CrewTower as an AgentPeek alternative

Side by side

Where AgentPeek wins

Scope. AgentPeek does more things: token totals and cost, local dev server discovery, quick routes, widgets, an agent board. Both show quota windows, but only AgentPeek turns that into a spend report. If you want one surface holding all of it, that is the one that holds all of it. CrewTower has none of the rest and is not heading there.

Agent coverage. Twenty-six recognised, against twenty-seven for CrewTower - so on raw count the two are level. The honest difference is depth: six of CrewTower's (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, opencode) are deeply integrated with full monitoring and one-tap approve; the rest are surfaced live and jumped to, the same tier most long rosters sit in. AgentPeek's edge here is the wide dashboard around the list, not the length of it.

A free trial of the Mac app. AgentPeek gives you three days to try it with your own sessions. CrewTower offers an interactive website demo; using the Mac app requires a license.

Where CrewTower is different

It does less, on purpose. CrewTower exists for the pause: the agent hits something it needs you for, and instead of that sitting in a tab you are not watching, the card comes forward and you answer. Everything in the app serves that. You still get the quota window and the reset countdown, because knowing you are about to be cut off changes what you do next. What you do not get, and do not pay for, is a token and cost dashboard.

No keystroke path, anywhere. The agent's hook blocks on a local Unix socket and CrewTower answers down that same socket, so a decision resolves in place without focusing your terminal. There is no synthetic-keystroke code in the app at all. Where no decision channel exists, the fallback is Jump - focusing the exact window, tab or split pane - and nothing is typed on your behalf.

Destructive commands are flagged on the card. Before you press, not after.

Half the price. $9.99 against $19.99.

Two more people compare against

AgentNotch is the closest thing to CrewTower on price: $9.99 one-time, in the notch, approving inline and jumping to the session. It runs free for fourteen days with no card, which CrewTower does not offer, and it names nine agents against CrewTower's twenty-seven. Its site publishes no minimum macOS version. The full table is on the Vibe Island comparison, where it sits next to the other notch app.

SessionWatcher is not really in this comparison. It is a macOS menu bar app for usage, cost and rate limit windows - from $6.99 for a single tool, $14.99 for the Claude, Codex and Cursor bundle, macOS 14 or later - and it publishes nothing about answering a permission prompt or jumping to a terminal, because that is not the job. If the number you want is what your agents are spending, the usage comparison is the page for it, and AgentPeek is the one of these three that reports cost inside the notch.

Which one to pick

Pick AgentPeek if you want the wide surface: token totals and cost, dev servers and routes in one place, across 26 agents, and you are on Apple silicon.

Pick CrewTower if the thing costing you hours is checking terminals, you work mostly in the six agents it integrates deeply, and you would rather pay $9.99 for the narrow tool than $19.99 for the wide one.