# Pi Relay — Control Pi from your phone

> Control Pi from your phone (iPhone/iPad app by Zerui Zhou.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pi-relay/id6768893799 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Zerui Zhou](https://appshunter.io/developer/1817055091)
- Category: Developer Tools
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-16
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pi-relay/id6768893799/reviews.md

## What is Pi Relay?

Pi Relay is a companion iPhone app for the Pi coding agent. It lets you connect securely to your own Pi remote-control server, browse active projects and sessions, and continue conversations from your phone.

Pairing is simple: install the Pi remote-control extension on the machine running Pi, open the pairing QR code, and scan it with Pi Relay. Once paired, you can switch between remotes, view project sessions, read conversation history, send new prompts, abort running work, and request context compaction with /compact.

Pi Relay is designed for users who already run Pi on their own computer or development environment and want a lightweight mobile companion for monitoring and continuing work away from the desktop.

Key features:
- QR-code pairing with your Pi remote-control server
- Remote list with quick switching and unpairing
- Project and session browsing
- Conversation view with selectable and copyable messages
- Runtime status and context usage display
- Prompt sending, abort support, and /compact support
- Live session updates while the app is active

Pi Relay requires a running Pi remote-control extension/server. The extension is available at:
https://github.com/zerray/pi-remote-control


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-28

### What’s New

 - A brand-new app icon.
 - Model selection: search for and switch AI models directly within a session.
 - Completion notifications: get notified when an agent finishes, even when the app is in the background.
 - Stability and usability improvements.

 Please update the pi-remote-control extension first, then add "pushGatewayBaseUrl": "https://pi-remote-control.zerray.me" to its config.json.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-06-24

- Added remote Session Tree support for browsing, refreshing, and navigating conversation branches from connected clients.
 - Added remote fork and clone support, including reliable handoff when a fork or clone replaces the active session.
 - Made transcripts branch-aware so remote clients show the active branch instead of unrelated forked history.
 - Improved live transcript reliability with canonical message IDs, timestamp correlation, retry handling, and tool-call parent preservation.
 - Added generated session names for easier identification in remote clients.
 - Improved remote-control behavior around local TUI forks, including warnings when remote control is disabled.
 - Fixed active agent streaming-state tracking.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-06-05

- Combined Projects and Sessions into one simpler home screen.
- Improved session loading and titles.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-05-26

- Improved session title display by using the session name provided by the server when available.
- Fixed Working status behavior so it more accurately reflects real session-level activity.
- Improved abort handling so Working clears reliably after stopping a running task.
- Fixed an issue where the prompt input could sometimes remain after sending.
- Preserved scroll position when viewing tool/thinking details and returning to the list.
- General reliability improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-05-17

No release notes.

## More apps by Zerui Zhou

- [NEATReps](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neatreps/id6760580963)

All apps by Zerui Zhou: https://appshunter.io/developer/1817055091

## Related topics

[select pi](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/select-pi) · [pi remote assistance app](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/pi-remote-assistance-app)

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