Claude, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes — anything with a shell. They all share one directory on your phone.
Tell it in plain language — “send me a Chime when you’re done.” The moment it finishes, or needs a decision, it pings your phone.
Run chime pair and scan the code. Keys are generated locally — no account.
“Send me a Chime when you’re done.” Your agent learns to ping you from the Chime skill.
Approve or pick an option from your lock screen; the agent’s blocked request resumes the moment you tap.
Meta's January 2026 policy banned general-purpose AI assistants from the official WhatsApp Business API outright. Baileys bridges — a ToS-violating workaround — get accounts banned within 48 hours.
Telegram's Bot API is excluded from Secret Chats — the operator backend reads every message a bot sends or receives. WhatsApp hands Meta the metadata even where content is encrypted.
Plain text and a couple of buttons, versus approval cards, an artifact viewer, and choice pickers built for what agents actually need to ask you.
Remote Control's session traffic transits Anthropic's infrastructure. Chime's relay — ours or your own — only ever sees ciphertext; it can't read your messages.
Remote Control works with Claude Code only, over a claude.ai OAuth sign-in. Chime works with anything that has a shell or speaks MCP — Codex, Cursor, aider, Gemini CLI, and more.
One binary, your relay. Remote Control has no self-host option — it's Anthropic-operated only.
Sealed on your device, opened only on the other. Nothing in between can read a word — and neither can we.
The relay sees ciphertext only — never your messages, never a decryption key. There's no inbound port on your machine, unlike the tens of thousands of exposed OpenClaw gateways found on the open internet, or ClawJacked (CVE-2026-32025), or the malicious npm Baileys clone caught stealing WhatsApp session tokens. And no Meta in the middle collecting metadata.
Run your own relay →You don’t have to babysit the terminal. Take the walk, make the coffee, see a friend — go live. Your agents keep working, and Chime you the moment they finish or hit a fork in the road.
So you can be anywhere else.
Free forever — chatting with your agents will never cost money, and self-hosting everything stays free.
Chime isn't for enterprise teams. If your agents need to ping a shared channel, use Slack.
Chime isn't an IDE on your phone. If you want to drive five agents from the subway, use paseo.
Chime is for the agents you run yourself, on your own machines — and every conversation they need to have with you.
Telegram's Bot API is excluded from Secret Chats — your agent's messages are readable at the operator backend, and a leaked bot token is a full takeover. WhatsApp bridges like Baileys violate WhatsApp's terms of service and get accounts banned within 48 hours; Meta's January 2026 policy banned general-purpose AI assistants from the official WhatsApp Business API outright. Chime is a messenger built for agents from scratch — actually end-to-end encrypted, no bridge, no bot token, no ban risk. Read the channel comparison →
Remote Control is a good fit if you're all-in on claude.ai: it requires a claude.ai OAuth sign-in on a Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise plan, works with Claude Code only, and session traffic transits Anthropic's infrastructure rather than being end-to-end encrypted. Chime is end-to-end encrypted, works with any agent that has a shell or MCP, and you can run the relay yourself. Read the full comparison →
Yes — Signal Protocol with post-quantum key agreement (PQXDH + Double Ratchet + ML-KEM-1024). Keys are generated on your devices and never leave them; the relay, ours or your own, only ever sees ciphertext. No phone number, no email, no login required to start.
Claude Code is our device-verified reference integration — install, pair, approve, reply, all tested end to end. Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and aider are expected to work the same way over MCP or a shell but haven't been through that same device verification yet; OpenClaw and Hermes Agent support is in progress. VERIFIED-AGENTS.md in the repo is the living, honest status for every harness. See verification status →
Free forever — chatting with your agents will never cost money, and self-hosting everything stays free. Chime is MIT-licensed and ships as a single binary; run your own relay instead of the hosted one at chime.sh whenever you want. Run your own relay →
No. That's Chime Financial, a neobank. We're the open-source messenger for your AI agents at chime.sh. Different company, different app — said once, moving on.
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