Comparison

Happier vs LM Pocket

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Collaborative coding sessions
  • Support for multiple AI providers
  • Persistent and resumable sessions
  • Seamless switching between devices
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Infinite message history
Features
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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.

About

LM Pocket

Run open-source AI models directly on your device without cloud reliance. Discover, download, and chat with thousands of GGUF models privately. Offers a local API server and advanced management tools for power users.

Highlights
  • Run open-source AI models locally
  • Discover and download GGUF models
  • Private, on-device conversations
  • OpenAI-compatible local API server
  • Manage model library and performance
  • GPU acceleration for fast inference
Features
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Discover, download, and run open-source AI models directly on your device. No cloud. No subscription. No data leaves your device. LM Pocket brings the power of local AI models to your device. Browse thousands of GGUF models on Hugging Face, download them over WiFi, and chat with them entirely on-device. COMPLETELY PRIVATE Every conversation stays on your device. No server, no API key, no account required. Your prompts and responses never leave the device. DISCOVER MODELS Browse Hugging Face Hub for quantized GGUF models. Filter by size, quantization level, and popularity. See compatibility badges that tell you which models will run well on your device before downloading. CHAT WITH AI Stream token-by-token responses with full Markdown rendering. Manage multiple conversations. Adjust temperature, top-p, top-k, context length, and more. Supports ChatML, Llama, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, and other prompt formats automatically. LOCAL API SERVER Run an OpenAI-compatible HTTP server on your device. Expose /v1/chat/completions, /v1/models, and /v1/embeddings endpoints on your local network. Connect any app that supports the OpenAI API format. MANAGE YOUR LIBRARY Track installed models with storage usage. Import GGUF files from the Files app. Load and unload models with one tap. Monitor real-time performance: tokens per second, memory usage, and thermal state. BUILT FOR POWER USERS - GPU acceleration for fast inference - Background downloads with pause and resume - Hardware-aware model recommendations - Chat template auto-detection - Conversation export as JSON or Markdown - JSON mode with grammar-constrained output - Embeddings generation 100% FREE No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no ads. Open-source AI should be accessible to everyone. SUPPORTED MODELS Run any GGUF-quantized model: Llama, Mistral, Phi, Gemma, CodeLlama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and thousands more from Hugging Face Hub. Model performance depends on device RAM and model size. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Happier4 screens
LM Pocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LM Pocket at 5.0 against Happier's 4.4. LM Pocket also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). Happier's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LM Pocket 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Happier ships an update every 5 weeks, LM Pocket every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Happier versus LM Pocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHappierLM Pocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#121 — better#199
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLeeroy BrunTeo Bouancheau

Customer experience

Happier

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LM Pocket

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Happier

No in-app purchases

None

LM Pocket

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Happier free?
Happier is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LM Pocket free?
LM Pocket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Happier or LM Pocket?
LM Pocket is rated higher. Happier averages 4.4 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while LM Pocket averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Happier or LM Pocket have ads?
Neither Happier nor LM Pocket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Happier or LM Pocket?
Happier ships an update every 5 weeks, and LM Pocket every 3 days. Most recently, Happier was updated on October 15, 2026 and LM Pocket on October 8, 2026.
Which is more popular, Happier or LM Pocket?
Happier currently peaks at #121 in the App Store charts, and LM Pocket at #199. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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