How to Claude Code from your phone

Claude Code can run from your phone now. Remote Control lets you start a session, answer its questions, and keep work moving while you're away from your desk — the live, back-and-forth part works well on a small screen.

The wall you hit is everything that isn't back-and-forth. A chat window can't show you a plan, hold your feedback in one place, or remember an idea you have mid-stream. That's the gap Drafty fills.

Here's the honest frame: Remote Control is the hands — the live session, the typing, the building, running on your Mac. Drafty is the eyes and the memory — what you need to see, steer, and keep.

You can already Claude Code from your phone

Remote Control drives a live Claude Code session from wherever you are. You kick off work, it asks a question, you answer, it keeps going. For the conversational part of coding — decisions, nudges, "try X instead" — your phone is genuinely enough.

It's the moment Claude produces something to look at that the chat starts to strain.

What a chat on your phone can't do

You can't see the plan. Claude writes a plan, a spec, or a design, and it lands as a wall of text in the chat. There's nothing rendered to look at, so on a phone you end up approving things you can't really see.

Giving feedback means screenshotting. When something's off, you screenshot it, paste it back into the chat, and type out which part you mean. It's lossy and slow, and Claude still has to guess the spot.

Threads get lost. Everything is one long conversation. What's been handled, what's still open, what referred to what — it all scrolls away.

Ideas have nowhere to go. Halfway through one chat you think of something for a different project. There's no place to put it, so it either derails the thread you're in or you forget it.

Drafty: the layer on top

Each of those has a fix, and underneath they're the same fix wearing four hats — put the work on a canvas, a link that renders anywhere, and let you point at it.

See it, rendered

Claude publishes the plan, design, or page as a Drafty canvas. You open the link full-screen on your phone and look at the actual thing, instead of reading its source.

Point, don't describe

Tap the exact element — a heading, a button, a row — and leave a comment pinned to it. No screenshot, no "the third card down." Describing a piece of an interface in words is the slow, error-prone part; pointing removes it.

Threads that hold

Every comment is its own thread, anchored to its element and resolvable. You can see what's open and what's handled across the whole canvas, instead of digging back through a chat.

A memory layer

This is the part that's easy to miss. Chats are throwaway; your projects are long-lived. The memory layer is where a stray idea becomes a durable note on the project it actually belongs to. Mid-conversation, drop the idea onto another initiative's canvas — linked back to where it came from — instead of losing it to scrollback. Over time, your canvases become the map of every initiative, and the chat is just the live wire.

The loop

Day to day, it's a loop. You comment on the canvas. Claude, in the session, reads the comments, makes the change, and ships a new version at the same link. You glance, and either approve or comment again.

Your comments are the sign-off — there's no separate approval step. A two-word "ship it" works because you can see exactly what shipped.

The honest split

So the division of labour is clear: Remote Control is the hands, Drafty is the eyes and the memory.

One honest caveat: Claude acts on your comments when a session is live — it isn't a bot answering on its own around the clock. But nothing is lost if you comment when no one's home. The next time Claude is on the project, it reconciles the whole inbox and catches up. Leave the note whenever the thought lands. Chat for the conversation; canvases for everything that has to persist.

Get started

Add Drafty to your home screen so it's one tap. The next time Claude publishes a canvas, open it on your phone, comment on one thing, and watch it ship.