Comparison

Happy vs Pocket Actions

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

Pocket Actions

This app allows you to execute GitHub Actions and Google Apps Script directly from your iPhone. It offers a streamlined dashboard for managing multiple repositories and simplifies running web apps with a single tap. A free tier is available with daily and weekly run limits, which can be removed with a premium upgrade.

Highlights
  • Cross-repo Actions dashboard
  • Auto-detects workflow_dispatch inputs
  • Filter and save frequently used repos
  • One-tap GAS Web App runs
  • No backend required
  • Free tier with run limits
Features
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Pocket Actions lets you run GitHub Actions and Google Apps Script from your iPhone in 1–3 taps. • Cross-repo Actions dashboard • Auto-detects workflow_dispatch inputs • Filter and save frequently used repos • One-tap GAS Web App runs • Free tier (5 runs/day, 17/week). Premium removes the limits • 8 languages • No backend — just paste a GitHub PAT Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Happy4 screens
Pocket Actions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Actions at none against Happy's 1. Pocket Actions also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Happy's advantage is chart position (#79 vs unranked). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. Pocket Actions asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Happy versus Pocket Actions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappyPocket Actions
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#79 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBulka, LLCYuki Yoshinaga

Customer experience

Happy

All ratings1,024 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews67 reviews
Positive71.6%
Neutral10.4%
Negative17.9%

Pocket Actions

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions1
  • Plus Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
None

Pocket Actions

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Actions free?
Pocket Actions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Happy or Pocket Actions have ads?
Neither Happy nor Pocket Actions shows ads.

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