Comparison

Flows Shortcuts vs Happier

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flows Shortcuts

Enhance your iPhone's automation capabilities with custom actions. This app allows you to create and integrate personalized tasks directly into your existing shortcuts, streamlining daily routines. Explore new possibilities for dynamic interactions and expanded workflows.

Highlights
  • Create custom actions for Shortcuts
  • Integrate actions directly into Shortcuts app
  • Send personalized notifications
  • Utilize Dynamic Island
  • Use Live Activities
  • Expanded workflows for iPhone, Mac, iPad
Features
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Flows é um aplicativo complementar ao Atalhos, projetado para expandir suas possibilidades de automação no iPhone. Com Flows, você pode criar e incorporar ações personalizadas diretamente no app Atalhos, facilitando ainda mais o processamento de tarefas no seu dia a dia.   Em sua versão 1.o, Flows oferece uma ação inicial: enviar notificações personalizadas utilizando a Ilha Dinâmica e o recurso Live Activities.  Essa funcionalidade permite uma interação prática e dinâmica diretamente da tela bloqueada ou da Ilha Dinâmica.   Novas ações estão em desenvolvimento para trazer ainda mais versatilidade ao seu iPhone, Mac e iPad. Comece a explorar e amplie suas automações com Flows!

About

Happier

This app acts as a secure bridge for AI coding agents, allowing you to run and continue sessions from your computer on your phone. It supports collaboration, reliable session resuming, and full history access with end-to-end encryption.

Highlights
  • Collaborative coding sessions
  • Support for multiple AI providers
  • Persistent and resumable sessions
  • Seamless switching between devices
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Infinite message history
Features
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Happier is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted companion app for AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Pi, Grok, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Kimi, Kilo, Kiro, Auggie. Run sessions on your computer, and continue them from your phone. Use our desktop app or web app, and truly start working from anywhere. YOUR EXISTING SESSIONS? ALREADY THERE. Open any Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode session running on your computer — live, from your phone. Nothing to migrate, nothing to learn. APPROVE FROM ANYWHERE Your agent asks to run a command and you get a push notification with Allow and Deny on it. Sessions waiting on a decision rise to a "Needs attention" group at the top of your list; everything still running gathers under "Working". REVIEW THE DIFF. SEND NOTES TO YOUR AGENTS. Browse every line your agent changed. Mark the exact lines you want addressed, choose which notes to send, and hand them straight back — same session, or a new one. EDITOR. GIT. TERMINAL. ONE TAP AWAY. Chat, files, Git and a live terminal, each its own tab. Open a file to read or edit it, review the diff, manage branches and open a pull request. YOU LOVE THE TERMINAL? WE DO TOO. If you want, you can keep running Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode in their native TUI. Happier mirrors them to every device, so you can follow along, send messages and approve permissions from anywhere — and switch between the terminal and Happier whenever you like. A COLLEAGUE YOU CAN TALK TO The voice assistant watches every running session. Brainstorm the next change, approve a permission or send a message, without picking up the phone. YOUR SESSIONS WORK AS A TEAM A session can start another session, send it messages and read its transcript — so a Claude session and a Codex session can split the work between them. Each one still runs its own subagents, on whichever backend you choose. USE THE SUBSCRIPTIONS YOU ALREADY PAY FOR Happier reuses the subscriptions and logins your existing CLIs already use — Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode. No new bill, no double billing, and Happier sells no AI of its own. POOL YOUR ACCOUNTS. KEEP THE SESSION GOING. Link accounts you own into a pool and watch usage and quota resets for every one of them in the app. Nothing switches until you build a pool — once you have, Claude Code and Codex sessions can change account without stopping, moving to whichever member has the most quota left, at most once a turn and never past a reset time the provider has published. OPEN SOURCE. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED. Your messages, prompts and session content are encrypted on your device before they reach a server: AES-256-GCM under a key drawn for that one session, sealed to an account key that is created on a device and never leaves your devices. The relay stores ciphertext and has nothing to open it with. Put the relay on your own hardware with one command — happier relay host install — or reach your computer over Tailscale and use no relay at all. FREE, AND MIT LICENSED The CLI, the mobile apps, the desktop app, the web app and the relay. No seat count, no trial, no feature gate. github.com/happier-dev/happier HOW TO START 1. On your computer: curl -fsSL https://happier.dev/install | bash (Windows: iwr https://happier.dev/install.ps1 -useb | iex) 2. Scan the QR code your terminal prints, with this app. 3. Start a session from the app, or run "happier claude" or "happier codex" in your terminal. REQUIRES A COMPUTER Happier is the client for agents running somewhere you control. It does not run an agent in the cloud, and your repository is never copied to us: the agent reads and writes files on the computer it runs on, and that computer stays the only full copy. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic, Google, GitHub or Cursor.

Screenshots

Flows Shortcuts3 screens
Happier4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Happier at 4.4 against Flows Shortcuts's 4.0. Happier also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and chart position (#163 vs unranked). Flows Shortcuts's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Happier holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happier has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Flows Shortcuts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Happier's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flows Shortcuts ships an update weekly, Happier every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Flows Shortcuts versus Happier: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlows ShortcutsHappier
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.4 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#163 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB151 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVictor MorenoLeeroy Brun

Customer experience

Flows Shortcuts

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

Happier

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Flows Shortcuts

No in-app purchases

None

Happier

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flows Shortcuts free?
Flows Shortcuts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Happier free?
Happier is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flows Shortcuts or Happier?
Happier is rated higher. Flows Shortcuts averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Happier averages 4.4 from 10 ratings.
Do Flows Shortcuts or Happier have ads?
Neither Flows Shortcuts nor Happier shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flows Shortcuts or Happier?
Flows Shortcuts ships an update weekly, and Happier every 5 weeks. Most recently, Flows Shortcuts was updated on October 6, 2026 and Happier on October 15, 2026.

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