- ChatGPT mobile app gets new Codex remote support ahead of desktop ‘superapp’
- The number of weekly Codex users increased from 3 to 4 million in just over a month.
- Mac remote first, Windows “shortly” later
OpenAI is making its Codex tool available through the ChatGPT mobile app to allow developers to remotely manage their coding workflows from their phone, wherever they are.
The addition, currently in preview ahead of general availability later this year, makes users’ phones a remote control for long-running coding tasks performed on PCs and Macs.
It follows a similar recent release from 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 has over four million weekly Codexes.
The ChatGPT app is now a remote control for Codex
Codex’s growth alone is happening at remarkable speed: Just a little 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 expected. Indeed, the company has already hinted at an upcoming desktop “super-app” that would combine ChatGPT, Codex, Atlas, and other agent capabilities into a single unified experience.
“As agents take on longer duration work, a new rhythm of collaboration emerges,” OpenAI said of the new app’s integration.
With the app, users can view outputs, approve or reject orders, control their GPT model selection, start entirely new coding tasks and much 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 supporting the feature on Mac deployments first, before adding Windows “soon.”
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