Coral vs Omnara: the Omnara alternative for your phone
Omnara dropped its Claude Code phone app to become an agent platform. Coral does that original job: answer Claude Code and Codex from your notch and iPhone.
Updated
If you came to Omnara to answer Claude Code from your phone, Coral is the tool that still does that. Omnara retired its Claude Code wrapper and relaunched as a platform for running agents as services, with no phone app we could find. Coral watches the agents you already run on your Mac and puts each permission prompt in your Mac’s notch and on your iPhone, where you answer with one key or one tap.
As of October 2026, here’s what changed and how the two compare.
Summary
| Omnara (today) | Coral | |
|---|---|---|
| Phone app | None found as of October 2026 | iPhone (beta), with Apple Watch alerts |
| Answer a permission prompt from your phone | Not its job anymore | Yes, one tap with Face ID |
| Answer from your Mac’s notch | No | Yes, one key (1, 2 or 3) |
| Works with agents you start the usual way | No; it runs its own agents | Yes: claude, codex, the Codex app, in any terminal |
| Agents | Its own runtime, any model | Claude Code, Codex (CLI and app), Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Grok CLI |
| Something to host or deploy | Hosted machines, a sandbox provider, or your own with a daemon | Nothing |
| Phone answers | No phone answers | End-to-end encrypted, signed with a Secure Enclave key |
| Price | No platform fee; you pay for models and machines | Free, with no time limit; Pro $8 a month yearly or $12 monthly |
What happened to Omnara
Omnara is a Y Combinator company. Its history, from its own GitHub repo and changelog:
- 2025: a remote for Claude Code. The first version wrapped the Claude Code CLI. You installed it with
pip install omnara, ranomnara, and got push notifications, approvals and logs on iOS, Android and the web. - November 2025: the wrapper was retired. The README said that version was “no longer maintained” because wrapping the Claude Code CLI “became unfeasible to maintain with Claude Code’s constant updates.”
- September 2026: relaunched. The changelog says Omnara relaunched on September 2 as “the open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents.”
When we checked on October 21, 2026, we couldn’t find the Omnara app in the US App Store or on Google Play, and omnara.com doesn’t mention a phone app. Today it offers a CLI, a TypeScript SDK, an HTTP API, an MCP server, and Slack, Discord and GitHub integrations for agents you deploy.
Why developers pick Coral
- It does the job Omnara started with. When an agent asks for permission or finishes, your iPhone gets a push, and Apple Watch shows it too. Tap the answer and confirm with Face ID. On Free, it waits on your Mac until you press Return there; Pro sends it straight to the agent.
- No wrapper to break. Omnara’s first version wrapped Claude Code and couldn’t keep up with its updates. Coral connects each agent once through its own hooks, so you keep starting
claudeorcodexthe usual way, and an update to Claude Code doesn’t break anything. - Every agent in one list. Claude Code, Codex (the CLI or the Codex app), the GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode and Grok, grouped by project and by Needs you, Done, Working and Idle.
- Your Mac’s notch. Press 1, 2 or 3 to answer. ⌘Z takes it back within two seconds. The one that has waited longest comes first. See Features.
- Nothing to host. No machines, no daemon, no account. Messages between your Mac and iPhone are end-to-end encrypted, signed on the iPhone with a key Face ID protects, and deleted from the relay once delivered. See Privacy and security.
- Your servers too. With Pro, agents on Linux servers, other Macs over SSH and dev containers show up in the same notch. See Servers.
Where Omnara fits
Omnara is now a different kind of product, and a good one if you need it.
- Agents as services. It gives an agent a machine, tools, secrets and permissions, and keeps it running for your users or your team. Coral doesn’t run or host agents.
- Open source and self-hostable. Apache 2.0, with a free self-hosted setup on Docker Compose.
- Any model, any cloud. Bring your own keys, or use its hosted catalog.
If you’re building agents for other people to use, look at Omnara. If you want to keep your own coding agents moving, that’s Coral.
Other Omnara alternatives
If you used Omnara to reach Claude Code from your phone, these also do that today:
- Claude Code Remote Control. Anthropic’s own feature, included with a Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise plan. Claude Code only, turned on per session.
- Happy. Free and open source, with iPhone and Android apps. Sessions have to start through Happy, like
happy claude.
Which should you pick
- Want to approve Claude Code and Codex from your phone: Coral.
- Don’t want to change how you start your agents: Coral.
- Sit at a Mac and want prompts answered without switching windows: Coral.
- Run several agents at once and need to know which one is waiting: Coral.
- Want to build agents that run for your team or your users: Omnara.
More on the phone side in Claude Code on iPhone.
Questions
Does Omnara still have a mobile app for Claude Code?
We couldn’t find one in the US App Store or Google Play as of October 21, 2026, and its site no longer offers a phone app. Coral’s iPhone app does that job for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, OpenCode and Grok CLI.
What is a good Omnara alternative for Claude Code on my phone?
Coral, if you run agents on a Mac: it covers every agent at once, in your Mac’s notch and on your iPhone, with Face ID on each answer. Remote Control and Happy each cover a narrower case. See Pricing.
Is Omnara shut down?
No, the company is active. It changed products: the Claude Code remote app was retired, and Omnara relaunched in September 2026 as an open-source managed agent platform.
Is Omnara open source?
Yes, under the Apache 2.0 license, and you can self-host it with Docker Compose.
How much does Omnara cost?
There’s no platform fee. You pay for the models and hosted machines you use, or bring your own for free. Coral Free costs nothing, with no time limit.