Claude Remote
Ranked 8 of 13 coding agent interfaces by recommenders
People recommend it to approve Claude Code prompts from a phone while the computer keeps working, though sessions often disconnect or hang.
People recommend it to approve Claude Code prompts from a phone while the computer keeps working, though sessions often disconnect or hang.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 48%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Approve prompts from phone
“Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy and I can just go out with my family”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “I know why the mathematicians weep” “Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy”
Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “I know why the mathematicians weep” Works well day to day
“I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Work with Codex from Anywhere” “Claude remote works well... for Claude”
Comment from 21 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Disconnects, hangs, or is buggy
“it works for about five minutes before it just disconnects or hangs”
Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Work with Codex from Anywhere” “it periodically signs me out, breaking the session”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Berthd” “very buggy, websocket disconnecting, UI broken”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Claude Code: Channels” - Comment from 14 May 2026 in “Work with Codex from Anywhere”
Other coding agent interfaces people recommend
The four most recommended other coding agent interfaces, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paseo | 70 | 10 | 88% | 9 | 1 mo6 owners | Approved |
| OpenChamber | 31 | 7 | 82% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Claude Code Remote Control | 30 | 36 | 45% | 5 | — | — |
| Omnara | 27 | 20 | 57% | 4 | — | — |
| Claude RemoteThis page | 10 | 11 | 48% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
22 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Claude Remote offers slick mobile access.”
“You inherently leave a backdoor open to your system.”
“Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy and I can just go out with my family”
“Claude Remote prompts my phone when it needs direction, the hardware stays busy”
“it periodically signs me out, breaking the session”
“Codex Remote/Claude Remote Control isn't good enough because my computer can reboot anytime”
“with my computer in the corner running Claude and Claude Remote”
“I know Claude remote is a thing, but it's not the same.”
“Claude remote works well... for Claude”
“The best thing I found was Claude's remote-control feature, but it locks me to one coding agent / LLM provider”
“very lacking in Claude Remote Control”
“that's where Claude's remote control or copilot's agents tab spared me”
“you've to explicitly /remote-control a session/folder for it to work”
“to this day is very buggy”
“the UI is very mushy on mobile with a lot of the affordances from desktop missing”
“it works for about five minutes before it just disconnects or hangs”
“I use it daily and it seems to work pretty well”
“unlike Anthropic's Remote Control, this actually... works.”
“It is a cool feature when it works”
“Existing tools like Anthropic's Claude Remote Control are limited to the terminal”
“very buggy, websocket disconnecting, UI broken”
“their launch validated the use case but only lets you view and approve sessions”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.