A native Mac, iPhone & Apple Watch companion for your AI workflow.
Claude Code · Codex · Grok Build · Cursor
Follow tasks, review supported requests, and keep account usage in view.
Download for Mac · Get the iPhone app · Get started · Follow on X · 简体中文
Free & open source · No VibeBuddy account · No analytics · Bring your own AI key
The actual Mac 1.3.19 interface in Demo mode. Tasks, projects and quota readings are sample data.
- Task inbox — requests that need you, unread results and working tasks, with the project, agent, model and current activity in view.
- Approvals and replies — review commands and bounded diff previews on Mac or iPhone, then answer supported permission requests and questions. Available controls depend on the agent and connection.
- Read and continue sessions — read, search and export conversations on Mac. Use Continue with… to review a working directory and handoff prompt before continuing with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
- Usage across devices — check supported account allowances, with saved readings in iPhone home/lock-screen widgets and Watch complications.
- Results on your wrist — open the matching task from a completion notification, refresh its summary and explicitly mark it read. Apple Watch connects through its paired iPhone.
- Menu bar and notch — keep compact task status visible on Mac and open the full Inbox when you need it.
- Optional voice and summaries — configure voice conversation, completion summaries and read-aloud separately with your own provider credentials. Monitoring and button approvals need no AI API key.
| iPhone Inbox | Task details | Watch results |
|---|---|---|
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iPhone/Watch 1.3.17 (46), Mac 1.3.19 (31). Native Demo captures matching the submitted mobile store images and Mac release images; they do not represent live task results. Screenshot provenance.
More screenshots: task list and usage across devices
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- On Mac: use Inbox for requests and unread results, browse by project, read a live session's conversation, check usage, or hand off with Continue with…. The menu bar and notch keep compact status visible.
- On iPhone: Inbox, task details, recent dialogue and supported approvals and replies, plus Usage and home/lock-screen quota widgets. Pair from computer connection settings or the Home connection indicator.
- On Apple Watch: browse working tasks and unread results, open the matching task from a completion notification, refresh its summary and explicitly mark it read. Usage and complications remain available. A paired iPhone is required; system settings govern notifications and background refresh.
| Device | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Mac | The distributed app requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14 or later |
| iPhone | iOS 17 or later; live tasks and actions need a paired, running, reachable Mac |
| Apple Watch | The current companion requires watchOS 26.5 or later and a paired iPhone |
| Source builds | Xcode 26.6, Swift 6 and XcodeGen; device builds need your own signing team |
- Install the Mac companion. Download the latest DMG, drag the app into Applications, and launch it. The distributed Mac app requires Apple Silicon and macOS 14+.
- Connect your coding agent. Open Setup in Mac settings and follow the agent-specific instructions. Manual setup is also available.
- Add your iPhone. Install VibeBuddy: Agent Monitor, choose Pair a phone on Mac, then open computer connection settings → Scan to pair on iPhone, or tap its Home connection indicator. Start on the same trusted local network. iPhone requires iOS 17+; the current Watch companion requires watchOS 26.5+.
- Try your workflow. Run a short task in Claude Code, Codex or Grok Build and follow it until completion. You can also connect Cursor or Grok Bot usage. Enable voice or summaries separately if you want them.
Just looking? The iPhone connection screen includes See the demo (no Mac needed). Mac works on its own, too. App Store availability varies by region; build from source if needed.
VibeBuddy connects to the agents you already run. Available controls follow the actual connection and pending request.
| Connection | Available integration | Where the boundary is |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Lifecycle hooks, task state, usage, permission decisions and answers to supported questions. | Remote responses need the approval hooks. When the native prompt owns the interaction, respond on Mac. |
| Codex CLI / connected app-server | Task state, usage, supported approvals and questions; create, continue, steer and stop tasks through a connected app-server. | Task control requires the connected server to own the task and expose the required turn/request. Steering a running turn has not yet been verified end to end. MCP elicitation is read-only. |
| Codex Desktop | Observe local task progress and completions; jump back to the app. | Desktop may own a separate app-server. Native Desktop approval coverage is incomplete; use the Mac prompt when no answerable request is available. |
| Grok Build | CLI lifecycle hooks, task state, account usage and configured approval gates; tasks started from VibeBuddy are hosted over ACP with remote approval, questions, follow-ups and stop. | Tasks started from VibeBuddy follow Grok's permission_mode: under always-approve they never ask, so no approval reaches the phone. For a session opened in a terminal, a phone decision is authoritative only under always-approve. |
| Grok Bot | Account usage only. | There is no task integration: tasks, replies and approvals all stay in the official app. |
| Cursor | Task state for the Agent panel and the Cursor CLI, supported approvals and questions, queued follow-ups for a running turn, continuation of a finished chat through the Cursor CLI, and account usage with separate Cursor Models and Other Models pools. | Task state and remote responses need the Cursor hooks; without them the agent transcript still reports progress. Cursor exposes no way to interrupt a running turn, and no link that opens a specific chat — a jump brings Cursor forward. |
See the Codex integration contract and agent hook setup. Qwen, Kimi, OpenCode and Antigravity coding-agent adapters are experimental community integrations; their verification is separate from Qwen's supported voice-provider integration.
