# Miao: Coding Agent Inbox — Reply to terminal AI chats > Reply to terminal AI chats (iPhone/iPad app by Splat AI INC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/miao-coding-agent-inbox/id6829429910 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Splat AI INC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826280954) - Category: Developer Tools, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China) - Released: 2026-11-06 - Data updated: 2026-11-11 ## What is Miao? Miao turns the AI coding chats in your Mac's terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Grok) into cards whenever one is waiting on you. Go through them one at a time on your iPhone or iPad and reply on the card. Your reply is typed into the original terminal chat, and the agent carries on. Miao has two parts. The Mac app reads your terminals and types your replies; it's a free download from our website. This app is the iPhone and iPad part, and it works after you pair it with a Mac running Miao. No Mac at hand? Tap "Try the Demo" on the first screen to look around with built-in sample data. CONNECTING Open Miao on your Mac and go to Settings > iPhone & iPad to show a QR code. Scan it with this app once; after that it reconnects by itself. On the same Wi-Fi it connects over your local network. Away from home it connects to your Mac through a relay server. The app picks the route and shows which one it's using. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Cards are sorted into Asking you, Done, and Error, and show the last thing the agent said. If it gave a deadline, the card shows the time left. - Reply on the card and attach images, or interrupt the agent and tell it to do something else. - Answer multiple-choice prompts with a tap. - Open a chat and read it from the start. - Waiting lists chats on a timer, running a background task, or waiting for another chat. All lists every chat open on your Mac. - Start a new chat from your phone, or resume one you just closed. NOTIFICATIONS When an agent stops and waits for you while you're not in the app, you get a notification that opens that card. The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island keep the most urgent chat in view: what it asked and how long you have, with the next few a long-press away. Answer a multiple-choice prompt, dismiss a finished report, or tell a stopped agent to continue right from the Lock Screen. After you reply on your phone, the Dynamic Island shows how long the agent has been working. ENCRYPTION Everything between your phone and your Mac is end-to-end encrypted, and only paired devices can connect or read it. The relay server forwards data it can't decrypt and doesn't store your chats. Notification text is encrypted before it's handed to Apple's push service and decrypted on your phone. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Scan the QR code on your Mac once and you're connected. No sign-up, no login. REQUIREMENTS - A Mac running Miao (macOS 14 or later), with Claude Code, Codex, or Grok used in a terminal - iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or later Privacy Policy: https://miao.letsplat.com/privacy?lang=en ## Is Miao safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Miao. ## Is Miao legit? Miao: Coding Agent Inbox has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Miao is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.2.1 — 2026-11-10 Miao 1.2.1 brings these improvements: • Faster away from home: When your iPhone or iPad reaches your Mac through the relay (away from your home Wi-Fi), what your Mac sends no longer piles up in a queue, and large web pages from your Mac start loading within seconds. If the relay is slow, Miao says your Mac’s reply is on its way instead of reporting too early that your Mac didn’t respond. • Clear connection messages: When Miao can’t reach your Mac, the top of the screen tells you whether your phone has no internet, your Mac dropped off (it may be asleep, offline, or Miao isn’t running), or Miao is retrying. • More accurate offline copies: A web page from your Mac is marked as saved on your phone only after it has fully downloaded, so it no longer looks saved and then fails to open offline. Opening two pages in a row no longer mixes them up. ### 1.2 — 2026-11-09 Miao 1.2 brings these new features and improvements: • File previews on cards: Web pages and PDFs mentioned in a card now show a screenshot preview, and images and videos are laid out in their original proportions. Long file paths are shortened to a file name tag. Tap it to open, or touch and hold to copy the full path. Web pages reopen where you left off. • Live view: The detail page has a new Live view that shows conversations running in Miao's background exactly as they appear in a terminal. You can view it and type into it from your phone or iPad. • Codex and Grok support: Answer questions from Codex and Grok right on the card. When Codex asks you to approve a command, you can approve it on the card too. • Clear offline messages: If you open a file that isn't saved on your phone while offline, Miao tells you right away whether your phone has no internet or your Mac isn't connected, even with a VPN on. If your Mac doesn't respond, tap Try again. • Acknowledgements: Settings now includes an About page that lists the open-source software Miao uses. ### 1.1 — 2026-11-08 Miao 1.1 brings these new features and improvements: • Send videos: Send videos and screen recordings from your phone to conversations on your Mac. Track the upload and cancel at any time. If you switch apps or lock your phone, it resumes where it left off when you come back. • View files from your Mac: Open the web pages, images, PDFs and videos mentioned in a card with a single tap. Files you've viewed are saved on your phone, so you can see them even when your Mac isn't connected. • Direct connection on the go: Away from your home Wi-Fi, your phone connects directly to your Mac for faster loading and refreshing. • Approve on the card: When Claude Code asks you to approve an action, tap Allow or Don't Allow right on the card. Picked the wrong option? Tap it again to cancel or change it. • Guided setup: A step-by-step guide walks you through setup on first launch. Scan a code to connect to your Mac. • Smoother controls: Pull down to dismiss the keyboard, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to move to the next card, and adjust the text size. • Later: Set a card aside and it comes back at the time you choose. • Attachments stay put: Photos and videos you've added to the reply box are still there, even if the system closes the app. ### 1.0 — 2026-11-07 No release notes. ## More apps by Splat AI INC - [Splat: Pick a Side](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/splat-pick-a-side/id6738368423) All apps by Splat AI INC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1826280954 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-11.*