- You run only Claude Code, a session or two at a time.
- You want nothing more to install: it is already in Claude Code and the Claude app.
- You want to answer from a browser.
- You want a push notification today when Claude needs you.
Grenade or Claude Code Remote Control?
Remote Control is built into Claude Code and is the quickest way to reach a Claude session from the Claude app. Grenade is for when there are several agents, not all of them Claude, and you want to see which one needs you.
Claude Code Remote Control and Grenade.
| Claude Code Remote Control | Grenade | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A feature of Claude Code: it connects claude.ai/code or the Claude app to a session running on your machine | A daemon on your Mac that runs each agent in a tmux session, with apps for iPhone, Android and Mac that show them all |
| Agents | Claude Code | Claude Code, Codex and any shell, in one list |
| Where you answer from | The Claude app on iOS and Android, or any browser | The Grenade app on iPhone and Android, and the Grenade Mac app. No browser client |
| Account and plan | A claude.ai login on a Pro, Max, Team or Enterprise plan. API keys, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry are not supported | No Grenade account. It starts the Claude Code that is on your Mac, with the login it already has |
| How traffic travels | Through the Anthropic API over TLS. The session transcript is stored on Anthropic's servers | Directly on your Wi‑Fi, or through a relay that forwards bytes it cannot read. End-to-end encrypted both ways, and you can host the relay |
| Permission prompts | Forwarded to the phone and answered there | A card on the phone: allow once, or deny and say what to do instead. Questions and plans too |
| Several sessions | A list of sessions by name, with a green dot when one is online | Sessions grouped by project, each with a color: needs an answer, finished, working, idle |
| If the terminal closes | The local process must keep running | The session lives in tmux: closing a window ends nothing |
| Push notifications | Yes: when Claude decides, and when an action is required | Not yet in the store apps |
An honest pick.
Choose Claude Code Remote Control when
Choose Grenade when
- You run Codex or plain shells beside Claude Code and want them in one list.
- You split a feature across several agents and need to see which one is waiting.
- You do not want the transcript on a server: on your Wi‑Fi there is none, and the relay cannot read what it forwards.
- You want your own terminal to stay: every session is a tmux session you can attach to.
How Grenade's pairing and encryption work, and who can read what: Security.
Where this comes from.
What this page says about Claude Code Remote Control was read from its own pages, listed here. If something has changed since, the source is right and this page is late.