iphone-use
Let AI agents drive a real iPhone, even apps with no API
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Details
- External ID
- 1270701
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- iphone-use
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 93
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.99
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Apple
Description
iphone-use gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action (applied, not sent, or unknown). Payment apps that block screenshots come back as a wireframe. A task done once becomes a flow that replays with no model. HTTP API, a 21-tool MCP server for Claude Code, and remote control from a browser or iOS app. Open source, MIT.
Enrichment
- Niche
- local and on-device AI tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ios automation driver for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Requires low-level iOS automation via custom WebDriverAgent forks, accessibility hierarchy parsing, DRM/screenshot bypass handling, and deterministically recorded UI execution without LLM overhead.
What it would actually take: Built on top of libimobiledevice and a heavily modified WebDriverAgent/XCTest runner running on tethered physical iPhones or specialized macOS runners. The hardest parts involve intercepting view hierarchies when secure screen flags are set, handling OS-level permissions/biometrics dynamically, and building a deterministic deterministic DOM/visual tree reconciliation engine. Requires deep iOS internals, reverse engineering, and low-level C/Objective-C/Swift automation expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 260 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 261 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- cell-use · github · 2026-09-28 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Zeptap · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- cantscroll · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- AyniCam · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Opposable · ph · 2026-10-09 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Web IDE · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- iOS Agent MCP · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Mobile AI Use · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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