- ChatGPT mobile app gets new Codex remote support ahead of desktop ‘super app’
- Codex weekly users have increased from 3m to 4m in just over a month
- Mac remote control first, Windows “soon” after
OpenAI is making its Codex tool available through the ChatGPT mobile app to let developers remotely manage their coding workflows from their phones, wherever they are.
The add-on, which is currently in preview ahead of general availability later this year, effectively turns users’ phones into a remote for long-running coding tasks running on PCs and Macs.
It follows a similar recent release by Anthropic, which added Remote Control to Claude Code for remote execution from the mobile app, and comes at an important time for OpenAI as it counts more than four million weekly Codex.
The ChatGPT app is now a remote for Codex
Codex’s growth alone is happening at a remarkable rate – just over a month ago, Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser was boasting of its three million weekly users.
The mobile integration is built into the existing ChatGPT app, rather than shipping as a separate app as we would have expected. That’s because the company has already hinted at an upcoming desktop “superapp” that would combine ChatGPT, Codex, Atlas, and other agent features into one unified experience.
“As agents take on longer-term work, a new rhythm of collaboration is emerging,” OpenAI said of the new app integration.
With the app, users can review output, approve or reject commands, check their choice of GPT model, start brand new coding tasks, and more.
“Under the hood, Codex uses a secure relay layer that keeps trusted machines accessible across devices without directly exposing them to the public Internet,” the company added in a nod to security.
Similar to how OpenAI has rolled out previous apps, the company is taking an Apple-first approach by first supporting the feature across Mac implementations before adding Windows “soon.”
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