- ChatGPT Mobile App Gets New Codex Remote Control Support Ahead of Desktop ‘Super App’
- Codex weekly users have increased from 3 to 4 million in just over a month
- Mac remote control first, Windows “shortly” after
OpenAI makes its Codex tool available through the ChatGPT mobile app to allow developers to remotely manage their coding workflows from their phones wherever they are.
The addition, currently in preview ahead of general availability later this year, effectively turns users’ phones into remote controls for long-running coding tasks running 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 boasts over four million weekly Codexes.
ChatGPT app is now a remote control for Codex
Codex’s growth alone is happening at a remarkable speed: just over a month ago, Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser was boasting about three million weekly users.
The mobile integration is built within 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 “super app” that would combine ChatGPT, Codex, Atlas, and other agency capabilities into a unified experience.
“As agents take on longer-duration jobs, a new rhythm of collaboration is emerging,” OpenAI said of the new app integration.
With the app, users can review results, approve or reject commands, control their GPT model selection, start 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 deployed previous apps, the company is taking an Apple-first approach by supporting the feature in Mac deployments first, before adding Windows “soon.”
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