Comparison

Happy vs Saluki

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

Saluki

Features
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Saluki is a native API client for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Your requests are plain .http files in your own folder or git repo. There's no account, nothing is collected, and one purchase covers every device. PLAIN FILES YOU OWN • Every request is a .http file, the format JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code (with the REST Client extension) open. Chaining, variables and some settings differ by tool. • Commit them, diff them, review them in a pull request. Saluki rewrites only the lines you change, so your comments and formatting stay. • On a Mac, open any folder in place. BRING YOUR COLLECTIONS • Imports Paw (.paw) files directly: requests, folders, headers and environments. • Imports Postman v2.1 collections and environments, Insomnia exports, OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 (JSON or YAML), and curl commands. • Imports from files end with a report that flags some of what Saluki can't convert, such as scripts and unsupported auth. BUILD REQUESTS • Any method. Params and headers with on/off toggles. JSON, form, multipart, raw and binary bodies. • Bearer, Basic and API key auth. • Paste a curl command into the URL field and it becomes a request. • Copy any request as curl, Swift, JavaScript, Python or .http. ENVIRONMENTS AND CHAINING • Environments live in http-client.env.json, next to your requests. • Mark a variable as secret and its value is stored in your Keychain, not in your files. • Name a request, then use its response in the next one, like {{login.response.body.$.token}}. • Unresolved variables in the URL and body show in red before you send. READ RESPONSES • Built for big responses: formatting runs in the background, and only what's on screen gets colored. Key order is kept. • Formatted JSON, highlighted XML and HTML, and previews for HTML, images and PDF. • Timing for each request: first byte and download, plus DNS, connect and, for https, TLS when a new connection is made. • The last 500 sends of each collection, stored on this device and never synced. MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD • On Mac and iPad: the full app in three columns. ⌘↩ sends, and the main commands are in the menu bar. • On iPhone: run requests, switch environments and read responses away from your desk. PRIVACY • No account and no sign-in. • No analytics and no tracking. The App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected". • Requests go straight from your device to the servers you choose. Nothing passes through a server of mine. PRICE • Free for one collection. • Saluki Pro unlocks unlimited collections on Mac, iPhone and iPad with one purchase. No subscription. Saluki Pro supports Family Sharing. Made by Youssef Al-Tai, an independent developer in Egypt. I read every support email myself: support@youssefaltai.com

Screenshots

Happy4 screens
Saluki4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Happy at #112 against Saluki's unranked. Happy also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Saluki sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Happy versus Saluki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappySaluki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.1K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#112 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB10 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBulka, LLCYoussef Al-Tai

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Happy

Subscriptions1
  • Plus Plus Monthly$19.991 Month
1 purchases

Saluki

One-time1
  • Saluki Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Happy free?
Happy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Saluki free?
Saluki is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Happy or Saluki have ads?
Neither Happy nor Saluki shows ads.

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