Common questions.
Honest answers.

Claude forgets. Crumb remembers. And Crumb gets it done. It's a native macOS app that organizes your Claude Code sessions, tracks context level, and distills every decision, every dead end, every rule you set into one on-device brain. Day 40 starts knowing everything from days 1 through 39.

You don't need to know how to code. Crumb is built for the creative. The person with the idea, who was never handed a computer science degree. It onboards you. It teaches you to think in systems and architecture instead of duct-taping prompts together and hoping. You describe what you want in plain English. You stop guessing. You start building.

You've been leaving a trail of crumbs this whole time. Half ideas, dead sessions, scattered context, almost-features. Crumb picks them up and makes something of them.

Crumb remembers. Crumb gets it done. Pick up your crumbs. Build the thing.

Claude Code is excellent. Every AI tool hands you a blank terminal and wishes you luck. That's where the spiral starts. Twelve half-built features deep, the AI forgot what you decided this morning, and you're vibe-coding in circles with nothing to show for it.

Crumb pulls you out. You get all of Claude Code's capability in a normal Mac window. A live context gauge so sessions don't spiral. The Ledger so Day 40 starts knowing everything from days 1 through 39. Quick Prompts in arm's reach. The terminal is still there at the bottom if you need it. You just don't have to live in it.

Cursor and Windsurf are AI-augmented code editors. They live inside the IDE and give developers autocomplete, inline suggestions, and code chat while writing. They're good at that. Crumb is not an editor.

Crumb organizes Claude Code sessions. Long-running autonomous builds, context history, the Ledger, and Nerd mode configuration. If Cursor is the workbench, Crumb is the studio that keeps the workbench organized. A lot of developers use both for different jobs.

Crumb uses your existing Claude subscription or API key. Claude Pro or Claude Max from Anthropic works. If you don't have one, sign up at anthropic.com before or after installing Crumb.

Crumb is a separate purchase from your Claude subscription. You pay once for the app. Anthropic bills you separately for Claude usage. The two are independent.

No. Most people use Creative mode and that's it. Creative is for building things in plain English. Nerd is for the people who want to tinker with how things get built.

If you're not sure which one you are, you're Creative. Nerd mode is fully there if you ever want it. Both unlock in every plan. You don't pay extra.

The Ledger is a per-project record of everything you've built. Each session adds a crumb: what was done, when, how long it ran, how much context was used. It's shown as a bar chart, one bar per day, so you can see your full project history at a glance.

The Ledger lives on your machine. It's generated locally and never sent anywhere. You don't have to log into anything to see it. Close Crumb for two weeks and come back. The trail is still there.

Yes, both are Nerd mode features. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a structured way to give Claude access to specific tools and data sources. Hooks are event-driven scripts that run before or after Claude Code actions.

If that sentence didn't make sense, you don't need Nerd mode yet. Creative mode handles everything most builders need. MCP and hooks are there when a project gets more complex and you want more control over what Claude can see and do.

Yes. One license activates on up to 3 Macs. If you replace a machine, deactivate on the old one from your account page at account.getcrumb.app, then activate on the new one. The 3-activation limit is per license, not per calendar year.

Crumb works offline. The Ledger, project list, and session history are local and available without any network connection. The only thing that requires internet is starting a Claude Code session, because that calls Anthropic's API.

So: your data is always there. Your history is always accessible. You just can't start a new Claude session without a network connection.

The Quiet Pledge is Crumb's one-page data commitment. The complete list of every outbound connection the app makes. It runs on one rule: what you do here stays here.

Crumb doesn't read your code, doesn't send your project files anywhere, doesn't run analytics or telemetry. Your Ledger entries stay on your machine. Your prompts go to Anthropic the same way they always have. Crumb never touches them.

Your project files are on your machine in the folders you opened. They don't live in Crumb. If you stop using Crumb tomorrow, your code is exactly where it was before you installed it.

Crumb's data (the Ledger, session records) is stored in a standard location on your machine. You can read it, back it up, or delete it. Nothing is held on a server. Nothing is held hostage.

$39 one-time or $4.99/month. Both unlock the same features. The price you pay today is the price for this major version. When v2 ships (roughly 18-24 months), one-time buyers get a discounted upgrade at $19. Monthly subscribers stay at the same rate.

Crumb is not VC-funded. The pricing is designed to stay sustainable without being predatory.

macOS 13 (Ventura) or later. Apple Silicon or Intel. Crumb is a universal binary so it runs natively on both chip architectures. It's 4 MB, signed, and notarized by Apple.

Yes. The free version of Crumb gives you one project in Creative mode, full access, forever. Nerd mode is visible inside the app so you can see what's there, but you can't start projects in it or use its features until you upgrade. No card to install. No card to use the free version. No sales call. No conversion guilt trip.

Crumb is built for individuals. There are no team features, no seats, no collaboration layers. Just you and your projects, organized.

The people who get the most out of it run a lot of long sessions and need to track what's been done. If that's you, it's worth it. If you only use Claude Code occasionally for one-off tasks, the terminal is probably fine.