Universal Portable Dev & AI Workspace
Editor, runtimes, databases and AI agents. On Windows, macOS and Linux.
Zero install. Zero admin rights. Zero footprint outside your Atollo.
Source code · MIT
Atollo/ ├─ Atollo │ all the logic ├─ projects/ │ your projects └─ data/ programs, settings, sign-ins
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Built-in VSCodium with the Atollo dark and light themes, in a window measured on VSCodium 1.135's own workbench: the same sizes, colors and codicon icons. Terminals see only the kit's PATH and variables: programs on the host PC don't interfere, and the PC stays clean.
20+ languages and tools (Node.js, Python, uv, PHP, Rust, Go, Java, .NET, Dart, Julia, Ruby, C/C++, Bun, Deno, Typst, TinyTeX, R, Android SDK…), downloaded when needed and verified by SHA-256 checksum or signature. Side-by-side versions, one per project.
MySQL with phpMyAdmin, MongoDB with mongo-express, and SQLite, started and stopped with one click, with a database, user and password for each project; several versions side by side, each keeping its own port. Caddy and Apache for sites at .localhost addresses, on every system, on their own or in a server shared by several projects. A port already in use is refused, naming whoever holds it. No system services.
Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity and Pi: install, sign in and start. Write instructions, skills and MCP servers once in data/agents and atollo sync keeps all four aligned. Plan limits and usage for today and the last 7 days. Local models too, with no network and no account: GGUF models from Atollo's catalog or Hugging Face, resumable downloads checked by SHA-256, a llama.cpp server on 127.0.0.1 with a key that Pi uses out of the box.
The same folder, or the same external SSD, moves from Windows to macOS to Linux with projects, databases and agent settings intact: each machine runs the native programs of its system. “Remove drive” closes everything Atollo opened and lets you eject the disk.
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Copy Atollo into an empty folder: a USB stick, an external drive or a folder in your profile.
Start it: it creates projects/ and data/. On first start choose agents, languages and tools; Atollo downloads and verifies them.
Create a project from one of 60+ bases (Laravel, Next.js, Django, WordPress, Astro, Tauri…), clone it from GitHub or start from an empty folder. The editor, terminal and agents always open in the project's folder.
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No containers and no virtual machines: each system runs its own programs, directly. Atollo needs no administrator rights, installs no services and never touches the system registry or PATH, and it starts from a USB stick or an external SSD too.
Projects, AI (agents and local models), databases, web servers, terminals, tools and settings each have their own page. The Projects quick panel shows what is running, your favourites and what needs fixing, and Ctrl+P opens a project by name; the Activity panel gathers in one place the output and errors of whatever is running or installing, from project actions to every database version and web server pool, and “Stop all” stops it all after a confirmation. For scripts there is the command line: atollo check, atollo prepare, atollo sync.
When the drive letter, the folder or the system changes, Atollo realigns the paths and on each system uses that system's programs. Projects, databases, sign-ins and agent settings stay as they were.
Every download is checked against its SHA-256 checksum or signature before it is used. A language's versions sit side by side, one per project, and the relations matrix warns when two components don't get along.
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Every component in Atollo's catalog, by kind, on each of the six systems. Only the ones you choose are downloaded, or when a project needs them. The table is generated from the app's catalog every time the site is published.
| Component | Windows | macOS | Linux | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x64this PC | ARM64this PC | Apple Siliconthis PC | Intelthis PC | x64this PC | ARM64this PC | |
| System and editor 5 | ||||||
| GitGit; on Windows also Git Bash, the command shell of the agents | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| GitHub CLIpull requests, issues, GitHub sign-in | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| PowerShell 7the shell of the kit's terminal | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| EditorVSCodium integrated in the Atollo window | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| ConPTYthe console of the app's terminal on Windows: Microsoft's conpty.dll and OpenConsole.exe | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: not yet in the catalog for this system | macOS Intel: not yet in the catalog for this system | Linux x64: not yet in the catalog for this system | Linux ARM64: not yet in the catalog for this system |
| AI agents 4 | ||||||
| Claude CodeAnthropic's agent | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| CodexOpenAI's agent | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| AntigravityGoogle's agent | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Piterminal agent by Earendil (Mario Zechner): local models or the cloud providers' | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Local models 1 | ||||||
| llama.cpplocal language models (GGUF): the server for the agents and a chat in the browser, on the CPU or the GPU (Vulkan, Metal) | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Languages 16 | ||||||
