Happier vs CooliApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Happier
This app acts as a secure bridge for AI coding agents, allowing you to run and continue sessions from your computer on your phone. It supports collaboration, reliable session resuming, and full history access with end-to-end encryption.
- Collaborative coding sessions
- Support for multiple AI providers
- Persistent and resumable sessions
- Seamless switching between devices
- End-to-end encryption
- Infinite message history
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Happier is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted companion app for AI coding agents: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Pi, Grok, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Kimi, Kilo, Kiro, Auggie. Run sessions on your computer, and continue them from your phone. Use our desktop app or web app, and truly start working from anywhere. YOUR EXISTING SESSIONS? ALREADY THERE. Open any Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode session running on your computer — live, from your phone. Nothing to migrate, nothing to learn. APPROVE FROM ANYWHERE Your agent asks to run a command and you get a push notification with Allow and Deny on it. Sessions waiting on a decision rise to a "Needs attention" group at the top of your list; everything still running gathers under "Working". REVIEW THE DIFF. SEND NOTES TO YOUR AGENTS. Browse every line your agent changed. Mark the exact lines you want addressed, choose which notes to send, and hand them straight back — same session, or a new one. EDITOR. GIT. TERMINAL. ONE TAP AWAY. Chat, files, Git and a live terminal, each its own tab. Open a file to read or edit it, review the diff, manage branches and open a pull request. YOU LOVE THE TERMINAL? WE DO TOO. If you want, you can keep running Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode in their native TUI. Happier mirrors them to every device, so you can follow along, send messages and approve permissions from anywhere — and switch between the terminal and Happier whenever you like. A COLLEAGUE YOU CAN TALK TO The voice assistant watches every running session. Brainstorm the next change, approve a permission or send a message, without picking up the phone. YOUR SESSIONS WORK AS A TEAM A session can start another session, send it messages and read its transcript — so a Claude session and a Codex session can split the work between them. Each one still runs its own subagents, on whichever backend you choose. USE THE SUBSCRIPTIONS YOU ALREADY PAY FOR Happier reuses the subscriptions and logins your existing CLIs already use — Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode. No new bill, no double billing, and Happier sells no AI of its own. POOL YOUR ACCOUNTS. KEEP THE SESSION GOING. Link accounts you own into a pool and watch usage and quota resets for every one of them in the app. Nothing switches until you build a pool — once you have, Claude Code and Codex sessions can change account without stopping, moving to whichever member has the most quota left, at most once a turn and never past a reset time the provider has published. OPEN SOURCE. END-TO-END ENCRYPTED. Your messages, prompts and session content are encrypted on your device before they reach a server: AES-256-GCM under a key drawn for that one session, sealed to an account key that is created on a device and never leaves your devices. The relay stores ciphertext and has nothing to open it with. Put the relay on your own hardware with one command — happier relay host install — or reach your computer over Tailscale and use no relay at all. FREE, AND MIT LICENSED The CLI, the mobile apps, the desktop app, the web app and the relay. No seat count, no trial, no feature gate. github.com/happier-dev/happier HOW TO START 1. On your computer: curl -fsSL https://happier.dev/install | bash (Windows: iwr https://happier.dev/install.ps1 -useb | iex) 2. Scan the QR code your terminal prints, with this app. 3. Start a session from the app, or run "happier claude" or "happier codex" in your terminal. REQUIRES A COMPUTER Happier is the client for agents running somewhere you control. It does not run an agent in the cloud, and your repository is never copied to us: the agent reads and writes files on the computer it runs on, and that computer stays the only full copy. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic, Google, GitHub or Cursor.
CooliApp
Manage your self-hosted cloud infrastructure directly from your iPhone. Monitor projects, services, and servers, track deployments in real-time, and view live logs. Includes home screen widgets for at-a-glance status updates.
- Manage projects, environments, and services
- View application details and deployment history
- Monitor server status
- Track real-time deployments
- Home screen widgets for infrastructure status
- Connect multiple Coolify instances
- Secure API token storage
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CooliApp is the companion app for Coolify, the open-source self-hosting platform. Manage your entire cloud infrastructure directly from your iPhone. Projects & Services Browse your projects, environments, and services at a glance. View application details, check deployment history, and read live logs — all without opening a browser. Servers Keep an eye on all your connected servers. Quickly verify which servers are online and access their details in seconds. Deployments Track your deployments in real-time. See queued, in-progress, and completed deployments with automatic status polling so you always know what's happening. Home Screen Widgets Add health check widgets for your instances, applications, and services directly to your home screen. Know the status of your infrastructure at a glance without even opening the app. Multi-Instance Support Connect multiple Coolify instances and switch between them effortlessly. Built for Privacy Your API tokens are stored securely on your device. CooliApp connects directly to your Coolify instances — no third-party servers involved. Designed for iOS - Native SwiftUI interface with light and dark mode - Face ID / Touch ID lock for added security - Customizable tab bar - Follow Coolify releases from the app CooliApp requires a self-hosted Coolify instance (v4+) with API access enabled.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CooliApp at 5.0 against Happier's 4.4. CooliApp also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Happier's advantage is chart position (#155 vs unranked) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CooliApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Happier has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Happier ships an update every 5 weeks, CooliApp every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Happier | CooliApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #155 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leeroy Brun | Aurel Tyson |
Customer experience
Happier
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In-app purchases
Happier
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases








