Happier vs Notify
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.
Notify
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Turn any HTTP request into a push notification on your iPhone. Notify is a webhook-to-push tool for AI agents, scripts, automations, CI jobs, and home servers. POST a small JSON body to your personal webhook URL and your phone lights up. No account. No dashboard. No tracking. WHAT YOU GET • Personal webhook URL, generated on-device • Works with anything that can send an HTTP request: curl, Python, Bash, Node, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Netlify, n8n, Zapier, IFTTT, Home Assistant • Critical alerts that break through mute and Focus • Tappable links straight from the notification • Image attachments • Thread IDs to group related alerts • Badge counts and custom sounds • On-device notification history. Nothing stored on the backend. BUILT FOR AGENTS If you run AI agents (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, custom bots), Notify tells you the second they need you. • "Agent finished the task." • "Build failed, here's the log." • "Deploy is live." • "Long run is waiting for your input." Send a POST, get a notification on every device signed into your iCloud. FOCUS FRIENDLY Focus filters let you decide which alerts come through when. Work notifications during Work Focus. Critical alerts always. Everything else paused until you're back. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your webhook secret is generated on-device and stored in the iCloud Keychain. We store only what's needed to route notifications through Apple Push Notification Service. Message content is not logged server-side. Notification history stays on your phone. WHO IT'S FOR Developers, SREs, people running agents locally, indie hackers watching uptime, home-lab operators, anyone who wants a simple curl -X POST to light up their Lock Screen. If you want a dashboard packed with 40 settings you'll never touch, this isn't for you. If you want a clean webhook that just works, welcome. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Happier at Free against Notify's $1.99. Happier also leads on chart position (#202 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Notify's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On 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
Happier is free to download; Notify costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Happier ships an update every 5 weeks, Notify daily. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Happier | Notify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #202 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leeroy Brun | Tap & Swipe |
In-app purchases
Happier
No in-app purchases
Notify
No in-app purchases








