Novastart

Novastart replaces the usual stack of overlapping windows with an infinite whiteboard. You group apps into canvases for work, school, travel or finances, zoom in to edit a spreadsheet and zoom out to see every project at once. The founders added AI agents in June 2026: you describe a task, a lead agent splits it into parts, and helper agents each take a window you can see.

Highlights

• Gmail, Excel, WhatsApp, Notion and other apps open as real windows signed in as you, alongside any site in a bundled Chrome, ONLYOFFICE and Linux apps
• Saved canvases bring back every app, position and tab the next day
• Up to 10 agents per task, each with its own cursor; you can pause them all, step in mid-run or take a window back
• On the Team plan, teammates share a canvas and click and type in each other's windows, machine to machine, with built-in chat
• Two ways to run it: an app in a window on Windows or an Intel Mac, or Novastart OS installed on a dedicated PC

Good to know

• The app version runs a whole computer inside yours, so expect some lag; installing the OS is meant for the full experience
• Free allows 1 folder, 2 canvases and 4 windows per canvas; Pro ($10 a month) removes the limits; Team ($20 a month) adds collaboration
• Agent use is billed separately on every plan, at $0.02 per use from credit packs of $25 or more

For people who juggle many apps across projects and want to try computer-use agents where they can watch every step.