The Omnara Alternative for Monitoring Claude Code
Looking for a Omnara 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 Omnara.
Why look for a Omnara alternative?
People search for an Omnara alternative when a full agent command center is more than they need. Omnara is built to launch, steer, and reply to agents across web and mobile; if you already run Claude Code locally and only want to know when it needs you, adopting a whole control platform is a lot of surface area for a glance.
Switching to Agentfy
There's nothing to migrate — Agentfy watches the local Claude Code you already run, through hooks, rather than connecting your agents to a platform. One plugin install and status starts flowing to lock-screen Live Activities and the Dynamic Island. You give up remote steering; you get the lightest possible 'does it need me?' signal, always on your lock screen.
Why developers pick Agentfy over Omnara for monitoring
- Native iOS Live Activities and Dynamic Island — persistent, glanceable status without opening an app
- Hooks-only: watches your existing local Claude Code with nothing to wrap or launch
- Monitoring-focused simplicity — one plugin install, then it just works in the background
- Multi-agent dashboard tuned for watching many terminals at a glance
Should you switch to Agentfy?
Choose Agentfy if…
You already run Claude Code locally and want the lightest possible way to see, at a glance on your lock screen, when an agent needs you — without adopting a whole agent-control platform.
Choose Omnara if…
You want a command center to launch, steer, and reply to agents from your phone, across web and mobile.
Agentfy and Omnara, feature by feature
| Agentfy | Omnara | |
|---|---|---|
| Core purpose | Monitor your local agents | Monitor + steer/launch agents |
| Send instructions from phone | No (monitoring only) | Yes |
| iOS surfaces | Live Activities, Dynamic Island, push | App dashboard + push |
| Setup | Install the Agentfy plugin — hooks only | Connect agents to the Omnara platform |
| Best at | Glanceable 'does it need me?' status | Actively driving agents remotely |
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.