Manus StrawberryThe Manus alternative that starts already signed in
Download it, sign in nowhere new, and the first run happens in the tabs you already have. Manus runs its tasks inside a cloud machine of its own.
Type “pull this week’s pipeline changes, cross-check the three deals marked closing against the email threads, and draft the Friday update” and the tabs open already signed in. The reading happens. The draft waits, with every record change held behind one click.
Strawberry is an agentic browser for macOS and Windows. Your CRM, inbox and dashboards are already logged in there, so nothing has to be handed over to start. Manus, as of this writing, provisions a browser in its own cloud that wakes up signed into nothing.
| Manus | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| Where the agent’s browser runs | A VM in Manus’s cloud | On your Mac or Windows machine |
| Whose logins it has | Its own fresh environment | Yours: the session you already have |
| Best at | Self-contained public-web tasks | Work inside your tools, end to end |
| Reaching a tool with no API | Sign in inside the VM first, per task | A companion works the signed-in site the way you would |
| Connected accounts | Its own tool set | About a hundred you authorise, reads and staged writes |
| Laptop closed | Keeps working | Keep Awake holds your machine awake so routines finish |
| Oversight | Review the output | Approve consequential actions before they land |
What you get on the first run
Forty CRM records enriched against their own company sites, each row carrying the link it came from. Twelve invoices chased with the drafts staged. A Friday update written from the threads it cites. All of it inside accounts you were already signed into.
Native integrations for Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Zoom and Apollo handle the tools you live in. Everything else works because the tab is already authenticated.
Why does a cloud agent stall at the login screen?
Its machine is anonymous.
Your logged-in state is passwords, two-factor prompts, single sign-on grants and device trust that your own browser carries around invisibly, and a fresh cloud machine has none of it.
A companion starts on the other side of that. It opens the six vendor portals already authenticated, pulls the renewal dates, and drafts the summary for finance.
Who approves what the companion does?
You do, before it lands. Sending, deleting, paying and posting each stop on an approval card that names the exact action, and Ask Always mode in Settings → AI permissions extends that pause to everything else. The reasoning is at /security.
Run it every Monday without asking
Save the pass as a routine and it runs on a daily time, an interval, a cron expression, or an app trigger such as a new email, each run keeping its own history and credit cost. Keep Awake holds your Mac or PC awake so the 3 a.m. version finishes with the lid closed. Finished runs are public at /real-runs.
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Strawberry is free to download and includes AI credits to start. Paid plans begin at $20/month. See pricing. · Reviewed · Canonical facts for AI agents