| PythonPython and pip | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Node.jsNode.js and npm: MCP servers and JavaScript tools | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| PHPPHP and Composer | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Rustrustc, cargo, rustfmt, clippy | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Goofficial Go SDK | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| JavaTemurin JDK, Maven and Gradle | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| KotlinKotlin compiler | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| .NET.NET SDK: C# and F# | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| DartDart SDK | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| ZigZig; zig cc also compiles C and C++ | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| JuliaJulia | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| BunJavaScript and TypeScript with Bun | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| DenoJavaScript and TypeScript with Deno | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| C, C++C and C++ compiler (gcc, g++, make): Clang and MinGW-w64 on Windows, the kit's zig cc and GNU make on macOS and Linux; the Apple frameworks need Xcode Command Line Tools | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| RubyRuby, gem and Bundler: RubyInstaller on Windows, conda-forge on macOS and Linux | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| RR from conda-forge, with the compiler for packages | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Development tools 6 | ||||||
| uvPython environments and packages, uvx for MCP servers | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Android SDKAndroid SDK: sdkmanager, adb, platform and build-tools; installing it you accept Google's Android SDK terms | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: Google does not publish platform-tools and build-tools for Linux ARM64 |
| Typstdocuments and PDFs from text, a light alternative to LaTeX | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| TinyTeXLaTeX (minimal TeX Live): pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, latexmk | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| pnpm, yarnpackage managers, at the version each project asks for | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| CMake, NinjaC and C++ builds | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Web servers 2 | ||||||
| Apacheweb server with PHP | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Caddyweb server and reverse proxy, with automatic HTTPS | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Databases 3 | ||||||
| MySQLthe kit's SQL database: MySQL server and client | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| MongoDBdocument database: server and the mongosh shell | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: x64 build under emulation (Prism) | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| SQLitedatabase in a file: the sqlite3 command line | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| Database viewers 2 | ||||||
| phpMyAdminMySQL in the browser: databases, tables, rows, SQL queries, users, import and export | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
| mongo-expressMongoDB in the browser: databases, collections, documents, indexes, import and export | Windows x64: native build | Windows ARM64: native build | macOS Apple Silicon: native build | macOS Intel: native build | Linux x64: native build | Linux ARM64: native build |
✓ native ≈ x64 build under emulation ✕ not available (hover the cell for the reason)
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Windows 10 and 11 (Windows 11 on ARM64), macOS 12 or later, Linux with glibc 2.35 or later (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 and newer).
win32-x64nativeAtollo-0.6.0-win32-x64.exewin32-arm64some components as emulated x64 builds: details in the tools tableAtollo-0.6.0-win32-arm64.exedarwin-arm64Apple SiliconAtollo-0.6.0-darwin-arm64.app.zipdarwin-x64IntelAtollo-0.6.0-darwin-x64.app.ziplinux-x64AppImage or tar.gz.AppImage.tar.gzlinux-arm64AppImage or tar.gz; no Android.AppImage.tar.gzEach file has its .sha256. On macOS the app only has an ad hoc signature: after unzipping, remove the quarantine with xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine Atollo.app and open it from the kit folder. The macOS and Linux releases are tested in CI, not yet on clean machines. Code signing policy · Privacy policy
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Atollo is in alpha. Windows x64 is the most tested system, real installs in CI included; macOS, Linux and Windows ARM64 are built and tested in CI only. Here is what is still missing, plainly.
The 0.6.0 alpha is on GitHub for Windows, macOS and Linux, each on x64 and ARM64. The published files are built and tested in CI: now they need downloading and starting on clean machines.
We need people using Atollo on real projects and different PCs, and reporting what goes wrong: component installs, projects, databases, agents.
Apple Silicon and Intel are built and started in CI, never on a clean Mac: the zip downloaded with a browser, quarantine and Gatekeeper, App Translocation, a kit on an exFAT stick, the agents' sign-in carried from one Mac to another.
x64 and ARM64 on Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 42 and Debian 13: AppImage with and without FUSE, the tar.gz with WebKitGTK 4.1, exFAT sticks or sticks mounted noexec, sign-in with GNOME, KeePassXC or KWallet.
Updating the app from one version to the next on macOS and Linux is not tried yet. The kit's Apache (2.4.69) is in the catalog but tried only in CI; so is the kit's PHP with pdo_sqlite (8.4.26 and 8.5.11), which the app uses from 0.3.0 on.
On macOS only an ad hoc signature, without Apple notarization: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine is needed. On Windows 0.6.0 ships unsigned: the SignPath signature is still to be activated, and until then SmartScreen may warn on first launch.
Have a Mac, a Linux PC or a Windows ARM64 PC? Try Atollo and tell us how it went: open an issue on GitHub →
One file, one empty folder. The rest arrives when needed.
No telemetry. Atollo collects no data and contacts no server run by its author. It only connects to GitHub to look for its own updates, to the official sources of the components you choose, to Open VSX for the editor's extensions and, if you use them, to the GitHub and agent APIs.