Free · macOS · Open source

Two accounts.
No logout.

Lanes opens Claude Desktop signed into a different account in each lane, side by side. Work and personal, running at once. No more logging out a dozen times a day.

Download for macOS View source

· Apple silicon · macOS 13+

The Lanes panel open in the macOS menu bar, listing two Claude lanes — Work and Personal — each signed into a separate account
Never touches your login tokens The app phones home to nobody The app: open source, zero telemetry

Get going

Up and running in a minute.

No terminal. No GitHub account. No setup project. Download, drag, done.

1

Download & open

Grab the .dmg, open it, and drag Lanes into your Applications folder. That’s the whole install.

2

Add your accounts

Open Lanes from the menu bar and add a lane for each account — name them Work, Personal, whatever fits. Sign in once per lane.

3

Click a lane

Click any lane and the real app opens on that account. Click two and they run side by side. No logging out, ever.

First launch

Opening it the first time.

Lanes is free and independent, so it isn’t notarized by Apple yet. macOS asks you to confirm once — a ten-second step, no terminal needed.

1

Drag to Applications

Open the .dmg and drag Lanes into your Applications folder, then double-click it.

2

Open Anyway

macOS blocks the very first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the bottom, and click Open Anyway.

3

That’s it

Confirm once and Lanes opens from your menu bar. You won’t see the prompt again.

Still says “damaged”? Paste this in Terminal once, then reopen Lanes: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Lanes.app

Why the prompt? Apple charges for the certificate that removes it. Lanes is free and open source — read every line, or build it yourself.

Works with

Claude, today.

Lanes launches the official app — it doesn’t replace it. Each account gets its own clean, isolated lane.

C
Claude Desktop
work · personal · client

On the radar

G
ChatGPT
not yet · native app, no isolation hook
Cx
Codex
not yet · ignores the profile flag

Lanes only adds an app once it can isolate cleanly without touching your login. Claude does today; these don’t yet — and Lanes won’t fake it.

BUILT THE CAREFUL WAY

Why it’s safe.

  • It never touches your tokens.Other switchers copy your login credentials around. Lanes doesn’t. It only tells each app to keep its session in its own folder.
  • The app never phones home.Lanes makes zero network calls — no accounts, no servers, no telemetry, no auto-updates. It runs entirely on your Mac. (This website uses privacy-friendly analytics; the app itself collects nothing, ever.)
  • Open source.Every line is on GitHub. Read it, build it yourself, or just trust that others can.
# all Lanes does, in one line:
open Claude.app \
  --profile ~/Lanes/claude-work
# your login stays put. that’s it.

Unofficial & not affiliated with Anthropic or OpenAI. A personal-productivity utility — check your plan’s terms before running multiple accounts, especially Team or Enterprise.

Stop logging out.

Free, open source, and a 1.9 MB download. Your accounts, side by side, in a minute.

Download for macOS

· Apple silicon only