ActivitySmith vs CodePress Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActivitySmith
Stream real-time progress and outcomes of long-running tasks to your iOS device's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Receive high-signal alerts for critical events via push notifications. Integrates with various backend services and development tools.
- Live Activities for Lock Screen and Dynamic Island
- Push Notifications for alerts
- Update via HTTP requests
- Track CI/CD, jobs, and events
- Pair devices and create API keys
- Widgets for lock screen metrics
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ActivitySmith lets you send Live Activities and Push Notifications to your iOS device(s) from any backend. Keep long-running work visible at a glance: stream progress, step-by-step status, and outcomes to your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Use Push Notifications for high-signal alerts (failures, incidents, signups, sales, crashes, etc). Anything that can make an HTTP request can update a Live Activity or send a Push Notification - CI/CD, servers, cron, agents, webhooks, or plain curl. Use cases: - CI/CD deployments and build pipelines - Long-running jobs (migrations, backups, ETL) and background agents - On-call alerts and incident workflows - Business events (sales, signups, trial conversions) - Home Automation How it works: - Install ActivitySmith and pair your device - Create API key - Send custom Push Notifications with a simple API call - Trigger Live Activities to track deployments or any other long-running processes in a real-time - Target one or more paired devices as needed - Use widgets to track key metrics from your lock screen SDKs: Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Python, Go, CLI Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Vercel, Railway, Netlify, Sentry, Linear, Zapier, n8n, and more...
CodePress Mobile
This app allows engineering teams to monitor AI agent sessions and active work remotely. Access your dashboard, reconnect to live terminals, and track team activity on the go. A CodePress account is required to use its features.
- Monitor agent sessions
- Track active work
- Access CodePress dashboard
- Reconnect to live terminal
- Keep track of team activity
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CodePress Mobile is the companion app for CodePress, an AI-powered workspace for engineering teams. Use it to stay connected when you are away from your desk: - Monitor agent sessions and active work - Open your CodePress dashboard from your iPhone - Reconnect to live terminal and workspace flows - Keep track of team activity as work moves forward CodePress helps teams run AI agents, coordinate engineering workflows, and stay close to active work across their tools. A CodePress account is required. Some features require access to an existing CodePress workspace.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CodePress Mobile at 16.4 against ActivitySmith's 18.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ActivitySmith against 5.0 for CodePress Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
ActivitySmith ships an update weekly, CodePress Mobile every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActivitySmith | CodePress Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Adam Bardon | Quant Five LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
ActivitySmith
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









