Comparison

Tuist vs Happy

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

Head to head
About

Tuist

This application serves as a companion to a Tuist dashboard, providing users with access to its features on their mobile devices. It offers a convenient way to interact with the dashboard's functionalities on the go.

Highlights
  • Dashboard companion
  • Mobile access
  • Feature interaction
Features
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The Tuist app is your companion to the Tuist dashboard.

About

Happy

This app provides a secure mobile interface for AI coding assistants, allowing you to continue sessions and monitor progress from anywhere. It features end-to-end encryption and a zero-knowledge architecture for ultimate privacy. Seamlessly switch between desktop and mobile for uninterrupted AI coding.

Highlights
  • Seamless desktop and mobile session continuation
  • Push notifications for AI tasks
  • Offline access to conversation history
  • End-to-end encryption for code privacy
  • Real-time streaming of AI responses
  • Zero-knowledge architecture
Features
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Your coding agent shouldn't wait for you to get back to your desk. A task can run for an hour and then stop five minutes in to ask for permission or a decision. Happy lets you answer from your phone, and the same agent carries on in the same repository with the same tools and context. Happy is the mobile app for Claude Code and Codex. The agents keep running on your own computer, and your phone is how you start them, steer them and review their work. WHAT YOU CAN DO FROM YOUR PHONE • Start a new session or pick up one you began at your desk • Get notified when an agent needs input or finishes • Approve or deny permission requests, or let a session run in Auto mode • Choose the model and reasoning effort from the providers set up on your computer • Review changes: a file list, colored diffs, and the full set of changes on a branch • Attach a screenshot or photo to your prompt • Browse sessions in one list or grouped by project, with each checkout's chats as tabs • Open a side chat next to a session without losing your place • Drafts follow you between your phone and your computer HOW IT WORKS Happy runs on your computer, and this app connects to it. 1. Install Happy Desktop from happy.engineering, or if you prefer the terminal, run: npm install -g happy 2. Create an account in the app. You don't need an email address or a password. 3. Scan the QR code your computer shows to link it to your phone. Then start a session from either device. What you see on your phone is the same live session that's running on your computer. YOU WILL NEED • A computer running Happy Desktop or the Happy CLI • Access to the coding agents you want to use, such as a Claude or ChatGPT/Codex plan or API key. Happy uses your existing accounts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Sessions are end-to-end encrypted. Your code, agent and encryption keys stay on your devices. Happy's servers only relay and store encrypted session data and can't read your prompts, responses or code. OPEN SOURCE The app, the CLI and the server are MIT-licensed and on GitHub. Read the code, run your own build or host your own server. ALSO ON DESKTOP Happy Desktop adds a harness that works across providers and lets you switch models in the middle of a task. The sessions it starts show up on your phone too. Happy is an independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI. Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic. Codex and ChatGPT are trademarks of OpenAI. Privacy Policy: https://happy.engineering/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tuist2 screens
Happy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Happy at 4.9 against Tuist's 3.0. Happy also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 2) and review sentiment (71% vs 50%). Tuist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price and ads 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. Happy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Tuist asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Happy holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happy has 1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Tuist's written reviews are positive against 71% of Happy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tuist ships an update every 3 weeks, Happy weekly. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Tuist versus Happy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuistHappy
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews70.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings21K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#75 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.0.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTuist GmbHBulka, LLC

Customer experience

Tuist

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Happy

All ratings1,024 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral10.3%
Negative19.1%

In-app purchases

None

Tuist

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions1
  • Plus Plus Monthly$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Tuist free?
Tuist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tuist or Happy?
Happy is rated higher. Tuist averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Happy averages 4.9 from 1K ratings.
Do Tuist or Happy have ads?
Neither Tuist nor Happy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tuist or Happy?
Tuist ships an update every 3 weeks, and Happy weekly. Most recently, Tuist was updated on October 28, 2026 and Happy on October 28, 2026.

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