Use Remote Control or Codex Remote
To follow and approve your own Claude Code or Codex session from your phone, the built-in remote is free with your plan and needs nothing else. Covo adds little for one person.
COMPARE
Alone, Remote Control is enough. As a team, Covo.
Anthropic and OpenAI give you your own session on your own phone, and they do it well. Covo gives the session to your team: they watch it, approve its risky steps and take the controls. Here is an honest table.
Use Covo
When a teammate must see the session, approve the Bash call or take over, and when Claude Code and Codex both run on the team, Covo is the layer for it. Your agent and keys stay where they are.
| What you need | Covo | Anthropic Remote Control | Codex Remote | Happier | ccshare | tmux or screen sharing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent and keys stay on your computer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not documented | Yes |
| Claude Code and Codex in one place | Yes, and the Python SDK | Claude Code only | Codex only | Yes, also Gemini and OpenCode | Not documented | Any terminal program |
| A teammate watches live | Yes, by invite link | Only your own devices | Only your own devices | Yes, private or public link | Yes, with a 6-character code | Yes, the raw screen |
| A teammate approves tool calls | Yes, the controller | Only you | Only you | Not documented | Not documented | Whoever has the keyboard |
| Hand over control | Yes, one controller at a time | No | No | Not documented | Not documented | Shared keyboard, no turns |
| Approval modes | Approve only or Auto | Approve on your phone | Approve on your phone | Permission prompts on your phone, as in Happy | Not documented | No |
| Secrets masked before others see them | Yes, redaction.v1 on your computer | Not needed, only you see it | Not needed, only you see it | End-to-end encrypted, not masked | Not documented | No, everyone sees the screen |
| Team memory for the next agent (MCP) | Yes | Projects memory, not on Team plans | No | No | Not documented | No |
| Price | Free in the public beta | In Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise | All plans, in preview | Free, open source | Not documented | Free |
Yes Partly No No public statement found
Happier is the closest
Happier, an open-source fork of Happy, shares a live session with friends by link. If that is all you need, try it. We found no public description of approvals or a hand-over between people there.
tmux works for pairing
A shared terminal or a screen share needs no new tool. But everyone sees every secret on the screen, everyone types on one keyboard, and nothing is kept for the next person.
This can change
We checked public documentation on 21 October 2026. These products ship often. If a cell is wrong, write to us and we fix it.
Sources: Anthropic Remote Control · Codex Remote · Happier · ccshare