Splitkick 1.0 is out
The first public release: signed and notarized for Apple Silicon, installs next to Jean, and imports your JeanZ or Jean projects and sessions on first start.
Splitkick 1.0 is the first public release. Until now the fork ran as JeanZ: 26 releases since September, used every day for code, company data and writing. With 1.0 it becomes its own app, with its own name, icon, bundle identifier (app.splitkick.desktop) and data folder. It installs and runs next to Jean, so you can try it without giving anything up. 1.0 is built on Jean 0.1.73.
Moving over from JeanZ or Jean
On first start, Splitkick finds existing JeanZ or Jean data and offers to import a copy: projects, sessions, chat history, saved contexts, settings, window layout, remote hosts and browser logins. Where both exist, JeanZ’s copy wins. The source is only read, and your worktrees stay where they are.
Three of Jean’s defaults clash with Splitkick, so the copy changes them:
- Web Access moves from port 3456 to 3460, so Jean and Splitkick can serve at the same time.
- Archived sessions are no longer deleted after 7 days. In Splitkick they stay until you delete them.
- Closing a session archives it instead of deleting it.
What else is different
- New worktrees go to
~/splitkick/<project>/. - The built-in MCP server is called
splitkick. - The project config file is
splitkick.json. An existingjean.jsonis still read when there is nosplitkick.json. - Updates come in the app, from the Splitkick repository, signed with a new key.
Everything Splitkick adds to Jean, with the status of each feature, is on the features page. What it is and why it exists: the power-user edition of Jean.
Get it
Splitkick is free and open source, for Macs with Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or newer. The app is signed and notarized. The download page has the DMG, a checklist of what you need (git and at least one signed-in agent CLI) and the three install steps. Every change is in the changelog.