Yep, you're right, we don't have E2EE period (and we don't claim to have it anywhere), for the reasons I mention above (our cloud sandbox agent and voice agent need plaintext messages, so we'd need access to the keys, which defeats the purpose of E2EE). Apologies for the incorrect wording!
Haha glad to hear that you used Omnara before. In the old version, we were directly parsing the terminal output, which was really hard to maintain. But that meant you could use the Claude Code CLI directly in your terminal, and have the same session appear in your phone.
Now we use the Claude Agent SDK (basically a headless version of Claude Code), and we make our own UI for laptop and mobile. This is way easier to maintain than the previous solution we had. You can import Claude Code CLI sessions into Omnara, but you cant see a 1:1 realtime Claude Code CLI session in Omnara anymore. But we think that a GUI is a better experience than the CLI anyways for managing a bunch of agents.
I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a ton of agents, I typically have one main task I am focusing on and possibly another smaller task on the back burner.
This sounds solid, similar stuff to what we do! Sounds like this setup gets you most of the way there. We also have a mobile app + notifications. And I haven't tried using a coding voice agent via MCP, I'll try that out soon!
Good to know its similar. Oh I actually do have a text box as well, but using it to type from the phone is not very convenient. Too much typing, I generally STT into the text box. I don't use it to code much, unless I have specced it out and I know the spec is good. But then to code it up is just a few mins, no?
I spend my time trying to tuning the voice+webapp experience: i.e. how it can explain things, can it surface thinking tokens from claude tools properly etc. The sweat, blood, voice go into `/create_research -> /create_plan` loop before the `/implement_plan`. Sometimes I copy the research and paste it into chatGPT for review or comments as well.
I generally use the MCP to get it to follow commands and explain things to me to make progress in this cycle, and I often pause it and ask for drawing me a mermaid a sequence diagram for events or a block diagram showing how pieces go together.
Is it possible to completely disable or not use the remote sandbox features? I would never use them and would prefer my code stays on my device.
Yes, the remote sandbox feature is disabled by default, and you have to manually enable it for the syncing to start.
For those of us that are using subscriptions, does it show our remaining usage? I would hate to run out of tokens in the middle of a session.
Currently Omnara doesn't show your usage limits, you would have to check that at claude.ai. I'll look into add that though.
One feature of the CC TUI I sorely missed on mobile is the ability to look up and directly reference files via “@“. Is any functionality like this planned?
Yes, this exists in Omnara already!
Are there any plans to offer a cheaper tier for those of us that just want to run this on our own machines?
That's a good idea, we'll think about doing this where we don't offer sandbox + voice, and just have the messaging service.
Looking into this, will fix this soon! GitHub auth should be working on the web app, if you try there (assuming you got this error on mobile). You can continue to use Omnara normally without signing into GitHub, you just won't be able to use the cloud syncning feature til you auth with GitHub.
