Roundup
The best apps to run coding agents from your phone
Official vendor apps, open-source clients, hosted machines, multi-agent apps and plain SSH. Below: where the code runs in each, what you install, which agents they cover, and what they cost.
Quick answer
If you only use one agent and your computer stays on, start with the vendor's own app: the Claude app's Remote Control, Remote in the ChatGPT app for Codex, or Antigravity's Remote Control dashboard. All three come with the plan you already pay for. For several agents in one app, Happier is free and open source, Vicoa has a free plan, and Maude ($2.99/week) sets up your server for you over SSH. Cosyra rents you a hosted machine if you don't want your own.
Every major agent vendor now has an official way to reach its agent from a phone, and a dozen third-party apps add more. The table below lists eleven of them, and the sections after it group them into five kinds: official vendor apps, open-source clients, hosted machines, multi-agent apps and plain SSH. The differences that matter are short: where the code runs, what you install, which agents you get, whether you can approve actions from a push notification, and price. This page compares those for the main options. We make Maude, so it's in the table too. We've tried to be fair to everyone else, and every competitor detail links to its source.
The comparison table
| App | Where code runs | Install needed | Agents | Push approvals | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude app: Remote Control | Your computer (must stay on) | Claude Code, started with claude remote-control | Claude Code | Yes (/config → Push when actions required) | Included with Pro ($20/month), Max, Team, Enterprise |
| Claude app: cloud sessions | Anthropic-managed cloud by default | None; repo on GitHub (or uploaded) | Claude Code | Answer questions in the app | Pro, Max, Team, some Enterprise seats; shares plan limits |
| ChatGPT app: Codex Remote | A Mac or Windows host running the ChatGPT desktop app (SSH projects through it) | ChatGPT desktop app on the host | Codex | Approve actions, get notifications | With ChatGPT plans that include Codex |
| Antigravity Remote Control | Your computer | agy (CLI) or Antigravity 2.0 desktop | Antigravity | Respond from the web dashboard | Depends on your plan or org policy |
| Happier | Your computers | Happier CLI + daemon on each machine (script, or over SSH from desktop/CLI); agents installed by you | 13 built in + ACP agents | Yes | Free, MIT |
| Happy (Happy Coder) | Your computer | npm install -g happy, then happy claude / happy codex | Claude Code, Codex | Push when a permission is needed | Free, MIT |
| Vicoa | Your machines | Vicoa desktop app or npm i -g @vicoa/cli | 40+ (incl. ACP) | Yes, one-tap approvals | Free plan (1 remote machine); Pro $12/month |
| Cosyra | A hosted VM Cosyra runs for you | None; agents preinstalled | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode (bring your own keys) | Push notifications | From $20/month; 7-day App Store trial |
| Omnara app | Your machine | Not documented on the store listing or Omnara's site | Claude Code, Codex | Approvals in the app | Free app |
| SSH apps (Termius, Blink) + tmux | Your server | Agent, tmux, keys: all by hand | Any CLI | No, unless you wire up hooks | Termius free / Pro $10/month billed yearly; Blink+ $19.99 after a 14-day trial |
| Maude | Your Linux or macOS server | Nothing by hand: the app deploys its daemon and the agents over SSH | 5: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok Build, Antigravity | Yes, Allow/Deny on the notification | $2.99/week (3-day trial) or $59.99/year (7-day trial) |
Checked 2026-10-01 against each product's own docs, pricing or store page (linked). Prices are in USD before tax. With every app except the vendors' own, you bring your own agent subscriptions or API keys.
Official vendor apps
Claude app (Anthropic). Claude Code has no separate mobile app. The Code tab in the Claude app opens cloud sessions, which run on Anthropic's infrastructure and keep going with your laptop shut. It also opens Remote Control, which drives a session on your own computer. Remote Control is on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise, and has push notifications for permission prompts. Its server mode runs up to 32 sessions by default. The catches: your computer has to stay on with the claude process running, and you can't pick Bypass permissions, or Auto for Remote Control sessions, from the app. Details in our Remote Control comparison and cloud sessions comparison.
