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title: Happy Coder Alternative With a Desktop App and Git Worktrees
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description: Paseo ships a native desktop app, runs agents in isolated git worktrees, and supports 30+ agents. Happy Coder is mobile and web only, wraps the agent CLI, and supports Claude Code and Codex.
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nav: Happy Coder
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order: 104
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---
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# Paseo vs Happy Coder
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Happy Coder is a mobile and web client for Claude Code and Codex. It wraps the agent CLI on your laptop and syncs sessions to phone and browser over an end-to-end encrypted relay. Open source under MIT.
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Paseo is an app for orchestrating coding agents, with native clients on desktop, mobile, web, and the CLI. Open source (AGPL-3.0).
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## When to pick what
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Pick Happy Coder if you want the most minimal setup. Wrap an existing Claude Code or Codex session on your laptop and check in on it from your phone.
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Pick Paseo if you want:
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- A native desktop app on macOS, Linux, and Windows
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- Git worktrees for parallel agents
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- Per-worktree dev server URLs
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- GitHub PRs, checks, reviews, and merges in the app
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- Many more agents than Claude Code and Codex
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- A CLI to script agent work and drive remote daemons
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## Architecture
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Paseo runs the agent inside its own daemon. The daemon owns the agent lifecycle, the worktree, and the dev servers. Clients connect over a websocket and drive the daemon.
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Happy Coder runs the agent inside its existing CLI on your laptop and syncs the session to its mobile and web clients through an end-to-end encrypted relay.
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## Panes
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Paseo's app has split panes and tabs (⌘D for vertical, ⌘⇧D for horizontal). Panes include a terminal alongside your agents, a diff viewer, and a browser for testing running services.
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Happy Coder does not have a desktop app.
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## GitHub
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Paseo's app handles commit, push, opening PRs, watching checks and reviews, and merging.
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## Mobile
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Both tools ship native iOS and Android apps.
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## Providers
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Paseo runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi natively, plus 30+ more agents through the in-app catalog including GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Amp. Paseo speaks the [Agent Client Protocol](https://agentclientprotocol.com), so any ACP agent works. Custom providers run any CLI agent. See [Supported providers](/docs/supported-providers).
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Happy Coder runs Claude Code and Codex.
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## Worktrees and services
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Paseo runs each agent in its own git worktree. Each worktree gets its own dev server URL like `web.fix-auth.my-app.localhost`, so parallel agents don't fight for the same port.
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Happy Coder runs the agent in the directory you launched the CLI from.
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## CLI
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Paseo has a CLI that mirrors the app:
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```bash
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paseo run --provider codex "implement OAuth"
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paseo run --host devbox:6767 "run the test suite"
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paseo ls
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paseo send <agent-id> "add tests"
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paseo schedule create --cron "0 9 * * 1" "audit the codebase"
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```
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`paseo run --host` connects to a remote daemon. `paseo schedule` runs an agent on a cron. `paseo loop` retries an agent until a verification command passes.
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Happy Coder has a CLI to launch the wrapped session. It does not have schedules or loops.
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## Voice
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Paseo's speech-to-text and text-to-speech run locally on your device. Nothing leaves your network.
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## Comparison
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| | Paseo | Happy Coder |
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| ---------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------- |
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| License | Open source (AGPL-3.0) | Open source (MIT) |
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| Desktop app | macOS, Linux, Windows | — |
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| Native mobile | iOS, Android | iOS, Android |
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| Architecture | Daemon owns agent lifecycle | Wraps the agent CLI |
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| Providers | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi + 30+ via ACP catalog + custom | Claude Code, Codex |
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| Split panes and tabs | Yes | — |
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| In-app terminal | Yes | — |
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| In-app browser | Yes | — |
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| GitHub workflow in app | Commit, push, PR, checks, reviews, merge | — |
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| Git worktrees | Yes | — |
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| Per-worktree dev server URLs | Yes | — |
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| CLI | Run, `--host`, ls, send, schedule, loop | Launch wrapped session |
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| Local voice (on-device) | Yes | — |
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See also: [Paseo vs Conductor](/docs/alternatives/conductor), [Paseo vs Superset](/docs/alternatives/superset), [Paseo vs OpenChamber](/docs/alternatives/openchamber).
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