Choose OpenAI, Alibaba Qwen or Volcengine Doubao, add your own API credential in the app, review the disclosure and explicitly start a call. Ask “Which task needs me?” or give a clear response to an answerable request. Voice conversation, completion summaries and Mac read-aloud are configured independently. When a provider's per-call time limit ends a call, the app says so and offers a one-tap redial; the new call does not carry over the earlier conversation. Provider charges apply; task monitoring and button approvals need no AI API key.
- Your Mac must stay running and reachable. Set up Tailscale remote access before connecting away from your LAN. Apple Watch still communicates through iPhone.
- Remote controls vary by agent. Observing a task does not grant access to its native approvals; some Codex Desktop requests still need the Mac. Steering a running Codex app-server turn has not yet been verified end to end.
- Usage and widgets may show cached readings. Check the update age and unavailable state. The operating system schedules widget and Watch background refreshes.
Live Activity and Dynamic Island counts update while the phone is connected. Closed-app push requires a running Mac, matching APNs signing configuration, a registered phone and notification permission. Public downloads do not yet include turnkey closed-app push setup; see the APNs setup and distribution decision. Actions always require a reachable paired Mac. Focus, notification settings and watchOS scheduling affect what appears.
flowchart LR
A[Claude Code, Cursor and Grok Build hooks] --> M[VibeBuddy on your Mac]
C[Codex rollouts and connected app-server] <--> M
U[Account usage including Cursor and Grok Bot] --> M
M <-->|Paired local connection| P[iPhone]
P <-->|WatchConnectivity| W[Apple Watch]
M -. Optional AI features .-> V[Your chosen AI provider]
P -. Optional voice .-> V
There is no VibeBuddy cloud, account or analytics service. Mac and phone communicate over your network with bearer-token authentication. Optional AI features send the required audio or task text directly to the provider you choose; configured push notifications pass through Apple. Voice credentials are stored in Keychain. Privacy policy.
The Mac app, iPhone app, Watch companion, daemon, shared Swift models and agent hooks are all in this MIT-licensed repository. The integrations and their limits are documented so other developers can inspect, reproduce and improve them.
Generate the Mac project from a checkout:
git clone https://github.com/semantic-craft/iOS-vibebuddy.git
cd iOS-vibebuddy
xcodegen generate --spec VibeBuddyMacApp/project.yml
open VibeBuddyMacApp/VibeBuddyMacApp.xcodeprojBuild and run the VibeBuddyMacApp scheme in Xcode. See source setup for iPhone, Watch and signing. To check shared logic and the server:
swift test --package-path VibeBuddyKit
swift test --package-path VibeBuddyMac| Explore | Start here |
|---|---|
| Build and run | Developer setup |
| Change ownership, scoped checks and delivery evidence | Development map |
| Shared models and voice adapters | VibeBuddyKit |
| Agent observation and local server | VibeBuddyMacCore |
| Native apps | Mac · iPhone · Watch |
| Protocol checks and design decisions | Codex probes · Architecture decisions |
| Codex and OpenAI workflows | Setup and capabilities |
| Maintenance history | Releases · Merged pull requests |
Contributions are welcome. Reproduce an integration issue, improve a translation, document a device workflow or submit a focused fix. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md. If VibeBuddy helps your workflow, a star or a concrete account of how you use it helps others discover the project.
Built by Semantic_Craft (@mm87584). Follow on X for VibeBuddy updates and conversations about using AI tools.
m5-paper-buddy inspired the hook-and-transcript approach to agent status; open-vibe-island informed the multi-agent model and Mac Glance. VibeBuddy's Swift implementation was written independently. The app icon was developed with the ip-as-logo skill; the in-app cat is drawn in shared Swift code.
MIT. An independent community project; not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, OpenAI or Apple.
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