Yesterday's Top Launches: 3 Tools from October 28, 2026
The article covers three October 28 launches: an AI-agent browser called Strawberry, a redesigned n8n chat widget, and a Mac heat monitor.
Three Launches From October 28: AI Teammates in Your Browser, a Nicer n8n Chat Widget, and a Heat Monitor for Your Mac
Yesterday’s batch of new developer tools had a running theme: fixing the awkward seams where AI meets everyday work. One team rebuilt the browser so agents can act inside your logged-in tabs, another reskinned the front door to n8n workflows so it stops looking like a 2014 contact form, and a third tackled a problem anyone running coding agents on a laptop knows intimately, which is that your MacBook is now a space heater with a keyboard attached.
Worth noting up front: none of the three had community rankings published as of this morning, so the order below reflects what seemed most substantial rather than vote counts.
Strawberry 1.0
Strawberry is the most ambitious of the three and the one most likely to divide opinion. It’s a desktop browser for macOS and Windows where AI companions live inside your session and operate the tabs you’re already signed into. The pitch is that a chatbot can answer a question about text you paste in, but it can’t see the page you’re staring at or click the button on it. Being a browser gives the thing context that no plugin can reach.
The unit of work is a Companion. There are prebuilt ones with fairly blunt names: Sales Sally hunts leads and drafts outreach, Talent Theo scores candidates, Executive Ellis writes your morning brief, Marketing Martin produces channel posts, Consulting Cora converts client calls into proposals. You can also build your own and share it with a team, which is the part that actually matters commercially, since a good workflow then stops belonging to one power user.
The mechanics are where it earns attention. Companions can drive Gmail, Slack, Calendar, Linear, HubSpot, Notion, LinkedIn and Sheets, so pulling a lead list into a spreadsheet or turning a meeting transcript into Linear tasks is a described scenario rather than a demo. Meeting notes work without a bot joining the call, which is a small relief. Work on Autopilot handles recurring browser chores, and memory persists preferences across sessions.
Skeptical notes. The credit pricing gets expensive at scale: Full-time at $250/month for 75,000 credits is a real budget line, and top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits add up fast when companions are acting constantly. Switching browsers is a genuine habit cost, and the official companion roster has a slightly gimmicky flavor that undersells what the product does. Names aside, though, this is the first browser-as-agent-platform pitch that reads as practical rather than conceptual. The security model is at least thoughtfully stated, with per-app and per-action permissions plus locally encrypted passwords that are never sent to model providers.
N8N Chat UI
If Strawberry is a bet on a whole new surface, N8N Chat UI is a much narrower fix, and it’s honest about that. The site opens by saying n8n’s default chat widget “definitely gets the job done, but just barely.” Anyone who has embedded it knows the complaint: it works, it’s functional, and it looks like nothing on your site.
This is a no-code builder for a better widget. You configure a floating bubble or an in-page embed in a visual editor with live preview, then copy-paste a snippet. Colors, position, icon, border radius, draggable behavior, auto-open, tooltip and footer are all adjustable without touching CSS. Beyond cosmetics you get file uploads with type and size limits, voice messages recorded in the widget, streaming responses with zero extra configuration once enabled in n8n, and a JavaScript API for anything the builder doesn’t cover.
The newer addition is the interesting one: connect Claude or another tool to the product’s MCP server and customize the widget by describing what you want instead of clicking through panels. Two routes to the same result, which is a sensible hedge while natural-language configuration is still finding its footing.
Honest assessment: this is a layer, not a platform, and its long-term risk is obvious. If n8n ships a decent native chat UI, a good chunk of the value evaporates. Right now the gap is real though, and the $59 lifetime license (down from $149) with 2,500 bonus credits makes the decision easy for agencies running client chat widgets. 2,803 users have built something with it so far. If you’re already deep in n8n and your widget is the weak link, this is a cheap fix. If you’re not on n8n, there’s nothing here for you.
WhoIsCooking
The most immediately useful of the three, and the cheapest. WhoIsCooking is a $5 one-time Mac app that answers a question every developer running Claude Code, Codex or Cursor has asked this year: which agent is actually cooking my machine?
It sits in the notch, or the menu bar, and shows the hottest chip sensor reading plus CPU and GPU load. Below that it lists active agents as single rows rather than the usual eighty cryptic subprocesses, each with a CPU percentage and a description of what’s running, like Claude Code executing ffmpeg and python, or a Codex CLI cargo build. It recognizes Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Aider, Copilot CLI, Ollama, LM Studio, Xcode builds, ffmpeg, Docker and browsers.
The cool-down button is the headline. One click moves the work onto efficiency cores. The job keeps running, slower, and the temperature drops roughly fourteen degrees by the site’s measurement of the same render at 64°C and then 50°C. Your terminal stays usable, nothing is frozen, and Full speed puts the power back instantly. It also nudges you when an agent pins the CPU for five minutes straight or leaves a dev server running after its session ends.
Limits are worth stating plainly. It needs Apple Silicon on macOS 14 or later, since those sensors don’t exist on Intel Macs. Cooling means throttling by another name, so a long build will finish later than it would have at full tilt; the trade is a quieter machine and a session you can keep working in. Idle overhead is negligible at around 0% CPU and 14 MB, and there’s no account or cloud dependency. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so it opens without a warning dialog. Five dollars is hard to argue with.