Quip

Talk to your Claude instances. All of them. From your couch. No keyboard needed.

Quip turns your phone into a voice remote for any number of Claude Code sessions running on your Mac or Linux machine. Just speak your prompt and it lands in the right terminal.

Desktop:

Mobile (Standard Desktop View):

Mobile (Arranged View):

The idea

You're running 4 Claude sessions across different projects. You don't want to walk over to your keyboard every time you have a thought. You just want to say "refactor the auth middleware" and have it go to the right Claude.

That's Quip. Push-to-talk prompting from your phone.

• Volume down to start talking, any volume button to stop
• Tap a window on your phone to pick which Claude gets your prompt
• See all your sessions mirrored live on your phone's screen
• Quick actions — hit Return, Ctrl+C, restart Claude, clear context, all from context menus
• View terminal output — read the last 200 lines of any terminal from your phone
• Arrange windows on your Mac or Linux desktop with one tap
• QR code sharing — scan a QR code from the desktop app to connect instantly
• Works with iPhone and Android

Connecting

Just open both apps. Quip finds your Mac/Linux machine automatically over the local network via Bonjour/mDNS.

For remote use, a Cloudflare tunnel is bundled — no install, no config, no account needed.

Building

macOS + iOS

Requires macOS 14+, iOS 17+, Xcode 16+, and XcodeGen.

cd QuipMac && xcodegen generate && cd ..
cd QuipiOS && xcodegen generate && cd ..

xcodebuild -project QuipMac/QuipMac.xcodeproj -scheme QuipMac build
xcodebuild -project QuipiOS/QuipiOS.xcodeproj -scheme QuipiOS \
  -destination 'generic/platform=iOS' build

Android

Requires Android SDK 34 and Java 17.

cd QuipAndroid && ./gradlew assembleDebug
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Or download the APK from the latest release.

Linux

Requires Rust 1.75+, GTK4, and libadwaita. On openSUSE Tumbleweed:

sudo zypper install gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gcc pkg-config
# For X11:
sudo zypper install xdotool wmctrl
# For Wayland (sway):
sudo zypper install ydotool wtype

cd QuipLinux && cargo build --release

The binary will be at QuipLinux/target/release/quip-linux.

Supported display servers:

• X11 — full support (xdotool/wmctrl for window management)
• Wayland (sway) — full support via sway IPC
• Wayland (Hyprland) — window enumeration + arrangement
• Wayland (KDE Plasma) — full support via kdotool (install kdotool; uses ydotool/wtype for input)
• Wayland (GNOME) — full support via Window Commander extension (uses ydotool/wtype for input)

How it works

Your phone records speech, transcribes it on-device, and sends the text over WebSocket to the Mac/Linux app. The app injects the text into whichever terminal window you selected.

The desktop app broadcasts your window layout to the phone in real-time, so you always see what's where.

  Phone                            Mac / Linux
  +---------------+                +------------------+
  | speak prompt  |   WebSocket    | inject into      |
  | pick window   | ============> | correct terminal |
  | see layout    | <============ | broadcast layout |
  +---------------+                +------------------+

License

GPLv3 — see LICENSE