How to vibe code from your iPhone (or iPad)

Vibe coding — describing what you want and letting an AI agent write the code — doesn’t actually need you at a desk. The agent types; you decide. And deciding is something a phone is genuinely good at: glance, approve, redirect, move on.

Most attempts to vibecode from a phone go through a chat app talking to a cloud sandbox — you get a transcript and a promise. The setup below is different: the agent runs on your own computer, on your real project, and your iPhone or iPad is the remote control.

What you need

• A coding agent on your computer — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, opencode, Cursor CLI, whichever you already use.
• The CodeMote extension in VS Code, Cursor or any VS Code fork (or codemote-cli on a machine with no editor).
• The free CodeMote app on your iPhone or iPad.

Step 1 — Pair once

Run CodeMote: Start Mobile Session in your editor and scan the QR code with the app. The connection is a direct, encrypted dev tunnel to your machine — no SSH, no VPN, and no cloud copy of your code.

Step 2 — Say what you want built

Open a terminal in the app and launch your agent:

Then describe the feature the way you’d describe it to a colleague. On a phone, voice inputis the trick that makes this feel like vibe coding rather than thumb-typing: “add a dark mode toggle to settings, persist it, match the existing styles.”

Step 3 — Let it run with the phone in your pocket

The agent runs on your computer, so it doesn’t care that the app is backgrounded. CodeMote’s Live Activity puts the terminal on your Lock Screen and pings you the moment the agent is waiting on a decision — approve or redirect it and go back to your day.

Step 4 — The un-vibe step: read the diff

The difference between vibe coding and gambling is reading what shipped. When the agent finishes, open CodeMote’s Git view, read the diff hunk by hunk, then stage, commit and push — from the same phone.

Works with whatever agent you vibe with

CodeMote doesn’t care which agent you run — anything you start from a terminal works. Guides per agent: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, opencode, Cursor CLI — or the full list in run any AI coding agent from your phone.