Disambiguation pages — what job each tool owns. Not invented scorecards.
Rooms
vs cron and launchd — cron and raw launchd plists can schedule scripts on macOS. Zashiki Warashi writes calendar LaunchAgents for you and adds network wait, keep-awake, timeouts, logs, and run history.
vs Docker Desktop — Docker Desktop is a container runtime and GUI. Zashiki Warashi is a macOS project catalog with start/stop and Compose DB peek. Not a Docker Desktop alternative — complementary glue.
vs lpm — lpm is a macOS local project manager with services YAML and agent terminals. Zashiki Warashi observes existing repos without required per-project config — catalog, start/stop, Compose DB peek.
vs OrbStack — OrbStack replaces Docker Desktop as a fast macOS container runtime. Zashiki Warashi catalogs local projects and peeks Compose — it runs on top of OrbStack, not instead of it.
vs Portainer — Portainer is a Docker/container management UI (often remote). Zashiki Warashi is a macOS-local project catalog with process start/stop and Compose DB peek — not a Portainer replacement.