Comparison

Happy vs ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge

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

Head to head
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/

About

ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge

Features
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ForgeFlow puts your Laravel Forge infrastructure in your pocket. Built natively for iPhone, ForgeFlow connects to your Laravel Forge account so you can keep an eye on every server and site, trigger a deploy from a meeting room, or fix a broken .env on the train — without opening a laptop. It is fast, focused, and designed for developers who already know Forge inside out. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Browse every server in your account with live CPU, memory, and disk readings • Drill into any site to inspect its repository, branch, deploy status, and logs • Trigger deployments and follow the output line by line as it streams • Watch active deploys on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island via Live Activities • See deploy status at a glance from your Home Screen with native widgets • Edit your .env file with syntax highlighting and save it straight back to the server • Read and tweak the Nginx config for any site • Issue, renew, and activate Let's Encrypt SSL certificates • Run site commands and review their output and exit codes • Browse full deploy history with author, commit, duration, and status • Manage workers, scheduled jobs, redirects, webhooks, daemons, and firewall rules • Inspect the activity feed across every server and site • Lock the app behind Face ID or Touch ID so your token stays yours BUILT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW ForgeFlow is dark, quiet, and gets out of your way. No tracking, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Your Forge API token is stored in the iOS Keychain and only ever leaves the device when talking to Forge itself. GET STARTED You will need an active Laravel Forge account. Generate a personal API token at forge.laravel.com under API in your account settings, paste it into ForgeFlow, and you are ready to ship. ForgeFlow is an independent companion app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Laravel or Laravel Forge.

Screenshots

Happy4 screens
ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Happy at Free against ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge's $4.99. Happy also leads on chart position (#98 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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

Happy is free to download; ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge costs $4.99 up front. Happy sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Happy versus ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappyForgeFlow for Laravel Forge
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.9 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#98 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBulka, LLCSimon Jensen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions1
  • Plus Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
None

ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge free?
ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Happy or ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge have ads?
Neither Happy nor ForgeFlow for Laravel Forge shows ads.

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