Comparison

Grass vs Monish

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

Head to head
About

Grass

Features
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Meet Grass. Your agents work. You check in. Fire a task. Pocket your phone. Come back to progress. Grass RUNS Tasks on Grass Computer or your own machine - while your laptop is closed, while you're in a meeting, or while you're away from your desk. No terminal to watch. No session to babysit. Grass MOVES Send a coding session to Grass and keep the thread moving on a remote instance โ€” conversation, context, and all. Your phone buzzes when it's live. Grass ALERTS The moment your agent needs a decision or finishes the job. You don't push for status. Status finds you. Permission needed? Approve from your pocket. Grass CLEARS Every permission prompt from every thread in one tab. Read the diff. Yes or no. Keep multiple threads running in ask-mode without watching all of them. Grass STARTS A new thread in two taps. Quick chat button โ†’ bottom sheet โ†’ task running. No app switching. No losing your place. The idea fires โ€” the experiment actually runs. Grass SHOWS Which thread is which. Running, completed, waiting โ€” all visible on the home screen the moment you open the app. Switch machines with one tap. Name them whatever you want. Your harness. Your code. Our compute. Designed for AI coding agent workflows, including supported integrations with Claude Code and OpenCode.

About

Monish

Features
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Your agents, live on your lock screen. Paste one line into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, n8n or any script and it can send pushes, live progress and yes/no questions to your iPhone. No account, no SDK, nothing to install on your computer. Monish creates a private key on this iPhone. The line you paste carries it, and your agent reads the rest by itself. What lands on your iPhone Progress, live. A Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, updated in place: tests 412 of 440, step 3 of 5, a countdown. Your agent can add a Stop button. Questions. Your agent asks before it deploys, sends or spends. Tap Approve or Deny on the lock screen, or type a reply in the app. A question left unanswered expires as a no. Results. One notification when the work lands, with the figures that matter. Failures show in red. Numbers. Two to four figures, such as signups, revenue or tests passed, kept live on the lock screen if your agent wants. How it works 1. Install Monish. It creates a private key for this iPhone. 2. Copy the line from the app and paste it into your agent. 3. Your agent sends a first ping. From then on, it reaches you when it matters. Not just for code Ask your agent to watch a price and ping you when it drops, to brief you at 7 with meetings and weather, or to ask before it sends a reply to your landlord. If it can run a command, it can reach your iPhone. Quiet by default Agents follow a short guide that tells them to ping for results, failures and decisions, not for every step. A long run stays on one live card instead of twenty notifications. Quiet hours keep pings silent at night, and failures can still ring. Private by design No name, no email, no phone number. What your agents send is kept 48 hours on our server so the app can catch up on a missed notification, then deleted. Answers are kept 24 hours. Your feed lives on your iPhone. Anonymous analytics and crash reports only: no ads, no tracking. Free No subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, n8n, cron jobs, CI pipelines and any script that can run curl. Monish is an independent app, not affiliated with the makers of these tools. Requires iOS 17.2 or later. Live Activities in the Dynamic Island need an iPhone with a Dynamic Island. Support: monish.cc/support Privacy: monish.cc/privacy

Screenshots

Grass4 screens
Monish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Monish at every 6 days against Grass's every 2 weeks. Grass's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.2). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grass ships an update every 2 weeks, Monish every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Grass versus Monish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrassMonish
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size141 MB17 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAnil DukkipattyMARIUS LABS

In-app purchases

None

Grass

No in-app purchases

None

Monish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grass free?
Grass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Monish free?
Monish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grass or Monish have ads?
Neither Grass nor Monish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grass or Monish?
Grass ships an update every 2 weeks, and Monish every 6 days. Most recently, Grass was updated on October 31, 2026 and Monish on November 10, 2026.

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