Codync vs Panegrip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Codync
Manage and interact with your coding agents as persistent bots from your iPhone. Delegate tasks, approve actions, and monitor progress without constant setup. Your code and conversations remain securely on your computer.
- Persistent coding bots
- Delegate tasks to agents
- Approve commands and file changes
- Monitor bot activity
- View subscription limits
- End-to-end encrypted relay
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Message your coding agents like teammates. Codync turns the coding agents on your computer — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, OpenCode, Grok Build, Gemini, GitHub Copilot and dozens more — into persistent bots you delegate to from your iPhone. Pick who, say what, put the phone away. BOTS, NOT SESSIONS Give each bot a name, a character, standing instructions, an agent and a project folder. Each bot is one ongoing conversation, so there's no hunting for the right session or setting up an environment every time — just open the chat and type. APPROVE FROM ANYWHERE When an agent wants to run a command or change files, an approval card arrives in the chat: Allow once, Always allow or Deny. You get a notification only when a bot needs you or finishes. A CALM CHAT The conversation shows your messages and each final reply. Every command, file change, plan and thought is one tap away in Full conversation. While a bot works, you see what it's doing right now. USAGE AT A GLANCE See your Claude and Codex subscription limits in the app, in widgets and on the Lock Screen. Follow a working bot in a Live Activity and the Dynamic Island. YOUR COMPUTER, YOUR CODE Agents run on your Mac or Linux machine with your own logins. Away from home, the free built-in relay connects your phone end-to-end encrypted, so it only ever forwards ciphertext; on the same Wi-Fi or Tailscale the phone connects directly. Your code and conversations stay on your computer. GET STARTED Install Codync on your Mac (brew install --cask leepokai/codync/codync) or the host on Linux, then scan the pairing code. Open source: github.com/leepokai/Codync
Panegrip
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Coding agents get stuck the moment you step away: a command waiting for approval, a question about the design, a choice between two fixes. Panegrip sends that moment to your iPhone, so the work keeps going while you're on the train, in a meeting or making coffee. It works with the agents already running on your computer, such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi and Kimi, wherever you run them: Herdr, Orca, T3 Code, tmux, zellij, cmux, Ghostty or VS Code. Nothing moves to the cloud. Your agents stay where they are, and your phone becomes a second screen for them. ANSWER WITHOUT UNLOCKING When an agent wants to run a command, the notification shows it with Allow and Deny. Tap one on the lock screen and the computer has your answer within milliseconds. Questions with options come as buttons, and you can always type or say your own answer instead. "Always allow" covers exactly that one command, nothing broader. THE REAL SESSION Each chat is the agent's own session, live as it writes: its messages, the commands it ran and the files it touched. When you need more, open the terminal itself, with Esc, Tab, Ctrl and the arrow keys a tap away. GIVE IT THE NEXT JOB Start an agent in any project, in a new folder, a fresh clone or a worktree of its own. Type the task or dictate it. Queue up the next prompts and each one goes out as soon as the agent is free. If you hit your plan's limit at 2 a.m., the work picks back up the moment it resets. Siri, Shortcuts and the Action button can start a task without opening the app. SEE HOW THINGS STAND A Live Activity shows who is working, who is waiting for you and who is done. You get the 5-hour and weekly limits of every Claude and Codex account, tokens and cost by model and by day, and a short digest of what happened while you were away. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There's no account and no tracking. Your phone connects straight to your computer whenever the network allows, encrypted end to end. When it can't, our relay forwards packets it has no way to read. Notification text is encrypted on your computer, so our push service never sees it either. WHAT YOU NEED A Mac or a Linux computer with your agents, plus the Panegrip relay, which installs with one command from panegrip.dev. The app is free, with no subscription. You can open the demo first and look around without a computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Codync at daily against Panegrip's every 2 days. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Codync ships an update daily, Panegrip every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Codync | Panegrip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pokai Lee | Oksana Reznychenko |
In-app purchases
Codync
No in-app purchases
Panegrip
No in-app purchases









