the Claude app vs Agentfy
Anthropic's Claude app runs Claude Code in the cloud on your GitHub repos. Agentfy monitors the Claude Code you already run locally — your real environment, on your lock screen.
Anthropic's official Claude iOS app can run Claude Code in the cloud: it clones your GitHub repo into a managed environment, runs the agent there, and pushes changes back as branches or PRs. It's ideal for coding from anywhere with no local machine in the loop. Agentfy is the complement, not a clone — it monitors the Claude Code you run locally on your own machine, with your real toolchain and hooks, and surfaces its status on your iPhone via Live Activities and the Dynamic Island.
Agentfy vs the Claude app at a glance
| 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 |
Where Agentfy differs from the Claude app
- 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
What the Claude app is good at
- Code from anywhere — no local machine needed
- Official Anthropic app with full interaction in the cloud
- Changes come back as branches or pull requests
Which should you choose?
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.
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.