Create mobile codex app that can talk to codex on my local computer

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Feb 5, 2026 by saulrichardson Closed Aug 5, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

Codex App

What feature would you like to see?

Create a mobile app so i can keep codex running on my local computer from my phone. can also send stuff to cloud

Additional information

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4 Comments

z-siddiqi · 6 months ago

Built something along these lines as a side project. A web client that connects to a local Codex app-server instance and relays events to any device.

Repo is here if you are curious: https://github.com/z-siddiqi/zane

The app-server JSON-RPC interface made this pretty straightforward to build on top of.

hendryyeh · 3 months ago

Maintainer of CodeVibe here. This is exactly the workflow I wanted too: keep codex running on your own computer, but monitor and respond from your phone instead of SSHing into tmux.

CodeVibe does this today as a sidecar/plugin rather than an official Codex mobile app:

codex still runs locally on your Mac/Linux/WSL machine
iOS / Android app shows the live session, tool calls, and approval prompts
you can send follow-up prompts or approve actions from the phone
desktop and mobile stay active at the same time
session events are end-to-end encrypted; the backend only relays encrypted payloads

Install:

```sh
curl -fsSL https://quantiya.ai/codevibe/install.sh | bash


  
  More details: https://quantiya.ai/codevibe

  Not an official Codex feature, but it covers the “mobile app talks to local Codex” workflow while the native request here is still open.

Snailflyer · 3 months ago

For people who care more about controlling the same local CLI process than about a native mobile app, I’m working on a narrower open-source route here:

https://github.com/Snailflyer/faryo

Faryo keeps Codex CLI / Claude Code / shell inside tmux as the live session layer, then exposes a phone/desktop browser workbench for output review, short input, approve/interrupt, and handoff back into that same session.

It is not a native Codex app-server mobile client and not a replacement for the official mobile path. The current mature path is Linux + tmux + local CLI agent + browser/PWA. Sharing because the workflow in this issue — keep Codex running locally and steer it from a phone — is exactly the narrow use case it targets.

etraut-openai contributor · 23 days ago

Remote Control lets mobile devices operate local Codex sessions.