Users pay for the phone experience and the sleeping container — a real chat UI, an always-ready machine that bills nothing while idle — because SSH on a phone keyboard is the version nobody uses twice.
REPLACEMENT BRIEF
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Can AI replace Yado?
EDITORIAL ANSWERKINDACurated prompt
Driving a coding agent from your phone is a buildable remote shell — SSH plus a chat UI. The product's polish is the layer around it: a real chat with your Claude account instead of a terminal on a phone keyboard, a container that sleeps at zero and wakes on demand — the mobile experience, not the shell.
Serve Claude Code running inside tmux on your own always-on box as a browser terminal, reachable from your phone over HTTPS, with a push when the turn ends.
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- price
- $9.99/mo
- listed annual price
- $119.88/yr
- replaceable scope
- Serve Claude Code running inside tmux on your own always-on box as a browser terminal, reachable from your phone over HTTPS, with a push when the turn ends.
- build time
- one sitting
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the prompt
Curated promptBuild me a phone-reachable Claude Code setup to replace Yado. Requirements: - Runs on one always-on Ubuntu box I already own, a $5 VPS is fine. I reach it from Safari on my phone, there is nothing to install on the phone. - Install Claude Code on the box and log it in by hand once over SSH, so the credentials sit on disk and nothing has to handle auth later. This step needs a laptop, say so in the README. - Serve the terminal with ttyd running `tmux new -A -s claude`, so the session survives a dropped connection and keeps working while my phone is locked. - Put Caddy in front for automatic HTTPS on a subdomain, with basic auth credentials read from .env. If I already run Tailscale, bind ttyd to the tailnet address instead and skip Caddy. No accounts, no telemetry, everything stays on my box. - Make it usable with a thumb: start ttyd with `-t fontSize=18`, and write a ~/.tmux.conf with mouse mode on so I can scroll and switch panes by tapping. - Add a Claude Code Stop hook in ~/.claude/settings.json that curls a private ntfy.sh topic, so my phone buzzes when a turn finishes instead of me sitting there watching output. - A `work <repo>` shell function that attaches to the tmux session, cds into ~/code/<repo> and starts claude there. Repos live in ~/code, there is no database and nothing to migrate. - Out of scope: multiple users and isolation between projects. Do not build a chat UI over `claude -p`, that is a far bigger project than this one. - README: the one time SSH login, the DNS record for the subdomain, the ntfy topic name, and an honest warning that if the box goes down there is no way back in from the phone.
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what AI can build
Serve Claude Code running inside tmux on your own always-on box as a browser terminal, reachable from your phone over HTTPS, with a push when the turn ends.
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The honest tradeoff
why people still pay
what you lose
xa real chat with your Claude account instead of a terminal driven by a phone keyboard
xa machine that sleeps at zero and wakes before you type instead of a box you pay for all week
xone tap sign in · the DIY version needs a laptop and an SSH session to log Claude in once
xdiffs you can read on a small screen · screenshots you can paste in · a live preview of the app you are building
xisolation · one box means everything on it can reach everything else on it
Start with existing software
prior art · use these instead of building, if you'd rather
EVIDENCE LEDGER
What this page can prove
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Curated promptThe prompt was editor-reviewed; no completed build is recorded.
Yado Pro · monthly, Apple in-app purchase
known limits · a real chat with your Claude account instead of a terminal driven by a phone keyboard; a machine that sleeps at zero and wakes before you type instead of a box you pay for all week
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Can AI replace Yado?
Possibly for a narrower core workflow, but this catalog judgment is not a verified build. Expected gaps include: a real chat with your Claude account instead of a terminal driven by a phone keyboard, a machine that sleeps at zero and wakes before you type instead of a box you pay for all week. Validate the prompt against your own acceptance criteria before committing.
How much does Yado cost?
Yado is listed at about $9.99/month (Yado Pro, checked 2026-07-30), or $119.88 per year. This is a pricing reference, not evidence of a completed replacement or realized savings.
What do I lose by replacing Yado?
Honestly: a real chat with your Claude account instead of a terminal driven by a phone keyboard; a machine that sleeps at zero and wakes before you type instead of a box you pay for all week; one tap sign in · the DIY version needs a laptop and an SSH session to log Claude in once; diffs you can read on a small screen · screenshots you can paste in · a live preview of the app you are building; isolation · one box means everything on it can reach everything else on it. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Yado?
Yes — Happy (MIT mobile and web client for Claude Code, self-hostable, but it remote-controls Claude running on a computer you keep on), Moshi (a polished mobile terminal that drives Claude Code over SSH, freemium rather than open source, and the machine it connects to has to be yours and switched on). Using prior art is also a valid exit; the prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.