Claude Code Mobile App: Is There One? (2026)

There is no standalone Claude Code mobile app. Anthropic's own docs say it plainly: Claude Code lives in the Code tab of the regular Claude app for iPhone and Android, and that app is a client. The code runs either in Anthropic's cloud or on a computer of yours that has to stay on. Around that gap, about a dozen third-party iOS apps have appeared, and every one of them is also a window onto a machine somewhere else. This page sorts them by the one question that decides whether they work for you: where does the agent actually run? If you want Claude Code in a real terminal on your phone with nothing at home left switched on, that is what we build: Cosyra on the App Store or Google Play, from $20/month.

We checked everything below first-hand on 2026-10-30: Anthropic's Claude Code on mobile doc, its feature-availability table, the GitHub issues people file when the app does not do what they expected, and Apple's public lookup API for every Claude Code companion app we could find. For setup walkthroughs, see Claude Code on iPhone and Claude Code on Android; for the whole category, start at our AI coding agents on mobile pillar.

Is there a Claude Code mobile app?

Not as a separate download. The note at the top of Anthropic's mobile page, fetched on 2026-10-30, reads: "Claude Code doesn't have a separate mobile app: cloud sessions and Remote Control both live in the Code tab in the Claude app, and Dispatch is a task you message in the app." The same page calls the Claude app "a client for Claude Code sessions rather than a place where code runs." If you run /mobile (or /ios, /android) inside a desktop Claude Code session, it prints a QR code that opens the right store listing for the Claude app.

People have asked for more. A January 2026 feature request titled "Mobile version of Claude Code (Android/iOS/Web UI)" was closed by a bot as not planned on 2026-03-14 after going quiet, and a March request for native iPad support was folded into it as a duplicate. Neither got a maintainer reply. So the honest reading is that the Claude app's Code tab is the official mobile surface, and nothing on Anthropic's public tracker points to a terminal-style Claude Code app for phones.

The reason is architectural, not a missing feature. Claude Code is a CLI that expects a real Linux, macOS, or Windows host with a filesystem, a shell, and your tools. iOS gives apps none of that, and Android only gives it through workarounds like Termux. Any "Claude Code app" therefore has to answer one question: whose computer is the agent on?

What the Claude app's Code tab actually does

The Code tab connects to four things, and they differ only in where the work happens. This table is built from Anthropic's mobile doc and its feature-availability page, both read on 2026-10-30.

Two limits matter more than the table suggests. First, every row needs a claude.ai sign-in. The availability page lists "Cloud sessions and Claude Code on mobile" and Remote Control under features that "are not reachable with an Anthropic Console API key or from a third-party provider." If you pay per token with an API key, the Code tab is not for you. Second, the app has gaps a terminal does not: commands like /plugin and /resume do not work from the phone, and you cannot pick Bypass permissions from the app.

Cloud sessions are the strongest part of this. You pick a GitHub repo and a branch from the phone, describe the task, and it keeps running after you put the phone in your pocket, then opens a pull request. We cover the details in Claude Code on the web. What you do not get is a shell. You steer a task; you cannot run htop, poke at a failing test by hand, or use a non-GitHub remote the same way.

Remote Control is the other half, and our remote-control coding guide walks through it. You start claude remote-control on your computer, scan a QR code, and drive that session from the Code tab with push notifications when it needs a decision. It works well, as long as the computer at the other end is awake.

The third-party Claude Code apps, by connection model

Search the App Store for "Claude Code" and you get a shelf of independent apps, none made by Anthropic. On 2026-10-30 we queried Apple's iTunes lookup API for 16 app IDs from that shelf. Fourteen came back. Two that were listed earlier this year, Omnara and an app called "Mobile IDE for Claude Code", returned nothing from the US storefront and appear to have been pulled. The chart shows the 14 that are live, with their rating counts, current version, and where each one runs the agent.

The one number that stands out: Happy has 1,051 ratings and nothing else on the shelf has more than 13, ours included. Happy is the only third-party companion with real adoption so far. Everything else is a few months old with a handful of reviews.

Group 1: your computer plus a relay

Most of the shelf works like Remote Control without Anthropic in the middle. You install a daemon or bridge on your Mac or PC, pair the phone with a QR code, and the app relays your prompts to Claude Code running on that machine. Happy is the mature one: free, MIT-licensed, end-to-end encrypted so the relay sees only encrypted blobs, and it drives Codex as well as Claude Code. CC Pocket follows the same pattern with an npx bridge. The trade-off is identical across the group: if the laptop sleeps, loses Wi-Fi, or is in a bag with the lid shut, the phone has nothing to talk to. Our Cosyra vs Happy comparison goes deeper on that pattern.

