The the Claude app Alternative for Monitoring Claude Code
Looking for a the Claude app alternative for keeping tabs on Claude Code? Agentfy takes the monitoring half of the job — native iOS status on your lock screen — and honestly, it leaves the rest to the Claude app.
Why look for a the Claude app alternative?
Searching for a Claude app alternative often means your real work happens in local Claude Code — your own environment, tools, and hooks — not in a cloud clone of a GitHub repo. The official app runs agents in Anthropic's cloud; it can't watch the sessions you run on your own machine. For that, you want a local monitor.
Switching to Agentfy
This isn't really a switch — it's a complement. Keep using the Claude app for cloud work and add Agentfy to monitor the Claude Code you run locally. One plugin install and your local sessions surface as Live Activities and Dynamic Island status. Agentfy doesn't run agents in the cloud; it makes your local ones glanceable.
Why developers pick Agentfy over the Claude app for monitoring
- Monitors your local Claude Code — your real environment, dependencies, and hooks, not a cloud clone
- Native Live Activities and Dynamic Island for glanceable status of local sessions
- Works alongside your existing local setup; no GitHub-only requirement
- Watches many local terminals at once from one dashboard
Should you switch to Agentfy?
Choose Agentfy if…
You do your real work in local Claude Code — your environment, your tools, your hooks — and want native, glanceable monitoring of those sessions on your phone.
Choose the Claude app if…
You want to run Claude Code entirely in the cloud from your phone, with no local machine involved, on repos hosted on GitHub.
Agentfy and the Claude app, feature by feature
| Agentfy | the Claude app | |
|---|---|---|
| Where Claude runs | Your local machine | Anthropic's cloud |
| Core purpose | Monitor local sessions | Run sessions in the cloud |
| Reply / interact from phone | No (monitoring only) | Yes — full interaction |
| Code location | Anything on your machine | Must be on GitHub |
| iOS surfaces | Live Activities, Dynamic Island, push | In-app chat / progress |
How Agentfy works
- Download Agentfy and grab your account token.
- Install the open-source Agentfy plugin in Claude Code:
claude plugin marketplace add ibrillantes/claude-code-plugin, thenclaude plugin install agentfy@agentfy --config api_token=<YOUR_TOKEN>, then/reload-plugins. It registers an Agentfy webhook in your hooks and stores your token in your OS keychain — no CLI wrapper, no daemon. (Older Claude Code? Paste the one-line setup prompt instead.) - Whenever an agent starts, needs permission, finishes, or errors, your iPhone gets a push notification, a lock-screen Live Activity, and a Dynamic Island update — in real time.