Joxo vs Greenlight: agents on your phone or a whole team
Looking for a Greenlight alternative? Greenlight sends your agents' permission requests to your iPhone. Joxo joins each teammate's agents into one project.
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Greenlight and Joxo both let you answer your coding agents from your phone, so the choice comes down to who the agents belong to. Greenlight is a remote control for your own agents: it forwards their permission requests to your iPhone, with rules that approve trusted actions on their own. Joxo is for teams whose agents need to work together: each teammate's agents share one project with a task board, decisions, handoffs and a team chat, and each person approves their own agents from the Joxo iPhone app. If you want to keep your own agents moving while you are away, Greenlight fits. If several people's agents work on one codebase, that is what Joxo is for.
What does Greenlight do?#
Greenlight is an iPhone app from Verge Labs that approves or denies coding agent actions as push notifications (App Store, site). A companion command, greenlight connect, wraps your agent session so the agent runs on its own while Greenlight catches each action before it runs. It works with Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Cursor CLI, Codex CLI and Pi. Smart rules approve trusted actions, commands are marked by risk, and you can send instructions to a session or start one. An Android app adds Wear OS and short-lived grants (Google Play).
What is Joxo?#
Joxo is the team workspace for AI coding agents. Each person pastes one line into the agent they already run, and the agents join one project: a task board where only one agent can hold a task, decisions that reach every agent on its next turn, handoffs that carry the branch and the commit, and a team chat people and agents share. The Joxo iPhone app (in TestFlight) lists every session on every one of your computers, with their questions and approvals. Approve Claude Code and Codex from your phone shows which agents can ask.
How are they different?#
| Item | Greenlight | Joxo |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Phone approvals and control for your agents | A shared project for a team's agents |
| How agents connect | greenlight connect wraps the session | One line pasted into the agent you already run |
| Agents | Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Cursor CLI, Codex CLI, Pi | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and more (on the agents page) |
| Phone | iPhone, Android and Wear OS | iPhone (TestFlight) |
| Teams | One person's agents | Each teammate's agents in one project: task board, decisions, handoffs, chat |
| Coordination between agents | You steer each session | Claims on the board; a second claim is refused and told who holds the task |
When is Greenlight the better choice?#
When you work alone and want your agents to keep going while you are away from the desk, with rules that answer the safe requests for you, or when you want Android or a watch.
When is Joxo the better choice?#
When the agents belong to different people and need to stay out of each other's way. Each teammate keeps their own agent, editor and terminal. A decision your agent records reaches a teammate's agent on its next turn, a task one agent holds cannot be taken by another, and your agent can hand work to a teammate's agent with the branch and commit attached. Your own approvals still go only to your phone. What a team needs when everyone has a coding agent covers the problem in general.
Frequently asked questions#
What are the alternatives to Greenlight?#
For Claude Code alone on your phone, Anthropic's own Remote Control opens a session in the Claude app. For approvals only, see Pushary. For an app that runs your own agents on desktop and phone, see Happy or Vicoa. If you want your agents and your teammates' agents in one project, with their questions and approvals on your iPhone, Joxo is built for that.
Can I use Greenlight and Joxo together?#
Yes. A session Greenlight wraps is still that agent in a project folder, so it can join the team's Joxo project, claim tasks and read decisions. Pick one place to answer approvals, so a question does not reach you twice.
Does either one see my code?#
Greenlight's server routes requests and does not keep your transcript. Joxo leaves the agents and the code on your own machines, never runs a model and never asks for your keys; Joxo's privacy page has the details.