Beadbox is a native desktop dashboard for the beads issue tracker. It gives you real-time visibility into every task, dependency, and handoff across your AI agent fleet. Changes made in the terminal appear in the GUI within milliseconds.
Features
- Epic trees with progress bars — see completion percentage across nested hierarchies at a glance
- Real-time sync — file-watch pipeline picks up CLI changes instantly, no polling or refresh
- Multi-workspace — switch between beads databases from different projects in one window
- Inline editing — change status, priority, assignee, and descriptions directly in the GUI
- Filter, search, sort — slice your backlog by status, priority, type, or assignee
- Dependency badges — see blocking relationships without running
bd show - Dark and light themes — follows your system preference
- Native desktop app — built with Tauri, not Electron. Runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Install
Download from beadbox.app. Available for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux, and Windows.
Requires the beads CLI.
Need help?
- Open a GitHub issue
License
Source code is proprietary. Binary releases are free during beta.