# Happier

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Happier and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free app that lets people run Codex and Claude sessions from a phone or browser; critics say it is alpha-stage and mid-rewrite.

## Why people recommend it

- Mobile and web access to sessions (2 comments): "provides a web front-end and iOS app for my sessions too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150418)) "You can run Codex and Claude on mobile from" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143785))

## What people warn about

- Alpha-stage software (1 comments): "A fork named Happier looks promising, but is alpha-stage" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171618))
- Rough edges during rewrite (1 comments): "There's various rough-around-the-edges aspects (and they're currently in the middle of a re-write)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834073))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Happier", https://hackerapproved.com/p/happier/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).