Honest comparison
Anthropic's Remote Control is the most native way to drive Claude Code from your phone. Pushary is the cross-vendor control plane: one policy and one audit trail across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, and any MCP client.
If your work is a single Claude Code session and you want the deepest, first-party control surface, Anthropic's Remote Control is excellent. If you run more than Claude, or you need author-once rules and an exportable record across every agent, Pushary is the better fit.
A first-party tool covers its own agent. Remote Control is for Claude Code. Pushary is one MCP server and one policy that also covers Cursor, Codex, Hermes, and any MCP client. One config, one approval queue, one audit trail, no matter which agent is blocked. Vendors structurally will not build that for each other.
Approving from your phone is the baseline. Pushary lets you author the rules once: auto-approve safe reads, push on Bash, escalate git push, always deny rm -rf. The phone only buzzes for the decisions that matter, and the rule sticks across sessions, machines, and agents.
Pushary keeps an immutable, attributed, exportable log of every question and every human decision, across every agent and machine. That is what a team lead or a compliance owner needs, and it is the kind of cross-vendor record a single-vendor remote does not set out to be.
First-party wins on depth and support for its own tool. If you only run Claude Code and want the most native control surface, backed by Anthropic, Remote Control is the right pick. Pushary makes the opposite bet: be vendor-neutral, and add the policy and audit layer that a single-vendor tool will not build for its competitors.
| Feature | Pushary | Remote Control |
|---|---|---|
| Works across vendors (Cursor, Codex, Hermes, any MCP client)CROSS-VENDOR | ||
| Per-tool permission policies (set rules once)POLICY | ||
| Immutable, exportable audit trailAUDIT | ||
| Works with Claude Code | ||
| Approve from your phone | ||
| Slack approvals (channel or DM) | ||
| Kill switch to stop a runaway agent | ||
| First-party, built and supported by Anthropic | ||
| Deepest possible Claude Code integration |
It is Anthropic's own, first-party way to monitor and drive Claude Code from your phone. Because it ships from the vendor, it has the tightest possible integration with Claude Code. It is built for Claude Code specifically.
Remote Control is Claude-only and first-party. Pushary is the cross-vendor layer: one install, one policy, and one audit trail across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, and any MCP client. On top of the approve-from-your-phone basics, Pushary adds per-tool permission rules you set once, an exportable record of every question and decision, Slack approvals, and a kill switch. If your whole workflow is a single Claude Code session, Remote Control is the most native option. If you run more than Claude, or need policy and audit, that is what Pushary is for.
No. They are independent. You could use Anthropic's Remote Control for a deep single-session Claude experience and Pushary for the cross-vendor pieces: per-tool policy, the kill switch, Slack, and an audit trail that spans every agent and machine you run.
First-party always wins on depth and support for its own tool. If you only run Claude Code and want the most native control surface, backed by the vendor, Remote Control is the right pick. Pushary makes the opposite bet: be vendor-neutral, and add the policy and audit layer that a single-vendor tool will not build for its competitors.
Pushary's Agent plan is $9.99/mo with a 7-day free trial. The paid line funds the policy engine, the immutable audit trail, and cross-vendor support beyond Claude Code.
Set your guardrails once, approve from your phone, and keep an exportable audit trail. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, and any MCP client. 7-day free trial.
