7 ways to run claude code from your phone (2026)
I ship from my phone daily, and I’ve tried most of what’s below before and while building my own option. This list is ordered by scenario, not by rank — the right pick depends entirely on whether you’re willing to keep a machine of yours running. Every option here rides your existing Claude subscription; Anthropic bills the tokens either way.
1. Claude Code Remote Control — best if you’re on Max and your laptop is on
Anthropic’s first-party answer, in research preview since February 2026 for Max subscribers (Pro access has been announced as coming). You run claude remote-control in your terminal, scan a QR code with the Claude app, and your phone becomes a window into the local session. It’s $0 on top of your subscription and there’s no third party involved. The constraints: the session runs on your machine, the terminal has to stay open, and each Claude Code instance supports one remote session at a time.
2. Claude Code on the web — best if first-party cloud and a PR handoff is enough
Anthropic also runs Claude Code sessions on its own cloud infrastructure — claude.ai/code in a browser, and inside the Claude iOS app. Pick a repo, describe the task, and it works in an isolated cloud VM and hands you back a pull request. Nothing of yours has to be running, it’s first-party, and it’s included in your subscription. The trade is the workflow: it’s built around handing off PRs, not working in a live workspace — no terminal into the machine, no dev server you can open and test from your phone.
3. Happy — best if you want open source and your machine is on anyway
Free, MIT-licensed, end-to-end encrypted, with iOS, Android, and web clients. You run happy instead of claude on your computer (or on a VPS you maintain), and the phone app mirrors the session with push notifications. To hand control back to your desk you press any key. Genuinely well made; your machine does need to stay awake and online.
4. Omnara — best if you want the most featureful dashboard
A YC-backed “control plane for agents”, rebuilt on the Claude Agent SDK. Your agents run on your machine by default, with real-time visibility and control from phone, browser, and Apple Watch; it also drives Codex and other agents, not just Claude Code. The core is free; paid tiers unlock parallel agents, persistent cloud sessions, and the full mobile + voice experience.
5. CodeAgents Mobile — best if you already run your own Linux server
A free iOS app that connects to your own server over SSH (it can even provision a DigitalOcean or Hetzner box for you, SSH keys included). Supports skills, MCP servers, background tasks, and several model providers beyond Anthropic. You bring and maintain the server; that’s the deal.
6. Yado — best if you want nothing of yours running (the one I build)
No laptop, no VPS, no server: Yado starts a cloud container with your repos in it, and Claude Code runs there on your own Claude subscription. Chat UI built for the phone plus a full terminal (the real CLI, same session), work that keeps going when you lock your phone, push when it’s done, and a live preview of the app you’re building. Free tier is real (full chat + terminal, one session, unlimited prompts); Pro at $9.99/month adds voice and parallel sessions. iOS only, as of July 2026. The longer honest version: Claude Code without a laptop.
7. Moshi, or plain SSH — best if you already have a box and love a real terminal
The SSH-to-your-own-machine route, in two flavors. Moshi is the polished one: an iOS/Android terminal with native mosh and tmux, a chat view for Claude Code sessions, voice input, and Apple Watch approvals — free to start, Pro at $7.99/month. The raw version is Termius (or any SSH client) into a VPS running tmux — I lived that one for months before building Yado: it works, it’s private, and it’s also fiddly on a phone keyboard. Either way, you bring and maintain the machine.
how to pick
- Laptop on anyway → Remote Control (first-party) or Happy (open source).
- First-party cloud, PR handoff is fine → Claude Code on the web.
- You already run a server → CodeAgents Mobile, Moshi, or plain SSH.
- Rich dashboard across several agents → Omnara.
- Nothing of yours running, phone-first → Yado; Omnara’s paid cloud sessions also get you there (and it has Android), so compare both.
I keep the head-to-heads honest and dated: vs Happy, vs Omnara, vs Remote Control.
sources: Anthropic docs — Remote Control · Happy (GitHub) · omnara.com · CodeAgents Mobile (App Store)