ChatGPT app (OpenAI). Codex Remote lets the ChatGPT app on iOS or Android start chats, approve actions and review output on a host running the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS or Windows. The host has to stay awake, online and signed in. There's an experimental codex remote-control CLI path, but Linux headless hosts aren't the documented route. See Maude vs Codex Remote.
Antigravity (Google). Remote Control works with the agy CLI and the Antigravity 2.0 desktop app. You start it with /remote-control, agy --remote-control or the always-on agy remote-control start daemon. You control it from a web dashboard in any browser, signed in to the same Google account. Google says it has to be enabled for your account through your plan or organization policy. More on our Antigravity page.
Grok Build (xAI) has no documented official remote yet; xAI is reportedly testing one. Community tools fill the gap for now. See Grok Build on your phone.
Open-source clients: Happier and Happy
Happier is the strongest free option. It's MIT-licensed, with iOS, Android, desktop and web clients, 13 built-in agents, end-to-end encryption, a self-hostable relay, voice, a unified inbox, push approvals, agent switching, diff review, git and a terminal. You install its CLI on each machine, and you install the agents yourself. Happy is the project Happier came out of. It's simpler: Claude Code and Codex, end-to-end encrypted, with push when a permission is needed. Our Maude vs Happier comparison goes through the differences in detail.
Hosted machines: Cosyra
Cosyra is for people who don't have a server and don't want one. Each user gets a hardware-virtualized VM with persistent storage and Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode preinstalled, and you sign in with your own keys. Plans are $20/month (Core) or $30/month (Pro), each with 120 workspace hours a month. The trade-off is that the code lives on their machine, not one you control, and the hours are capped.
Multi-agent apps: Vicoa, Omnara, Maude
Vicoa covers the most agents of anything here, 40+, including any ACP-compatible one. It has desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux, mobile and web remote control, push with one-tap approvals, terminals, git and voice dictation. The free plan covers one remote machine, and Pro is $12/month.
Omnara's website now presents an open-source (Apache 2.0) platform for deploying agents. Its free mobile app, Omnara: Claude & Codex Mobile, is still in the stores with monitoring, diff review, approvals and voice. Read our Omnara comparison for what changed.
Maude is paid ($2.99/week (3-day trial) or $59.99/year (7-day trial)). It's built around one idea: give it SSH access to a Linux or macOS server and it does the rest. It deploys its own daemon, installs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok Build and Antigravity at tested, pinned versions, and keeps them updated. Sessions run 24/7 on the server. You get an inbox, push with Allow/Deny, agent handoff, and per-session files, git (diff, commit, push, PR) and a terminal. Traffic goes through an end-to-end encrypted relay, with SSH as the fallback.
DIY: SSH apps and tmux
Termius or Blink plus tmux on a server works with any agent CLI and costs little. You get the real terminal UI, and you set up everything yourself: install the agent, log in, keep the session alive, and reconnect after every network change (mosh helps). Nothing tells you when an agent is waiting on a permission. Our guide to tmux, mosh and Tailscale for coding agents covers the setup, and Maude vs SSH terminal apps compares the two approaches.
One note on search results: "vibe coding" apps such as Lovable, Bolt or Replit build apps for you in their own cloud. They don't drive the coding agent on your machine, so they aren't in this table.
Which should you pick?
- One agent, computer always on: the vendor's own app. It's included with your plan.
- Claude Code with no machine at all: Claude Code cloud sessions, or Cosyra for a general-purpose VM.
- Free and open source, many agents: Happier. Happy if you only need Claude Code and Codex.
- The most agents, with a free plan: Vicoa.
- A terminal and nothing else: Termius or Blink with tmux.
- Your own server running 24/7, several agents, nothing installed by hand: Maude. Our guide to running coding agents 24/7 covers that setup.
Frequently asked questions
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What changed
- — First published. Includes Claude Remote Control and cloud sessions, Codex Remote, Antigravity Remote Control, Happier, Happy, Vicoa, Cosyra, Omnara, SSH apps and Maude.
