Codex Apps
Codex Apps orchestrates Codex App windows from CodexUse. It maps each running window and its process state to a saved profile, then gives that profile explicit launch, focus, stop, restart, and monitoring controls on macOS.
Use cases
- Open the Codex App with the right personal, work, or client account.
- Run several profile-backed Codex App windows side by side, each clearly tied to one account.
- See at a glance which saved profile already has a Codex App window running.
- Focus, stop, or restart a matched window without hunting for the right one.
- Open a Codex App window on a custom-provider profile, whose model picker lists only the models you published to it.
- Keep profile switching, window orchestration, and rate-limit headroom in one local app.
- Continue a captured Codex App thread on the next account after the source turn is idle or complete.
Controls
Launch
Start the Codex App for a selected CodexUse profile.
Focus
Bring the matched Codex App window forward.
Stop
Stop the matched Codex App process tree.
Restart
Stop the matched process, then launch a fresh window for that profile.
State shown
Each profile row shows health, running state, uptime, process ID, and app-server process ID whenever CodexUse can detect them.
Trial vs Pro
- Trial: orchestrate Codex App windows across unlimited saved profiles for 7 days.
- Pro: keep unlimited profile-matched Codex App windows after the trial.
Thread handoff
When account switching starts, CodexUse captures the current thread and waits for an active source turn to complete. It then reopens the captured thread through the target profile’s app-server and continues the same conversation.
Guardrails
- CodexUse does not create extra Codex quota. It makes accounts, windows, and switching visible and controllable.
- Stop and restart act on the matched Codex App process.
- Save important in-window work before restarting a running Codex App window.
- Thread handoff does not clone provider-side session state or transfer an in-progress generation between accounts mid-turn.
- On a custom-provider window, hosted ChatGPT features do not work — dictation, browser remote control, and anything calling ChatGPT’s own backend need a ChatGPT account. Chat, tool calls, and reasoning effort do work.