Group 2: your own server over SSH

Maude takes the relay idea to a box you rent or own. You give it SSH access to any Linux or macOS machine, a VPS or a Mac mini under the desk, and it installs its daemon there plus Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok Build, and Antigravity. Your code stays on your server and Maude is the remote control. As of 2026-10-30 the app needs Maude Pro to unlock: $2.99/week, $29.99/year, or $69.99 lifetime, per its App Store listing. It is two ratings old. You get an always-on host without a laptop, but you are now the sysadmin of that host.

Group 3: someone else's cloud

The last group needs no machine of yours at all. Anthropic's cloud sessions are one. W&B Catnip is another: an iOS client that provisions a GitHub Codespace and runs agents inside it, so the compute bill is whatever GitHub charges for Codespaces (we compared it in Cosyra vs Catnip). We are the third: a per-user Ubuntu container on Azure AKS, reached from our own iOS, Android, and web clients.

A warning while you browse: an app called Termiux sits in the iOS Developer Tools chart under a seller named "TERMUX LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY". It is not the open-source Termux project, which remains Android-only.

Android: an app that runs the real binary on the phone

Android has one option iOS cannot have. Buddy, an open-source (Apache-2.0) Android app, downloads a small Alpine Linux into its own storage and runs it with proot, then installs Claude Code there with Anthropic's official installer. No Termux, no root, no PC. The latest release was v2.2.17 on 2026-10-29, after 35 releases in its first 22 days.

Read its README before treating it as a coding environment. Buddy's main job is phone automation: a floating bubble that lets an agent read your screen and tap through other apps. Shell access is an opt-in "Linux tools" mode, off by default. Its own docs name the limits: Codex's sandbox cannot run inside its Linux, Android 12 and later can kill its child processes once the phone runs more than about 32 of them, and battery optimisation has to be set to Unrestricted. It is "early" by its author's own description, and its README says iPhone is impossible because iOS does not let apps operate other apps. Proot is also not native, so "Claude Code runs natively on Android" is still not a true sentence. For the full Android picture, including Termux, see Claude Code on Android.

The cloud-container route, and why we built it

Here is the opinion we hold that most relay-app developers would argue with: a phone makes a bad remote control for a laptop. The laptop is the thing you left at home, or the thing in your bag with the lid closed while you stand on a train. Anthropic's own doc says Remote Control and Dispatch need your machine to "stay on." We think most people searching for a Claude Code mobile app want a computer that is not their laptop, one that is always awake, has a real shell, and does not care whether they are on hotel Wi-Fi or a 4G signal in a waiting room.

That is what we ship. Each Cosyra account gets its own Ubuntu 24.04 container with Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, and Antigravity CLI pre-installed. The app provisions a fresh Ubuntu container on first launch, about 15 seconds in our testing. You bring your own key, so Anthropic bills you directly and we never meter tokens. That is also the honest catch: the Claude app's Code tab and Remote Control need a claude.ai login, and in our container you drive the CLI with an API key in a terminal instead.

The whole setup is three commands:

echo 'export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
git clone https://github.com/you/your-repo.git && cd your-repo
claude

Close the app and the container hibernates; open it on the platform after work and it resumes right where you left it, files and shell history intact. The same container opens from iPhone, Android, and the web, so a session you start on the couch is waiting on the laptop the next morning.

Pricing, stated plainly: Core is $20/month, Pro is $30/month. No free tier. Eligible new users can start a 7-day free trial in the App Store app. Both plans include 120 hours of compute a month and 30 GB of persistent storage. Details are on our pricing page.

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Which one should you pick?

• Pick the Claude app's Code tab if you already pay for Pro or Max, your work lives on GitHub, and you mostly want to start tasks and review pull requests from the phone. It costs nothing extra and the cloud sessions run while you sleep.
• Pick Remote Control or Happy if a laptop or desktop stays on at home and you want your local files, tools, and MCP servers from the phone. Happy if you also use Codex or want an open-source relay.
• Pick Maude if you already run a VPS or home server and want several agents on it from an iPhone or iPad.
• Pick Buddy if you have a recent 64-bit Android phone, want the agent on the device itself, and are comfortable with early software.
• Pick Cosyra if you use an API key, want a full terminal rather than a task view, need Android as well as iPhone, or have no machine you are willing to keep awake.

Where the alternatives beat us

We would rather you pick the right tool than churn after a week.

• Cost. If you already pay for a Claude plan, the Code tab adds nothing to your bill. Happy is free. Buddy is free. Maude's $69.99 lifetime plan is cheaper than three months of ours. We charge for the container because we run it.
• Local context. Remote Control and the relay apps see your real machine: your dotfiles, your local databases, the MCP servers you have configured. A fresh cloud container starts empty until you clone into it.
• Async work. Anthropic's cloud sessions are built to run a task while you are away and come back with a pull request. Our container hibernates when you close the app, so it is better suited to sessions you drive than to jobs you fire and forget.
• Offline. Buddy keeps the agent's environment on the phone. Ours lives in the cloud, so no signal means no terminal.

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