Best apps to manage AI coding agents from your phone (2026)
Tools with an iOS or Android app for watching and steering agents away from your desk. 6 tools, data checked 2026-10-15. Unknowns are marked.
Orca
MIT-licensed 'Agent Development Environment' with desktop and mobile apps, SSH remote worktrees, an agent dashboard, scheduled automations and a plugin marketplace.
FreeOpen source: Yes (MIT)macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android (APK)
Agents: 27 named CLI agents, any other CLI agent
Paseo
Self-hosted daemon with desktop, web, mobile and CLI clients for running parallel agents in isolated git worktrees, with an end-to-end encrypted relay and cron schedules.
FreeOpen source: Yes (Apache-2.0)macOS 13+, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, Web, CLI
Agents: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Antigravity, Muse Code, 30+ more via ACP catalog (incl. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Amp)
T3 Code
Control surface for agents already installed on your machine, with per-thread worktrees, multi-model fan-out, strong PR tooling and desktop/web/mobile clients.
Free (bring your own subscriptions; 'no token reselling')Open source: Yes (MIT)macOS, Windows (app only, no background service), Linux, Web, iOS, Android
Agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, Google Antigravity
Omnigent
Alpha 'meta-harness' adding policies, spend caps, model routing and an OS-level sandbox over Claude Code, Codex, Pi and YAML-defined agents.
FreeOpen source: Yes (Apache-2.0)macOS, Web, iOS, Android, Terminal, REST API
Agents: Claude Code, Codex, Pi, custom YAML agents
Amp
Full coding agent (spun out of Sourcegraph) rather than an orchestrator; Orbs are per-thread cloud machines that can run on schedules.
Free Hobby tier (pay-as-you-go orb time); Megawatt $20/monthOpen source: NoCLI, Editor extension, Web, iOS, macOS
Agents: Amp (its own agent; picks models for you)
Omnara
Platform to launch, watch and steer coding agents remotely (mobile-first), on your own machines or Omnara-managed machines.
$0 platform fee; pay-as-you-go for Omnara-managed models (provider token rates) and machinesOpen source: Yes (Apache-2.0, per pricing page)iOS, Android, Web
Agents: Claude Code, Codex, more (exact list unverified)
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