Omnara vs Agentfy
Omnara is a command center for steering AI agents from your phone. Agentfy is a focused monitor with native Live Activities — it watches your local Claude Code, it doesn't drive it.
Omnara is a mobile and web command center for AI coding agents — it lets you monitor and send instructions to agents like Claude Code, often launching or steering them from the app. It's built around two-way control across devices. Agentfy is narrower on purpose: it watches your local Claude Code sessions through hooks and surfaces their status on the iPhone lock screen via Live Activities and the Dynamic Island. It doesn't launch or control agents — it tells you, glanceably, what they're doing.
Agentfy vs Omnara at a glance
| 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 |
Where Agentfy differs from Omnara
- 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
What Omnara is good at
- Two-way control — send instructions and steer agents from the app
- Web and mobile command center, not just notifications
- Designed to launch and manage agents, including from the cloud
Which should you choose?
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.
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.