Remodex: Your Coding Agent Doesn't Need Your Laptop, Just Your Phone
Here's a scenario that didn't exist six months ago. You're on the subway, you pull out your iPhone, you tell Codex to refactor a module, you watch it work in real time, you approve the git push, and by the time you get to the office the PR is ready for review. Remodex makes this real.
Remodex is an open-source iOS app that remotely controls OpenAI's Codex from your iPhone while keeping the full runtime on your Mac. Pair once with a QR code, and from then on your phone becomes a command center. You can create threads, run subagents, push git commits, use skills and slash commands, attach photos from your camera, and use voice transcription. Everything streams in real time through an end-to-end encrypted channel.
The architecture is smart. A Node.js bridge runs on your Mac using launchd for automatic background service management. The iOS app connects through an authenticated E2E encrypted session. Your prompts, tool calls, responses, and git output never hit plaintext on the transport layer. The Codex runtime stays on your Mac where your code lives. Your phone is just the remote control.
It launched on Product Hunt today at number 5 with 153 upvotes and has 1.9K stars on GitHub. The developer, Emanuele Di Pietro, built this as his first open-source project because he was obsessed with Codex and wanted to use it from his phone. That's the best kind of origin story for a developer tool.
This matters because it changes the temporal model of coding agent interaction. Right now, you sit at your desk and babysit the agent. With Remodex, you fire and forget from anywhere, checking in when the agent needs a decision. The agent works, you live your life.
https://github.com/Emanuele-web04/remodex
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remodex-remote-ai-coding/id6760243963
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Remodex is an open-source iOS app that remotely controls OpenAI's Codex from your iPhone while keeping the full runtime on your Mac. Pair once with a QR code, and from then on your phone becomes a command center. You can create threads, run subagents, push git commits, use skills and slash commands, attach photos from your camera, and use voice transcription. Everything streams in real time through an end-to-end encrypted channel.
The architecture is smart. A Node.js bridge runs on your Mac using launchd for automatic background service management. The iOS app connects through an authenticated E2E encrypted session. Your prompts, tool calls, responses, and git output never hit plaintext on the transport layer. The Codex runtime stays on your Mac where your code lives. Your phone is just the remote control.
It launched on Product Hunt today at number 5 with 153 upvotes and has 1.9K stars on GitHub. The developer, Emanuele Di Pietro, built this as his first open-source project because he was obsessed with Codex and wanted to use it from his phone. That's the best kind of origin story for a developer tool.
This matters because it changes the temporal model of coding agent interaction. Right now, you sit at your desk and babysit the agent. With Remodex, you fire and forget from anywhere, checking in when the agent needs a decision. The agent works, you live your life.
https://github.com/Emanuele-web04/remodex
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/remodex-remote-ai-coding/id6760243963
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