Independent ML consultant Hamel Husain highlights how Codex Desktop's ability to list and control every active thread, whether local or SSH-hosted, directly from a paired phone gives users a single pane for steering work across locations.
Codex desktop is miles ahead of Claude for remote access via mobile or another computer.
Codex allows you to see **all** running sessions on **all** devices from any other device, including mobile
You can truly go touch grass with Codex. Brings me joy every day
The desktop app sidebar marks each project as local or remote and surfaces running sessions so a mobile user can open, monitor, or approve tasks without switching machines.
Mobile access needs the latest ChatGPT app, a signed-in Codex Desktop host, and matching accounts; Windows mobile pairing and broader availability dates remain unspecified in current documentation.
Positive users praise Codex Desktop's remote mobile sessions, sync, and QR pairing as game-changing improvements over prior versions, while negative users criticize its inability to match Claude's remote CLI control.
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Codex desktop is miles ahead of Claude for remote access via mobile or another computer.
Codex allows you to see **all** running sessions on **all** devices from any other device, including mobile
You can truly go touch grass with Codex. Brings me joy every day
@HamelHusain Stop Facetime ringing ❤️ 🤣
@HamelHusain I was into this for a while, but then I realized I wasn't really touching grass.
@HamelHusain they've also improved it a ton without making a big fuss about it. a month ago it was kinda trash, today it's amazing.
@HamelHusain seeing active sessions across all devices from mobile changes the game
actually worth going outside for
@rolisz Yeah! it's annoying and I can't stop it esp in the middle of a meeting. I just ask Codex
@HamelHusain bus-stop panic check is the killer bit: phone open, failing test still visible, no laptop ritual.
It truly is amazing. Though, there's a few areas where there still seems to be bugs I hope they fix.
Namely: (1) Unless you're running with "skip permissions" then its very inconsistent on if it properly notifies your phone of the permission prompt. (2) If you're using /goal and it gets blocked at all, resuming the /goal from mobile is basically non-starter.
@HamelHusain If it's stable enough to actually work mate - oftentimes longer threads are inaccessible and those are typically your most important workstreams
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@aHev Yeah gotta be careful. Being at beach with laptop open or constantly looking at phone defeats the purpose of being at the beach
@HamelHusain Yeah? It can't seem to do the ONE thing that Claude Code does effortlessly with its remote control...
Let you control remote CLI sessions.
Or I am missing something big. So it fails hugely for me.
@HamelHusain +1 to this , even the codex web sessions are synced - it’s a joy 🤩
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the remote connection model is definitely the highlight. being able to pair your mobile app to the host machine via that one-time QR scan makes the whole "touch grass" workflow actually work.
have you tried running it against a remote devbox over ssh yet? that's where it really shines.
@HamelHusain true
@HamelHusain @jxnlco Cant agree more. Claude sucks