAgent breadthweight 154
  • BIsolation and parallelismweight 154
  • CReview, merge and PR flowweight 153
  • DRemote, cloud and mobile reachweight 103
  • EOpenness and licenseweight 105
  • FMaturity and momentumweight 154
  • GLinux setup friction (measured)weight 103
  • HPricing and BYO modelweight 55
  • IDocs and transparencyweight 5n/r
Open, cross-platform, active; largest idle footprint we measured (3.9 GB).
Verdict

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Apache-2.0, Win/mac/Linux
  • SSH remotes

Weaknesses

  • 3.9 GB idle footprint in our probe
Evidence

What we saw and where it came from

Hands-on (this box)
Launched on Linux (6.6 s) with the largest footprint we saw: 3.9 GB RSS across 23 processes at idle.
Launch probe
First window 6.59 s, process-tree RSS 3932 MB on Xvfb.
Notes
Canary channel builds ship frequently (v1.2.8-canary.101).
Screenshot of Emdash first window on Linux (Xvfb launch probe)
First window, Xvfb launch probe

Sources

Feature facts

From docs, repos and our probes

Platforms
Windows (exe/msi), macOS, Linux (AppImage/deb/rpm)
Supported agents
sec: 25+ agent CLIs incl. Claude Code, Codex
Parallelism
Worktrees; remote over SSH
Isolation
Git worktrees
Review, merge, PR
sec: diff review, PRs, issues from Linear/Jira/GitHub
Remote, cloud, mobile
SSH remotes (sec)
MCP
unknown
Cost visibility
unknown
Model choice
Any provider (repo tagline)
Setup
Install app; GitHub connect prompt has 'Skip for now'

"unknown" means we found no source and did not guess.