- You want agents running in cloud sandboxes, not on your laptop.
- You want to start and steer agents from an API, an SDK or Slack.
- You are building a product or a team workflow on top of agents.
Looking for what Omnara used to be?
Omnara began as a phone remote for Claude Code. It has since relaunched as an open-source platform for running managed agents, and its website no longer mentions the mobile app. If you used it to answer the agents on your own computer, this is what Grenade does.
Omnara and Grenade.
| Omnara | Grenade | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is today | "The open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents": a platform for running managed agents, in its cloud or self-hosted (Apache 2.0) | A daemon on your Mac that runs each agent in a tmux session, with apps for iPhone, Android and Mac that show them all |
| The phone app | Still in the App Store and on Google Play, last updated before the relaunch. The original wrapper around the Claude Code CLI is marked "no longer maintained" in the repository | iPhone and Android apps, for the sessions on your own Mac |
| Where agents run | In sandboxes from several providers, or on your own machine through a daemon | On your Mac, in tmux, in the folder you choose |
| How you reach them | A web dashboard, a CLI, a REST API, a TypeScript SDK, Slack | The Grenade app on iPhone and Android, and the Grenade Mac app. No browser client |
| Account | Required | None. A phone is paired by scanning a QR code on the Mac |
| Price | No platform fee; managed machines are billed by memory and hour | Nothing runs in a cloud: the agents use your Mac |
An honest pick.
Choose Omnara when
Choose Grenade when
- You want the agents already in your terminal on your phone.
- You want no account and nothing of yours in a cloud.
- You want to see, across a project's agents, which one needs you.
How Grenade's pairing and encryption work, and who can read what: Security.
Where this comes from.
What this page says about Omnara was read from its own pages, listed here. If something has changed since, the source is right and this page is late.