# Omnara 27 Hacker News commenters recommended Omnara and 20 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People use it to supervise Claude Code and Codex from their phone, citing reliable messaging. Critics say $20 a month is steep and the idea easy to copy. ## Why people recommend it - More reliable messaging and lower latency (5 comments): "reliability and latency when sending messaages is much better in Omnara" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993991)) "in my experience Omnara is much more reliable than the other solutions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993688)) "reliability and latency when sending messaages is better in Omnara" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992642)) - Seamless switching between computer and phone (3 comments): "Omnara tries to make switching between being on your computer and being on your phone feel seamless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992236)) "greatly increasing productivity as you can keep working whilst in transit" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142849)) "it's quite useful for mobile coding" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993188)) - Native GUI better than CLI (2 comments): "I enjoy Omnara more than those solutions because it's a native experience tailored for coding agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991787)) "we think that a GUI is a better experience than the CLI anyways" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996840)) - No hosting or tunnel maintenance (2 comments): "we try to make it much easier than self hosting and managing your own tunnels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993889)) "there's also 0 hassle of maintaining anything on your own with Omnara" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992589)) ## What people warn about - Too expensive for what it does (5 comments): "Feels expensive for something that an engineer can hack in a couple of ours with tailscale and Claude Code." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992372)) "$20 per month for a service that runs CC on a remote machine in a convenient matter is steep but doable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995459)) "feels hard to justify $20 a month for what looks like considerably less features than openchamber" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992231)) - Easy to clone or replicate (4 comments): "This project seems like a good idea that didn't have enough of a moat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993269)) "Just shows that AI has advanced so quickly that it is easy to clone YC startups to zero." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994035)) "Just seems like a feature that Anthropic/OpenAI could release any day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992654)) - Doesn't use end-to-end encryption (3 comments): "The lack of E2E encryption was why I didn't chose Omnara." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995532)) "they seem to proxy all your conversations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994243)) "That means you don't have E2EE, period." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997846)) - Unclear what it adds over alternatives (2 comments): "I don't quite see the appeal, because Claude Code already supports something similar." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991920)) "I am not sure what more this is offering?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994797)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Paseo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/paseo.md): 70 recommend - [OpenChamber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openchamber.md): 31 recommend - [Claude Code Remote Control](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code-remote-control.md): 30 recommend - [Juggler](https://hackerapproved.com/p/juggler.md): 22 recommend - [T3 Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/t3-code.md): 20 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.omnara.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Omnara", https://hackerapproved.com/p/omnara/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).