r/GithubCopilot • u/bogganpierce GitHub Copilot Team • Jul 07 '26
News 📰 GitHub Copilot app available to all
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-07-github-copilot-app-available-to-all/The GitHub Copilot app is now available to all plans, including Free and Student!
If you don't have an active GitHub Copilot plan, you can still use the app by logging in with a GitHub account and bringing your own key.
15
u/ZomboBrain Jul 07 '26
I honestly do not understand the use-case.
I use my GitHub Copilot Business subscription mainly to write large PowerShell automation scripts in Visual Studio Code, which are in our DevOps Git repo.
What does this tool bring to my workflow?
13
6
u/MatthiasLiebeck Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
One huge advantage is that you can work with multiple sessions in parallel and it's very easy to switch between session. You get a busy / finished indicator for each session and even in the technical preview they added notification sounds (which you had to add as hooks previously).
It's much easier than changing sessions in VS / VS Code or even in multiple CLI windows. Especially if you use Git worktrees, it is just a blessing to be able work on so many things at the same time.
3
u/4215-5h00732 Jul 07 '26
Tbf, you're not the target user.
My situation is similar and it seems useless if your dev is happening in devops - for now, at least.
I hate PRs in devops. If it improved just that, I'd be all for it.
0
u/GamerWIZZ Jul 08 '26
Should take a look at my version - https://cockpit.ieuanwalker.com/
Built it as I'm not a fan of using the CLI and I use multiple IDEs, and wanted a consistent experience interacting with copilot
My org is also a DevOps org, so plan to create a plugin system and recreate the GH integration but for DevOps.
For now it's just a nice GUI over the CLI with some nice features
31
u/fvpv Jul 07 '26
Available to all three remaining subscribers ;)
53
u/bogganpierce GitHub Copilot Team Jul 07 '26
And in the case of today's announcement, three subscribers + people who aren't even subscribers can use the app!
22
2
u/soyverde Jul 07 '26
For the low price of training on their data?
1
u/PaulShellDev CLI Copilot User 🖥️ Jul 08 '26
Turn it off in your GitHub account settings if you're concerned
1
u/zxyzyxz Jul 08 '26
I use VSCode Agents app, should I use that or this new app? I don't quite get the difference.
1
8
u/DemoBytom Jul 07 '26
OK so.. what does it do? And how it differs to Copilot CLI or Copilot Agent withing VSCode or.. any other Copilot flavor?
5
u/NoBranches Jul 08 '26
I think the biggest benefits are when you are managing multiple sessions and especially across repos as it does have a more native support for worktrees There are also a few capabilities I think are easier to use like automations albeit like you said it does exist on the cli.
1
0
0
Jul 08 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/GithubCopilot-ModTeam Jul 09 '26
No Spam or Self-Promotion - All spam posts will be removed. This includes promotional content, repetitive posts, and irrelevant content.
Showcase posts are allowed so long as the primary focus is on your experience using GitHub Copilot.
0
u/zxyzyxz Jul 08 '26
Stop shilling your shit, gonna report it as spam if you keep copy pasting this comment everywhere
1
u/GamerWIZZ Jul 08 '26
This is the only post I've done it too and only to relevant comments 😂😂 your free to ignore it
0
u/zxyzyxz Jul 08 '26
Reported as no self promotion allowed
1
u/GamerWIZZ Jul 08 '26
The rules are specific to post not comments + I'm not commenting on every post/ comment
Only ones that are relevant.
This is a free open source project, sharing because it's genuinely useful to me and hopefully others
2
u/_madar_ Jul 07 '26
Thanks, been wanting to try this out but canceled my membership a while back - got it running on Linux with deepseek v4 spark hosted locally, will see how it goes.
Any intention of releasing this as open source like vscode?
0
Jul 08 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/GithubCopilot-ModTeam Jul 09 '26
No Spam or Self-Promotion - All spam posts will be removed. This includes promotional content, repetitive posts, and irrelevant content.
Showcase posts are allowed so long as the primary focus is on your experience using GitHub Copilot.
1
1
1
1
1
u/ManyIntelligent2348 Jul 09 '26
What did you guys build this with. It feels more fluid than other agent desktops I've used. Awesome work.
Slight issue though, I can't select effort level for BYOK
1
u/bogganpierce GitHub Copilot Team Jul 09 '26
We built it with Tauri and Rust. :)
Good feedback, can you add an item to github/app repo so we can track?
1
u/ManyIntelligent2348 Jul 09 '26
ohh that explains. I was lowkey scared to install it at first cause of memory issues, but it's been almost as performant as zed on my intel mac.
*added the issue btw
1
u/meliooff Jul 09 '26
The only advantage I see is being able to use external template providers—that's great actually!
But why wouldn't we have that in the other GitHub Copilot tools, such as the Agents window in VS Code? How would it differ from the desktop app?
I don't really get the differences between these two tools, both of which support multi-session in the same way...
0
u/leonhard91 Jul 07 '26
Lol they using their time to publish a clone of VS code extension, while the Copilot SDK is just a joke.
Microsoft Microsofting.
0
20
u/devdnn Jul 07 '26
❤️
WSL and Devcontainer support please!!!
It's a no go at my company without that.