Comparison

Agent Approve vs Can I Work Yet?

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

Head to head
About

Agent Approve

Monitor and control AI agents from your wrist or phone. Approve or deny commands with a single tap, ensuring safety and efficiency. Protect your work from destructive AI actions with customizable policies.

Highlights
  • Approve/deny commands from wrist or phone
  • Centralized policy management
  • Compound command parsing
  • Full command observability
  • Readable command rendering
  • End-to-end encryption
Features
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You're racing to ship. If your agents are idle, you're not gonna make it. Every pending approval is wasted time. So you're chained to your laptop, all day and night. This isn't the AI future we were promised – go out and enjoy life. Agent Approve brings observability & control to your wrist: track AI agent activity, protect yourself with policy, and approve with a tap, wherever life takes you. HOW IT WORKS Agent Approve uses the hooks already built into your agent and coding tools, so you don't have to change how you work. When an agent goes to run a command or call a tool, it's encrypted on your machine and sent through our cloud relay, where it's evaluated against policy. Compound commands are separated to catch hidden destructive commands. Matches to your deny list or allow list are handled immediately. Those that need review are pushed to your iPhone or Apple Watch. When it reaches you, you see the full command, tap approve or deny, and can add it to your allow or deny list so you're never asked again. Everything is end-to-end encrypted: you own your data and keys. WHY IT MATTERS Some commands have no undo. Agents have wiped production databases, deleted home directories, and force-pushed away weeks of work – usually in seconds, while no one was watching. And the agents you can't see are the ones that bite: a scheduled task that drifts, a retry loop that burns thousands in tokens overnight, or a helpful agent sharing secrets with a bad actor. Agent Approve ships with a Restrictive policy that blocks 250+ destructive commands out of the box, a Permissive policy that auto-approves common safe commands, and you can always build your own. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO STAY IN CONTROL • Approve from your wrist or phone – one tap, wherever you are. • Centralized policy – allow, deny, or ask, with 250+ destructive patterns blocked out of the box. • Compound-command parsing – catches the dangerous command hidden inside a scripted command sequence. • Full observability – every command, tool call, and action in one live feed, including subagents and agent profiles (each Hermes profile shows up as its own agent). • Readable at a glance – commands, plans, and tool payloads render as formatted markdown and JSON, not a wall of raw text. • Interactive Q&A – review the agent's plan, and answer questions from your phone (limited support). • Completion alerts + follow-ups – know the moment an agent finishes, then send its next move by voice or a quick reply. • Privacy tiers & retention – choose how much of each command is stored (tool name, short summary, or full content) and how long to keep it. • End-to-end encryption – you own your data and your keys, with optional key rotation for forward secrecy. WORKS WITH EVERY AGENT YOU USE Agent Approve runs on the hooks already native to your coding tools. Where there isn't one, we ship a plugin. 14 agents and counting, including: Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, OpenClaw, OpenCode, OpenHands, Pi, VS Code Copilot, and Windsurf. It's the only cross-platform AI agent observability and control layer on your wrist. TRY BEFORE YOU COMMIT Tap "Try Demo" on the welcome screen to explore the full approval flow with sample data – no account or agent required. To try with your own agents, run 'npx agentapprove' on your computer. It installs the hooks or plugins for the agents you select, and walks you through pairing – scan the QR code, hit Subscribe, and start a 7-day free trial before you're charged. — Agent Approve requires an auto-renewable subscription after a 7-day free trial. • Agent Approve Monthly – $14.99/month • Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. • Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. • Privacy Policy: https://www.agentapprove.com/privacy • Terms of Use: https://www.agentapprove.com/terms

About

Can I Work Yet?

Features
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Waiting for a surprise Codex reset? Can I Work Yet? keeps an eye on Tibo's public posts and Codex reset announcements so you don't have to keep checking manually. See hints of possible upcoming resets, announced reset times, and confirmed updates in one place. When a time is announced, see it in your phone's local timezone, so you know when it applies to you. Know when more quota might be coming Extra and banked resets can sometimes be announced before they happen. Knowing about them ahead of time can help you decide whether to use your remaining quota or save a banked reset. Already hit your Codex usage limit? Check whether an additional reset has been announced before your normal usage window resets. What you can track • Tibo's reset-related hints and announcements • Possible upcoming and confirmed resets • Banked and additional reset information • Usage boosts and limit changes • Reset times in your local timezone • Recent reset history and public updates Get notified with Pro Upgrade to Pro for push notifications about surprise Codex resets, Tibo's reset-related posts, and other important updates. When a new reset is announced or confirmed, your iPhone can let you know. No account required. No ads. Use your quota. Know when more is coming. Can I Work Yet? is an independent, unofficial app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI. Reset availability and timing depend on OpenAI; the app does not grant resets or guarantee future ones. Terms of Use: https://caniworkyet.netlify.app/terms-privacy.html#terms Privacy Policy: https://caniworkyet.netlify.app/terms-privacy.html#privacy Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Agent Approve4 screens
Can I Work Yet?3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Agent Approve at none against Can I Work Yet?'s 2. Agent Approve also leads on chart position (#199 vs unranked). Can I Work Yet?'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Can I Work Yet? sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Agent Approve asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Agent Approve ships an update every 2 months, Can I Work Yet? every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Agent Approve versus Can I Work Yet?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAgent ApproveCan I Work Yet?
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAgent Approve LLCDavid Pintaric

In-app purchases

None

Agent Approve

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Can I Work Yet?

Subscriptions2
  • Can I Work Yet Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Can I Work Yet Pro Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Agent Approve free?
Agent Approve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Can I Work Yet? free?
Can I Work Yet? is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Agent Approve or Can I Work Yet? have ads?
Neither Agent Approve nor Can I Work Yet? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Agent Approve or Can I Work Yet??
Agent Approve ships an update every 2 months, and Can I Work Yet? every 2 days. Most recently, Agent Approve was updated on October 2, 2026 and Can I Work Yet? on September 28, 2026.

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