Honest comparison
Anthropic notifies you about Anthropic's agent, through Anthropic's app. Pushary is one phone inbox for Cowork and every other agent you run, with per-tool policy, lock screen answers, and a record of every decision.
This is not a rip-and-replace choice. Cowork's built-in notifications are real and improving, and if Cowork is the only agent in your life they may be enough. The question is what happens when it is not the only one, and what you need on record afterwards.
Anthropic's own usage data says most Cowork work is business operations and content, done by people who also delegate to other agents. Cowork's built-in loop will never ping you about your Codex run or your Cursor session. Pushary puts Cowork in the same phone inbox as everything else, with one history and one set of devices.
Cowork's notifications land in the Claude app, and answering means opening the session. Pushary questions arrive as web push or through its own iPhone and Android apps, and each one links to a signed decision page: tap, answer, done. No Claude subscription needed on the answering device, which also makes a shared team device or Slack channel possible.
Anthropic offers audit tooling for Cowork at the enterprise tier. For an individual or a small team there is no record of what was asked while you were in a meeting and what got approved. Every Pushary question and answer lands in an immutable, exportable audit trail, across Cowork and every other agent, which is what makes delegation reviewable instead of hopeful.
Cowork's notifications are part of the product: they can open the live session, they know about task state without being asked, and they cost nothing on top of your Claude plan. Pushary's Cowork integration is cooperative, so Claude decides when to call it, guided by your standing instructions. Neither Pushary nor anyone else can enforce a hard gate inside Cowork, because Cowork has no hooks. We say that plainly, and enforce on the agents that do.
| Feature | Pushary | Cowork built-in |
|---|---|---|
| Push when a Cowork task finishes | ||
| One inbox for every agent (Cowork, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes)FLEET | ||
| Answer from the lock screen, no app to open | ||
| Works without the Claude mobile app | ||
| Per-tool permission policies for your other agentsPOLICY | ||
| Immutable, exportable audit trail for individualsAUDIT | ||
| Available on every paid Claude plan via a pasted connector | Rolling out | |
| Opens the live Cowork session from the notification | ||
| Enforced gating inside Cowork (blocked until you answer) | ||
| Slack delivery and signed webhooks | ||
| Price | $9.99/mo | Included with Claude |
Built-in capabilities as documented by Anthropic in July 2026; availability varies by plan while the web and mobile rollout completes.
Anthropic ships its own notification loop for Cowork: the Claude mobile app can push when a task finishes or needs your go-ahead, and with cloud sessions you can open the same session from your phone to answer. As of July 2026 the web and mobile experience is rolling out Max-first, with other plans following. It is good, and if you only run Cowork it may be all you need.
If Cowork is your only agent and you always have the Claude app at hand, probably not. Pushary earns its place when you run more than one agent: Cowork plus Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Hermes land in one phone inbox with one history, questions are answerable from the lock screen without opening any app, and every question and answer is kept in an exportable audit trail. Anthropic's notifications only ever cover Anthropic's agents.
No, and neither can anything else: Cowork exposes no hooks, so no third party can physically stop it mid-task. Pushary's Cowork integration is cooperative: standing instructions and a skill tell Claude to ask before risky steps and to notify you when tasks finish. Enforced approvals that block a command until you say yes are available for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and Hermes through the CLI hooks.
No. Pushary delivers over web push and its own iPhone and Android apps, and every question links to a signed decision page you can answer from the lock screen. That also means teammates or a second device can receive the same questions without a Claude subscription on that device.
Paste one connector link into Claude under Settings, Connectors, then enable Pushary inside your Cowork session under Customize, Connectors. Add the ready-made standing instructions from your Pushary dashboard so every session asks before risky steps and pings you on completion. The whole setup is a paste, no install.
No. Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agentic workspace inside the Claude apps, and that is what this page compares against. Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork is a different product from Microsoft.
Connect Cowork with one pasted link, answer from your lock screen, and keep an exportable trail of every question and answer, across every agent you run. 7-day free trial.
