Honest comparison
Happy is a free, open-source mirror of Claude Code and Codex on your phone. Pushary is the cross-vendor control plane: set per-tool rules once, approve only what matters, and keep an exportable audit trail of every decision across every agent.
If you want a free, open-source, end-to-end-encrypted mirror of Claude Code or Codex on your phone, Happy is excellent. If you want author-once guardrails, an audit trail, and one tool across every agent you run, Pushary is the better fit.
Happy asks you to Allow or Deny each request, and a remembered choice lasts only for that session. 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 actually matter, and the rule sticks across sessions and machines. That is the difference between babysitting two agents and trusting four.
Happy is end-to-end encrypted, which is great for privacy and also means the server cannot produce a queryable record of who approved what. Pushary keeps an immutable, attributed, exportable log of every question and every human decision, across every agent and machine. That is exactly what a team lead or a compliance owner needs, and it is the one thing an encrypted mirror structurally cannot give them.
Happy covers Claude Code and Codex. Pushary is one MCP server and one policy that also covers Cursor, Hermes, Windsurf, and any MCP client. One config, one queue, one audit trail, no matter which agent is blocked.
Happy is free, open source under the MIT license, and end-to-end encrypted, with a full real-time mirror of your session and voice. If you want an open-source mirror of Claude Code or Codex on your phone and do not need policy or audit, Happy is the better pick. Pushary keeps decisions auditable while redacting and encrypting Pushary-launched transcripts on your machine for the owner's phone and documented compliance recovery before they sync.
| Feature | Pushary | Happy |
|---|---|---|
| Per-tool permission policies (set rules once)POLICY | ||
| Immutable, exportable audit trailAUDIT | ||
| Works with Cursor, Hermes, Windsurf (any MCP client) | ||
| Works inside Claude Cowork (connector) | ||
| Works with Claude Code | ||
| Works with Codex | ||
| Approve from your phone | ||
| Kill switch to stop a runaway agent | ||
| Keeps your existing CLI (no wrapper to run) | ||
| Encrypts transcripts before upload | ||
| Run multiple agents in parallel | ||
| Full real-time session mirror + voice | ||
| Provider cannot decrypt transcripts | ||
| Open source | ||
| Price | $9.99/mo | Free (MIT) |
Happy (happy.engineering) is a free, open-source app under the MIT license that lets you control Claude Code and Codex from your phone or the web. It mirrors your session in real time with end-to-end encryption, supports parallel sessions, and adds voice. You run the happy CLI instead of claude or codex, and you bring your own Claude or Codex subscription.
Happy mirrors your whole session to your phone. Pushary prioritizes the decisions that matter under per-tool rules you set once, keeps transcript context encrypted for the owner's phone and documented compliance recovery, and records every question and human decision in an exportable audit trail across every agent.
Happy is free and open source under the MIT license. Pushary's Agent plan is $9.99/mo with a 3-day free trial. The paid line is what funds the policy engine, the immutable audit trail, and cross-vendor support beyond Claude Code and Codex.
Both are private, in different ways. Happy is end-to-end encrypted, so its relay only ever sees encrypted data, but there is no server-side audit trail to query or export. Pushary splits the paths. Decision text and tool names stay queryable for the audit trail. Pushary-launched transcripts sync by default after local redaction and encryption; the owner's phone can decrypt them, and authorized Pushary compliance admins can recover an exact session for a documented legal obligation. You can disable sync on the agent machine. Happy maximizes provider-inaccessible encryption. Pushary combines encrypted transcripts, compliance recovery, and auditable decisions.
Yes. They are independent. You could run Happy for a full end-to-end-encrypted session mirror and Pushary for per-tool policies, cross-vendor approvals, the kill switch, and the audit trail.
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. 3-day free trial.
