Comparison

Happy vs Fjord Mobile

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

Fjord Mobile

Manage your Forgejo and Gitea projects on the go. Review pull requests, triage issues, monitor CI/CD pipelines, and merge changes directly from your iPhone or iPad. Connect to self-hosted instances or use an optional Fjord account for enhanced features.

Highlights
  • Review pull requests and issues
  • Monitor and run CI/CD pipelines
  • Browse repositories and code
  • Add Home Screen widgets
  • Offline reading of pull requests
  • Optional Fjord account for push notifications
Features
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Fjord Mobile is a Forgejo and Gitea client for iPhone and iPad. Review pull requests, triage issues, watch your CI, and merge, from anywhere. Connect free with a personal access token; a Fjord account is optional. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Review pull requests: conversation, timeline, diffs, changed files, CI status, approve or request changes, and merge. - Open pull requests and create and edit issues. Comment, react, label, assign, and manage reviewers. - Triage your notification inbox, with optional push for your own activity. - Run CI, not just watch it: browse Actions runs across your repositories, read a failed job's log, cancel a run or start one with your own inputs, and download artifacts. - Browse repositories, code, commits, branches, releases, and milestones. Edit a file and commit it to a branch for a quick fix. - Add Home Screen widgets: build status, open PR count, review requests, your contribution graph, and runner queue. SIGN IN - Connect directly to your own self-hosted Forgejo instance with a personal access token, no account required. Tokens are stored only in the device Keychain. - Or, optionally, sign in with a Fjord account to add push notifications and switch between your instances and connected forges without signing out. FREE AND MOBILE PRO - Free: connect any Forgejo server, add several servers and accounts, browse, and review, comment on and merge pull requests. Actions and their logs, push notifications, the contribution widget, reading pull requests offline and a few offline reviews are free as well. - Mobile Pro is a one-time purchase. It adds the Review Queue, which walks you through the pull requests waiting on your review one after another, by voice if you like on iOS 26; Needs You, the pull requests waiting on you, on Home, in a widget and when you ask Siri; a review assistant on devices with Apple Intelligence, which sums up what changed since your review and drafts comments without anything leaving the device; and Live Activities for runs. Also included: advanced notification actions, multi-line and block comments, offline review beyond the free allowance, and the iPad review workstation, where you comment and finish reviews with keyboard commands from its Review menu. - Pencil review (Mobile Pro): On iPad with Apple Pencil, write over a line to comment on it, drag to select lines, and keep private ink notes that never leave the device. - Restore Purchases is in Settings. Native on iPhone and iPad. No ads, and no cross-app tracking: nothing is shared with data brokers or used to follow you across apps and sites. Crash diagnostics are on by default and can be turned off in Settings. Fjord also sends product analytics: app usage events such as the app opening, a saved sign-in resuming, review activity, Forge Health, Mobile Pro paywall and purchase events, and once-a-day feature use. Events carry your account identifier if you are signed in with a Fjord Account and Fjord does not ask first, and otherwise a random identifier created on the device, which changes every month where Fjord asks first. They never include repository names, server addresses, usernames, pull request titles, file contents or text you write. If your device country or App Store country is in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, or cannot be determined, Fjord asks before sending any analytics; elsewhere analytics is on until you turn it off in Settings, which also deletes the device identifier and anything not yet sent. Fjord is a third-party client for self-hosted Git forges. Compatible with Forgejo servers and other compatible installations, including Gitea. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Forgejo, Codeberg, Gitea, or any server operator.

Screenshots

Happy4 screens
Fjord Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Happy at 4.9 against Fjord Mobile's 4.3. Happy also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 6) and chart position (#117 vs unranked). Fjord Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Fjord Mobile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Happy holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happy has 1.1K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Happy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fjord Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Happy ships an update weekly, Fjord Mobile every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Happy versus Fjord Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappyFjord Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.1K ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K — better6
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#117 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBulka, LLCRaster & State

Customer experience

Happy

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

Fjord Mobile

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions1
  • Plus Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
1 purchases

Fjord Mobile

One-time1
  • Mobile Pro$49.99

Questions

Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fjord Mobile free?
Fjord Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Happy or Fjord Mobile?
Happy is rated higher. Happy averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Fjord Mobile averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Happy or Fjord Mobile have ads?
Neither Happy nor Fjord Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happy or Fjord Mobile?
Happy ships an update weekly, and Fjord Mobile every 8 days. Most recently, Happy was updated on November 12, 2026 and Fjord Mobile on November 10, 2026.

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