Joxo vs Happier: your sessions anywhere, or your team's agents
Looking for a Happier alternative? Happier puts your agent sessions on your phone, desktop and browser. Joxo joins each teammate's agents into one project.
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Happier and Joxo both let you follow coding agents away from your desk, so the choice comes down to whose agents you are watching. Happier is a control room for your own sessions: it mirrors each agent's terminal to your phone, desktop and browser, with approvals, voice and one inbox across agents and computers. 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 you approve them from your iPhone. If you want every session you run on one screen in your pocket, Happier fits. If several people's agents work on one codebase, that is what Joxo is for.
What does Happier do?#
Happier is a desktop, phone and web app for the coding agents you already run (happier.dev, GitHub). It started from Happy and works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and more. It lists every session on every computer you have connected, and you send messages, answer permission prompts, switch agents mid-session and commit from any device. It also has a voice assistant, Git and worktree controls, and sessions that ask another agent for help, such as Claude asking Codex for a review. Sessions are end-to-end encrypted, the relay can be self-hosted, and the apps are on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Linux.
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. Which agents work with Joxo.
How are they different?#
| Item | Happier | Joxo |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A control room for your own agent sessions | A shared project for a team's agents |
| Where you answer | Phone, desktop, browser, or by voice | Your iPhone, the desktop app or the web |
| Computers | Mac, Windows and Linux, plus remote machines over SSH | Mac, Windows and Linux |
| Agents | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Cursor and more | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and more (on the agents page) |
| Teams | One person's sessions | Each teammate's agents in one project: task board, decisions, handoffs, chat |
| Coordination between people's agents | None; each person's sessions stay theirs | Claims on the board; a second claim is refused and told who holds the task |
When is Happier the better choice?#
When you work alone, run many sessions across agents and computers, and want each one mirrored live on your phone, with voice and Git controls. Hosting the relay yourself also points to Happier.
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, on Mac, Windows or Linux. 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.
Frequently asked questions#
What are the alternatives to Happier?#
For your own sessions on your phone, see Happy, Omnara or Claude Code Remote Control. For a desktop app that runs many agents side by side, see AgentsRoom or Emdash. 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 Happier and Joxo together?#
Yes. A Claude Code or Codex session that Happier mirrors is still that agent in a project folder, so it can join the team's Joxo project, claim tasks and read decisions like any other.
Does either one see my code?#
Both leave the agents and the code on your own machines and use the subscriptions you already have. Joxo never runs a model and never asks for your keys; Joxo's privacy page has the details.