Happy and Omnara are remote controls: they take the Claude Code or Codex session running on your laptop and put it on your phone. muti is a room: it gives the agent on your laptop an address that other people can message, with you approving what runs. If the person on the phone is you, the first two are excellent. If the person is someone else, you need the third.
This post compares them honestly. They are not competing for the same job most of the time.
Happy
Happy is open source. You start a session, scan a QR code, and your phone (iOS, Android or web) drives the terminal. It supports Claude Code, Codex and other CLI agents, and users have preferred it to alternatives such as CodeRemote, YoloCode, Claudia, Conductor and Tonkotsu because every line is auditable and there is no telemetry. It is the tool to pick if “remote” means you, and you want to read the code that relays your session.
Omnara
Omnara is a mobile app on the App Store and Google Play for monitoring, steering and approving live Claude Code and Codex sessions on your laptop. Its distinctive feature is the approval step: when the agent wants to do something, the yes/no arrives on your phone. It is polished, it has a free tier and paid plans, and it is, again, for you and your session.
muti
muti is a web app plus a daemon. The agent stays on your machine; a room gives it a place where you, and the people you invite, send requests from a browser. Each person has a permission mode or a standing grant per agent; four action types pause for the owner regardless; every request produces an audit line; requests queue while the machine sleeps. Guests install nothing.
Mirroring a session to your own phone, versus a room several people can reach.
Side by side
Where mirroring wins
- You want to see exactly what the terminal shows, including the runtime’s own prompts.
- You want to read the remote-control code (Happy).
- You want your own risky steps to ask you on your phone (Omnara), with nobody else involved.
- You already have the session open and just want to walk away from the desk.
Where a room wins
- Someone else asks. Mirroring shares your screen; a room shares the agent’s inbox.
- Different people, different trust. Read-only for a client, edit for a co-founder, full trust for yourself.
- You are not watching. The four actions pause and wait for you; everything else runs.
- The laptop is asleep. Requests wait in the inbox instead of failing.
- You need a record. Who asked, who approved, what ran, what it used.
Using them together
Happy or Omnara for your own session in the foreground; the muti daemon as a background service receiving work from others. Both connect outbound; neither needs an open port; they do not conflict.
Frequently asked questions
Does muti mirror the terminal? No. It streams timeline events: tool calls, diff summaries, output tails. The room sees what happened, not your terminal buffer. See what the daemon uploads.
Can Omnara’s approvals replace muti’s? For you, yes. Omnara approves your own agent’s prompts. muti’s approvals exist because someone else sent the request, and route credential prompts to the owner rather than the requester.
Is there an official option too? Anthropic’s Remote Control, compared in Remote Control vs an agent room and in every way to run Claude Code from your phone.
Mirror your session for yourself; give your agent a room for everyone else. Start here.
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